Alex Rosenberg

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Compilers, Operating Systems, and Games, oh my!
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Blue Shield gave my contact info and possibly medical info to another firm, Altais, run by Brown & Toland, to “proactively assist my healthcare” for them to schedule an "annual wellness exam." Never heard of them/wouldn't accept a provider chosen by insurance anyway.

Pretty sure this is a violation of California CPRA (they had full name, phone number, and DOB at a minimum) and possibly a HIPAA violation as well (I couldn't get either to indicate what data they had).

What do you think?

@MartyFouts @volts.wtf @eschaton Wikipedia says 17 states control all liquor distribution.
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@volts.wtf @eschaton It's like some of these folks haven't been to states that only have state liquor stores.
@eschaton LOL. A 1997 (or was it 1998?) meeting where Mark Rein and Tim Sweeney of Epic proposed that Apple pay for exclusivity of the original Unreal for Mac is where I formed my opinion of those gentlemen and I've been proven right many times since.
@Rycaut This is probably a suggestion topic for the “jmap” standard floating through IETF now although my superficial glance at it says Google isn't involved. I guess I'll hit the open mic at the mailmaint session in Madrid and commence the airing of the grievances.

@eschaton You could try to submit a patch for it. The UI layer is pretty basic to extend.

Then again based on their attitude in their replies in their own forums, I doubt they'll accept the patch.

The latest Steam beta is finally compiled for Apple Silicon.

Maybe somebody at Apple should have maybe just maybe worked a bit harder at getting Valve to do that you know like half a decade ago?

@Rycaut I firmly believe that Gmail users should pass a captcha test or two periodically or have their outbound/relay permissions blocked.

What gets me in this case is that it's a spoofed From domain that they know they don't have rights to be sending from. Spoofed headers like that should be shutting down the sending account and requiring proof-of-human-error to reinstate the account.

@eschaton Republislums? Trickle-down housing?