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owowow··on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
Lack of public documentation has to be my #1 pain point with proprietary software over the years.

Especially in the EMR space, putting up barriers to access basic documentation is quite unreasonable.

Public documentation is not going to suddenly allow your competition to gain an advantage, while your own firm benefits from users being able to easily google and get authoritative answers from your own official documentation.

owowow··on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
Billing and marketing is likely the reason. There is no one responding to RFPs advocating for GNU Health, and it likely is not up to scratch for medical billing/automated overbilling of insurance providers.

EHRs in the USA, Germany and other countries with numerous health insurance providers are primarily there to ensure every service and tools used is billed fully (or overbilled).

owowow··on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
Canvas is free software, Instructure's main value add is a 24/7 support desk, operational expertise (not needed for small scale users) and custom software development.

Compared to Pearson's crummy web learning platform and the mess of perl that constituted my college's homegrown infrastructure, Canvas was the bright spot where when things went wrong you could get ahold of someone technically competent and helpful at 11pm the night before your test on Saturday.

owowow··on PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
Unstable aka Sid receives updates always, I think your thinking of Testing which goes into a freeze period before each major release of Debian.

Sid has been quite stable for me, the packages are much newer than Ubuntu (generally on par with Arch or close to it) and the few noteworthy bugs I have seen over the years have been reported and handled within 24 to 48hrs of said package being updated with the problematic code.

owowow··on Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model
Banned from where? What does AdNauseam do differently than uBO that would incentivize people to use it?
owowow··on US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails
CBP does not have good data sharing with the NSA, hence building their own silo of stolen data.
owowow··on The Death of Corporate Research Labs
Up until the 1950's pharmaceutical development was entirely a government enterprise: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.slu.edu/law/academi...
owowow··on Mozilla Lifeboat
Mozilla hires devs all across the world, many in countries where developers are much cheaper than in the USA.
owowow··on To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
OnLive was streaming games years before Google entered the space, there isn't much novelty in what Stadia has done.
owowow··on System Hardening in Android 11
Many LTE networks are IPv6 first, with IPv4 only services generally performing much worse or being unreachable. All 3 US Cell carriers have made this jump, though you see people complaining about IPv4 only sites and services not loading or working poorly through CGNAT.
owowow··on Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)
The money is used more than once as it stays in that community rather than being paid back with interest.

Often money earned, lent or given to the least well to do has the highest velocity in changing hands, resulting in much more positive economic impact than if the money were given to people who were better off.

owowow··on Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta
AT&T's IoT pricing seems to undercut Twilio and Hologram on price: https://marketplace.att.com/products/att-iot-dataplans-lte-n...

This platform has been around for at least 4 years iirc.

owowow··on Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes
I do screen shares on Jitsi in Firefox ESR on a daily basis, not really sure what your on about.

What stack are you using? Firefox is smooth on Debian 10 both in Gnome and KDE.

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