These breach incidents all serve to highlight the lack of a solution for patients that want to retain ownership (ie. exclusive control) over their data. Currently the only effective way to do that is a non-solution - by not interacting with the service at all.

Imagine there was one copy of your health information, and it was encrypted, and it lived on a server/flash drive/device under your control. In order to receive treatment, the provider has to access that source and request your permission or authenticate in some capacity. That would be an enduring, user-respecting solution that showed people that each loss of data was more than merely a publicity nightmare for the abetting company. Managing personal healthcare like this isn’t for everyone, but it should be an option for patients with the means and inclination.

The fact that service providers neither want to co-operate with something like this, nor are required to by law, is a problem. There’s currently no individual agency permitted whatsoever in this domain and I’ve been fed up with it for a long time.

The only axis the corporate world cares about is (quite literally) skin deep.

So get this: I tested a live USB, and initially any video playback caused the crash, then 4k video in VLC played fine, including manual seek, but 1080p material first killed screen output then triggered the reboot. Fucking nuts. Too much window resizing also triggered it. But it gets weirder. After half a dozen restarts and auto-checkdisks, I currently haven’t encountered the bug at all on my main partition.

The nazi bar story is retarded. To buy into it is to forfeit all your advantages against the obnoxious minority, such as being vastly greater in number, and being able to exercise critical thinking abilities. The nazi doesn’t drive anyone away, people make the choice to do so themselves, when in fact they should challenge and confront at every opportunity. All the idea does is empower bad actors and agents provocateur and deny the agency of individuals. To borrow from Nicholas Taleb: it’s a very fragile concept.

Rating schemes inevitably become subject to gaming and P2W.

Service providers need to be honest about their stack and its implementation, and people need to git gud.

Top explain, would comprehend again

Found the meme the parent comment reminds me of lol

AI as insulation from true accountability and responsiveness. I think we’re starting to see a pattern with its use.

Gonna watch this soon. James Cagney has an interesting mug.

That’s pathetic.