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After a couple hours of reading, do I still care?

I know I may miss some gems this way, but my reading list is longer than my available time.

That was a great episode.

It's really good, especially if you like technothrillers.

I also work in cybersecurity. Second everything this person said.

This thread is a good reminder, because at many organizations HR / management can and will look at your browser history (and computer activity in general) as a method of monitoring performance and staying in control.

But at my organization, we have never once looked at anyone's browser history (and I know that HR hasn't because they would have to go through us). We certainly could if we were asked to and we would if there was an incident (what we would care about is sensitive / confidential information getting leaked or suspicious activity on the network using a specific person's credentials, suggesting those credentials may be compromised). But in almost 2 years (we're a startup in the aerospace electronics sector) we have never once had cause to do that and we have a philosophy that happy relaxed employees who feel trusted by their employer are the kinds of employees that we want, so we wouldn't intrude that way without cause ever.

Agreed. I've gotten several none technical folks (including older folks) in my life using Linux Mint and loving it.

What did I do?

I installed it for them. That was it.

I actually made that once. A friend and I were watching Buffy the Vampire slayer and there's an episode where the secret ingredient to make the mini pizzas so good was to take them out of the oven and fry them in garlic butter, then put them back in the oven.

So we tried it... man... it was crack.

My goto for grilled cheese is butter, premelted and mixed with garlic powder, oregano and black pepper. Fresh garlic is even better when I'm not too lazy, but grilled cheese is comfort food so I usually just want to make it and eat it ASAP. My goto bread is sourdough and my goto cheese is fresh mozzarella. I make a really thick tomato soup to go with it, by making Campbell's condensed tomato soup with heavy cream instead of water and adding lots of herbs and spices. It might as well be a tomato cream sauce.

Because apparently I want grilled cheese to just be pizza.

Red alarm. Red alarm.

They worry about the technology making wrong diagnoses,

You know who I've seen make "wrong diagnoses" over and over again? Human fricken doctors. And not to me (a healthy, upper middle class white male professional) but to my wife (a disabled woman with a debilitating genetic disease from a shitty part of Texas). We had to fight for years and spend tons of money to get "official" diagnoses that we were able to make at home based on observation, Googling and knowledge of her family history. I've watched male neurologists talk to ME instead of her while staring at her boobs. I've watched ER doctors have her history and risks explained to them in excruciating detail, only to send her home (when it turns out she needs emergency surgery).

revealing sensitive patient data

Oh, 100%, this is gonna happen.

becoming an excuse for insurance and hospital administrators to cut staff in the name of innovation and efficiency.

Oh, 100% this is ALSO gonna happen. My wife recently had to visit the ER twice, receive scary spinal surgery and stay over for 2 weeks. The NUMBER ONE THING I noticed was that in this state of the art hospital, in a small, wealthy, highly gentrified town, was DANGEROUSLY understaffed. The nurses and orderlies were stretched so thin, they couldn't even stop to breath (and they were OFTEN cranky and RUSHING to do delicate tasks where they could easily make mistakes). This reckless profiteering is already a problem (that probably needs some more aggressive regulation to deal with it, nothing else will work). If AI exposes it more and pushes it to a breaking point, maybe that could ultimately be a good thing.

It can also help get better medical advice into people's hands, when such can be extremely inaccessible under our current, maximum enshittified healthcare system.

Hilariously, unless ALL lemmy instances do this, anyone that federates with you will have to block it too or any communities they sync with you will be available on their instances...

My missus would be VERY put out if I yelled that in the car...