You'd think Broadcom et al. would pitch a fit given the billions they've spent developing Wi-Fi standards that include 6 GHz, developing 6 GHz devices, etc. It's not just owners of existing equipment. It's an entire industry that has been investing in 6 GHz Wi-Fi for years now.

It's bullshit to be forced to accept cash if you don't want to. There's a lot of expense and liability involved that most people don't even think about. Cash can be counterfeited and stolen, and mitigating that isn't free. What's next, being forced to accept checks?

I likewise know of some businesses who only accept cash. Explanations aren't owed either. If you don't like it, then buy from somewhere else.

If being "unbanked" is the problem, then it sounds like having electronic transactions that don't require banks is what we're in want of, not fascist politicians forcing their will on people.

I am saying I have no patience for the drearily predictable "quality" and "safety" FUD. There are severe problems in healthcare. Bad enough to risk neglecting our worship of medical authority. Bad enough to risk suffering possible unknown failures as an alternative to our chronic known failures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/copyp...

The GoFundMe cancellation of the truckers' money should make you all aware of how a cashless society will work. The government gets mad at you and they wipe out your money. The end. Think they can't get mad at you, you're a good citizen? Welcome to the social credit system.

In a cashless society your money is yours only as long as the banks and government allow it.

I'll trust the herd.

Ordinarily in not interested in following the herd to the cliffs, but having multiple password/authentication tools is not as critical for me as it used to be.

Then again, I'll be puking up the VPN/reverse proxy crap so I can host more of this at home behind CGNAT. No ftth or fttn for the foreseeable future, the original vendor STB and can't afford to do it and will never relinquish the easements for a reasonable fee. My local government knows they made the mistake, the next 2 vendors had to commit to lighting it up be a certain date.

But this continuing corporate shell game of 'free' tools being thrown on the dust heap isn't just an annoyance anymore. I'll learning to host more and more, even when it means learning things I did not want to know.

This presumes we have quality. Do you believe that, without doubt? I don't. I have a lifetime of anecdotal evidence of failures by doctors, personally and among family, friends and others. Without (hopefully) inviting a deluge of corroboration, I can assure you the people reading this now can bury us in such stories.

Beyond that, we are in desperate need of lower cost solutions for medicine. You're free to attribute the extreme costs we see however you wish, but finger pointing won't fix it: the powers and interests involved aren't listening. What is needed is a disruption, and this looks like a real possibility. I, at least, don't immediately dismiss it with AMA FUD.

What kind of guardrails should they even have? Chatgpt literally has no fucking clue what it's saying. It doesn't even know what suicide is. And if we're going to try to anticipate every single mental health episode that can possibly occur, then does that mean Avatar must come with a trigger warning?

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

Though, it turns out that the trigger warning itself can in fact create the problem to begin with.

https://www.psychologicalscien...

And this is actually an interesting thing that most people who want things like trigger warnings don't actually realize -- trigger warnings are just more likely to make somebody feel triggered even if they've never even been traumatized at all.

https://www.psychologicalscien...

You're literally asking chatgpt to understand the difference between a person talking about suicide like they actually want to do it, and talking about it in an academic sense, like try to do research on it. It has no fucking idea what the difference is.