Posts by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
 (DIR) Post #AdvuTLAyfwrmazEi3s by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       okay, here's an attempt at an intro postHi! I'm elle, I'm a queer, disabled leftist/anti-capitalist in my mid 30s living in southern California. I'm also polyamorous and have two partners as of right now.I'm very much still COVIDing (and you should, too! Long Covid isn't something to take lightly). If I'm indoors or around other people, you can assume I'll be wearing my well-fitting Aura 9210+. That is, unless I've fully confirmed it's safe™️, which as of now means my own home and my gf's placeI've come to enjoy outdoorsy stuff (walks, hiking, etc) as well as more relaxing stuff inside stuff (video games [esp co-op!], movies, board games of all sorts, etc). I'm also v much a cat person and have two of them, though I like dogs fine too :>I'm also very well-informed on the medical system (with a focus on the US') as a result of having had to navigate it from a young age, so if you've got questions there, I'm your gal!I boost a fair bit more than I post original stuff but I do try not to clog up anyone's feed. If I follow you or you're a mutual, you'll probably also see that I am very liberal with the fav button. if that happens to annoy you in particular, let me know and I'll try to be more restrained
       
 (DIR) Post #AsIR8n06gRv5PI5vEW by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       I think this is the best writeup I've seen on the (lack of) evidence for the efficacy of nasal sprays as a "layer of protection" against #COVID / #COVID19Reddit linkSubstack linkThere is a lot of misinformation out there about nasal sprays preventing COVID-19. Unfortunately, there are no convincing studies showing that nasal sprays prevent COVID-19. The published studies investigating whether or not nasal sprays prevent COVID-19 each have major issues, which I will detail here.I have a PhD in biochemistry and one of my PhD projects was on COVID-19. The main takeaway of this post is that there is no sound evidence that nasal sprays prevent COVID-19. Thus, nasal sprays should not be used for COVID-19 prevention in place of effective measures such as high-quality well-fitting respirators, ventilation and air purification.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax5YjK8ZTOPQJnzAno by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       me when i'm grateful for yuri
       
 (DIR) Post #B44MR785XGfH9tsY4W by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       inventing a brand new type of posting that you do by using your mouth to make sound representing the words. I'm gonna call it "speaking"
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vM1BFrs8m9no1mbI by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       since that browsergate site about LinkedIn seems to be gaining traction I figure I should mention:yes, LinkedIn does do what's being claimed (though, it's that it probes for specific extensions you're running, using features in chrome's API - it doesn't "search your computer")it does seem to have been doing this since at least as far back as 2017, and there has been intermittent reporting on it over the yearsI'm fairly confident the copy on the site was generated by (or at least went through) an LLM, so idk that this site is the best way to spread the issue aroundedit: and as someone else noted in the replies, looking through the list of extensions of scans for... they're pretty much all "AI"/scraper/automation plugins. so, should LinkedIn be doing this, or even able to do this in Chrome? no! but also, it does seem like the stuff they're scanning for is all extensions that shouldn't exist to begin with tbhedit 2: please see this follow-up post which proves this is just a shitty campaign by people who made an addon called "Teamfluence" that got blocked by LinkedIn
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vM1BbUZk4ass93J2 by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that:Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.eu are in fact the same people behind "Teamfluence", the scraper/automation/etc addon company listed as bringing the lawsuit against LinkedInTeamfluence was also the company mentioned and (poorly) redacted in the legal docs browsergate.eu offers up the LinkedIn employee'sSo basically, Teamfluence was scraping data from LinkedIn, got blocked for it, and now are trying to get this trumped-up campaign going to [checks notes] try to be able to automate scraping vacuuming up peoples' LinkedIn data again. I'm no fan of Microsoft or LinkedIn, but the purpose of their detection methods here seem to be preventing addons like Teamfluence which harm both them and LinkedIn's users(note: I was drafting this last night, but was looking for more info still - credit to William O'Connell on bsky for discovering and posting the screenshot of the court document that is now the 4th screenshot in this post)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5G7KFOBJ83R8Jhz3w by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       if you tried fedilab (@apps) in the past but got frustrated by the couple remaining timeline bugs that could cause you to miss some posts, those have been fixed! give it another try c:
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZQ72uq0XkFcH9jV2 by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       I can't believe I've never posted this here