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i forgive facebook all their abuses just because they gave us zstd

• oofbey 5y ago
  I think you should read more about Facebook. Try e.g. the Damien Collins email dump, and read about how their android app tricked people into letting it record all phone call and text message records, knowing full well users would hate it if they found out. Clearly they produce good technology. But the company is morally bankrupt.
  • Y_Y 5y ago
    The PDF of of the information I assume you're referring to is: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu... Here is a quote from the summary, but I could not find where it was substantiated in the 250-page document: > Facebook knew that the changes to its policies on the Android mobile phone system, which enabled the Facebook app to collect a record of calls and texts sent by the user would be controversial. To mitigate any bad PR, Facebook planned to make it as hard of possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of their app.
• metafex 5y ago
  they didn't though. zstd has been around even before the main dev joined fb, i distinctly remember it being under the persons personal github name.
• kzrdude 5y ago
  You could read about lz4 and then later zstd on http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/ http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/ long before he joined facebook.
• prirun 5y ago
  Yann Collet developed Zstandard first, on his own, then Facebook hired him and Zstandard went along with him.