celeste

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[–] celeste@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

The best shows can be so hard to watch because they're so good at hitting where it hurts

[–] celeste@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

What's fun about getting into an old but new for you thing is having a huge backlog of classics to experience for the first time. Sometimes I'll get into a new genre of music and it's the best going through top 10 album lists and so on. I hope you have a great experience!

[–] celeste@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Mushishi was fantastic! I definitely also rec that one.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood might interest you. Thinking about interesting character studies - if you like stories with horror elements, Monster is great. Cowboy Bebop is a classic sci fi story. I was personally a big fan of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

last time i got a virus i made sure i had documents backed up and then formatted the hard drive. that was over a decade ago though so i don't know how people deal now

[–] celeste@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like where the picture cuts off. I can imagine the tail continuing forever

[–] celeste@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

These are always so eerie

[–] celeste@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this was building for months. I saw posts about how the banned lady's fully clothed selfies kept getting marked 'adult' a week ago, maybe. posts about non-responses for harassment going back forever.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I remember this post on tumblr and you're right about what they meant.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I helped a lady your age pick out a color for a room in her house, and she ended up going for a very bright peach. She loved it so much she put it in every room in her house where she didn't have a color picked out.

If you aren't planning to sell in a year or two, I say pick something that makes you happy when you see it. Realtors might have a different favorite color in 5 years.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Was something done in like photoshop with the colors in this pic? It looks off to me, but I'm not an expert.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Trust in what sense? With computer security? You probably can't. To diagnose you and find a proper course of treatment? You probably need to research the individual doctor.

My mother worked at a hospital for years helping doctors use computers to keep up to date with research in their fields. By and large, doctors 10-15 years ago sucked at using computers. Doctors who helped save the lives of relatives of mine by diagnosing cancer early would struggle doing simple searches.

I knew a psychologist who would openly chat about patients - names included - in casual party settings. Doctors don't have to be bad at computers to violate your privacy.

If you think their computer security could be better, you're right, but the more they have to learn, the more room for error you're introducing during the changeover. Do they spend millions replacing a diagnostic machine because no one knows how to switch it to better software? When it works and those millions could go towards equipment that needs replacing?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996174/

My suggestion is to do research on tech security in hospitals. Read up from people who are experts in the subject, because it's deeply complicated. Figure out what current recommendations are and contact your local doctors and hospitals to find out if they're investing in patient information security. They might still not use linux, but it's more important they be doing what research shows works.

When you find doctors and hospitals that are working towards those recs, give them what trust you can muster, keeping in mind any of them could just be like "my lung cancer patient Joe Smith said the funniest thing yesterday" at their next cocktail party.

Most won't. But these are human run systems. You need to give them enough trust that they can monitor your health, but be prepared to withdraw it when they prove it's undeserved. Tech-wise, pay attention to actual recommendations from experts and keep in mind that the doctors themselves aren't the experts there.

Just, like, don't let yourself die because your doc thinks a linux is a kind of hybrid animal.

 

I am missing the only thing I really still used #twitter for - immediate local news about things like traffic, weather, fires, etc from small county newspapers and emergency alert twitter.

I'm not logging into twitter just for that stuff, when it's usually just curiosity driving me looking up information. For real emergencies that are hitting me personally, I know how to get info on that from other sources.

Oh well!

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