Since I've been noticing some problems on my right shoulder, I decided to swap hands, and use the mouse with my left hand for a while (incidentally, Kensington provides a few good reasons to consider a left-handed mouse). Now, in order to accomplish this on Linux, I had to figure out how to swap the buttons. It's quite easy with xmodmap:

$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

Reverting to a right-handed mouse configuration is quite easy, of course: simply reverse the order of the numbers to "1 2 3". The way I implemented it was using an alias via ~/.bashrc, but there are other ways to do it. {link to this entry}

So, apparently, Google silently installed a COVID tracking app on the Android phones of users in Massachusetts without even asking for the users' permission. Big Tech companies truly appear to think that they own our devices, and can install and remove apps at will without user consent. Creepy.

UPDATE (29 Jun 2021): In the meantime, Peloton provided another clear example of the dangers of this new model. Also, here is what Peloton had to say about this snaffu. {link to this entry}