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idioomsus wrote
Reply to Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat by Rocket_Gecko
This involved creating “kits” that can be installed on iOS and Android devices, to intercept traffic for certain apps, according to the filings.
My next phone is definitely going to be something I can install LineageOS on. Samsung doesn't let you uninstall Facebook and Youtube, only deactivate them.
Archaplain wrote (edited )
Several apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump's Truth Social and Mastodon.
recent years
Mastodon
Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016
i dont use it but to put it in the same vein as truth social is more than a tad bit disingenuous.
tuesday wrote
forced arbitration is such a scam
roanoke9 wrote
I wonder if the AI was so bad or the quality of all that data is simply terrible, or both.
ikk OP wrote
Reply to comment by fortmis in Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion by ikk
yea, currently it's just the hospital computers that are melting tho.
fortmis wrote
Reply to Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion by ikk
apparently if you can figure out how to turn off the air cooling systems in the facebook data centres, they would blow up in less than 5 minutes.
Or maybe air pollution will do the job for us ... dare i say silver lining?
tuesday wrote
Reply to comment by moonlune in Facebook's AI Chatbot: ‘Since Deleting Facebook My Life Has Been Much Better’ by ziq
It's especially funny since part of the problem is one that Facebook encouraged by letting racist, sexist, anti-semetic and generally terrible information get posted on their site without restriction.
moonlune wrote (edited )
It's kind of funny to see each big web company make their own racist robot.
the problem with AI systems that rely on massive collections of web data: they will always be biased towards whatever results are more prominent in the datasets, which obviously is not always an accurate reflection of reality.
It's an interesting problem, training an AI to not be like the data you trained it on.
__0 wrote
Reply to Meta spent a record $27 million on Mark Zuckerberg's security and private jet travel in 2021 by Alt
Wow that sounds really efficient... I love capitalism it's so efficient ❤️❤️❤️
__0 wrote (edited )
Reply to Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop by nulloperation
Another instance of global capital being indiscernible from psychological warfare.
Literally externalizing and dumping digital trauma onto the lowest bidder.
Same thing that happens with recycling and garbage and toxic waste that is cheaper just to send to another country than it is to process locally... Out of sight out of mind.
Fool wrote
I imagine, if real, it would be about pulling data centres/workers/offices out of these regions rather than stopping service of the websites - ie. Shipping the taxable profits to other countries.
I think the Governments would arrange alternative payment arrangements rather than lose the data farm that is Facebook.
veuzi wrote
It's an empty "threat". As much as I'd love for this to happen, there's just too much money on the line for old Zuccer to shut down one of his biggest markets.
kin wrote
Auf wiedersehen Meta
granite wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted34314 in by !deleted30
Are they both leading to a revolution? Like some twat takes a shot at this fool?
AnarchoDoom wrote
Reply to comment by moonlune in by !deleted30
Online cannot replace irl connections. Plain and simple. Dealing with a screen is not dealing with a real person. Of course some tech makes daily life easier for a lot of disabled people, but thee tech ultimately are controlled by agencies and interests that don't give a fuck about their well-being, but more about the metadata they're freely producing for them to grab.
moonlune wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted30 in by !deleted30
I really don't feel anything like what you're describing: most of the time tech adds to my relationships (even facebook). Granted, I mostly use messaging apps & calls & not the timeline so it could be replaced by any odd messaging app.
It's fascinating how different feelings we get from using the same tools.
moonlune wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by !deleted30 in by !deleted30
If you had enough arthritis to not be able to get out of your home you'd probably be happy to be wired to your close ones, or to other new people & play chess online so as to be against similarly skilled players.
I'm not sure how many disabled people would trade autonomy for a community. I'd also to choose to not have my close ones smell my piss instead of having them "lovingly" clean me up because I can't do it myself.
(of course Facebook's way f doing stuff is horrible and bad and our current society is really horrible for disabled people but I can't dismiss the autonomy technology has brought to disabled.)
moonlune wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted31767 in by !deleted30
You can have real connexions over the wired. For an extreme example on reddit there are many marriage where the groom and best man see themselves for the first time because they met and became friends over Xbox live or something.
ziq wrote
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moonlune wrote
A little green washing before they tell us the real reason they went offline last tuesday lol
mofongo OP wrote
Reply to comment by moonlune in Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are down. May they never rise again. by mofongo
Apparently, a piece of equipment that by itself managed lots of Facebook properties was misconfigured during an update. And due to logistics, there was a mismatch between who could be on site and who can resolve the issue.
moonlune wrote
Does anyone here have an idea why?
topa OP wrote
Reply to Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook by topa
Noticed this lately in much more subtle ways and have been wondering how they monetise it.
AntifaNI wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by idioomsus in Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat by Rocket_Gecko
LG are the same (also Instagram)
I don't want that crap on my phone at all.
Motorola don't seem to have Meta apps but they have Youtube and Youtube music Lenovo tablet also has Youtube kids which cannot be fully uninstalled even if the user doesn't have kids.
Both also come bundled with various games (Newsflash: Some folk have zero interest in gaming)