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Facebook was not selling data then either. Users gave their explicit consent to Cambridge Analytica to use the data in the surveys. The mistake Facebook made was giving Cambridge Analytica access to those users' friends data, which qualifies it as a data breach. Again, Facebook never sold data to third parties.

Meta is also not selling data to advertisers. Advertisers buy ads and Meta decides who sees them. Advertisers only find out who sees their ads once they click on them.

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Slight counterpoint - I have written Go in the past and now am working with Kotlin and to be honest, I prefer it. I wouldn't mind Kotlin being the new Java rather than Go.

I don't have hard data (do you?) but all bootcampers we were working with were laid off and threads on Blind seem to indicate bootcamper layoffs were heavy

Recent hires who haven't yet been allocated to a team, though they do work with teams on real tasks and produce code. Usually non-specialists, though some like ML engineers do go through bootcamp.

Nope, other comments are correct, Reality Labs, aka AR/VR and other hardware

Some data from the inside:

Reality Labs (AR/VR) hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go.

Most bootcampers (unallocated new hires) are gone, even ones that were performing well.

Low performer from my past team outside RL was let go, so it appears performance was a factor for a lot of roles, rather than just axing entire teams based on business need.

edit: updated to clear up some confusion about the meaning of RL and bootcampers

Some data from the inside:

RL hit less hard than the rest of the company. No one on my team or adjacent teams let go.

Most bootcampers are gone, even ones that were performing well.

Low performer from my past team outside RL was let go, so it appears performance was a factor for a lot of roles, rather than just axing entire teams based on business need.

I'd be happy to if they were open to it. The network effect means that that's not going to happen any time soon though. It's also not the only feature that matters to me, though. Also, their stories are brand new, so likely not at feature parity yet.

You know you can message people in Instagram, right?

You woke up and chose violence today, didn't you? Or is it just so impossible to believe that a social media product actually promotes pro-social behaviors?

Disclaimer: positive sentiment towards Meta app

I'm a millennial and I use Instagram (mainly stories) as the primary tool for keeping in touch with people. It's easier to share an image, maybe with a short caption, rather than composing a post, and consuming friend's stories are quicker than text posts since you don't need to read. It's a more efficient/faster way to know what my friends and family are up to and it prompts me to communicate with them more.

I may be an outlier but I'm very bad at remembering to text/call/email friends if I don't see them regularly, so following them on IG helps a lot.

How so? The only thing Instagram sacrificed to add Stories was some real estate at the top of the screen for the Stories bar. I would say adding Reels has been more invasive because those show up in your feed.

If you can do more with one programmer, then you need less programmers, and demand for programmers goes down.

That's basically the situation for any torrent client

Data which can distinguish a citizen's political leanings so they can serve the proper content to influence elections, harvested just through the data from their viewing habits

Is that something we want a foreign borderline hostile state to be doing?

These pictures are fantastic. For anyone but professionals the reasons to buy a DSLR or mirrorless are virtually gone.

Carr is calling on congress to craft a bill, so that's in line with this. The situation is different there because the threat is different - the greatest threat from China is if they have a backdoor to US gov devices. The greatest threat with TikTok is (from the article):

> Carr highlighted concerns about U.S. data flowing back to China and the risk of a state actor using TikTok to covertly influence political processes in the United States.

I think this is a bigger problem, from the article:

> Carr highlighted concerns about U.S. data flowing back to China and the risk of a state actor using TikTok to covertly influence political processes in the United States.

Maybe. For Android it's very easy to sideload, just share a link for an APK download and then open it. Easy and quick enough for even a TikTok-addled ADD brain to do.

Very related ban of Huawei, ZTE tech: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/13/17686310/huawei-zte-us-go...

It was known that these companies actively work with the CCP against US interests, which is the same thing happening with TikTok now.

I think preventing the CCP from accessing private data of American citizens probably falls under normal statecraft actions

Twitter is already just a subset of Facebook

As long as Zuck is in charge, yes.

I don't think the "metaverse" needs to succeed as much as the hardware does. A set of AR glasses that aren't bulky or sci-fi enables a huge amount of brand new functionality, on maybe even more than smartphones did. In that case, if Meta has the best option on the market, it doesn't need to write the killer app, someone else can do it, just like the App Store enabled iPhone developers to do.

I'm less optimistic on the VR takeover, but I can imagine a future where VR headsets would be preferable to using laptops for daily use, and the same thing applies there.

I've been wanting this for a long time. Any way I could get it as a live updating widget for my Android home screen?

It's more likely that you gave your phone number out somewhere more sketchy. The personal email thing sounds like straight fraud.

As someone who works for Meta and and sees all the privacy trainings and the hoops you have to jump through to do anything with user data anymore at this company, someone is definitely getting fired for this if it was indeed Meta's fault and intentional.

Can you also acknowledge that 1 and 3 of section 3 are false? It absolutely does not need a PC/wifi to use. Source: I have one on my desk.

This was the reason for iOS handicapping app's ad tracking, not "privacy"