My gut says there are sharks circling this issue waiting to pounce once this storm passes.
They want to see it gutted so they can strip the carcass to the bone and try to extract rent from half the internet.
Enshittification comes for everything, eventually.
I can't find a way to strip these out, so I am considering another approach. Is there an alternative frontend for consuming Prime Video?
If not, how hard would it be to interact with the hdmi stream and implement an auto-mute feature? I've been considering ways to remove these annoyances and since they don't provide a convenient way for smart people they're justifying the effort to a more complicated approach.
These companies need to leave some low-hanging fruit or they're going to be incentivizing a whole host of developers who are more motivated to solve this problem than anyone they could possibly hire internally.
I have this theory I cannot prove that Microsoft has had an existential level security breach, something like a full access breach to all of Azure, but it is covered up in a "too big to fail" type manner.
I have absolutely no way to prove this gut feeling.
But there are also things it can't do. For example connectors support posting messages to private channels. Power Automate only supports this if the message is posted on behalf of the workflow creator. Basically the persons name will always show up in the posted message. Not great for alerts and similar
There is a surprisingly large component to business success that is not technical. I can absolutely see how AI can help decrease technical barriers for those willing to push on an idea and make solutions possible that wouldn't otherwise be available.
I have been convinced for several years now that insurance companies are likely buying up personal data from many different sources. They seem to be ideal consumers because it'll lead to better outcomes when they can increase rates on those that identify as risky.
I knew a guy who worked in Finance. Whenever he would buy alcohol, or cannabis (legal where I lived) he would only pay cash. His concern was that, if his credit card usage data were sold, it could increase his premiums.
Itemized receipt data is not transmitted to the network or to the issuing bank.
Some merchants have multiple registers for the sale of different types of products, but generally if you receive only one receipt for your full purchase, it will be recorded under the category code for the merchant's primary business.
On my American Express credit card statement, all the airline flights show the details of the flight and Staples.com transactions show the specific items that were purchased. And this has appeared for at least 6 to 8 years.
In Canada, at least, you have to go to specific stores that only sell either alcohol, or cannabis. So the just having a bill from there would be enough.
It’s still unknown if someone engaging in risk will end up in costly collisions, or other events. Just because you engage in risk doesn’t mean it will bite you, only that it is more likely to bite you.
Besides why should less risky drivers subsidize riskier drivers?
If they have an ACTUAL measure of lower skilled and higher risk drivers, fine.
But when they use overly simplistic data (or use it in an oversimplified way) that makes the highest-skilled drivers appear in the same batch as low-skilled and high-risk drivers, that is not subsidy, it is unfair penalization by stupidity.
"Besides why should less risky drivers subsidize riskier drivers?"
They essentially do. If the safe drivers are never at fault, those premiums went somewhere. If the risky, repeat accident drivers aren't paying thr full price replacement vehicles, that money came from somewhere.
This has been true for several years. An insurance agent once told me that there are life insurance companies dropping the requirement for blood draws / medical exams and are just buying prescription records to correlate with financial, educational, and other behavioral data.
Depends who is selling that data. Some pharmacy delivery services or billing services may not be covered by HIPAA, since they are not necessarily "covered entities".
In my experience, covered entities are really serious about signing BAAs with any of their hosting vendors and partners, as afaik the liability falls on the covered entity if they didn't have an agreement in place and data leaked from a vendor/partner.
I'm sure there are legal HIPAA data escape pathways (given the financial incentives for companies to find them), but I'm curious on the details.
Afaik, there's no way to make HIPAA-covered data non-HIPAA-covered, and absent that everyone in the custody chain is responsible for anywhere it eventually ends up.
That said, I expect the way this works in practice is more likely data that originates with non-HIPAA-covered entities, but can be massaged/combined into a similar product.
