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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by 1000units »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #64
make3 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there is also prestige associated to big names like Facebook (and Google, Apple, etc)

I think that prestige only exists in the minds of some people who work there or have worked there. If I had a nickel for every time someone started a sentence with "well when I was at Google" for a scenario that is nothing like Google... Facebook's move-fast-and-break-things culture is fortunately a little less envied, in my experience.

Working at Google confers prestige among lay people as well, in my experience.

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Post by nv-vn »

IBM wrote: post #10

If you watched the Senate hearing on privacy two days ago you'd have seen that they were remarkably on the same page about potential privacy legislation [1]. Facebook's continued fuck ups will only help the cause, and for that I'm grateful. [1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?451963-1/google-apple-amazon-t...

Of course they're on the same page. They can afford the best lawyers and as much infrastructure as they need to fulfill the requirements, while every new competitor gets sued from all angles. I'd be very surprised if any of that regulation actually serves the user in any positive way.

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Post by repolfx »

chalkandpaste wrote: post #61
tmh79 wrote: post #44

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they havent monopolized talent, they pay for talent. Facebook paying high salaries has increased all of our pay, equity etc, whether you work there or not. The only thing this may be bad for is founders who are in a zero sum competition with FB for talent and now need to spend more money and equity to get it.

This is a very short-sighted view. Yes it has some immediate benefit in terms of pay, but you have to consider the long-term societal tradeoff of not developing addictive mental candy for people or developing societally useful technologies (or vice-versa, as it now stands). We can focussed on getting paid a lot now, or improving the wealth of everyone and generative the value we can all enjoy later.

What makes Facebook "addictive mental candy" other than you not personally liking it?

I know lots of people who feel they get and have got tremendous practical benefit from Facebook. It isn't "addictive" unless you use that term to mean anything some people make that other people enjoy.

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Post by jsnell »

EGreg wrote: post #28

On the one hand, every time another scandal or breach is revealed about centralized networks, I want to post this and have everyone recognize the root problem and the solution: https://Qbix.com (see the video) On the other hand, I feel like I’m shamelessly promoting/shilling my own company. How to do it in a classy way? I really believe that there is a problem people are not recognizing enough to do something about i…

> On the other hand, I feel like I’m shamelessly promoting/shilling my own company.

Good news, you're not just imagining things. It feels exactly like that to the readers as well.

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Post by mancerayder »

quotemstr wrote: post #97
twoheadedboy wrote: post #93

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What you call being "excited about working at 12am" I call "accepting being a corporate slave".

I don't think you can so glibly dismiss enthusiasm as Stockholm syndrome. Passionate people push the world forward, and mocking passion is a recipe for mediocrity and stagnation.

On the flip side celebrating a culture where (allegedly) people are expected to toss out their personal lives and time (what is sometimes referred to as passion in some circles) is a race to the bottom. It means colleagues who DON'T do this are punished or replaced. Perhaps that's what you refer to as mediocrity, the unwillingness to put in long workdays that extend into night.

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Post by TACIXAT »

EGreg wrote: post #88
lukebennett wrote: post #43

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Seeing as you asked... your website's terrible UX doesn't help. I just took a look and moved on within 30 seconds - a dated look and feel (that also feels targeted at primary school teachers), walls of text, broken links, no clear route back to the homepage to reorient yourself (can't click the logo), no clear waypoints to follow... You only get one chance to make a first impression. I'm afraid the first impression I…

Which links were broken? What makes it dated specifically? Versus let’s say https://joinmastodon.org/ Also did you visit from a mobile phone or desktop?

>What makes it look dated?

3D strong blue and green spinning globe. 3D logo, hard (high contrast?) RGB values. Child's drawing header looks like a hospital. Mission statement not at all aligned with what your comment says. Empowering people page, weird lego photoshop. More strong RGB icons.

>We build apps for all kinds of communities.

I assume this is an app building consultancy from this statement. Nothing about decentralization. Way too much text on the page (for people like me who cbf to read). Are you trying to get people to download your group / calendar app or build apps on qbix? Choose a goal and optimize your copy for it.

Mastadon - Single page layout. Clear missions statement (Social networking, back in your hands). Flat (material?) icons. Single, fixed width column of text. Lower contrast color scheme.

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Post by quotemstr »

mancerayder wrote: post #116
quotemstr wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you can so glibly dismiss enthusiasm as Stockholm syndrome. Passionate people push the world forward, and mocking passion is a recipe for mediocrity and stagnation.

On the flip side celebrating a culture where (allegedly) people are expected to toss out their personal lives and time (what is sometimes referred to as passion in some circles) is a race to the bottom. It means colleagues who DON'T do this are punished or replaced. Perhaps that's what you refer to as mediocrity, the unwillingness to put in long workdays that extend into night.

Do you think that I should be forced not to code after a certain time of day? I wouldn't work at a company that imposed this restriction.

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Post by codeinstyle »

quotemstr wrote: post #97
twoheadedboy wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you call being "excited about working at 12am" I call "accepting being a corporate slave".

I don't think you can so glibly dismiss enthusiasm as Stockholm syndrome. Passionate people push the world forward, and mocking passion is a recipe for mediocrity and stagnation.

Well, maybe this specific case doesn't apply to you, but enthusiasm and passion weren't the vocabulary used to describe many of my friends' experiences working late nights at fb.

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Post by wolf550e »

gaahrdner wrote: post #89
quotemstr wrote: post #86

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It is essential that tech companies, especially ones that provide critical infrastructure, place technical excellence above other priorities. Denigrating meritocracy is like pollution: the impact may not be immediate, and in the short term, it may look like you can have your cake and eat it too, but the universe is not caring and not kind, and if you forget about the need for excellence in the continual struggle agai…

Is Facebook now considered critical infrastructure?

If everything facebook knows about all its users and their contacts who are not themselves facebook users becomes public, people will get hurt.
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