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by alex1138 9mo ago
I remember Peter Thiel saying that "we were going to invest in Facebook regardless" of the meeting with Zuckerberg I guess they just needed a Dumb Fuck to do whatever they wanted, Lifelog and whatever
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by alex1138 9mo ago
I think too much gets made of addiction in a soft sense and not enough in a hard sense If I log off Facebook and it starts spamming me with fake notifications, it's addictive in a way that's more than just "Facebook provides
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by alex1138 9mo ago
It's kind of amazing that all the companies act in lockstep. Apple, Google, TikTok remove anti-ICE stuff, rightly or wrongly (I'll go with 'wrongly' because of freedom of speech/freedom of app choice, among other th
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Yeah, but I'm very worried about subtle errors getting introduced
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by alex1138 9mo ago
> with all modifications user made I've been wondering about that! Nice to have confirmation
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by alex1138 9mo ago
It was a stupid question/post by me, I just don't know how to respond to "why should they not preference their own site? :)" Because... that's not how it should work? And it makes something of a case for antitrust?
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Isn't it cute when they do these things while demonetizing legitimate channels?
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by alex1138 9mo ago
I do apologize, however with that being said this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767027 just got flagged They do flag because of tone, or else outright things that don't fit with their agenda (What I posted was
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Unfortunately it's not disinformation, it's going to be a while for people to discover how many things they were lied to about
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by alex1138 9mo ago
It absolutely baffles me they didn't do more work or testing on this. Their (unofficial??) motto is literally Search. That's what they're known for. The fact it's trash is an unbelievably damning indictment of what they
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by alex1138 9mo ago
How do I respond to this nicely without getting my comment flagged
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by alex1138 9mo ago
No. Shut up. This has been confirmed by countless Iranians
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by alex1138 9mo ago
And you get your numbers from what? The Hamas controlled Ministry of Health?
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Damn near everything on HN gets flagged eventually. Either get everyone to drop their biases as Silicon Valley tech VCs or make it so that flags can ONLY be used to remove clear abuse. Sick of it
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by alex1138 9mo ago
You are an absolutely terrible person
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by alex1138 9mo ago
I want people to be REAL careful about "Israel obviously committed a genocide" All those people brutally murdered on October 7 don't just disappear. Whatever you think about Israel's response it's kind of amazing th
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by alex1138 9mo ago
I guess but developers were pretty pissed off with "startup" FB. Constantly breaking functionality Facebook has been built on a lot of fraud. Don't just copy them as the example to follow
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by alex1138 9mo ago
You know, I've speculated before that Facebook's video metrics fraud might have disrupted the entire industry, because people copy their "success". It's why autoplaying videos etc I wonder if MFABT is a similar just
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by alex1138 9mo ago
fastmail just automatically works with delta.chat and I presume similar tools It requires an app password, but not a bridge you need to download
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Proton's UX just subjectively FEELS bad
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Funnily, Proton was supposed to be the anti-Google, wasn't it? Maybe some of "Proton's not in the US, so not subject to scary NSA warrant canaries" Except... Gmail has handled spam pretty well? And at least if you do get
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Whatsapp should be a non starter. What Mark Zuckerberg did to Whatsapp should be required reading for anyone using the internet, and then decide if you still want to use Facebook (never mind, they build a shadow profile for you anyway) &quo
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by alex1138 9mo ago
I was on the Goog forums for years (before they even fucking ruined the FORMAT of the forums, possibly to 'be more mobile friendly') and it was people absolutely (justifiably) screaming at the product people No, the customer isn&#
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Posts FreeBSD Refuses to elaborate Leaves
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Upvoted, to rescue you from the sea of grey Hi, FAANG engineers
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by alex1138 9mo ago
In which the CEO of the single largest social media company, who's responsible (and whose algorithms are responsible) for the mediation of human interactions across the entire planet, really dislikes losing board games so his staff is
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by alex1138 9mo ago
It's kind of amazing we've forgotten the rest of the web exists Everything now is either facebook.com, google.com or cnn.com (not exactly specifically that, but you know) It used to be this wild, almost untamed thing. Or what I&#x
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by alex1138 9mo ago
See, this is why I made a comment in that Apple thread (see my post history) about stopping Facebook doing things like this. I was told "Android can do it too". Yes but no. Apple may do evil things but they punished Facebook for t
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Any thoughts on Neovim? Do you like it?
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by alex1138 9mo ago
Does that course cover "It's not a good idea to forcibly add gay people to groups and then publically post it to their timeline, outing them"? Or perhaps the photo tags that get added of them (sometimes automatically) at the

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