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Are they under-estimating that 90 million people (out of 2 billion accounts) have to log back in? I had to log back in and so did 6 out of the 8 people I've asked so far. Purely anecdotal, but it just seem unusual that if only 5% of accounts are affected that so many of the people I talk to would be potentially affected.
What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? If you heard about the NCIX story where they basically abandoned their servers filled with users data (over 13 years of data) and someone scooped them up and tried to resell them on the black market, one could think that a similar fate is possible. source : https://www.privacyfly.com/articles/ncix_breach/ Obviously if Facebook wa…
Your data is their primary asset.
Excerpts from the press call transcript [1] by Guy Rosen explaining what lead to this breach being possible: > The first bug was that, when using the View As function to look at your profile as another person would, the video uploader shouldn’t have actually shown up at all. But in a very specific case, on certain types of posts that are encouraging people to post happy birthday greetings, it did show up. > The secon…
There was a time where you could read other peoples' chats using this feature.
Those of you that did have to login again, where are you located?
Recently talked to 2 friends working for fb. According to them, the culture there is very toxic. For a master's degree, once get in, you need to get promoted in 22 months (I might misremember the actual number.) or you will have to leave. Debugging is never counted as a real work, so for quick promotion, nobody wants to solve bugs unless a bug becomes too obvious. And they also complained about no work-life balance.…
I suspect that that's very team-dependant (in a company with thousands of engineers in tens of offices, most things are). Personally I got promoted based on debugging / code cleanups / reliability work, and I don't remember the last time I worked outside my self-assigned working hours (~10am-6pm) (Aside from on-call shifts, where I got one false-alarm on a weekend a few weeks ago). If one of my teammates messaged me…
Train me, please.
Fun fact: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ was published at 16:42:44. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-... was published at 16:45:41. NYT writes fast :)
"NYT writes fast :)" Facebook wrote it. They called their friend at NYT and handed over the article - then mentioned they would be sharing it with other outlets later. [just my guess].
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I'm pretty sure they logged out more than <5% (90m of 2B) of their users, because of the people I talk to on a daily basis on Messenger like well over 2/3s got logged out. I could see if they meant 90m of American users or something.
Why the downvotes ? This is important data, and no one gave this information in the whole thread.
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You're being an apologist for slavery? Alright then, where do we draw the line? Can I go buy a person? If not, can I invade Sudan?[1] > Ethical consumption is a dead end. Should we give up even thinking about it and just do whatever is most convenient? Will that solve all our problems? You know Amazon treats its employees like disposable shit. If you buy from them anyway you are putting your self-love above the love…
Between accusing others of being apologists for slavery and moral cretins, you've dived into full-out flamewar of the kind that we ban people for on HN. It's unacceptable, regardless of how morally correct you are or feel you are. Flamewars burn what they burn regardless of how righteous the flames, so please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Between you and me, I pulled a muscle in my neck/shoulder this morning and I've been in a devil of a mood all day. I'm not trying to make excuses, I shouldn't have taken out my bad mood here. Today's B.S. is not indicative of my best efforts.
HN is an incredible forum (I interacted with Alan Kay the other day!!!) and I'm ashamed to have added such counter-productive negativity. It won't happen again.
I'm sorry for being part of the problem today. Have a great weekend.
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You're being an apologist for slavery? Alright then, where do we draw the line? Can I go buy a person? If not, can I invade Sudan?[1] > Ethical consumption is a dead end. Should we give up even thinking about it and just do whatever is most convenient? Will that solve all our problems? You know Amazon treats its employees like disposable shit. If you buy from them anyway you are putting your self-love above the love…
I'm not defending slavery. I'm saying that if you buy food or clothing you almost certainly are buying goods that used slave labor in the supply chain, whether or not you're aware of it. Ethical consumption is impossible and trying to whip people to do it is a distraction from actual solutions, which would involve state intervention.
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I work at a company like this. In fact, I need permission from my manager's manager's manager in order to stay past 7pm. This company believes in a strong work-life balance, and this is one of the ways it achieves this. Also, it "changes the world" in good ways, not by "connecting people" through bogus data siphoning addiction traps.
If you did, do you get fired? Genuinely curious: what happens? Personally I strongly prefer no fixed working hours. If you want to work at night, so that you can do things when it’s light out (especially in winter), and you still get the expected results, what’s wrong with that?
Probably not fired. But the interior motion sensor alarms go on automatically at 7pm, which would probably alert the security guards that roam the campus.
When I first started, I came in too early once and set off the alarms. People were nice about it, but I was super embarrassed because I was a n00b.
Personally I strongly prefer no fixed working hours. If you want to work at night, so that you can do things when it’s light out (especially in winter), and you still get the expected results, what’s wrong with that?
I worked at a place like that once. When I was hired I was told I could make my own hours. I prefer to work early mornings, so some days I came in long before anyone else. A couple of times around 3am. But I always worked at least eight hours, and often more.
In my exit interview, my supervisor was rabid about how I wasn't a good fit because I "come and go as [you] please." She was so full of crap about other allegations against me that I didn't even have a chance to bring up that making my own hours was part of my employment deal.