BadGuyTy 🅁🅅🄽 (Tyler Hess)

Got laid off, Got bored , and then I made a thing! Please share! pypi.org/project/hilber… TLDR; 6x compression with nns comparable to gpt4. Search gets better with larger datasets due to built-in progressive filtering created by averaging different levels of the Hilbert curve.

@hxxntrr @mcuban someone should make a self hosted OCR app that pulls the data from a photo or email. Then checks the codes against a downloadable JSON doc of fair market pricing. Possibly put the doc behind an anonymized api-proxy.

the hospital you were born in charged your mother $40 for the first time she held you it's called "skin-to-skin contact" and there's a billing code for it. CPT 99460. your mother went through labor, pushed a human being out of her body, and the hospital charged her forty dollars for the privilege of touching her own child this is the same billing system that's destroying your credit score right now a single ER visit generates 15-40 individual line items. each one has a CPT code. each code has a chargemaster price set by the hospital. and that chargemaster is a fictional document that has no connection to the actual cost of anything a bag of IV saline: hospital cost $0.86, chargemaster price $400-$900 a single acetaminophen tablet (tylenol): hospital cost $0.02, chargemaster price $15-$50 a basic blood panel: lab cost $12, chargemaster price $200-$1,100 a CT scan: equipment cost per scan ~$50, chargemaster price $3,000-$10,000 every single one of these inflated charges becomes a "debt" when you don't pay. and that debt gets sold to a collector for 2-4 cents on the dollar. and that collector puts it on your credit report as if you actually owe $47 for a tylenol tablet there are 100 million americans carrying medical debt right now. roughly 1 in 3 adults. it's the #1 cause of collections on credit reports and the #1 reason people file bankruptcy in this country and most of it is made up numbers from a document nobody was supposed to see the play: for any medical bill over $1,000, ALWAYS request the itemized bill first. not the summary bill they send you (one big number designed to scare you into paying). the line-by-line itemized version with CPT codes for every charge google each CPT code against the fair market rate at fairhealthconsumer.org. compare what the hospital charged versus what the procedure actually costs in your geographic area. you will find overcharges on almost every bill. sometimes 3x. sometimes 10x once you have the itemized bill, call the hospital billing department and say this: "i'm reviewing my itemized charges and i've identified several line items that significantly exceed fair market rates for my area. i'd like to discuss an adjustment before this goes any further. i also want to confirm whether i qualify for your financial assistance program under your charity care policy" every nonprofit hospital in america (which is most of them) is legally required to have a financial assistance policy under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code. if your income falls below a certain threshold relative to the federal poverty level (usually 200-400% FPL), the hospital must reduce or eliminate your bill entirely. they are required by law to have this program and required to tell you about it most don't tell you about it. because every dollar you pay in full is a dollar they don't have to write off if the bill has already gone to collections: the collector bought inflated chargemaster numbers for pennies. they can't produce the original itemized bill. they can't explain the CPT codes. they can't verify the charges are accurate. they bought a spreadsheet send the validation letter under FDCPA 809. demand the original itemized statement with CPT codes, the payment history showing insurance adjustments, and proof the remaining balance is accurate after all insurance payments and contractual adjustments collectors almost never have this level of documentation for medical accounts. the hospital sold the debt and moved on. the paperwork went with it a woman came to us with $67,000 in medical collections across three hospital visits. we requested itemized bills for all three. found $23,000 in duplicate charges, upcoded procedures, and facility fees that were already included in the surgeon's bill. disputed the collections using the itemized discrepancies as evidence. two collectors couldn't validate at all. the third settled for $4,200 on a $31,000 account she went from $67,000 in medical debt to $4,200 in total payments. her score went from 541 to 718 in 90 days. she bought a house 6 months later the hospital charged your mom $40 to hold you. and they'll charge you $50 for a tylenol today. and they'll put both on your credit report if you don't pay. and they'll sell it for pennies to a collector who'll harass you for years the entire system runs on your ignorance. the billing, the collections, the reporting. every layer depends on you never looking at the itemized charges and never questioning the numbers we look at the numbers. we question everything. and we get the bullshit off your credit report. link in bio

@_SaxX_ "*Long live Internet Explorer" I think you misspelled Internet **Exploder**

>Les VPN sont à bannir. >Firefox intègre un VPN gratuit dorénavant. >Les pouvoirs politiques vont interdire Firefox. Syllogisme numérique... *Vive Internet Explorer

@RobertFreundLaw It hasn't stopped big food yet.

Watch for politicians on both sides to say “See? We need kids off these dangerous platforms. To do that, we need to build a massive surveillance apparatus and destroy all online anonymity.” And people will support it “because kids.”

@sweatystartup Run local. Lots of cheap cast aside crypto mining GPU's out there.

AI tools right now are more expensive than my international team. We can't afford them and they are heavily subsidized all the way up. What happens when they 5x in cost? The bubble is popping soon.

@Graeber_social I don't like UBI. I don't think UBI should be necessary. I DO think the things that UBI covers should be freely accessible. So no to UBI but yes to feeding anyone. AI will open up cheap food and healthcare. Heck even cheap travel might be a thing.

Agree or disagree, we need to be discussing Universal Basic Income. It is too important of a subject just to scroll past.

@CorieWhalen I want to see companies held accountable for their intentional manipulation. Food, gaming, and any other vertical that intentionally puts profits over people need to be held accountable. Accidents happen, intentionally causing addiction shouldn't.

This California jury’s ruling against Meta and Google is honestly wild. If social media platforms can be held liable for “causing harm” via “addiction,” what *won’t* fit that standard? I think parents should limit screen time, especially for very young kids, but come on, people.

@fuckyouiquit Why are we putting welfare above Social Security?

Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.

Please share if you agree that the Senate should not recess until it has (1) fully funded DHS, and (2) passed the SAVE America Act

@_trish_xD qbasic over 30 years ago.

first time you wrote hello world - what language did you use?

@GivnerAriel @bgrace805 That's the point. If you know you're going to lose your business if you cause harm through intentional manipulation of minds, It might just make you try to cause no harm. I would also like this to apply to healthcare that treats symptoms and not underlying cause.

@bgrace805 You don’t think it sets a slippery slope? That’s my worry (and maybe I need to rethink that).

This is disgusting and I can’t wait for the appeals. The precedent set by YouTube being liable for screen-time addiction is kind of scary. Treating algorithms like a defective product opens the door to endless lawsuits over “addictive” tech. What’s next? Books, video games, junk food? What happened to personal responsibility?

@GivnerAriel It's one thing if its an accident its completely another if they ever have meetings about making things more addictive is where the problems are. And YES I am all over holding companies liable for their junk food and increasing addictiveness of products.

@soulverse_com @IntCyberDigest I was thinking that I might want to create a vaultfs implementation for ai configs that could read in all the various example.config.env and build out a templated version that could be served up on demand. Keeping your api creds hidden while increasing tool testing velocity

🚨‼️ We're in contact with the actor behind the Trivy and LiteLLM hack. They told us they are currently extorting several multi-billion-dollar companies from which they've exfiltrated data. They've obtained 300 GB of compressed credentials and are working their way through them as we speak. The LiteLLM compromise alone led to half a million stolen credentials, according to the threat actor. Their message to the world: "TeamPCP is here to stay. Long live the supply chain." They've sent us their new logo (see image) and also teamed up with several threat actors, including Xploiters and Vect.

@IgnotumAliquis @unredacted_org As they designed it... a lot.

@unredacted_org I'm supportive of your efforts, but... How many of those exit nodes are being monitored by the Feds? "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead." -- old mafia maxim

We've completed our deployment of nearly 100 additional Tor exit relays (totaling 123). We now have nearly 500 CPU cores and 1TB of RAM dedicated to relaying traffic on the Tor network, a huge milestone for supporting Internet freedom. Real infrastructure, not vaporware. We've shared some pictures of our work and hope you enjoy the purple aesthetic, matching Tor's primary color.

@unredacted_org You should look into blockchain based distribution models. Things like squawker on Ravencoin that can post messages/content uncensored. It needs it's nostr server relay integration finished but then anyone can distribute to the web in such a way as it can't be torn down.

@LundukeJournal So how do I verify the age of the docker user? or root? or even the user a switch is setting up an anonymous routing user?

Say hello to Michigan House Bill 4429 and Senate Bill 284. This is Michigan’s “Digital Age Assurances Act”. And it would require ALL Operating Systems (including Linux & Windows) to implement “commercially reasonable” age verification of every user on every system. This Operating System Age Verification bill stalled out last year, but has been taken back up and re-sent to a Michigan House committee last week. It’s worth noting that this bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by a group of Democrats, but was introduced in the Senate by a group of Republicans. Which suggests that, should the bill make it out of committee and go for a vote, it would likely pass with support from both parties. legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?Obj…

@nvk If they have an issue with master I usually propose slaveowner as the new branch name.

Remember the psyop to rename `master` branch to `main` Don't play their games, don't give up your words. It's all just a humiliation ritual.

@UK_Daniel_Card Yeah "desktop" is not equal to most commonly deployed operating system. ALL Android devices are Linux. Most of the Internets infrastructure is Linux. Your router is Linux. Your Fridge is Linux. I can almost guarantee the most deployed OS in your house is Linux.

hate to break it to some people but Windows is very much still the most commonly deployed OS

@ThrillaRilla369 Dude, Caffeine is a "drug". It has mind altering effects. Weed is found in less things than caffeine but still a drug.

Be honest I’m trying to prove a point Do you consider weed a drug?

@hackerfantastic Existing models are still fine. The same routers you can buy now will be available for production and import as long as they want. It only applies the NEW MODELS as in a whole new version. They are just not going to approve any more designs if not manufactured here.

If you are panic buying a new router due to the FCC announcement, I recommend the OpenWRT one sfconservancy.org/activities/ope… - it doesn't use systemd and is by far the best opensource router I have used for running custom Linux firmware.

@lukOlejnik This is fear mongering. This only applies to getting that stupid FCC logo on your sticker. They aren't revoking existing model certifications those can still be made and imported. Its getting the NEXT model approved that this affects.

USA bans foreign-made consumer network routers, considering those produced outside the US a national security risk, and prohibits them from being imported or sold. China makes ~60% of them sold in the US. The official reason: foreign-made routers were used in several large cyberattacks on American infrastructure, including ones targeting energy grids and water systems. So now there will be no foreign routers. The ban doesn't say "Chinese routers". It says all foreign-made routers. Netgear, Eero, Google Nest -- all considered. Companies can apply for an exemption if they submit a detailed reshoring plan: where they'll build in the US, how much they'll invest, quarterly progress reports, a dedicated compliance officer -- just to sell a box that blinks green in your hallway.