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It would be better if Meta would focus on detecting spam at scale. I put a desk chair on Marketplace last Friday, and got 8 messages that were actually scams. These were trying to "schedule" a Fedex/DHL pickup, and would redirect me to fake branded websites that were requesting my personal details and bank account. This was so obviously fake it baffled me Meta can't detect these automatically. I am also getting multi…
It would be better if Meta would focus on detecting spam at scale. I put a desk chair on Marketplace last Friday, and got 8 messages that were actually scams. These were trying to "schedule" a Fedex/DHL pickup, and would redirect me to fake branded websites that were requesting my personal details and bank account. This was so obviously fake it baffled me Meta can't detect these automatically. I am also getting multi…
To be clear, this is about corruption in the CPU/GPU/memory complex. There's a whole separate set of techniques (some of which I worked on) to detect and correct data corruption on disk.
That is, the so-called "bitrot" phenomenon is largely mis-attributed. Bitrot doesn't happen at rest. It happens in transit.
It would be better if Meta would focus on detecting spam at scale. I put a desk chair on Marketplace last Friday, and got 8 messages that were actually scams. These were trying to "schedule" a Fedex/DHL pickup, and would redirect me to fake branded websites that were requesting my personal details and bank account. This was so obviously fake it baffled me Meta can't detect these automatically. I am also getting multi…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will always say VR, I will never say "metaverse". Their branding move was bold, yet unconvincing.
Vr is a subset of the ‘metaverse’. The metaverse isn’t really something new. It’s just a rebranding of the portion of our lives that are contained within the digital realm. On top of that there are obviously ideas for how to adapt and grow that space, which is all to be seen
none of my life is “contained” within shitbook
Interestingly, this site fails ungracefully (HTTP error code 500) when I try to visit from NordVPN, even after cycling through a few IP addresses. I’m noticing more and more sites block all VPN track. I get why, but it’s not good.
This type of security theater can be easily bypassed by any determined attacker and thus only serves to deter honest users.
It would be better if Meta would focus on detecting spam at scale. I put a desk chair on Marketplace last Friday, and got 8 messages that were actually scams. These were trying to "schedule" a Fedex/DHL pickup, and would redirect me to fake branded websites that were requesting my personal details and bank account. This was so obviously fake it baffled me Meta can't detect these automatically. I am also getting multi…
Completely off-topic digression: I still think the name change to “Meta” is a big mistake. Subjectively, for some reason I just really dislike the name. More objectively, the branding is very muddled, e.g: serving an “Engineering at Meta” blog post on fb.com. Often with these things it’s just about time; it feels wrong because you’re just not used to the change yet. Maybe that will happen, but it’s been months now. U…
It would be better if Meta would focus on detecting spam at scale. I put a desk chair on Marketplace last Friday, and got 8 messages that were actually scams. These were trying to "schedule" a Fedex/DHL pickup, and would redirect me to fake branded websites that were requesting my personal details and bank account. This was so obviously fake it baffled me Meta can't detect these automatically. I am also getting multi…
Subjectively too I also see so much less bot activity on Facebook than I do on any other social media.
The scale at which Meta operates at really boggles my mind. I work with an ex facebook guy who was on the infra side of things and the numbers he told me.. I couldn't even imagine. And I'm working on the order of magnitude of 100m/h, but still, completely different set of challenges.