The first Floppy Disk was released closer to World War 1 than to today.
Y’all, not only are people being arrested nonsensically for terrorism because the healthcare industry suddenly realized that if you kick a dog enough, eventually it will bite you, apparently they’ve decided that the public should not have facts or data that may lead them to understand how badly the insurance industry is managing the health of Americans.
ValuePenguin, a data collection and analysis site, is the origin of the viral chart showing denial rates of claims to insurance. They were first contacted by a company who wanted them to take data down, then when they didn’t, law enforcement showed up.
Just in case you were wondering who controls the cops...it’s the capital class.
Here’s a deep dive into how insurance companies hide and prevaricate their data, so that people don’t realize what crooks they all are.
Here’s the VP link for the chart and their notes about data takedown:
https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-and-appeals
#UHC #insurance #healthcare
Dang, #Pandoc 's docx -> epub export is better than that of #LibreOffice , or at least it preserves enumerations. :pandoc_pats:
And that's two weeks of #DecemberAdventure! So far, I've enjoyed a balanced diet of creative coding and documentation writing that spans uxn, ternary and rewriting systems.
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
@cwebber has a great thread going about the ways the Bluesky can't ever truly be decentralized in any meaningful fashion.
From what I have read about the protocol, I suspected that this was true, and I had a vision in my head of what it would be like if BS was to take off.
This post: https://social.coop/@cwebber/113653422334017644
Says it very well. Bsky will create a pantheon. A very small number of full participants with operational budgets the size of cities, a much larger number of entirely dependent serfs.
Mastodon and the wider activitypub based fediverse isn't perfect, but Christine and the rest of the folks who wrote the activitypub standard created something that could actually support fully distributed operation (where each user can be a full particpant with full control over their experience), as opposed to bsky (which appears to be designed to pay lipservice to user freedom, while actually enforcing a world in which users only have the freedom to choose which fuedal lord they're pledged to.)
prices produce privation. they necessitate absence. on survival goods, that means starvation, sickness, and death from exposure, are all required results of capitalism. it can never be convinced to be rid of these evils any more than it can be persuaded to bury itself. therefore capitalism must be destroyed.
Took my latest #meshtastic node up a very tall tower on top of a tall hill yesterday - connected the Mt Dandenong router to my local mesh, over 120km link!
Is there some way I could configure my linux laptop to, when it runs out of memory, just fucking oomkill the offending process instead of locking up for 2 minutes and 30 seconds and then oomkilling
If you enjoyed the video of my Elite talk at hack::soho, you can find more presentations on my software archaeology website, including a deep dive into David Braben’s epic game Lander, and a really enjoyable chat about Teletext Elite.
#ed is finally self-conscious! I somehow missed that part of documentation where it says that "w" command can write to bang-prefixed command, feeding buffer contents as standard input to this command. Which means: #ed can evaluate #ed commands in its own buffer, by calling another instance of #ed on them!
With this, the sky is the limit to what I can do. I already re-implemented my (disappointingly) shell-heavy #grep version, as pure #ed script: https://aartaka.me/scripts/grep.ed
Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter
Some Profs at uni say that we should teach students how to use LLMs (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc) ethically and responsibly. But how can we do that with tools that, at their core, are
1) based on stealing labor from creators,
2) are catastrophic from an environmental point of view due to its high energy consumption, and
3) are burning billions of dollars on speculative investment, to
4) produce little value? #AI
@alcinnz It's possible I've read some of @baldur 's writing last year and this influenced my understanding of LLMs. Also, the "stochastic parrots" paper.
I wasn't aware that Baldur wrote an entire book on this subject. "The Intelligence Illusion" is such a perfect title. That's what I would've called it too.
So how cool is this. I have been reading a lot about the #lispmachine, but I never attempted to get an instance running on my GNU/Linux system. Thanks to @amszmidt this is really absolutely trivial: Clone the fossil repo and type "./m -s". And it works, I get a Y2K compliant instance! 🙏 🧙
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/l/doc/trunk/README.md
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I still need to learn how to do any non-trivial things, but there are a lot of manuals to go through, so this requires some reading, I suppose.
Also, I do not know how to update the system tape to the latest version released just a few hours ago, but again, this is probably RTFM 😀
Thanks @amszmidt for making it so trivial to get started with a LispMachine! 🙏
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@eniko Everytime something try to make EU institutions not dependent on Microsoft something happens. German government workers have migrated to libre office and unmigrated back dozens of times. European Linux initiatives have been started and abandoned a bunch. Issues with Outlook have been flagged, some even at the level of national security.
I'm not trying to say that Microsoft has the EU under they control and can do as they please but yes that is exactly what I am saying.
#FREEZE64favouriteAtoZ #Commodore64 #C64 games of 1983:
3 of 30
BEACH HEAD
Published by Access Software
Programmed by Bruce Carver
Fabulous programming resulting in brilliant gameplay. One I revisit time and time again
FREEZE64.com
#SupportingTheCommodore64Community
Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive.
