Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why #Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
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Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why #Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
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Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
As 2024 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I haven’t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, we’ve outperformed many “big-name” cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?
For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - they’re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether it’s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.
BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isn’t endless growth (we’re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with “bsd.cafe” in the domain brings joy and pride. That’s the spirit I’ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether you’re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.
Promoting self-hosting and #OwnYourData has, as a side effect, inspired some users to “go solo” with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.
Here’s a look at what we’ve achieved together this year:
- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users
Active in the past month: 207
Active in the past six months: 286
- snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users
Active in the past month: 7
- blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users
- matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users
- brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories
- freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users
- miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users
- press.bsd.cafe: 9 users
- myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users
- wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage.
- tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.
For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe
The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, we’ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.
Here’s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.
Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU!
Stefano
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates #Fediverse #HappyNewYear #Mastodon #Snac #snac2 #lemmy #matrix #dokuwiki #forgejo #freshrss #miniflux #wallabag #peertube #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #BSD
This is one of my favorite songs to end the year with. My parents used to have an 8-track of The Osmonds singing it! This is the better version by Nancy Wils...YouTube
The presenter, who retired in October, is remembered as "an incredible, warm, superb broadcaster".Emma Saunders (BBC News)
Donations to the @internetarchive this year are helping-- Thank you!
Donations have come in money, stocks, corporate matches, and crypto.
As well as physical materials, time, uploads.
Thank you all for keeping the Library building collections and offering Free Public Access!
There are good things and bad things about the new generation of AI, but one of the most terrible is the ability to impersonate humans. Let's not do this.
Counterfeit people are more dangerous than counterfeit money. They are tools for disinformation and manipulation. They destroy trust.
Let's not allow them. futurism.com/the-byte/facebook…
Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Who else worked #y2k?
I was at UUNET Canada, an ISP and had to work from 9-3am testing scripts after midnight. Spoiler: they all worked fine.
No pics of the night but found this one from my first day in 1997. I had to label each end of these ethernet cables between two banks of switches. #networking
Op-ed: AI has been a cure for $1,600 computers that start with 8GB of memory.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
It's truly incredible how the #CBC managed to avoid directly mentioning climate change in this piece:
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/war…
Someone's afraid of the CP defunding them... #abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
Question folks... actually questions.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
There are numerous incidents like this one where airplanes get into troubles allegedly because of the GPS jamming, again allegedly, by Russia.
I am not so deep into aircrafts, nor GPS or wide scale jamming (it's set of satellites if I'm not mistaken, right?)
So is there anyone to explain how this can be done?
#question #airport #aircraft #airline #gps #gpsjam #russia #russianwar #russianinvasion #schwechat #brno
A Ryanair Holdings Plc flight from Riga, Latvia, to Vienna was diverted to nearby Brno in the Czech Republic late Monday after two aborted landing attempts due to jammed GPS devices, according to Die Presse newspaper.Marton Eder (Bloomberg)
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...Seth Kurkowski (9to5Mac)
Happy new year from Dionysos 😄
#winter #frost #image #nature #WinterGarden #bloomscrolling #ivy #plants #Dionysus
GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories to appear more popular, helping them reach more unsuspecting users.
Sometimes I have suggested that OSMAND is a quite useful tool, among other things to move cycling (as it is based in OpenStreetMap and besides being free it is much better than GMaps when cycling, walking, hiking, etc.). But i want to suggest two useful tools:
1) A link to OpenStreetMap showing it as CyclOSM: openstreetmap.org/#map=16/37.6…
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
2) And sometimes i found useful to have maps like this showing only bicycle parkings characteristics (represented as 🔵 in the previous one): mapcomplete.org/bicycle_parkin…
It is more intended to edit map (have you an OSM account you can help mapping them or uploading pictures) but I think it is also useful to be used. There are many other different thematic maps in @MapComplete
Another day I will also show and link how to have an offline CyclOSM-like style in OSMAnd.
A long-lost chat with John Lennon is to be broadcast by the BBC tonight for the first time in more than fifty yearsRoy Martin (RadioToday)
Age of the Racecar Driver Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ I have an absolutely fascinating interview story to tell you. The other day I phone-screened a guy who claimed he has an undergrad degree in Computer Science from a high-profile school.sites.google.com
@esoteric_programmer As for this:
> egui has unpatched holes when it comes to edit boxes and afew other things
Please say more. I did the egui AccessKit integration, and developed it together with AccessKit's text support, so I need to know what's missing or broken.
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
@TheQuinbox AFAIK, that's not how .NET works any more.
With .NET core, you distribute the (potentially stripped) framework with your app.
@TheQuinbox You're not wrong.
I wonder how good the built-in web engines of modern OSes are at this point; I looked at this a few years ago, but MS still shipped trident with some Windows versions back then.
This way, you could do something very similar to Electron, but without actually shipping a runtime.
I feel like the situation around desktop app development is just sad as hell. Win32 isn't a panacea any more, even if you're willing to put in the work, as it apparently looks quite dated by now, from what sighted people have told me. AppKit is slowly getting abandoned in favor of SwiftUI and Catalyst, and they both suck, so the situation on that front isn't much better.
@TheQuinbox I feel like doing this in 2024 is just asking for an RCE, though.
If you're religious about only running your own code, no scripts loaded from a CDN, no Google Analytics, no way to accidentally go to an external domain, an UI framework instead of rawdogging the DOM to ensure no XSS, maaaybe, just maybe.
On iPhone, listening to YouTube audio in the background usually requires paying for a YouTube Premium subscription, but there is a simple workaround...MacRumors.com
Catholic #priest in Belarus sentenced to 11 years - for criticising the government, as crackdown tightens
In the first case of politically-driven charges against #Catholic clergy since #Belarus became independent after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
euronews.com/2024/12/30/cathol…
'The harsh sentence is intended to intimidate and silence hundreds of other priests ahead of January's presidential election,' human rights activist Pavel Sapelka said.Daniel Bellamy (Euronews.com)
See Vatican News to discover the life-story and message of St. Sylvester I, Pope, the Saint of the Day 31 Decemberwww.vaticannews.va
Hiermit sind jetzt auch die letzten Bilder vom Congress online. Insgesamt 214 Bilder :) Viel Spaß damit! #38C3
A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality.ScienceDaily
Apparently Musk fired US workers and replaced some of them with H1B visa holders, at lower salaries.
electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-r…
Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
Falls ihr noch etwas Geld zum Jahresende übrig habt, denkt daran an eure liebsten Open-Source-Projekte zu spenden.
Bei mir sind dieses Jahr geworden:
– StreetComplete (streetcomplete.app/)
– DAVx5 @davx5app
– tchncs.de @milan
– F-Droid @fdroidorg
Thank you for being a part of our journey. Here’s to another impactful year ahead! 🌟Editorial Staff (Accessible Android)
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