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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GamerBoy705@lemmy.world to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world

Reminds me of the Therac-25 incident..

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[-] Basil 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, if their app is suspectable to a bug that could literally kill you, I would never trust anything from that company again. It's excruciatingly important that they don't fuck up, and they did

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

I mean.. i can guarantee someone manually inserting insulin has definitely made mistakes in their dosage. For sure.

Their PDMs are fine and more seriously tested. I agree that you shouldn't use the phone app, but that's for most people because it's early in dev (there isn't even an iphone version yet) and their other stuff is way older.

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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