The EU would be really stupid to give you a good deal. Like, for self preservation purposes alone it would be really beneficial if Switzerland would just really suffer after leaving the EEA especially because a lot of shit was going down in Europe and the world after brexit. Can’t really point at the cost of living in the uk and say that’s brexit when petrol is almost 2€ in Germany as well.

But a Switzerland that just collapses surely but surely? That’s gonna send a message.

Lots of mean things she writes in her blog post for a people pleaser though.

Like, I get it, but the blog should then be about how being a people pleaser almost killed her and not how bad support was at reading her mind.

It is.

> Admittedly, I did have an opportunity to cause a fuss which I did not choose to take […]

> This was dumb of me. I should have caused a bigger fuss. If I'd bitched to more people and made more phone calls and […]

> So I escaped this extremely risky and stupid problem - partially of the pump's making, partially of my own creation - with zero consequences other than the fact […]

> I hope that you can understand why - even when I made the situation worse by not throwing a big enough fit - I held in my heart […]

The blog post says things other than "this was all my fault" (which, channelling Nancy G. Leveson, is not something we should ever say about the failure of a complex system), but it does very much say what you say it should say. The vast majority of the "mean things" in this blog post are polite descriptions of the facts; the remainder are rather mild expressions of frustration, plus one death wish against a hypothetical someone exhibiting an extremely obnoxious communication behaviour.

That’s kinda why I don’t want a pump. I’d rather deal with it myself than have some garbage corporation cut every corner and save every cent they can on a device that is keeping me alive.

I’d rather have a glucose pump to be honest. I don’t need long lasting insulin so I don’t really need to care about dying in my sleep but lows scare me more than highs.

I mean I'd far rather have the pump than not, also a t1d.

I dont bother wearing it at night though. All my blood sugar does is decline overnight, and the pump isn't the signal that things are going awry, that's the GCM. The GCM will still signal the pump, my phone and my watch to wake me if I need to eat carbs (vanishingly rare) and the pump never changes my blood sugar overnight anyway as far as I can tell.

So I disconnect it, put it back on in the day so I can manage things while I eat food.

You don’t have dawn syndrome? Mine shoots up to 200 in the morning without food. If I don’t eat breakfast I take 5 units fast acting in the morning to keep the levels down.

I just don’t see pens as so much of a hassle that I’d give up the control of a pen for the convenience of a pump.

nope, just when i eat food. This morning i ate breakfast at 11:00, pretty much flat until then, mild slope upwards from 8am to 9am, but it only went from 6.2 to 6.7 then stabilised

For my wife, when on lantus and novolog ( no pump ) the overnights were always high blood sugars . The pumps definitely help , but in retrospect she also stopped eating gluten around the same time. The no gluten diet helped a lot .

Side bar having been around the dexcom for 10 years now . The old/original audible alarms were easy to understand. Low crescendo for going low , low repeats for low alarm and the reverse for high events. With the x2 and g6 i literally have no idea what the beeps mean anymore. This alarm fatigue is bad and i wonder if this contributes to the authors issue too. Was there some warning she missed?

Tandem x2 alarm fatigue is insane. Constant vibrations about every useless thing.

Mylife Ypso with CamAPS FX though is really good. Just does the job. Alarms are centralized in the CamAPS app and you can silence them - something that x2 never let you do.

GDPR made rating agencies a lot more transparent than they used to be. There was a lot of guessing about why your Schufa score might be bad in Germany. I can now get a detailed breakdown of the data they have of me for free.

I don’t think it is controversial that AI tools are good enough at crud endpoints that it is totally viable to just let it run through the grunt work of hooking up endpoints to a service and then you can focus on the interesting aspect of the application which is exactly that service.

Petrol is just s as expensive though

Yep. I graduated in 2017 and jobs were already mostly web. I’d love to work on native applications but nobody is hiring for that and of course because nobody is hiring for that I don’t have a job like that and the Qt I learnt in university is not gonna get any more relevant over time but I don’t have a good reason to keep that skill up to date and if I have to solve a problem I might as well write a TUI or CLI application because that’s easier than Qt or whatever…

I think my computer is pretty. I have the black with brown wood panel case that is super popular and then all black components except for the RGB LED gpu manufacturer logo on the GPU. Looks pretty nice and sleek.

But I also had to look past the RGB nonsense. The GPU was basically an accident.

I think doing this on an OS level might be the most privacy focused way to do this but the issue is that this is not going to be the way this is implemented.

Like, I’m not American and in Germany we have ID cards that actually have your age encoded on an NFC chip in the card and an ID number that encodes the age. Like, age is part of the ID number and checksum.

You could totally do all of this age verification offline on device and just expose an API that offers the age of the user to applications. You’d never need to talk to the internet for this, the API just says if you are a minor or adult, the browser can pass that to websites who don’t need to collect personal data and everything is fine.

But that’s not going to happen. It’s gonna be some AI facial recognition kinda garbage that is gonna send your face in every angle to Apple or Microsoft or another third party.

As is common these days they are going to try really hard to absolve you as the user of any responsibility for the sake of protecting kids so they can’t let this be a simple offline thing where your personal information never ever have to leave the device because what if kids find a way around it? Well the obvious answer is don’t let your kids just use a computer without supervision but if people would do that we’d not be in need of this garbage anyway.

> Well the obvious answer is don’t let your kids just use a computer without supervision

have you literally ever met a kid?

Doing the lords work here. Thanks.