“Hey, the massive spy machine isn’t supposed to be used on us!”
I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.
That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.
I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.
I can’t tolerate surveillance software on my PC that I use to develop surveillance software!
- Facebook employees
obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on
third lifethe zuckerverseobviously a layoff tactic.
It sure smells like it, right? But, and I’m repeating myself and others, the important part here is that, if it is a layoff tactic, it’s a horrible one: as per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who leave as a result of declining workplace environment are those most able to leave, i.e the most employable staff, with each round of departures. Thus, the people whom Meta would want to stay around are the people most likely to find, get, and depart for jobs elsewhere. And while Meta are bastards, the mechanics of working in a massive org like that one score really well for skills companies want.
I wish them luck in this terrible job market, and hope they can find a supportive environment again. We can always do with more smart people working for the greater good instead of against it.
Zuck is having all his keystrokes recorded too, right? Right?
Make sure the AI engineers get that data. Especially the passwords to his and the company’s bank accounts. All his accounts, actually.
There’s a reason why most businesses don’t implement keystroke logging.
Install an autoclicker/autotyper HID USB key that, when it senses and idle computer, spams clicks and keystrokes at plausible spoeds, but which outputs pseudorandom nonsense, to muddy the data pool and produce far more incoherent data than coherent data
This is my kind of kink. No cap.
I’d be tempted to modify my user environment as much as possible, so the ways I use it wouldn’t be transferrable to anyone else’s environment. I’ve already done this to some extent, with e.g. nonstandard command line aliases and highly-customized wrapper scripts around the tools I use a lot.
The fuckers have become the fuckee’s.
This is a pretty misleading headline. There’s no reporting in the article here about a staff protest, just the same information reporting the change as the rest of news sources, with the Register’s more editorial writing style.
Torment Nexus devs protest being tormented.
Quit your job. Finding a new one shouldn’t be hard if you worked at Meta before.
Hahahahahah!!!
Suck it.
Oh, cry me a river to fill that data lake. I guess all that user and non-user data they helped collect was not enough…
If a least those folks had decent sindicates, they could stand a chance resisting it 🤷♂️
Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.
Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.
So that’s what that feels like.
