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Anthem backtracks on anesthesiology cap policy in CT

An unpopular move to cap anesthesiology coverage by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield drew criticism from patients and state officials.
Rob Polansky (Eyewitness News 3)

email# ls |wc -l
   14999
email# ls -l |wc -l
   15000
email# find . -ctime -1 -exec ls -lT {} \;|wc -l 
   15027
email#

Something is very wrong

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silverwizard
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@Andreas lol, sadly yes. But it was the weird inconsistent numbers, but I think I got why, it's because I forget about ls
@Andreas

Can we apply Common Carrier rules to Cloudflare so they don't get to control who has access to the internet and how?

Thomas Piketty Made A Few Valid Points
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To be clear - Piketty wanted to continue capitalism and said that if we didn't make it slightly less garbage people would die.

I guess no one started the process of even making it slightly equitable, so I guess we're on the other path.

My new RPG Dungeons in Dragons where intrepid explorers explore living systems inside massive behmoths in order to reach their hearts to slay them. The Dragons are the size of small mountains, and contain dangers and complex ecosystems of microbes the size of a person.
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silverwizard
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@Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran What the hell?! How is this real?!
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran I thought it was a joke suggestion as well. 😶
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran It just means it could work!
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran The main question is how do you evoke the weirdness of a dungeon inside a monster without too much body-horror but also the right amount. And then how do you differentiate the dragons. Gotta pull out some Dragon theories about why you'd delve into dragons.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran Could be something like the birds who clean the teeth of reptiles.
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran gotta start with humans - why build in the mouth of a dragon? obviously because it's the safest place! Are dragons safety, or are they the danger being escaped? I don't know if we want people normally inside, since it's the Dungeon. But if that means we need something desired inside. I'd like this to not be Shining Heroes but instead scrappy underdogs, so that means it's gotta be food, water, or safety. Food would be funny, Water would be terrifying, safety would be expected.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard @Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran Like the diamond mines in Africa, dragons' insides could contain a valuable resource that desperate people would be ready to risk their life to obtain for a chance at upward social mobility.
@Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran @silverwizard

Ginger beer + Absinthe - probably too much going on

Star Trek Enterprise's CMO had a cool trait of using medical properties from aliens and lifeforms from around the universe, which was cool, but also made him a naturopath.

He also withheld a vaccine and committed a genocide.

This makes him a consistent character.

Problem: The Indian place gives about a dozen onion bhajis as one order

Using a modern computer for modern things
A too small cyberdeck plugged into a tape deck and a barcode reader

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Ok, looks like I can read tapes. Now I need to figure out if I can write a tape from this USB deck, and source some blank tapes!

Dat tapes for the future!

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Storing my SSH key on a DAT tape would be easier than a record since I don't have a turntable...
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@💞 eva 💞 I will never learn to use a camera

I'm using an R01 (the RISC-V one) because I wanted the cool form factor, but also needed to justify it with a weird CPU to play with.

I really want to love the DevTerm but the keboard is in a magical place to be annoying no matter how it's held, but if I use an external keyboard it' *wonderful*.

@💞 eva 💞

My son is trying to build a websearch DB by scanning the barcode on every book in my house
I should save this work for loading into Koha

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There must be a wormhole. They've aged three years in the span of an eyeblink. That, or I've been travelling close to lightspeed...

Is it just me or did pfSense unbound just go bad?
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twice now I had it stop resolving recursively and I needed to futz to make it work

might be openbsd router time

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silverwizard
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any suggestions for frontends to openbsd's networking stack for capable and sensible people who don't do this professionally or for fun? #openbsd
#OpenBSD
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Solène
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unfortunately there is none. And last time I said it would be nice I received insults...
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@Bram @BSD NL I don't think the wife and kids are gonna manage the DNS server - I'm pretty comfortable in Bind currently so I'll likely stay they. I just want them to be able to forward a port or reboot if needed. Or figure out pings.
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@stsp ah, this is what it is used for! :flan_aww:
@Stefan Sperling

It's really hard to be in free software spaces. So many are so libertarian and kinda fashy.

I had someone try to get me on side by saying "When I said group of kids, I meant gang"

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@Hypolite Petovan yeah, it's literally just "oh, sorry, you missed my racism, luckily I got this whistle to call my dog"
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan When I say I got told by mods to cut out personal attacks when I said "can you explain how that isn't a racist dog whistle", you'd think there was nuance in the situation! But no! straight racism
@Hypolite Petovan

Fucking CrowdStrike showed up very smugly at SecTor and I can't believe that we, as a community, allow shit like That Incident without consequences

My 5yo just asked me "Was Andre the Giant smarter than you"

What the fuck do you say to that?!

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@silverwizard: well, Andre the Giant has an explicit posse, so that's a thing he's got that I don't, I guess. No word on "smarter" tho.
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@BB Yeah! Being Andre the Giant sounds terrible. But Andre the Giant *is* awesome. Not gonna conflict on that.
@BB

One day we'll make a restricted tool to safely view websites without the attack surface of the browser. We can make a companion DSL for simple styling that doesn't have the power of XSS
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Ben Zanin
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it's going to be markdown files transferred over anonymous SSH via rsync

Damnit
A screenshot of Slack advertising their new AI service

Built an F-Droid repo for my kids inside our local network. Added games and basic apps, let the kid tablets work without unfettered internet.

F Droid wont let me use a self signed cert because, I guess, the CA system is good

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Julian Foad
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Bravo! Curating one's own app store is a great example of how Open Technology enables people to take control of our tech life. I yearn to see this sort of thing included as basic, default, built-in functionality in modern libre personal computer systems like Linux, Yunohost, and mobile OS's.
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silverwizard
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@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.

apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update

then point a webserver at the repo dir.

not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!

But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet

@Julian Foad
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My 3 year old is sick and would normally be watching TV and trying to sleep. But right now he's on a tablet, exploring freely. All the games, the shows, and the audiobooks are safe, some are old, some are new. But he's able to be safe and happy.

I will never forgive the EFF for saving the CA system

Does Mr Robot get better after its abyssmal first season?

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@Neil Brown yeah (he hacking was cool and well done, but the Fight Club was bad and... the opposite of well done
@Neil Brown

My instance has been exploding, but I just deleted the hack4pancakes moving thread and it seems to have stabilized, which is a fun effect of networks

I asked my church music director if he had a HAM license today, and he replied he never got into radio. I then had to ask how we'd run a pirate radio station together.

One day I'll be a HAM

describing the coffee to Becky "this is the world's best coffee that has never been pooped"

USPOL
It's that time every few years when The Bad Thing happens and then Americans pretend they have a democracy
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Nanook
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Yes Libtards pretend it's a communist state when in fact our constitution defines our nation as a Constitutional Republic.

As usual my forays into making me enjoy reading RSS feeds is failing


One day I'll find a reader I love

I think a lesson of the AI bubble is that people don't like trading privacy for convenience. I don't think they ever had. The goal is the tech company is the hide the privacy invasion and maximize the convenience to hit critical mass.

Just got reminded of that time that DigitalOcean informed me that just because I'd paid for a backup, there was no guarentee the backup wouldn't be corrupt
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we stored a snapshot, and we attempted to load it, but their cloudinit changed and the snapshot wouldn't boot, and they went "well, load a different backup, not our problem" while we paid for the snapshot

If I leave YouTube opened for the weekend, my computer reports: load average: 92.03, 25.80, 8.97 once i managed to pkill -9 librewolf. I think Google might be doing some anticompetitive shit.

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Me gushing about my 5 year old to my parents:
He produced phonology and semantics from orthography independently!

Who called it pulling data off a Federation Library Computer for building graphs and not PADDing the stats?

Bucket of small cakes on a stick for Halloween!
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Craig P
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I didn't see the first post, and this one sure reads weird without it. XD

A huge mistake the fediverse makes is large instances. It's resource intensive, expensive, and creates wildly large failures instead of little ones.

This is why I'm sad to lose the bots, but also glad botsin.space is going away. BIS was always weird, a place to place bots which cost a lot, but wasn't a community. Bots should live alongside their makers or users (or just have a way of posting without needing a full server).

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silverwizard
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@Tek aEvl Yeah! Better tools are always better! (Mastodon is kinda the worst of the Fediverse servers, but it markets)
@Tek aEvl

Hanging out with FreeBSD and the boys

youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6…

Sat down with a large client's IT since email was getting wild. So we talked. We both explained the other side's mail border to each other. Having established we were both real techs. We talked shop and solved the issue with mutual respect.

It was a notable dance I've not done in a while, and a fascinating one.

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The fact that AI people say "AI is here to stay" before any other point tells me a lot

we're AI Gonna Make It

if you see this hacker at SECTor, you may tell me I owe you a drink. Prefacing it, "I'm from the fediverse" will make me slightly less confused. But, telling me I owe you a drink will cause me to buy you a drink, be it a fancy coffee, a boring coffee, a beer, a cocktail, a juice, or whatever else.

#SECtor

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Mason Loring Bliss
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@silverwizard Thank you. I love that they have a kid version, as the 6100 works for two of my kids, but is too big for two. I'll probably try that too. The part I can't find for love or money this week is the exhaust filter, but it looks integrated in that mask, which frankly would be fine for our use.

Thank you again. :)

@silverwizard

Question - is the rise of people listening to music aloud related to the headphone jack dying?
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⛅ w chance of bears
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It's a common and likely hypothesis, yes.

Although I feel like these days I'm more likely to run into people taking video calls on speakerphone in public than blasting their music.

I want the parallel universe where phones kept the headphone jack and it was the cameras getting pushed out into dongles/BT.

One of the things that is destroying the web is WASM and JavaScript.

This isn't really even a joke - it's literal.

By having all these tools to make a web browser have unfettered access to the system, it becomes unsafe to allow users to generate arbitrary code. We can't have another MySpace or NeoPets User Lookup because we can't allow users to write their own HTML, because that's *dangerous*.

So my project planning document at work is a wiki page called "Looming Disasters". It's just stuff that might explode.

I just had to add a slack thread to one of these disasters as illustration. >.<

HomeAssistant is too much power for a dad to have. Every day before I go downstairs to work - I toggle all the kids lights off and grumble about them not turning off the lights.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard French has an expression for this: “It’s not Versailles here!” after the eponymous Renaissance castle counting 2,300 rooms.
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Played the second mystery of the game Suspects, and the writing was so abyssmal I quit. It was so bad I looked at the author in order to scream, and it's literally the fucks who sued the internet archive. I'm livid.
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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan I didn't want to link originally since no advertising.

But yeah - I also just want to be clear - the game is one of the most awful I've ever played. It was hell.

@Hypolite Petovan
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