woweeeee

Okay, I don’t like the future anymore. Can we go backwards through time yet?

We’re supposed to be the country that’s against the cruel and unusual shit.

Many of us have a lot of things we’d rather forget.

I can’t delete my Hacker News data, comments or profile.

Figure splunk and sumologic are weeks away from product releases, I’m sure.

Either that or it’s already one of their consultant up-sells, for professional service add-ons, before they GA something standard.

They likely never delete anything. They simply transform you back into a "shadow profile" and keep monetizing everything they know, but conceal the data from you and the rest of the public.

I believe they always retain all data forever, as a trade secret. They don't need no stinking laws to do that.

This is a component of not requiring users to pay for premium service. When you "create an account" you're simply "activating/linking/merging" one of your shadow profiles to your IRL identity (or not-so-IRL personas), which (possibly) has always existed (long before you showed up), claiming it as yours, and publicly exposing whatever Facebook is willing to show you that they know about you/that persona/whoever.

  Logging

Man, I must have computers on the brain. This isn't about noisy server logs at all.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Helicopter parents don't teach kids about sticks and stones anymore. Instead, they stomp each other to death for minor slights at pee wee hockey. [0]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/

Instagram is still Facebook!

  WhatsApp

You know that's still Facebook, rrriiiight?