DOH rejects lockdown, border closure over HMPV scare https://abs-cbn.com/news/health-science/2025/1/8/doh-rejects-lockdown-border-closure-over-hmpv-scare-1040?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Here we go again
In reply to https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:joirqyropa3wliscdo7prcna/post/3lf75f6hvmg2x 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368327Hear me out: an ActivityPub-based dating app. Can integrate with every other fediverse apps. (I'm kidding obviously, but can you imagine?)
Any app is a dating app (as seen in this College Humor sketch): https://youtu.be/rwRncCTSz_U
In reply to https://masto.ai/@teacherbuknoy/113782099861481424 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368312Attached: 2 images Loops wants to replace these Share platforms with fediverse equivalents, please send me your fedi project intent urls and links to your logos, and I'll add them to @loops@pixelfed.social #loops #share
How about “Share with context” to be copied to the clipboard and ready to be pasted in another app. The context will have some sort of text (maybe from the original post and hashtags?), the original poster’s full fediverse address, and the URL.
In reply to https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113780907498171696 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368311...sent these off to a new home. ;-) In theory, this is just 35 kilos. But a balikbayan box full of books felt heavier than a wardrobe. Must be all the ideas and worlds contained within.
So, this is what separation anxiety feels like.
In reply to https://www.threads.net/@mark.poa/post/DEfFemATG1G 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368309So this is the bird ruffling a lot of feathers
Manuel Roxas (and other displaced presidents and historical figures) would like to say a word.
In reply to https://www.threads.net/@attychris/post/DEM1NGPTTRc 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368180Kairita na yung National Bookstore ngayon, wala nang price tags yung mga product. Kailangan mo pa i-download yung app nila para ma-scan yung mga barcode para lang malaman kung magkano.
I have two thoughts: 1️⃣ magkaka-issue kaya ito sa Price Tag Law? 2️⃣ hindi na po ako magrereklamo na mahirap tanggalin ang price tags sa books (lalo na sa bargain books na patong-patong ang tags).
In reply to https://masto.ai/@teacherbuknoy/113732118658241128 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368169Caught wind of the last ever CD-R King branch closing. I still have with me the memories of buying 50-peso earphones with a one-week warranty that would break on the second week of use, and the very affordable flashdrives that weighed almost like nothing and was almost disposable you'd only use it to store file you submit to your university. #Philippines
CD-R King. I used to buy stacks of CDs to burn converted video files of downloaded Smallville episodes as VCD and gave them to officemates.
In reply to https://masto.ai/@teacherbuknoy/113735524256960310 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368168Bank: please create a strong password to secure your account. Also bank: now, create three more laughably insecure and easily guessable passwords that can also be used to access your account (because irony is dead, let’s call these “security questions”). *smdh*
I totally agree that “security” questions are insecure. I use four word pass phrases for them and store them in my password manager.
In reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113736544509165325 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368166How do you feel about paying taxes? #Polls #Taxes #Survey #InternalRevenue #Finance #Money #Poll [ ] I'm happy to pay taxes [ ] I want to avoid taxes but I don't know how [ ] I want to avoid taxes but I can't [ ] I'm actively trying to avoid taxes
(⚫) I would be happy to pay taxes if I saw that they were spent correctly and not in the pockets of corrupt politicians.
In reply to https://mastodon.social/@jikodesu/113708733346236051 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368109The reliance of banks in the #Philippines on the least secure OTP—SMS—makes me wonder how one can login, send money, or make payments, if you happen to be abroad. Forced to enable roaming and pay extra? 🤔
I am maintaining my 🇵🇭 phone plan just to receive OTP via SMS.
In reply to https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bpotnohnlgcj3fbmp7ugx4en/post/3le2pfeq5t62g 🧭 https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368106