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I get notifications of my prescriptions being sent off to the pharmacy via a service called RXInform.
They recently incorporated an LLM feature. All this does for the end user is take a few seconds to type of what the prescription is, where it’s being sent, how much it’ll cost without insurance, if there are any coupons, and the insurance price.
All of this is incredibly simple and was successfully displayed using a template. The way the information is presented never changes. The only thing the LLM does is increase the time it takes to actually see the full text while making some server somewhere work harder than needed.
Edit: fixed typo
Another point is that there are many areas where existing recycling and other environmentally friendly approaches can be greatly improved. For instance, the infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage cans are only recycled at around 43% in the US. Despite any wasteful practices by the ultra-wealthy, this is an area where everyone still must be diligent.
It’s up to application software to define what it does. I have never seen a keyboard with function keys beyond F12 in person, but they do exist. Software is very unlikely to respond to F15, which is why Caffeine uses it to keep the system awake. Notably, the program can also instruct Windows to stay awake using its native mechanism instead (possibly insufficient for something like MS Teams) or another virtual key code of the user’s specification.
For what it’s worth, with Caffeine, it’s a single, portable executable, so it doesn’t need to be installed in the conventional sense, but if your IT department monitors processes or whitelists what is allowed to run, this would still be a problem.
There’s a tool for Windows called Caffeine that simulates pressing the F15 key, which is almost never used by any software being that most keyboards don’t have function keys that go that high.
From the webpage:
If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard, so won't lock the screen or activate the screensaver.
It seems that many browsers detect that the site does serve an HTTPS version and upgrades the connection, though the certificate is invalid.
Unless the website is supposed to do something more that I’m simply not seeing myself, it appears to simply embed this one YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9npOp9WhWM
TrueCrypt was forked into VeraCrypt, which is still maintained.
Do you extend this to religions and their adherents generally?
It’s shocking that the US actually engaged in war with Iran so readily without the administration considering the known scenario of the Straight of Hormuz being closed by Iran. I’m amazed by the lack of planning and logistics for something that should have been planned and discussed a good while beforehand, but I guess I shouldn’t be with this administration.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
I used to think that illegal actions of the US Executive Branch would just fail like getting a 403 error when trying to access a Web resource without proper authorization, but I guess this was naïve to think.
There really need to be major changes in the US Government to make it so that the mechanisms of government won’t so willing put illegal actions into play. Though the response of the courts has often been good, it is super slow and merely reactive. Instead, impermissible, illegal actions need to be preempted before the mechanisms of government carry them out.