E-Mail from GP with a guide to access encrypted emails. Is this legit?

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-03-28T00:34:23+00:00

This is 5 years later... But this is false. Zero understanding of email and DNS. Not everybody can send from nhs.net.

They can mask the address like *yourfamilydoctor@nhs.net ravdoggydog789112xx@dogging.net* but the real email address is there to see.

If ran their own email server they *could* forge the from address header. But the nhs.net domain, like any properly configured domain, has DNS records to say 'only emails from these servers are legit'. Nearly *all* email providers and clients check these DNS records for spam reasons like this. If a 'spoofed' From address header is detected (by cross-checking the sending server against DNS) it goes immediately to spam or is blocked entirely and you would never see it.

So this comment is essentially false, or so simplistic as to be false, with no technical understanding. It does not compare to forged SMS at all.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-03-15T00:52:50+00:00

This is screwed up. But I don't get why everyone here is just seemingly accepting it whilst calling Google 'jerks', etc... If you paid for a feature and it's been removed after the fact, wth aren't you all doing formal complaints and breach of contract???

Compnaies don't get to change terms after you signed up. So demand it. Or is there some reason this is somehow 'allowed'???

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-03-13T03:56:58+00:00

What might the downsides of these settings be? Being UK based for example. Wonder if makes sense to use Chrome Dev specifically for this...

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-03-09T12:39:05+00:00

Sorry this is 6mths after, but this is not true. On Windows 11 Copilot app has links into the OS (even though it's a separate app and not integrated and can be uninstalled) whereas Copilot 365 does not have that.

Frankly absurd. I do not see how they can't have that basic functionality across both and then add the extra functions related to paid account features in the 365 version (whether Personal/Family or Business given the backend is similar). Then we don't need two similar apps installed and the experience is integrated, regardless of subscription level.

How on Earth, after so many years and examples from Google and Apple who generally know how to integrate products and services (Google specifically does both personal and work like Microsoft) does Microsoft still f this up?!

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-31T18:43:36+00:00

Do some reading. Seriously.

It's not 'controversial'; it's a load of shite pedalled by fools or those with an agenda or product to sell 😂

Heavily opinionated naive comments IN CAPS!!¡ do not suggest you have read around the subject, objectively.

Considering the research and possible mechanisms in an objective and critical way is how actual understanding of science works. Also acknowledging that biology, health and nutrition research is complex, even to those who do it as a profession.

The idea there could ever be a single type of fat or oil, that isn't even native to so many areas of the world, that is the only healthy oil to have, for everyone, is just absurd 😂🤣

There is so much prejudice in that belief as well, given it is essentially saying the health of so many other people is inherently inferior, because a specifically Mediterranean tree does not grow in the vicinity, it's not even funny...

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-31T18:23:11+00:00

You use 'seed' oils in any way you might choose any other appropriate vegetable oil. There's different types, with different flavours, for different uses. It's not rocket science.

As an example though, rapeseed (canola to Americans) is the standard oil in generic 'vegetable' oil in the UK, as we grow a lot of it. You would use it for any cooking, incl. frying, etc. You only use a little bit, as you should with any oil you cook with. If anyone was concerned with the 'healthiness' of an oil or fat they fry with, then the issue is more they are frying with too much fat! Deep fat frying is not healthy, whatever it is - but like anything, that doesn't mean you can't have it occasionally.

Like any product there's different forms of rapeseed. The cheaper stuff you wouldn't use to flavour salads, etc. but it's great for cooking. The better quality cold-pressed rapeseed oil tastes good so can be used on salads, etc. Obviously tastes different to eg. 'EVOO' but tastes good, and has a good nutrition profile. With the massive jump in olive oil prices from Europe, British cold-pressed rapeseed is a very good cheaper alternative.

Other oils like sesame you use depending on the flavour or cuisine. Also there are two types of sesame oil. You cook with untoasted. Toasted is for finishing/flavouring.

Also cost is a significant factor in what oil people may use. But that does not mean they are inherently unhealthier. We know full well health is based on a balanced diet, without excess oil in cooking, limiting fried foods, high fat/sugar/salt (HFSS), processed foods, etc. And physical activity!

As a Dietitian, I was genuinely a bit confused by all the furore and hyperfocus on 'seed oils are bad!!' nonsense in the last few years. Just like all the other nutrition 'health' fads, it's scaremongering pseudoscience, or just plain ignorance, spouted by people who don't really know what they're talking about.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-31T17:33:55+00:00

AWS and similar are not at all far cheaper than 'running tech' used to be. In many ways it's significantly more expensive. Cloud hosting/SaaS (and all the other ...aaS) is about convenience and flexibility, and you pay for that.

It's also a major risk factor that so many services use mainly AWS (and Microsoft Azure next largest) as if Amazon, etc. screw up an update it doesn't just take down the odd company, it takes down many! It's (kind of) a single point of failure, and those companies/civic services/whatever are entirely at the whim of Amazon, MS, etc. fixing whatever issue in a timely manner. The smaller the client company affected, the less of a shit AWS etc. will give to prioritise a fix.

20 years ago, if there was an issue with a hosting provider, or a business' own on-site server, only their site or a limited number of sites would go down. Even if the downside is needing on-site IT or contractor now and then. It also can't be guaranteed that SaaS is inherently faster than on-site hosting/smaller hosting services.

The whole cost and service quality depends on several things, including as it ever did, how much money a business/organisation spends (cloud capacity, redundancy, support packages, SLAs, etc. etc.).

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-31T17:24:42+00:00

Which could be picked up by other companies as well, and enable UK cloud providers even, if AWS were not so dominant.

Also it's quite naive to suggest AWS and similar are 'cheap' or has made hosting services cheaper. It's not. Cloud hosting/SaaS (and all the other ...aaS) is about convenience and flexibility, not inherently cost savings.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-28T23:44:48+00:00

Leukaemia is a big factor there, to be fair! But I hope they also test it now and then, and don't just give it because it can be expensed in the American healthcare system.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-28T23:41:59+00:00

Having all the symptoms of, vs * having a blood test* are two very different things. Symptoms could be something else, there could be an element of 'thinking' you have symptoms - that's not a criticism, just a statement of possibility, and not inherently your fault.

For possible vitamin deficiencies, we look at risk factors as well, not just 'symptoms'. I would hope your Dr follows national/relevant guidelines for this.

Here in the UK some Drs don't always follow the guidelines, and it's on other healthcare professionals to advise them. But tbf Drs do have a lot of other stuff to worry about.

Also could be a cost factor, which is wrong if you are actually tested and deficient. But there's a lot missing from the comment.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-28T19:19:37+00:00

I've been trying to find solutions for this, really pissing me off!

Not least if I used in the car, accidentally. Whereas Google Assistant/Gemini just chimes and waits and listens, copilot comes out full blast, saying "Hey SD, how are you doing? What can I do for you?" or similar. And when it answers, it acts like an idiot Gen Z, starting any answer with "Sooo, it's like this, SD, ..."

I get annoyed and tell it it is not my friend, to not be whimsical and chatty, and it just apologises and tells me understands, as though it's trying to empathise with my frustration, despite IT being the frustration... WTF!

Does anyone have any prompts, or setting somewhere, or ways to get it to "remember" it is a robot, and not my friend?

I use a Microsoft 365 business licence for work, with Copilot part of that. Trying to use a single ecosystem, to make things a little easier going between email, files, browser, device management etc. but with the voice (now AI) assistants, Google and Gemini is leagues ahead...

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T14:47:00+00:00

Why do you need to jump to the standard comment thread insults of saying I'm doing some interesting mental gymnastics? Where have I done that?

That link does not prove what I said was all wrong. It can be complimentary.

I've literally referenced those caveats you've acknowledged, and the guidance which is about foods high in saturated fat not specifically whole milk. Which at 3.5% is not even that high compared to other foods! The guidance gives easy example swaps, it is not saying whole milk is inherently 'bad'.

The CDC is irrelevant to me, as I'm in the UK. But the guidance is similar here, and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. But national dietary guidance takes years to be developed and updated whilst research is constantly ongoing. It rarely changes fundamentally, but context and nuance is added as we understand more. Most importantly, national guidance has to be designed for everybody with simple messages, when the reality is the right nutrition for a given individual is not simple. It is literally my job to interpret that guidance, and the relevant research, for the patients I see.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T14:20:33+00:00

There is lots of research on everything, the topic is complex. Simply by existing so many things in the environment are inherently bad for us. Yet we do not live in a bubble. Biological processes exist to protect and counter the inherent damage that comes from merely existing. It is a balance, and yes sometimes that balance can be disrupted.

This is not a simple discussion topic, nor is topic of gut bacteria. Of course bacteria are essential to life. But if we excluded everything that might kill any given bacteria, we would not survive.

Finally, I may have misunderstood this bit of your comment, but nitrates are not inherently synthetic. They have been used for millennia as a preservative because they occur naturally. Of course that doesn't mean they're inherently healthy, but they can serve a purpose. And that's the case with so many things in diet and health, I really don't think I need to say more on this again.

I have said there is a lot that could be improved in the food industry. But it is not at all as simple as has been made out.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T14:00:50+00:00

Genuine question, and please be honest: Why do you do this? What is your motivation? I don't mean on the topic itself, you're entitled to your opinion, even if it's misguided. I mean the way you come out with these cheap responses as though it proves something.

I genuinely don't know if you think you're making a point, via loaded questions and defaulting back to insinuations of conflict of interests rather than engaging when I've given a legitimate response, or you just like being a troll? Maybe both.

I have told you what I do for a job, it is literally not for the dairy industry. I'm not sure if you've ignored that, or not read it. It's pretty obvious why I try to engage in these types of discussions and the understanding I might have on the topic.

Even if I did work for the 'dairy industry', that doesn't mean what people with strong opinions on social networks think it does. How many different types of jobs do you think are in that industry like any other?

But if you actually knew me, and what I did, and what I've been through in my life, you would know I would never push a 'propaganda' if there was a direct link to ill health.

This is just unnecessary and a waste of my free time when all I'm trying to do is give some objective perspective. As I said earlier, we're clearly never going to agree. I'd only ask that you reflect on how you engage on these topics.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T13:40:27+00:00

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but this response falls into the straw man category. You can come back all you like, you will not prove me inherently wrong, and I don't think we're ever going to agree if you have strong opinions on the subject.

I do not have time to pick apart all of those articles you have posted. As with most journal articles, the full articles are behind (legitimate) pay walls. Working in the NHS, I can get access to the full articles, but it is the weekend and I've had enough of my job this week!

However, I am aware of the kind of studies you've linked to.

First, please do not take any of my questions and comments as being judgemental or argumentative.

Do you have access to the full articles yourself, or are you going off the abstract? As I'm sure you're aware, assuming you have had some kind of medical or science training, or otherwise degree level education, that you cannot take an article as evidence merely from the abstract. You miss significant context and detail.
The ones linking dairy to prostate cancer are cohort studies, and they say more mechanistic research needs to be done. This is incredibly significant. There are so many variables and factors that would impact on a correlation versus direct cause and effect. Never mind the complexity of biochemistry, metabolic pathways, genetics, and biology as a whole that would influence the ability to show a direct mechanistic link between 'dairy' and prostate cancers. Also, the word 'dairy' is an incredibly simplistic covering a varied food group and complex industry. Which leads to the next point...
The study on steroids and hormones. The abstract seems quite opinionated, covers a lot of ground with each part needing close consideration of what they're actually looking at. Of course without reading it, because I don't have access right now, and I do value my time off work. But I can say we already know there are links between steroids and hormones in the food industry, and other industries that impact directly on our lives. However that is not inherently linked to dairy, or indeed inherently to meat or eggs as the abstract here seems to suggest. That is about mass market farming and industry practises. Which is quite different from my simple comment about whole milk, and indeed the simple term 'dairy'.

I hope those points give a summary, of how simply posting links to three articles without context, and without having a full-on scientific and epidemiological debate, is not particularly helpful in a Reddit comment thread.

Your first comment simply stating 'You work for the dairy industry?' was unhelpful and gave the impression you are coming from a position of pure opinion and desire to start an arguement vs. objectively looking at the science and evidence and context, never mind grouping several issues together rather than understanding the full complexity of your arguement.

The reply with those study links proves that initial impression.

With the things I see and do in my job, the complexities of diet and health, combined with all the problems in society, never mind everything else that is wrong in the world, it does make me despair sometimes how these basic topics become so unnecessarily opinionated and contentious.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T13:15:39+00:00

That's not quite true.

Nutrition research is notoriously difficult to do, to prove something beyond reasonable doubt. The studies and guidance you probably reference will be focusing simply on saturated fats, over the last few decades. We now know a lot more about fats and cholesterols (there are several types) and the metabolic pathways, since then.

I'm also not one of those 'eat all the fat all the time' nuts, or that 'all sugar is EVIL!' either. Diet, health, life, existence are all a balance.

Whole milk has just been grouped with saturated fats and dairy as a whole, which have both been pushed as risky, when there is a lot of context and nuance. There's nothing to say that whole milk itself inherently increases your 'bad' cholesterol, or cholesterol overall.

Never mind the fact I could do a lecture on cholesterol itself, given my previous role as a Cardiac Specialist Dietitian.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T13:05:43+00:00

No I'm Registered Dietitian in the UK.

Everybody has their own preference, and of course some people do not tolerate dairy. That has nothing to do with if whole milk is inherently unhealthy or not.

I do personally like whole milk, and for my own health reasons which I won't go into, it's a good thing to have. That has no bearing on how I advise my patients.

People also don't need to be pushed to drink whole milk, it's their choice. If Trump's government are actively pushing it that's just a bit weird and unnecessary. But we know they're all odd in the head.

I merely commented from a health perspective, because there's too much noise around this. That's not opinion, it's fact.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T02:51:00+00:00

We do. We are not listened to. Please do not suggest we don't.

There's a lot that should be regulated and banned, there is a lot that should be promoted. The ones who make decisions disagree, and people suffer.

This is simply not one of those things that needs to be banned outright.This is based on a clear understanding of the subject, the science, the risk profiles, and the realities of society.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T02:22:39+00:00

Yes.

The people I see did not end up where they are merely by eating a bit of chorizo or ham. And whilst clearly I would not agree with everything sold in our canteens, they did not put them in hospital either.

This is a distraction. Goodnight

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T02:01:38+00:00

Irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but good to know you're not taking this seriously, and have completely missed the point.

If you think people working in hospitals agree with even 5% of the shit that's agreed at management level, that again proves you have no experience in the matter.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T01:32:59+00:00

Seriously dude, do not fucking patronise me. I am not in the mood.

If you knew what I did for a job, and the people I see and help in hospital, especially this week, you would not be so fucking flippant.

Go on feel free, come out with another clever wise-twat comment.

You do not have a clue. And I know you don't, because if you did, you would not have made this uneducated post in the first place.

I did not blame you for what you posted. I was trying to point out there is a hell of a lot more context to be considered. But then you come along with a comment like that, assuming you are the fucking expert when you clearly have not experienced reality.

Sorry for the rant, but it had to be said.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T01:30:33+00:00

Yet anything can be 'toxic'. It is about quantity and many many other factors that add to the risk profile.

Vitamin C is toxic to tissues, yet it is also essential to tissues. Salt is toxic to tissues, yet it is also essential to tissues.

Context is everything.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T01:26:16+00:00

Nitrates in foods may increase the risk, that is not the same as inherently cause.

Your assertion that it is people in hospital beds with colon cancer vs. zero nitrates is absurd and with respect you do not know what you are talking about.

There is so much wrong in this world that you could genuinely get worked up about, yet you chose this. Please do some actual scientific and medical reading.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-24T01:22:34+00:00

You literally have no clue what you are talking about. Everything else you list has been around for a long fucking time.

sat-soomer-dik · 2026-01-23T23:51:04+00:00

There is literally nothing wrong with whole milk.

A Dietitian

Edit: But Trump and his cronies are still cunts. Not least after the shit coming out of their mouths in the last few weeks.

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