Productivity around the world likely increased while this lasted.
Facebook Down?
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#192Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.
My hammer - a tool - doesn't want me to look at more ads. No, FB is not a tool.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget "The Same Photo of a Gravel Pile Every Day." Almost makes the decline of Western civilization worth it.
Is there a group that saves and reuploads the same photo every day, compressing it into oblivion?
If you start one, please share a link.
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#194We're obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it's funny, but let's not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as "Foods with threatening auras" and "Animals in predicaments." I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.
I love these appreciation posts so much more than the typical Facebook-hating comments you get on Reddit in contrast. Yes, we know, FB is evil, but it doesn't mean there isn't actually some good stuff on there.
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#195We're obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it's funny, but let's not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as "Foods with threatening auras" and "Animals in predicaments." I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.
Don't forget "The Same Photo of a Gravel Pile Every Day." Almost makes the decline of Western civilization worth it.
"The Same Photo of Jeff Goldblum Every Day"
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
How though? Every past author of that script would be notified of such a change. It'd be insane if all of them would pretend they didn't see it and accept that change.
It would be hidden amongst a big refactor, and it would have a bunch of unit and integration tests that all work correctly (because they do set the environment variables correctly). Writing code that appears to do one thing and actually does another is very doable - you only need to hide one malicious line amongst thousands in a code review, while the reviewer needs to inspect every line. Besides, the vast majority o…
I think you oversimplified the code merge process at Facebook. Their internal code review system (Phabricator) would automatically add tens of reviewers to your PR because you changed an important script authored by those people. Also, there are linters that would call out the use of potentially hazardous commands. Actually deploying the thing is another process that requires jumping through a series of other review hoops.
p.s. I had a short internship there.
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#197Yay!
Oh noes
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#198It was down for sure for me. I am in Los Angeles area.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Strange that there is a SPOF for Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp.
I had the impression that they are still run like mostly independent companies who only share some data on the backend.
AFAIK, I remember reading something about Instagram moving into Facebook datacentres some time ago. I believe they were on AWS before the acquisition.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
3) Frantically planning Zuck's next apology tour after he leaked personal data on half a billion people.
This is an Orville reference isn't it. (or at least, it could be and would be extremely related)
No, I've just picked up the pattern that we only hear from Mark Zuckerberg when he's apologizing for a grievous "oversight" involving user data/abuse* of the Facebook platform.
* Also, underhanded use as intended.