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Post by SkyPuncher »

Melting_Harps wrote: post #98
Drunk_Engineer wrote: post #45

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Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.

> Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation. Without sounding to condescending: Bro... this entire Industry still relies on using fax or snailmail for records. Using slow, leaky, non-private/seure channels for sensitive information is not as much of a concern to this field than one thinks if you've been in the belly of the beast. Ask anyone who has spent anytime doing IT work at a hospita…

Fax is still a magical thing in healthcare specifically because of how easy it is to use under HIPAA.

HIPAA has all of these crazy rules for anything digital, but the second you switch to good ol’ telephony the rules all become “there’s no rule because hacking a telephony system would be a federal crime.” I’m not joking. Telephony is considered a “mere conduit” while the internet is not.

It really is stupid. HIPAA has all of these controls, but phones are just fair game.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by pfffr »

pfffr wrote: post #189
crazygringo wrote: post #4

This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default . Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there? As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? Not only does this seem like a terribly…

So anyone in the medical industry using microsift edge is violating HIPAA?

Also, it seems like there may be some copyright implications as well? The more I think about this it really seems like Microsoft is opening itself to lots of liability issues with this policy.

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Post by heavyset_go »

netsharc wrote: post #284
burnte wrote: post #162

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I got a laptop in from a user the other day, that shocked the hell out of me, that floating search bar thing. MS is downright creepy the way they slip things in.

With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults... I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust

Those widgets randomly come back after updates for me, along with ads in the start menu, even if you spent time removing them.

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Post by lynx23 »

Shared404 wrote: post #279
lynx23 wrote: post #90

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OCR in images is becoming the norm. It was a big relief on social media for blind and visually impaired people. Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. So ML found one of its first public use cases. Composite image description and OCR. And yes, the quality is bad. But nobody really cared about this, esp. not those offering the feature. Holy heart…

> Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. Mastodon at least has had a better culture about this in my experience. Possibly worth investigating, and it may have degraded over the last mass migrations.

I should take a look at Mastodon one day. However, all of this talk of having to maintain your own instance and my very bad experience when looking at Google Plus (the most inaccessible social network ever put out by a large corporation) kind of myke me weary I am wasting my time. Besides, I mostly use FB as an event calendar. As long as someone doesn't mirror all the events announced in my area, I will likely not use it on a regular basis.

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Post by eur0pa »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #14

Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. As this article shows, you can fiddle with Edge and other browsers to try and make them more privacy respecting --- but why bother trying to hit a constantly moving target? Clearly, your privacy is not in their best interests and they will only continue to circumvent it.

Surely you meant Ungoogled-Chromium. Brave isn't any better at privacy, and neither is Firefox.

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Post by ocbyc »

AJ007 wrote: post #202
worrycue wrote: post #129

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I just had the Edge Desktop Search Bar show up on my desktop. It just appeared from nowhere. Didn't even know when it was "installed". MS is getting really pushy. They probably see the GPT stuff as their ticket to beating Google in search so they are pushing it as hard as they can to get as many users as they can. I just click "turn off". I don't trust LLMs - all their knowledge is learned from the unreliable interne…

I saw that pop up on one of my parent's computers. The hardware is old enough that it didn't want to install Windows 11, but Microsoft still managed to push that shit. Within an hour I wiped the drive of Windows.

You have multiple parents or they have multiple computers?

What did you replace Windows with?

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Post by michaelmrose »

autoexec wrote: post #240
michaelmrose wrote: post #78

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Firefox has had minor missteps in the past but Linux and Firefox are not unsecure options despite being free and Microsoft isn't a safe option despite charging money. Your algorithm is fairly broken.

Even with Linux you have to be careful. Some distros have pulled shit like sending local searches to remote servers so that they can push amazon ads at you ( https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do ). We have to watch everyone like a hawk these days.

Some distros is one of the major distros once in 30 years 10 years ago.

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Post by gloosx »

tredre3 wrote: post #393
sebosp wrote: post #336

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Just curious, how are images protected by login:password? The only way I know is htacess, which isn't really an easily scalable/usable feature... Many years ago, maybe 10 when I used Facebook I recall you could share a picture location with anybody regardless of login (i.e. Right click, copy image location, send over whatever), so the URL wouldn't be guessable or possible to predict, and the protection would be that…

Images are like any other web asset and can be protected either by the web server (htpasswd) or the application's logic. I think you've been brainwashed by modern storage services (S3) where the URL is essentially always public and out of your control. It's trivial to password protect an image when it's on your server. I would assume any medical provider would protect their images by checking the session and not serv…

Generally, no-one hosts public content on the S3. It is simply really expensive when it comes to outbound traffic. The content is usually cached and served by CDN, where you have full control over authentication and cross-origin rules.

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Post by bpiche »

crazygringo wrote: post #4

This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default . Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there? As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? Not only does this seem like a terribly…

Same people who saw no legal problem with letting Tay/Zo into the wild. Or the Bing chatbot. All product launches that would have sunk any smaller company. They’re so big they believe they can just eat any legal challenge. Probably right too.
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