{"id":64853,"date":"2026-08-06T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64853"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:37:36","slug":"wellness-ping-dead-mans-switch-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/wellness-ping-dead-mans-switch-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Ping: A simple dead man&#8217;s switch service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2026, a Chinese app that alerts trusted contacts if the user is still alive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3381r5nnn6o\">made some noise<\/a>. The premise, somewhat morbid, is useful for certain groups, like activists, journalists covering high-risk areas, and people who live alone. The person has to check in at regular intervals. If they fail to, their contacts are notified automatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellness-p.ing\">Wellness\u00a0Ping<\/a> is a variation on this kind of service with an approach that promises greater privacy: it&#8217;s free, requires no app download, and everything happens over email or Signal (preferred). Announcing version 2.0, its creator, who goes by Micr0byte, <a href=\"https:\/\/wetdry.world\/@micr0\/117037189631076529\">said that<\/a> the code (which <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/micr0-dev\/wellness-ping\">is open source<\/a>) went through a full security review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellness Ping is a simple dead man&#8217;s switch service. Get pinged regularly to confirm you&#8217;re okay. If you don&#8217;t respond, your emergency contacts get alerted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64849"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1542,1387,1913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64858,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64853\/revisions\/64858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}