It's open source you can verify it yourself.
Technically, yes you can. But do you really have the time to sit down to understand a piece of software enough to know if it's doing anything nefarious?
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mrcarruthers commented on Everyone hates the electronic medical record logicmag.io/policy/why-ev... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
> Patient R was in a hurry. I signed into my computer—or tried to. Recently, IT had us update to a new 14-digit password. Once in, I signed (different password) into the electronic medical record
That's IT infrastructure incompetence, not an EMR issue.
At the two healthcare systems I go to, both utilize RFID badge readers plus PIN. In the ER and urgent care, nurses need only tap their badge and enter a quick pin and they're in. It's taken them seconds to pull up my records and I've never noticed a delay in care.
In the PCP's network, everyone seems to get smooth and quick access often while we're conversing, and I can see all my visits, lab results, and so on. The major annoyance is that I get emails notifying me I have a "message", instead of even offering me the option of receiving an email with the actual message.
I don't think people understand how expensive and time consuming the non-electronic stuff was. I remember my mother spending considerable amounts of time trying to get records from labs and doctors and having to shelp a lot of it by hand.
The email thing is probably a privacy requirement. Email isn't encrypted meaning your email provider (and the EMR's) can fully read the contents of said email.
mrcarruthers commented on My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar jacobbartlett.substack.co... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey
As another father of a plane loving toddler, one of her favourite questions is "where's it going?". I'm wondering if some flight information is available and could be shown by selecting the plane.
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While I find your explanation plausible, who has the muscle memory to press "g", "c", "c", spacebar, lift hand to numpad, "1", "6(no 3 sire!)", hand back to home row?
It's faster for me than looking down to figure out where the numbers are on the top row
mrcarruthers commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88
EV’s currently make the most sense for people who own a single family home or otherwise live in a community with readily available near-home chargers, where EV’s are on average more convenient than gas cars. People who rely on street parking and apartment dwellers would likely find EV’s more inconvenient than a gas car.
We may be close to saturating the market for the former group.
Another factor that could be at play is that all the non-Tesla EV makers have recently announced they will switch their chargers to NACS, but this will take a couple of years to roll out, so it’s not a great time to buy a non-Tesla since it already has legacy charging hardware.
This is why I bought a PHEV. Only one car, 90% of the time we're on electric, and I still have the gas engine for when I want to go far.
mrcarruthers commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88
An EV just doesn't do anything that my 2007 Pontiac Vibe doesn't do better. My car is worth about $3,000. It:
- Has a 400 mile range
- Can stop anywhere and refuel in just a few minutes, including very isolated areas
- Plays all the music I want
- Hauls anything I want (ie. I don't care if I trash the interior with a pile of mulch on a plastic tarp)
- I can sleep in the back
- Fits in nicely in my lower middle class neighborhood
- Has plenty of spare parts at the junkyard if I need to repair it
On top of that, it doesn't require a #$@# subscription, doesn't force me into some plutocrat's idea of an infotainment system, isn't tracked remotely, with that data being sold to randos, and doesn't cost as much as a Master's degree. Last thing is that while EVs are probably more environmentally friendly than a new ICE car, they still don't compete with a used one from the aughts over their lifetime.
To be fair to your last paragraph, you're less annoyed at EVs than at new cars in general. All new cars are trending towards this, with a few stragglers for the models that haven't been refreshed in a while.
How do we know they won’t patch it in like an iOS 15.8.1 update?
Even iOS 12 had a security update in 2023 still.
Apple doesn't patch every security hole in older iOS versions. I don't know what the criteria is, but my guess is if it's a major security hole, or an easily backported one, they'll do it, but if it's super minor or not backportable, they won't.
The Nexus 6 (2014) can still run a version of android with security patches: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shamu/
Google no longer offers security patches directly, but since you control the phone sufficiently to install your own OS, the community can come together and keep security updates flowing. You could do it yourself if you wanted.
Apple devices make this sort of community maintainership effectively impossible.
I know this means practically nothing since only nerds can actually install a third-party ROM, so for the general populace only the "default" security patch window matters, but for the hacker news crowd it seems like it might be a meaningful difference.
It's all well and good to say "oh you can just install a custom ROM". But you (and many here) can do that. Because you're technically inclined. But the vast majority have users have no idea what the hell you're talking about. They barely know what a security update is or what version of Android they're using, let alone being able to find, choose, and install a ROM.
Can we just choose to stop suggesting it as a legitimate solution cause outside of this bubble, it absolutely is not.
They should stop charging 30% App Store tax for an inferior product at the very least.
They're not charging you, the user that 30%. They're charging the developer. Yes that does trickle down to you in the developer's pricing, but, in this instance, a phone no longer receiving security updates is not an inferior product from the point of view of the transaction in question.
Ford, on the other hand, came out and said that they lost that battle 10 years ago and are going to keep them.