I have experience from the “proper handling of PII” side of things, and can tell you that while everyone covered by HIPAA has likely taken the mandatory PII training, most, if asked, wouldn’t be able to identify what is and isn’t protected from a list of examples.

So no matter what the rules say, medical and therapy data leak like a sieve, and modern expert systems, if provided with the information, could probably identify the patients 90% of the time.

What medical practitioners and therapists are really protected by is insurance.

That’s because they’re known words to exclude from the filter. Nobody’s flagged up sharpedo to their CSAM filter team yet.

Maybe “sharPedo” (erroneously) triggers some CSAM rule for Bing? Shorthand for sharing pedophilia?

Heh… like him, I have an M1 Pro and an iPhone 13.

Unlike him, I maxed both out at the time so they’d last me 7 years. Also, unlike him, I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for 41 years, been in the Linux ecosystem for 29 years, been in the BSD ecosystem for 32 years, and been in the Windows ecosystem for 27 years.

So far, so good… they still do everything I want them to.

For anything else, I have my Linux server I can remote into. Both devices are still beefy enough to run VMs as needed for most tasks that won’t run on bare metal.

My takeaways? Apple still has the most reliable out of the box experience for hardware. I’ve run macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD as my base OS, and get along fine with all of them these days. But I always have containers and VMs running other OSes so I can use the best tool for the job (or at least the best tool for me).

I generally want a computer I can pick up and use to get a task done these days, without having to spend a few hours on the update and configure cycle first. My hardware on hand can’t handle it? That’s what networked compute is for — I can even set up a container locally and deploy it to beefier inline infrastructure if I need to.

Maybe if I were a PC gamer who always wanted to play the latest games, this setup wouldn’t work — but for my actual needs, it works.

Seems like this could also help us understand/reverse allergies.

It is fixed as of writing, but some EOL versions (3.6, 4.0, 4.2) will not get it.

You probably are already up to date.

I know my MongoDB updated around the 17th.

I have a script I wrote that uses imagemagick on the back end.

Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.

Alternative: install Proxmox on the hardware. Then install all the OSes you want to run on top of that.

Looking back, I think it was a freak accident that the ARCTG crowd ended up calling the shots originally. Computer design was considered janitorial/secretarial style work by powerful people in the beginning, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that the “get rich quick by taking advantage of others” crowd realized there was a lot of money to be made.

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I initially thought it was slop, and then I looked at who wrote it. This is someone I have a lot of respect for.

Personally, I’ve used every Mac UI from the original Twiggy interface, and prefer the UI of Mac OS 7.6.1 with Greg’s Browser, OtherMenu and DragThing. If I could get a macOS back-end with that user interface on the front end, I feel I could get stuff done faster with less frustration.

There was nothing wrong with the original Xerox PARC or Apple HIG documents; their findings still hold true today.

It’s essentially built-in, although the server package helps with administrative tools if you want network-based accounts as well, or quotas etc.

I like the headline… former Windows users are picking up Steam on Linux, because it’s pretty much indistinguishable from Steam on Windows.

Which platforms is this compatible with? The last time I looked at actual Meshtastic/LoRa products, there were a bunch of incompatible implementations and the products were either very functionally limited or very expensive (or, you needed to build them yourself, which doesn’t lend itself well to backcountry communication and resilience).

I’m not sure I want to get up close and personal with their individual atoms, myself.

Well, my C2D Mini that I’ve been using as a backup server for the last decade just died. I’d be happy to receive a replacement :D

A 2014 Mini should work great running El Cap Server. Stick a slow external 8TB HDD on it and you’ve got a capable NAS or backup device.

Do note that if you have other Apple devices, Apple will be dropping support for AFS with macOS 27, so you’ll need to enable Windows filesharing to let the Mini talk to other devices.

The pavillion? Install Linux Mint and it would make a decent entry level workstation for web browsing. Or install Ubuntu Server and make it into a media server running NextCloud and Jellyfin.

I wouldn’t download any Dodge, personally.

If I’m sharing images, I’m generally sharing links to images, or images I’ve created myself and scrubbed of metadata, plus touched up, usually with a noise mask, among other things.

But… what if the WRONG PEOPLE get enough to eat?

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