you might have luck here, but be sure to read the rules of any community before posting:

https://lemmy.world/c/perchance

There was at least one care bear on Lemmy saying ‘think of his family’, etc.

Nah, I will think about the families of the tens of thousands of private insurance victims instead.

Tight.

Love everything about it except for the Spez watermark

Making this about yourself is where you screwed up.

Proxy settings in about:config?

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve had some very positive interactions on here, too. And I’ve seen questions answered when people needed help. And generally useful info types of posts. The comics and memes are often good (if you like those, those are not everyone’s cup of tea). Anyway, it’s not all jackasses all the time on Lemmy.

I’m also starting to think social media plus human nature = inherently bad combo. It’s not always bad, but it trends that way over time and at large scales.

Real identity social media is bad because creepy corporations track your every move and people post fake and highly curated profiles.

Anonymous social media is bad because too many people behave like unfiltered belligerent asholes.

There is indeed a LOT of bitchy pedantry on here. I’m not sure it’s worse than other platforms, because this is the only one I’ve been using for a while now. I block very aggressively and that seems to help.

Sorry you’re not having fun on Lemmy, I do get it. For some reason reddit keeps failing upwards and we’re not getting the influx of users I was hoping for. I’m still hanging in here but participating less and less.

Marco reading Wikipedia: awkwardly takes a sip of water.

Upvote for unpopular. But I really don’t understand this mentality that removing options “for you” is a good thing.

As long as you’re still engaging with real humans regularly, I think that it’s good to learn from ChatGPT. It gets most general knowledge things right. I wouldn’t depend on it for anything too technical, and certainly not for medical advice. It is very hit or miss for things like drug interactions.

If you’re enjoying the experience, it’s not much different than watching a show or playing a game, IMHO. Just don’t become dependent on it for all social interaction.

As for the jerks on here, I always recommend aggressive use of the block button. Don’t waste time and energy on them. There’s a lot of kind and decent people here, filter your feed for them.

Wholesome Lemmy better than reddit moment going on in here.

Techmoan has entered the chat.

You’re right to point out the problem. Using a rhetorical tone was a bit sarcastic / condescending, so I mirrored it.

I think it’s a question of perspective. Your doctor faxing something to a pharmacy or specialist is archaic at this point, and I agree it’s not great. If they are using FOIP and not POTS, one would hope it’s encrypted with TLS or something (if it’s not, it’s possibly a HIPAA violation if there’s PHI in the FAX). But the blast radius is pretty small.

I suppose if a hacker compromised a hospital system’s FOIP they could harvest a lot of medical records that way. But at that point, they are already in and they’d likely be more interested in fatter & juicier targets on the network. Bigger datasets with less effort (versus pulling from a trickle of FAXes going in and out).

Bottom line: yes, FAX is dumb, and it’s a problem but it’s very small compared to other things.

Actually I do know that. Pharmacies, too. You do know they are not FAXing giant datasets with millions of patients in them, right?

Having permission to access to the HIPAA-protected dataset is only the first hurdle. You also need a medically valid or claim processing reason to look at individual patient records within that dataset. People have gotten into trouble by not respecting this. Doctors and other providers are not going to just poke around in the data for fun. Too little to gain for too much risk.

HIPAA is far from perfect, but it does do a decent job of protecting data at rest and in transit. If a bad actor like a hacker manages to get a copy of it, the sensitive stuff will be encrypted.

We handle HIPAA data at my job, and we all take it very seriously. There’s annual training required, and a reporting process for violations. Nobody is looking at anything unless they really need to.

Large corporate health insurance providers are another problem. They of course do have access to it, and I am sure they abuse the privilege for data mining and scheming on claims denial strategies and so on. But that’s a political and enforcement issue not an issue with HIPAA itself. They are violating HIPAA and getting away with it because they are a powerful lobby.

I’ve always heard those are bad for the pipes.

The Ann Coulter of fishes.

Yeah, I always glove up when I clean out the p-traps under the sinks. The smell is the worst part.