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Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by zer0zzz »

jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

What are these "thoughtful" frontier labs you speak of? I see Meta folks going to the big ones all the time. Ton of former PyTorch/Inductor folks now are at Ant/TM etc.

Everyone I know in the GPU compiler/GPGPU space seems to be either going to meta or leaving meta for NV or some AI lab. My anecdotal observations don't align with "bin meta applicants straight to the trash."

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by whateveracct »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #54
pwdisswordfishq wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valve is a different company.

Meta's Portal is different from Valve's Portal. https://www.meta.com/ca/portal/

> Meta Portal devices and accessories are no longer available

lol

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by whateveracct »

jopolous wrote: post #14
jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

Where should we work instead? I’d really like to leave, but I’m kind of stuck, and I don’t have enough to retire. I have to work remote from a non-coast state for family care reasons, and the places I’ve interviewed at the last few months have balked at hiring a remote employee.

i have like 5 companies in my rolodex who would hire me to be fully remote tomorrow

get with the times

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by sbrother »

magixx wrote: post #29
jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

Portal was pretty good and an originalish product

Why did they discontinue that? It was a very good product; we got them for all the grandparents and they worked really well at bringing the family together across distance. Could have fit in so well with WhatsApp too. But then they just killed it.

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Post by zer0zzz »

Marsymars wrote: post #43
sillywalk wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nitpick: Facebook bought WhatsApp, it didn't make it.

They've also largely made WhatsApp worse.

How so? Most of the hardcore encryption stuff was built at Facebook under the founder's supervision afaik for the purposes of making it harder for Zuck to inevitably ruin the privacy aspects.

I personally don't use it, because it _is_ loaded with engagement bait but its not all worse and is better in some ways.

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Post by inigyou »

jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

Facebook, for instance, made a lot of money for shareholders, which we know is the same thing as making the world a better place.

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Post by zombot »

zx8080 wrote: post #53
jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

Meta is a golden jail for one teenager who cannot grow up no matter what he does. Shame.

Seeing how much damage he does as it is, I don't want to know the grown-up version.

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by inigyou »

zer0zzz wrote: post #65
Marsymars wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've also largely made WhatsApp worse.

How so? Most of the hardcore encryption stuff was built at Facebook under the founder's supervision afaik for the purposes of making it harder for Zuck to inevitably ruin the privacy aspects. I personally don't use it, because it _is_ loaded with engagement bait but its not all worse and is better in some ways.

They added ads, an "AI companion", and backdoor logging of all chat messages

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by zombot »

claaams wrote: post #27

If they're willing to do this to their own employees that they pay and supposedly wanted to keep around, what are they willing to do with your data? What are they willing to do with the systems they connect to your systems? "Dumb f*cks" has truly been the ethos of this company from day 1.

For context, Zuckerberg once said about early Facebook users, “They trust me. Dumb fucks.”

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2010/05/14/facebook-foun...

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