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@blu3id

Technology, Healthcare, Developer, Troublemaker, Libertarian leaning. Strong views that may not be my own. Post may or may not be contemporaneous.

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I just want someone, anyone, to write down in plain English (ideally from the perspective of the service user) how this works; what it proves*; how it proves* it; what it will improve, and what some of the likely shortcomings might be. That's all. For some peculiar reason, this never happens.

10.03.2026 21:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ’ฏ though caveat to my original that was more in relation to London recruitment specifically - your point still being completely valid. Also don't get me started on RCs being based in London...

05.03.2026 18:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have challenged them on this in the past and the pathetic excuse is: but to have a competitive "compensation package" and attract the best staff we have to do this.

05.03.2026 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some will be exposed to medical negligence and malpractice claims some won't. Some will be able to work in some Ivory tower depts. and some won't. Most of all there will be disparity in the minimum quality of care provided by those with an ICM CCT.

02.03.2026 18:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nothing to discuss. Absolutely farcical - if you are using (or expected to use) USS diagnostically you need formal credentials and governance processes. Seems to be pandering to varied provision in training...

02.03.2026 12:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
In frustration, the Russians decided to push their luck. They informed Romania that a transport plane would shortly be entering their airspace, permission or not.

โ€œYou could do that.โ€ The Romanian Defence Minister, Victor Babuic told Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov over the phone. โ€œOf course we would be obliged to send up an aircraft to intercept your aircraft.โ€

Babuic pointed out that in such tense situations, accidents often happen. He couldnโ€™t guarantee that the pilot wouldnโ€™t mistakenly shoot the Russians down.

โ€œOf course this is a crime.โ€ Babuic said, apologetically. โ€œHe would be prosecuted under our law, and he would be sent to jail for seven years.โ€

He paused for effect.

โ€œBut he would also be a national hero.โ€ He added, thoughtfully.

The warning worked. No further attempts to reinforce the Russian contingent at the airport were made.

In frustration, the Russians decided to push their luck. They informed Romania that a transport plane would shortly be entering their airspace, permission or not. โ€œYou could do that.โ€ The Romanian Defence Minister, Victor Babuic told Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov over the phone. โ€œOf course we would be obliged to send up an aircraft to intercept your aircraft.โ€ Babuic pointed out that in such tense situations, accidents often happen. He couldnโ€™t guarantee that the pilot wouldnโ€™t mistakenly shoot the Russians down. โ€œOf course this is a crime.โ€ Babuic said, apologetically. โ€œHe would be prosecuted under our law, and he would be sent to jail for seven years.โ€ He paused for effect. โ€œBut he would also be a national hero.โ€ He added, thoughtfully. The warning worked. No further attempts to reinforce the Russian contingent at the airport were made.

Okay as the original publisher is long since gone, here is a version of the (award winning at the time!) thing I wrote on the Pristina Airport incident back in the day.

Note Putin's role. Also worth it for this bit of sassiness by the Romanian Foreign Minister.

authory.com/JohnBull/Pri...

14.01.2026 19:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 123 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Absolutely continue to be delighted with my ~3y old @frame.work 13 laptop. Managed to break my fingerprint reader (dodgy USB electronics from AliExpress ๐Ÿคฆ). Painlessly ordered the replacement part and fitted it now good as new. Haven't owned any other laptop that this would have been possible on.

23.02.2026 17:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Open Location Code - Wikipedia

Latitude and Longitude?, OS Grid reference?, or the most similar Open Location Code/ Googles Plus Codes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Lo...

08.02.2026 10:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A group of people are smiling and interacting - a laptop shows computer code

A group of people are smiling and interacting - a laptop shows computer code

A woman looks over at a laptop screen of her colleague

A woman looks over at a laptop screen of her colleague

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A woman is talking expressively as she presents whilst a man smiles in the background

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A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

01.02.2026 19:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Tickets now available for the next NHS Hack Day!

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28.01.2026 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - apenwarr/atlogin: An OIDC provider that logs in with ATProto An OIDC provider that logs in with ATProto. Contribute to apenwarr/atlogin development by creating an account on GitHub.

No. But if you do go down the manual route @apenwarr.ca has made github.com/apenwarr/atl... that does the OIDC for BlueSky/ATProto live instance at atlogin.net

25.01.2026 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still wondering. Particularly the "safety and security" section.

24.01.2026 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TIL this is not the first time a Nobel laureate has given their medal away. The last was Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel Prize in Literature) who gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1943.

16.01.2026 10:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always f... | Hacker News

I think this comment summed things up quite well and used the analogy of family. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4660...

14.01.2026 12:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yep. It's also a bit disingenuous to suggest that Grok/CSAM is the primary reason for removing him. It is but one of many. But being a fascist and (neo)Nazi is fairly close to the top of the list.

11.01.2026 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion from Alphaville: Here's a look inside Elon Musk's big tent. ft.trib.al/NM1VE7i

06.01.2026 20:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 126 ๐Ÿ” 32 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Once again I would very much like to get off the ride/this rock/timeline now.

03.01.2026 19:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘‹ from downstairs ๐Ÿคฎ

02.12.2025 10:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure, but you might get "Grinched" for playing Christmas songs before the start of December...

22.11.2025 07:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also massively "out of touch/ doesn't know the price of milk" vibes. Most people who aren't crazy (or from certain medical speciality stereotypes) and considering switching from car to bike want an ebike. Unless you are buying from AliExpress (not on scheme) cheap is still >ยฃ1k

14.11.2025 15:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With a silver coating? Remember there is a need to make sure these are IPC compliant.

09.11.2025 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I approve. Excellent stopgap while waiting for a EHR that surfaces key information well enough that it intuitively makes sense not to repeat it by ctrl-c & ctrl-v. Should only need to remain in place for the average duration of any NHS "temporary fix"...

09.11.2025 11:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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22.10.2025 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Garbage in, garbage out: Workshop at SDinGOV 2025 - Effortmark Caroline reports back on an interactive workshop in which participants shared their experience of measuring error rates and data quality

In today's episode of #FixTheForms, I've finished writing up the workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality that I ran #SDinGOV

Extra thanks to @pixlz.com for help with prep - sadly, she couldn't make it due to a family emergency

www.effortmark.co.uk/garbage-in-g...

21.10.2025 10:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yup. Though not just AWS but AWS us-east-1 specifically. Seems AWS itself is dependent on that region.

20.10.2025 10:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman with a soap bubble behind her face Alt: a woman smiling as she pops a soap bubble floating in the air in front of her
17.10.2025 23:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

11.10.2025 04:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 113 ๐Ÿ” 36 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks curiously at a pie which Green has placed on a plate on the table, while Green looks at him with joy and pride.
Green: I have made a sidequest pie!

Blue listens patiently as Green goes on.
Green: Flour from the mill we visited once, mushrooms that we gathered with your mom, homegrown parsley and basil... Almost all ingredients were things we've made or gathered on adventures!

Both foxes turn back to look at the pie.
Blue: How does it taste?
Green: Bad.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks curiously at a pie which Green has placed on a plate on the table, while Green looks at him with joy and pride. Green: I have made a sidequest pie! Blue listens patiently as Green goes on. Green: Flour from the mill we visited once, mushrooms that we gathered with your mom, homegrown parsley and basil... Almost all ingredients were things we've made or gathered on adventures! Both foxes turn back to look at the pie. Blue: How does it taste? Green: Bad.

08.10.2025 11:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 4072 ๐Ÿ” 703 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Depends if you care about the continued existence of those seven companies and/or snake oil sorry I mean AI. Or have exposure via any institution that was stupid enough to invest in any of them.

08.10.2025 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You don't.

02.10.2025 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0