surveillance capitalism - good or whack

  On 10/4/2021 at 9:21 PM, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

facebook is only exposing what is happening and enabling a particular type of platform to make it worse.  capitalism is tearing our societies apart.

fb not helping that's for sure. zuckerberg isn't  up to the task of handling the beast he created. they just want to suck in data and sell ads and exercise whatever power they can to suit their interests which will change w/thee times. 

Ah, just a failed BGP update apparently... which locked out potential remote fixer-uppers as well. Duh.

blblbl

  On 10/4/2021 at 9:21 PM, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

facebook is only exposing what is happening and enabling a particular type of platform to make it worse.  capitalism is tearing our societies apart.

capitalism is only exposing what is inherent and enabling a particular type of person to make the world worse. society is tearing the world apart.

this is all kinda hilarious. fb rolled out a system wide update that just went really badly and it took them all day to fix it. 

this means people who used "log in with facebook" on all kinds of sites and apps were often not allowed to enter those pages/apps. also, people with fb linked smart homes and smart devices weren't able to use those things and some people's homes were fucked. 

a bummer for some countries where FB is the primary way they access the internet and where lot's of businesses use fb as their only link to customers. 

what a stupid shit show. 

and FB's own internal communications were down. 

  On 10/5/2021 at 1:38 AM, auxien said:

capitalism is only exposing what is inherent and enabling a particular type of person to make the world worse. society is tearing the world apart.

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Facebook knew its recommendation algorithm was a problem, so it set up a study to test out just how bad the problem was.

In the study, entitled “Carol’s Journey to QAnon—A Test User Study of Misinfo & Polarization Risks Encountered through Recommendation Systems,” Facebook set up some brand-new accounts.

Each of these accounts followed a small number of high-quality or verified conservative-interest pages, such as Fox News, former President Donald Trump, and former first lady Melania Trump. The study found that “within just one day, Page recommendations had already devolved toward polarizing content.” 

Within two days, recommendations began to include conspiracy content. “It took less than 1 week to get a QAnon recommendation,” the report found.

 

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pretty interesting once they get into it.  goes thru the 'green scare' in the 90s and comes up to date currently.

https://sub.media/video/trouble-5-you-are-being-watched/

 Google agrees to settle $5bn lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked users 

  On 12/29/2023 at 11:02 PM, prdctvsm said:

 Google agrees to settle $5bn lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked users 

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that link takes me to the top of the page and shows me the results of the poll

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/29/google-lawsuit-settlement-incognito-mode

  On 12/29/2023 at 11:17 PM, prdctvsm said:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/29/google-lawsuit-settlement-incognito-mode

i can't remember if i signed up for this class action.. if so.. i want my two dollars... 

I need someone to correct the title of this thread. Whack and wack are homophones, and there's a dubious etymological lineage from whacky to wack, but the correct idiomatic usage here is wack (as that shit usually is).

  On 12/30/2023 at 12:01 AM, dcom said:

that shit

  On 12/30/2023 at 12:35 AM, prdctvsm said:

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