As a person well left of center on Bluesky, thereâ€(TM)s absolutely nothing I want to hear or interact with regarding the cesspool of MAGA and adjacent individuals. Seriously. Between the racism, sexism, misogyny, blatant hypocrisy, lies, destruction of truth and science and education, and literally anti *everything* that could help ANYONE that doesnâ€(TM)t offer an immediate quarterly ROI; fuck ‘em.

People act like echo chambers are bad. Maybe if youâ€(TM)re a knuckle dragging hateful anti science asshole. Sure. But MY echo chamber is filled with science, education, health, and generally being an empathetic human being towards other people, less fortunate people, and animals.

What interest do I have to listen to â€oethe other sideâ€? And Iâ€(TM)m happy for it.

TECHNICALLY speaking you arenâ€(TM)t legally allowed to do that. I know itâ€(TM)s generally not something people follow up on due to limitations of effort, cost, and time; but the point stands.

If someone were to catch an AI platform that grifted off their copyrighted materials, they could sue. Thatâ€(TM)s just the facts in the U.S.

Yeah. The unfortunate legalize that exists in order to cover the concept of having an app to view the content is a dumb requirement, but has to be there in order to cover themselves.

But still doesnâ€(TM)t give grifters the â€oeright†to train their AI models.

This statement seems to imply just because you post it on the internet you relinquish all copyright rights to your content because itâ€(TM)s available on a website. In the U.S. at least, this is legitimately not true.

I know the crypto bros are super upset that their NFTs didnâ€(TM)t go anywhere and now they want to grift on AI, but this is patently not the case.

Each US poster on Bluesky patently owns their content whether theyâ€(TM)ve asserted the copyright or not.

This argument is dead and buried and it's not even an issue anymore. Who gives a fuck what Microsoft is doing with Edge on Windows?

* Mobile devices account for around 60% of the world's internet usage these days.

* Apple requires every browser on iOS to be a reskin of Webkit. This is effectively like saying you're going to go to McDonalds, but decide on Burger King, but when you walk into the Burger King it's also McDonald's food. And then you go next door to Wendy's and it's also McDonald's food.

* So you have an internet dominated by either Chrome or Safari.

* Edge on Windows is a Chromium reskin with Microsoft-specific tie-ins (use Microsoft Accounts instead of Google Accounts) and some minor customizations outside of the core browsing experience.

* Who gives a shit if Microsoft literally makes Edge the ONLY browser on Windows? They don't hold the dominant position in the market that they once did and there's literally nobody that can argue they have a monopoly on the web.

How about go jump off a tall building?

The only thing this ban stands to do is to TRY, and I mean TRY, to prevent kids from fact checking the bullshit the Florida school system is going to try and force feed them.

Why is it not a CVE if some default installation of a piece of software doesn't set its permissions properly?

They're just mad they can't control the message, while Tiktok, even under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party, pretty much doesn't follow the same rules that American social media does. I am not majorly bombarded with shit I don't want to see like I am with Twitter. Tiktok better curates my stream for me. Every now and again I pop up and say "Not Interested" in an account, but it's rare.

Unfortunately that post doesn't share numbers in terms of how much the vaccine protects against infection. That said, we don't really have much data on XBB1.5 other than they're still highly recommending the bivalent booster to offer the best protection against XBB1.5. Lab studies have still shown it to be highly effective against severe disease with XBB1.5. Actual transmission numbers I can't find easily.

Source I could find: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoronavirus.jhu.edu%2Ffrom-our-experts%2Fwhat-you-need-to-know-about-xbb-1-5-omicron-s-latest-variant

The strong general consensus by folks significantly smarter in this field than I am is to go get your bivalent booster if you haven't yet.

All things considered, vaccination and the human body are a lot more variable than I think folks possibly understand. It takes people years to even come close to understanding how this stuff works with the human body. The long story short of it is the bivalent booster is still very good to get, and still very effective overall; it's just that it's not *quite* as good at preventing initial infection of the disease. However, it's fantastic at preventing hospitalization and severe disease--which is ultimately what we want.

Either way, I wouldn't take this number on face value and say it "doesn't work" as the person stated posting the article, but just that in one particular way it doesn't work as well.

This still doesn't mean it's useless, and it still doesn't mean you shouldn't get it. You absolutely should get this vaccine. Not the least of which because it can significantly cut down on variants developing, substantially impacts the distribution of the virus. Making people less sick for a day means less chance of viral spread--especially in folks who can't get time off of work and have to work sick (because of course we require this in the US).

A room full of vaccinated individuals is going to fair much better than a room full of unvaccinated folks if someone walks in with covid, that's for damn sure.

When the "alternative viewpoints" usually encompass shit along the lines of "God killed the crabs because we elected Joe Biden president and we allow the gays to marry."--then yes, those viewpoints should be dismissed.

"There needs to be relief for fishermen".

Just as soon as y'all stop voting the way you do so we can ensure relief for OTHER people as well? Cry me a river when I see the political trash that comes out of the state.

Yeah. I mean thatâ€(TM)s where something AzureADâ€(TM)s CAE comes into play. And requiring compliant devices. Because it literally ties the token to the device at that point. There might be a very small period of time the token is useful off the device; but thatâ€(TM)s likely regardless of platform.

The only way to â€oeguarantee†this is every single chat message be sent by requiring proof of presence with like a yubikey or something. And thatâ€(TM)s just not going to happen. Lol.

Token attacks are nothing new and it's a long-known issue with browser-based and web-based authentication. I don't see why anybody is surprised. In fact, it was only last year that EA Games was hacked via Slack session cookies. Yet for some reason nobody lambasts Slack for that hack. How many web application developers implement continuous session token verification schemes? Next to none--because it requires application integration of the authentication platform (See: Okta Continuous Access/Microsoft Continual Access Evaluation).

Either way, these mechanisms *built into Teams* should be useful to limit or prevent someone from using the token away from the device itself--assuming you've enabled decent Conditional Access policies. You can, of course, always revoke the token from AzureAD as well if compromise is detected.

Perhaps I should work on this and explain how these tools work together.