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Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by pfannkuchen »

sunshowers wrote: post #10
senkora wrote: post #2

This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now: > So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second. > Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.

The fact checking is the tip of the iceberg — it's what the marketing machine led with because it's the least objectionable. Far far worse is letting queer people like myself be called mentally ill, though not any other group (e.g. religious people). Yes, it's part of the common discourse, but the common discourse is objectively morally abhorrent. I worked at FB for a decade, and I now am rooting for its complete des…

You can’t call Christians mentally ill on Facebook? Really?

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by nonrandomstring »

fishstock25 wrote: post #27
nonrandomstring wrote: post #4

Nice descriptive article. I've done this on purpose too to debug remote filesystem syncs and cryptography problems where machines are out of sync. My GPS wall clock is handy for adjusting NTP, but the time it takes to scan my eyes from the wall back to the monitor.. you really do need two stacked like she did. So I now figured to use transparrent terminals each logged into a different host and lay them over one anoth…

> watch -n1 date Um, that's a pretty inaccurate way to notice an offset in the millisecond range, isn't it?

That doesn't even show ms. Add something like +%s%N (ns) to the options if you want finer resolution.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by skellington »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #31
sunshowers wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact checking is the tip of the iceberg — it's what the marketing machine led with because it's the least objectionable. Far far worse is letting queer people like myself be called mentally ill, though not any other group (e.g. religious people). Yes, it's part of the common discourse, but the common discourse is objectively morally abhorrent. I worked at FB for a decade, and I now am rooting for its complete des…

You can’t call Christians mentally ill on Facebook? Really?

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Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#34

Post by skellington »

XorNot wrote: post #26
jazzyjackson wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't buy it, Gen Z hasnt swung right, but the young left has swung apathetic. Zuck has his own reasons for sucking up to Trump and it's not to stay popular with the kids, who have already moved on from Meta properties.

The hypothesis I saw proposed is that his marriage is breaking down/actually done. Basically he's going the Elon route.

Zuch was granted his wish and was turned into a real boy. And now he knows he can do a lot better.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#35

Post by llm_trw »

That policy change reads like a more liberal version of Obama's first term compaign platform on social issues.

Lets not pretend that the current climate in SF isn't both way outside the Overton window for most of rest of the US and most of California until ten years ago.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#36

Post by pessimizer »

sunshowers wrote: post #10
senkora wrote: post #2

This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now: > So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second. > Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.

The fact checking is the tip of the iceberg — it's what the marketing machine led with because it's the least objectionable. Far far worse is letting queer people like myself be called mentally ill, though not any other group (e.g. religious people). Yes, it's part of the common discourse, but the common discourse is objectively morally abhorrent. I worked at FB for a decade, and I now am rooting for its complete des…

If wanting to kill yourself over your sex isn't mental illness, I have no idea why insurance or the state should be concerned about it. We're not collectively paying for flat-chested women to get breast implants, or ugly men to get nose jobs, although they both may be upset about their bodies. We're also not labeling it as "life-saving."

I don't understand how we can insist that these conditions are both the worst mental illnesses, and not mental illnesses at all, at the same time. And maybe you do understand, but it's not so clearly explained that people shouldn't be allowed to discuss it in public.

> though not any other group (e.g. religious people).

Is this made up?

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#37

Post by vlovich123 »

llm_trw wrote: post #35

That policy change reads like a more liberal version of Obama's first term compaign platform on social issues. Lets not pretend that the current climate in SF isn't both way outside the Overton window for most of rest of the US and most of California until ten years ago.

Wtf is this comment in relation to? Certainly not the article which is about a strictly technical issue or how to deploy time smearing for the first time.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#38

Post by schoen »

vlovich123 wrote: post #37
llm_trw wrote: post #35

That policy change reads like a more liberal version of Obama's first term compaign platform on social issues. Lets not pretend that the current climate in SF isn't both way outside the Overton window for most of rest of the US and most of California until ten years ago.

Wtf is this comment in relation to? Certainly not the article which is about a strictly technical issue or how to deploy time smearing for the first time.

It's a reference to the very last paragraph of the article.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#39

Post by llm_trw »

schoen wrote: post #38
vlovich123 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wtf is this comment in relation to? Certainly not the article which is about a strictly technical issue or how to deploy time smearing for the first time.

It's a reference to the very last paragraph of the article.

And the title.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

#40

Post by pessimizer »

fishstock25 wrote: post #28
XorNot wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hypothesis I saw proposed is that his marriage is breaking down/actually done. Basically he's going the Elon route.

This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it. Circumstances can change, but if people do the right thing for the "right reasons", then what they do won't change. Doing sth because of somebody's spouse is a bad reason, imagine the relationship goes sour and they face a divorce, boom they change their tune.

What's important is that we break these companies up so they aren't used as tools by the powerful. Neither Zuckerberg's or Musk's income streams should be allowed to have such an important effect on everyone's lives, but as long as these communication companies are allowed to exchange their obedience for a regime's lack of antitrust enforcement, our 1st Amendment rights are meaningless.

> This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it.

I care about what Zuckerberg, Loraine Powell Jobs or Musk feel the right thing is about as much as I care about what my bus driver thinks the right thing is. What we need is a functioning government.

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