Facebook Renames to Meta • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by mikestew » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

So will they be keeping the same domain names, or am I going to have to redo my Pi-Hole setup? I guess I'll add a wildcard entry for "meta.com" just to get ahead of things.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by philwelch » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

tasogare wrote: post #44

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

In France it's GAFAM that is most used, which makes sense since Microsoft is way more influential on the tech scene than Netflix, which is just a content provider.

I think FAANG is more often used as a career benchmark, i.e. working at Netflix looks good on your resume and pays well.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by arduinomancer » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

The presentation talks a lot about the metaverse being built on open standards and protocols but it still seems extremely vague

Have they actually detailed this anywhere?

For example a most basic question: what 3D engine is this going to run on?

Is that engine open source?

What are the formats for assets/models/materials?

What blockchain is hosting the NFT assets?

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by stcredzero » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

Well, shucks! Years ago, I had an unpublished iOS app named Meta! Oh well!

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by regularjack » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

It wasn't enough for them to ruin the world, they had to ruin the word meta too.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by azth » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:34 PM UTC

r-r-r wrote: post #14

Nicely translates to "(shes's) dead" in Hebrew...

Similar in Arabic (maita).

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by ra7 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:34 PM UTC

nyt-maps wrote: post #19

My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.

Don’t like Facebook one bit, but Zuck is almost always spot on with his bets. So yes, incredibly scary as it has a high likelihood of succeeding.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by hwers » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:34 PM UTC

All this talk about the future is getting kinda boring at this point. I feel like it's been a good 7 years of talking about what will come in the near future and other than that near stagnation on most other fronts. (Autonomous cars, VR, etc.) I'll care when it's here I guess.