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Owner of greyhounds. Mostly just shouting into the void.

Straight but not narrow ally. Demi-aroace. Gay and trans rights are human rights. Novid.

My opinions are my own and do not represent my employer, blah blah. I also swear a bit.

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@stux It’s a bit hidden. I definitely had to look it up as well. But the info is pretty easy to find, thankfully. The key thing is it’s in some new-ish account manager thing that I forget what they call it.


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The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

This is not generative AI.

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.


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Looking through the zolmitriptan situation with the script change, it looks like the mistake here is my doctor.

In tablet form, it comes in 2.5mg and 5mg. But in nasal spray form it appears to only be 5mg. She submitted 2.5mg nasal spray.

Sent an email to her about this. We shall see how this goes.

In the meantime, I have enough sumatriptan to get me by.


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It really has a lot of hallmarks of a phishing scam.

Addressed directly to me. Applies on me financial responsibility. Using language of urgency to take action. No prior communication of this responsibility.

But it has very specific details that would only be available if they had a data breach.

But it appears to be an actual bill. I've gone to the Quest website and it's a valid bill.


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So back in October I got labs done through Quest Diagnostics. It took two attempts because the first time their systems were down and they couldn't do anything.

Anyway, I was told the total cost of labs and my responsibility right then and there. I paid. We did all the stuff.

And I received a bill today. It's past due and full of "adjustments”.

I know Quest Diagnostics is a legit lab and all that. But is it also a scam?


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