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I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.

Reminds me when a youtube founder raged against the mandatory google plus login they added on for no reason.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/youtube-founder-go...

Nobody at Facebook pushed a button, but the article was edited to remove an unflattering reference to Sheryl Sandberg after a phone call from Facebook PR.

Also, just because you work(ed) at a company it does not mean you are fully aware of everything that goes on there, so don't make blanket statements about what can or can't happen.

Employees are often some of the least informed about the inner workings of an organization, as they tend to dismiss uncomfortable findings out of hand and refuse to read about them.

I think all of google search results are increasingly becoming more and more "filter bubbly" too, I have to anonymize completely or I know I'm just going to get bullshit results.

This announcement is hilarious, their products harm journalism bigly. It's like McDonald's putting a nice little leaf drawing about the environment on their cups.

Works out to $2 trillion in liability according to one (highly speculative) article I saw.

Yes, I think we are ready to grow out of the "arrogant jerk" phase of tech.

The tech wizards who build things and run these companies:

1. Are not smarter than you

2. Do not have your best interests in mind

3. Will lie to you repeatedly

4. Will do everything to avoid negative attention or consequences

Stop worshipping anyone. Not Jobs, not Zuckerberg, not Gates, not Musk, not anyone. They aren't on your team. I don't care if they look like you or represent something you are really passionate about, you still need to be skeptical.

I'm pretty sure google (and some of the more obnoxious CDNs) just give more rounds of the captchas to networks they despise (including tor and vpn users), if you try to be anonymous at all they want to punish you for it. Understandable I suppose since it destroys their business model, especially on mobile.

The backlash against tracking is going to be fast and furious, hopefully this wave has crested and will fall back a bit.

This seems like a dream paper if you work in the cattle industry.

I think it's more of the long term pattern of the leadership of facebook: anytime things get difficult they just sort of teflon their way through it and ignore everyone. Remember the Facebook Beacon fiasco? That was the first scandal in dozens, all following a pretty similar narrative.

In that sense, yes I would say leadership has been absent or maybe unaccountable is a better word.

Maybe it's time to move beyond the "optimize for stat X" phase of business and society and start thinking about bigger problems.

I mean I get that the MBA programs and stats professors will be upset, but I think we're due.

Yeah today in "not actually a real problem in the physical world" we deal with the plague of really left wing people and their anti-nuclear rhetoric that is plaguing hackerspaces across the globe. Can't we just fission in peace? These monsters are insatiable.

How can we stop this epidemic before it's too late?

Yeah I've been around enough self driving cars to know that they behave a little weirdly sometimes, in a way you'd never expect a human to. We can keep throwing humans under the bus on some technicality every time this happens because we're engineers and beep boop everything is black and white. period. But in reality there's a social aspect to driving with a lot of unwritten rules that people do not seem to be worrying about as much as they should.

Yes the corporations must have high quality records. There is no reason to doubt or question that. Really ever.

All hail the CEO, our lord and savior!

I'm still baffled by SO, I've been on there for like 10 years now and still can't seem to upvote anything and have no clue why. It's also remarkable how often you'll find "answers" on there that are flat out wrong or horribly out of date, at least once you get past the "how do I manipulate a date" level in a given area.

If you can't upvote you can't seem to downvote or fix the answer, and if you try to comment on an answer it seems to get autodeleted most of the time.

This fallacy of pre-defending a corporation from ever doing anything wrong or acting against their own (short term) self interests because "their business depends on it" needs to stop immediately.

Come to Colorado, I've been run over by deranged cyclists four times, twice resulting in hospitalization and once I was able to sue the guy into bankruptcy.

They seem to think sidewalks are for them, it's bizarre.

Is this the end game of consolidation of an industry? Where are the supposed advantages and efficiencies of all that merging and streamlining?

Everyone I know who got into crypto has the same story: for some silly reason they all bought like 5-10 different coins and it would be inordinately complicated and expensive to sell them all.

I'm pretty sure whatever "newbie guides" exist out there purposely lead people to this awful state.

Multiple "core" developers left Uber in waves in the past few years, I wouldn't say that means there is "some evidence" they were treated unethically.

In fact it's evidence of the exact opposite.

The W3C doesn't "have to accept" anything, and the fact that they turned their backs on the web is truly disappointing. There is no standards board for the web, which may actually be a better state than having a corrupt, corporatist W3C.

I live right next to a major google office and meet lots of web developers that are supposedly top tier who work there.

Every single of them uses ublock origin and specifically makes sure they are blocking google analytics and other trackers that some of them have worked on.

Something is fundamentally broken in tech when this is the status quo. Something needs to change. Bigly.

Is it even ethical to be or remain an American anymore? We can't claim we don't know better anymore.

About two years ago I opened up a smallish JS file (~100 lines ) and it contained 47 promises, some on the same line.

That was the day I decided JS had gotten way too far up it's own ass and abandoned my career in web development. Every day that goes by makes it seem like a better and better decision.

I've gotten so used to right clicking and removing the offensive parts of websites in ublock origin that I always find it shocking just how bad the web is on a new machine. So many banners, so many subscription lists, so many useless social bars.

It's also kind of silly that I have four different extensions just to shield myself from how bad the web has gotten. I feel like I'm going under red alert every time I want to check my email.

Yes that's how money works, if you start spending lots of it then you won't have it.

These bizarre roundabout ways the NYT finds to worship corporations are starting to get creepy. Calling their work wondrous and speaking directly to people who "love" Google is just absurd. Just stop, don't worship an organization.

I love how difficult it's becoming to actually ever visit a website from a google result, especially on mobile. And even when you do you're usually still stuck with their tracking and spyware. Reminds me a lot of AOL's strategy back in the day.

AOL 2.0

Google has largely ruined Boulder, CO after building a huge new sprawling thing and effectively dictating to locals and politicians exactly how they want the neighborhood and city to be structured going forward. Everyone who isn't a googler hates them and wishes we hadn't allowed that, much less given them massive amounts of corporate welfare.

Resist googlers if you can, they destroy communities.

The nest brand is probably even more toxic than Google after the past few years of media coverage.