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by chronid 8y ago
The big issue I have with this is that facebook can already do this, IF a warrant comes from the government. The issue about being careful about using those metadata for friends/"you could know" (which was always terrible
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by chronid 8y ago
They probably can already do everything you say, eg: cross reference and internally "trade" (meta)data between facebook, instagram and whatsapp backends and deliver that to law enforcement. I'm pretty sure their ability to do
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by chronid 8y ago
On that, I have to agree.
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by chronid 8y ago
> I would not like the idea of FB to fail (connect the world) but would like its current business model to fail (selling private information to highest bidder). They don't. This is completely against their business model (which is
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by chronid 8y ago
Maybe it improves their engagement metric.
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by chronid 8y ago
> I think there's very serious concerns to a society which seems to consume most of it's media as curated by AI and their online friends as opposed to say, a newspaper editor. Be careful - AIs may be wrong and manipulated and w
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by chronid 8y ago
It would be interesting to know how much money the NYT spends on Facebook ads, and how many visits (and as such profit) they receive from there. I doubt they report that in their quarterly calls with shareholders though.
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by chronid 8y ago
If google is the issue maybe - but I seriously doubt they are the issue: they sell their ability to target you, and selling your data to third parties would essentially be against their interest. This kind of FUD has been repeated ad naus
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by chronid 8y ago
Who told you that? Keep applying pressure, is the only way they will ever improve. As long as you don't believe they can moderate an e2e channel you're fine in my book. :)
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by chronid 8y ago
> The WhatsApp founder quit over differences around privacy / advertising, and WhatsApp is only one part of facebook. Facebook can see everything on facebook itself, and Messenger. The particular accusation I was referring to was th
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by chronid 8y ago
Constant media carpet bombing on the long run takes a toll on people, it's not really surprising. Regardless if what the media says is true or not.
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by chronid 8y ago
I don't know, it makes me laugh every time I see facebook blamed for things created by messages they cannot see (whatsapp is e2e encrypted, remember?) and blamed for not respecting privacy and censoring people at the same time. They ca
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by chronid 8y ago
TL;DR: Intel decided to "redefine" what TDP means to them so it aligns what they're doing and their marketing.
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by chronid 8y ago
It's more like: "our primary business model is collecting information about you so we can show you targeted ads".
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by chronid 8y ago
> There are too many people on the planet already I feel the reaction many people have about population decline in NA and EU is understandable (one may or may not share the concern though, that's personal): your tribe is making less
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by chronid 8y ago
When I left, L4 was SDE1, L5 was SDE2. Sometime after I left there was a big push to get more and more L5s on board, at the point than in some teams L4s were effectively sidelined (and found themselves with little no ability to advance to L
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by chronid 8y ago
I feel it's most bad experiences when it was started at first - and on enterprise systems it never really got adoption because of bad RAID. I still remember some bugs with inodes that could not be deleted making me mad and forcing me t
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by chronid 8y ago
Maybe I'm wrong (or things changed since I looked at this), but if you use bcc you essentially depend from LLVM at runtime. I guess you would probably want the (precompiled) eBPF program as a binary that you can load in some way instea
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by chronid 8y ago
I fear we set that up with the "outrage" culture to trigger clicks for ads. Nuance disappeared from most public conversation on online newspapers, and things started getting black and white. It was downhill from there.
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by chronid 8y ago
That was actually the reason I used it for example. There was a lot of discussion about political topics, even with uninformed people. I liked that - it was sometimes wasted effort, but it was partly done for the audience, to prevent peop
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by chronid 8y ago
Well, I see forcing member states to be fiscally responsible (Italy's current expenditures - after removing debt/interest repayments - are curiously forever increasing even under the worst "austerity") something a un
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by chronid 8y ago
A ticket for tracking the incident (with posts to graphs, alerts, other tickets and so on - what you use slack for) + conference bridge for live discussion focused on restoring availability is what I personally like. As long as you keep it
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by chronid 8y ago
It's not a package management issue. A lot of vendors use drivers developed by their suppliers, and the internal API of the kernel is known for not being really stable. So if you want to update the kernel, you need to update the driver
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by chronid 8y ago
It's not impossible to do good, that's not what I'm claiming at all, and that's why the last line is there. I'm pretty sure you can do good even within facebook, doing your utmost to keep the company accountable (fr
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by chronid 8y ago
It's not an issue of paying well or not - it's that all alternatives are also evil and pay a lot worse (so you're worse off, you may work more and have a shittier commute and so on). I'm pretty sure we'll end up dis
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by chronid 8y ago
And so are people that have a phone built in china, abusing people enough they have to build nets to prevent them from suiciding. And so are people that use SIMs from carriers known to have an army of H1B slaves on their payroll through the
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by chronid 8y ago
I was just noting that in other parts of the world (where the average salary nationally for developers is NOT a comfy 60k$) finding alternatives to those companies can be a little bit complex, and for sure no less evil. The "justific
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by chronid 8y ago
So is working at Google, Amazon and probably 90% of the big corps of the world in many sectors - from oil to finance to pharmaceutical to telecommunications and so on. And we can include the government. If you're a subcontrator or sold
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by chronid 8y ago
> Breaking democracy in the US and the UK by being _the_ platform for disinformation. Blaming facebook for "breaking" democracy in the US and the UK is ridiculous. I can't understand how this can continue being a claim rem
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by chronid 8y ago
"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

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