Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead.
Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost?
Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea.
Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this a $20/month? $100/month? $500/month? Refinance my house for a month's supply?
Doctor - Well, it's probably not "refinance your house" level.
Patient - Umm ... Okay ... That leaves a lot of room in there still.
Doctor - You'll just have to talk to your insurance.
Patient - ... Okay
Later
Patient - Hey insurance, my doc wants me to start taking pjehhdntpf, can you tell me how much it is going to cost?
Insurance - Sorry, I have no idea.
Patient - What do you mean no idea?
Insurance - well, we won't pay anything until your doctor gets a pre-authorization. And then how much we cover is based on the diagnosis codes, your deductible, the specifics of your plan, whether you get it from an in-network pharmacy or not ...
Patient - fine, so give me a best case
Insurance - free if it's approved and in network and you've hit your out of pocket maximum of $100,000
Patient - ... Really not helping here. So assume it gets approved and I've hit my deductable
Insurance - which pharmacy?
Patient - idk ... Umm the CVS down the street
Insurance - Okay that's going to be $5000/month
Patient - ... Wait, WHAT?
Insurance - turns out it's on our exclusions list so we don't cover it unless you get it waved onto the formulary upon appeal
Patient - but.... I have insurance. Why aren't you helping me pay for my medicine?
Insurance - we don't allow that medicine on your employers' plan. You should use gscsttigom instead.
Patient - I'm on that one right now. It doesn't work.
Insurance - well you'll have to appeal it, but you can't do that until after you get a formal denial.
Patient - and how long does that take?
Insurance - well, if your doctor does the preauth paperwork, they'll make a decision about it within 14 business days, unless they need to come back to your doctor for more information. Then they'll mail you the decision within another 7 business days from (insert the location farthest possible away from you in the continental US). Depending on the decision you can appeal the decision, which the appeals process can take a maximum of 180 days, after which you can appeal it again which takes a maximum of 365 days.
Patient - and if I need to start taking the medicine now?
Insurance - well you're free to do that out of pocket and file for reimbursement later.
Patient - at $5000/month?
Insurance - no it'd have to be at the out of pocket price. For that CVS, it looks like it'd be $15000/month
Patient furiously googling "how to move to a civilized country"
Googles "pjehhdntpf price in Mexico" - $12.50 for a 90 day supply.
Question for any #blind users who work with PDFs and are lucky enough to get high-quality tagged PDFs: The PDF readers in Edge and Firefox both support tagged PDF to some degree. Have you found that their level of tagged PDF support is good enough, or do you find that you still have to resort to Adobe Reader/Acrobat to get the best results? For macOS users, how good is the Preview app's tagged PDF support in practice?
Tagged PDF wasn't supported in Chromium-based browsers when I last tried it. Apple's support can be awkward at times (e.g., requiring the user to "interact" with lists to read their contents), but it does work at least at a basic level. At least in the scholarly sources that I read, I am more likely to find an HtML version than a tagged PDF version, and of course untagged PDF remains common.
That's a real shame, as it's really not that bad of a format, and it's not like we have any other options that accomplish similar objectives. We certainly don't have a good web stack alternative, and I think that's a real shame.
@miki PDF is a horrendous format, at least if you have to try and parse it. Literally every single format, without fail, I added to Paperback contained text content or markup in some way. PDF though? Have fun with graphics operators and glyph IDs. I hate PDF. It can die.
@miki Oh, yes for forms it's unfortunately all we've got. Hmm, maybe a bucket list item of mine should be making a file format for form data that doesn't suck.
@TheQuinbox One reason why PDF forms are (somewhat) popular over here is that they're compatible with the whole edifice of European electronic signatures, which, unlike their US counterparts, are so cryptographically secure that nobody really knows how to use them.
Not sufficient, no. Firefox in particular separates text that should be read together as a single unit onto multiple lines, sometimes presenting as little as one character per line making documents unreadable.
Weirdly enough, I just recently noticed that at least Chrome interprets tags wrongly. Like, my PDF got level 1, 2 and 3 headings, which Adobe Reader announces properly. Chrome interprets h1-level headings as h2, h2 as h3 and doesn't recognize and headings deeper than that at all. So yeah, a correct interpretation seems to be an Adobe thing still. Haven't tried Firefox yet.
I don't think Chrome actually supports most (any?) of the tags that are present in a PDF, but instead just makes up its own regardless of the state of the original document. @matt
On windows adobe is still the only thing that supports fillable forms. So seeing as I’m forced to keep it installed for that I just use it for everything.
@fastfinge Oh wow what the hell, I had no idea that Adobe was the only thing that fully supported forms in PDFs like that, so much for everyone trying not to get locked into specific vendors for this sort of stuff, nice going Adobe.
Yep, that’s my experience of filling in PDF forms too, Adobe reader is the only program where you can work with forms. However, Google Chrome deals better with some untagged PDF documents than Adobe Reader does.
We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the second "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2026, along with @fsfe, @linuxfoundation @nlnet, and @PrototypeFund 🥳
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If you’re unaware, the EU has engaged in mass surveillance in the Global South far ahead of attempts to ram #ChatControl through the EU legal system.
Done underhandedly through Frontex, the EU handed data-extraction tools capable of retrieving call logs, photos, GPS locations and WhatsApp messages from any phone to West African nations, helping transfer migration data from host countries to the EU.
Orbit Research will be at Sight Village London on 18 and 19 November. Come experience the new Orbit DAISY Player, Orbit Speak, and the Orbit Reader Q20 and Q40. Compact, affordable, and built for everyday use. #A11y #BrailleForAll #inclusion #OrbitSpeak #OrbitPlayer #SightVillageLondon
Sooo jetzt mal was richtig Schönes. @adipoeserPursch hat mir vorhin 'n Elektrosmog-Sauger für Brillen angeboten. Tja, Meister. Is‘ nix mit Satire. Das Ding gibt‘s wirklich. Nur teurer. 🤷🏻♂️ Wer‘s durchhält, kann sich ja mal das Erklärvideo angucken. Ich sach nur: „Ooouuuuu, Alter! Wo ist der denn ausgebrochen??? 🤯“ Spaß beiseite: Die verdienen sich an diesem offensichtlichen Betrug dusselig. Sowas gehört eigentlich in den Knast. #Esoterik #Spinner #Aluhut
Der BIOGETA HOME Harmonizer gleicht Belastungen durch Elektrosmog, Funk und Mikrowellen sowie geologische Störzonen (Erdstrahlung) messbar aus. Wissenschaftlich bestätige Wirkung!
Ich lese heute wahnsinnig viel, dass Angst und Wut das Leben Vieler bestimmt und ich verstehe das. Gleichzeitig frage ich mich aber, woran das liegt. Wird die Welt wirklich immer schlechter? Die Tendenz ist kaum von der Hand zu weisen. Aber sie besteht eben nicht nur aus schwarz und weiß. Sie wird aber insbesondere online und zunehmend offline so kommunikativ betrachtet.
Folglich wird jede Entgleisung als größter anzunehmender Afront verstanden und zumindest kommunikativ aufs Blut geechtet. Die Aufmerksamkeit ist damit dann auch gebunden. Und was bringt es, wenn man über jeden noch so kleinen Stock springt, der einem hingehalten wird? Ausdrücklich muss man sich klar positionieren. Das muss auch mit klarer Gegenrede passieren. Viel wichtiger fände ich aber, wenn man das nicht zum Hauptpunkt des eigenen Handelns macht. Wie viel wäre gewonnen, wenn man stattdessen herausfinden würde, dass minütliche Aufregung über bisweilen unglücklich formulierte HAlbsätze exakt gar nichts bringen? Was wäre, wenn die Zeit in eine Verbesserung der lokalen Zustände gesteckt würde? Sich Engagieren oder einfach mit Nachbar*innen eine gute Zeit haben. Für den Zusammenhalt hilft das deutlich mehr als bei jeder Provokation die Revolution zu fordern, weil es darunter ja nun wirklich nicht mehr geht.
Und dann ist die Situation an sich nicht anders. Aber sich nicht nur um den Weltuntergang zu drehen wäre doch schon mal ein Anfang für das eigene Wohlbefinden und dafür, die Handlungsfähigkeit wiederzufinden.
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity on your phone.
I would love to use /e/OS, but last time I tried installing it, it kinda killed my phone and I had to send it in for repair, so now I kinda don't want to try it again (fairphone 5)
LineageOS or /e/OS are not good options for Security and Privacy. Those does not keep up with Security and Privacy. It's even the opposite. It's far more secure to use Iphones or Pixels on stock Android, then any of those "Custom ROM"
The only safe operating system + at the same time most secure and private option is: @GrapheneOS
Don't waste your time with LineageOS or other unsafe options. Protect your Data today by supporting those who value our Security & Privacy like @GrapheneOS
Wants to scan? People should assume they are ignoring any settings and are scanning them anyway.
The thing is, on one hand I don't think I had a personal conversation via email in years. All I got is automated emails (transactional and marketing), and those are unlikely to support encryption (PGP or any other standard) and even if they support, it might not always work due to backyard compatibility.
Business, on the other hand, has the issue of companies using Google and/or Microsoft suites (like mine).
Most of my personal conversations go via WhatsApp (that should be encrypted but... yeah) and Mastodon (E2EE is in the works). Sadly no one uses Signal here, despite it being the most popular FOSS messaging app with safe and enforced E2EE.
I don't use Google, but trying to do this for my wife on her Google pixel. Can't find recently visited section in the search engine settings? No mention of Google web...
uh wasn't it already known they scan all gmail? Did they stop intermediately? Was it previously just a rumour?
To my knowledge gmail analyses all gmail contents and uses it for advertising and whatever else purposes they please. They never made a big secret about it. That knowledge is unchanged in the last few years so what changed?
I was with you on turning off the AI search feature until it got to step 4 and I looked through the settings and there was no search engine option. Am I missing something?
After a few years i created a new pack to the BeatStar game: The pack consists of music tracks used by Polish mobile phone operators or heard on lines of other companies.
Since 2018, the Proton community has helped raise more than $4 million in direct grants to over 40 organizations defending privacy, free speech, and human rights.
Help us choose recipients for our 2025 Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser!
Deadline to nominate organizations: November 24, 2025
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Another GrapheneOS feature from April 2023:
• Dialer: add modernized call recording implementation using modern Android storage (no files permission) [cont...]
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2023040400
https://9to5google.
All the while damaging the innovators by refusing to whitelist the leading privacy and security focused OS and pushing the anti-competitive monopolistic Play Integrity API , GMS licensor protection racket.
Nothing new about what is being offered. Everything we've done and do is provided without strings FREE, while Google moves to make you opt-in to their platform for less robust provision or to make OEMS pay for it.
La ligne F du tram va être prolongée de la station « Comtes » jusqu’à l’entrée de Wolfisheim en passant par les quartiers strasbourgeois de Koenigshoffen, du Hohberg, des Poteries puis les communes d’Eckbolsheim et Wolfisheim.
The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on.
I knew the conversation had happened. I remembered participating in it.
Edit: Wenn ihr die Webseiten Cookies löscht... (Nurso als Hinweis) Stimmt gerne mehrfach ab! Die Rechtskonservativen Energiedystropen halten mit Bots dagegen, deswegen auch in eure Chatgrupprn schicken, wir brauchen Masse
“Being angry doesn’t change the world. Creating the path to a better one does.” In her TEDx talk, Heidi Seibold unpacked what it truly means to reshape research culture through Open Science. She highlighted the realities of publish or perish, the barriers created by closed practices, and the possibilities of an Open Science future, one built on transparency, collaboration, and equity. It’s a vision fully aligned with the work of the DRA: supporting reproducible, accessible and FAIR.
ÖPNV | Ein Danke an all jene die den ÖPNV am laufen halten
Ich meine da nicht nur die Fahry, sondern auch all die Menschen die dauernd im Einsatz sind um die Netze des ÖPNVs in Ordnung zu halten,wie man auf dem Bild sieht auch Mitten in der Nacht.
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Ich poste ja selten Politisches, aber manchmal muss ich. Ich bin ehrlich erschüttert darüber, dass Politiker immer mehr Möglichkeiten und Wege diskutieren, bei den Ärmsten, Ältesten, Bedürftigsten zu sparen anstatt beim Überfluss und der Bevorzugung der Reichen anzusetzen.
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •miki
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •PDF forms are still pretty much Adobe only.
That's a real shame, as it's really not that bad of a format, and it's not like we have any other options that accomplish similar objectives. We certainly don't have a good web stack alternative, and I think that's a real shame.
Quin
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in reply to Quin • • •@TheQuinbox Agree with you 100% when it comes to PDF in general.
When it comes to forms specifically, there's no other format that lets you do what PDF does, which is treating them as files.
Quin
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