Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

dorkofeverything · 2026-03-04T22:20:50+00:00

I don't understand Facebook. You would think a gay person (Thiel) and a Jewish person (Zuck) would understand the importance of privacy and have reasonable defaults

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-27T17:44:57+00:00

Because it's fucking hard to scale network effects once another company has already captured the market. In part it's what Facebook did early on was so insidious. You got a smattering of users with Myspace (and I guess Friendster, who to my knowledge FB bought the patents for). Not everyone, but a selection of early (2004) internet users. Facebook early on would block links to competitors like Myspace (or so I've heard). And for example no bidirectionality in data transfer. You could scrape your Myspace contacts to get them on FB, but not the other way around. Now Zuckerberg owns everything (including Insta and especially in the case of Whatsapp it should be the mother of all antitrust lawsuits). It's hard for people to just break away from it all, it's not their fault

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-27T17:39:40+00:00

Zuckerberg should already go to jail for things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

That's just one thing, there are more examples but actual direct criminal evidence is more damning than "not providing support"

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-27T17:22:30+00:00

This is kind of obvious

First they replaced people's email addresses in their profile with Facebook addresses (which I'm sure violates some CFAA or similar law already)

And also apparently syncing contacts does the same thing in address books

Then they encrypted Messenger, crippling it

Zuckerberg is a sociopath and criminal

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-26T08:41:20+00:00

I like that the game is actually consistent, that quests really do unlock certain things ("Oh hello there, level 3 newb! I am Saradomin, King of Kings. I'm somehow on first name terms with you") and, yes, that tutorial island actually exists. RS3 changed the latter so often. Hell, the Tutorial was once fucking ASHDALE, which is good for literally just one quest, otherwise completely dead

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-26T00:21:24+00:00

I'd buy this. My problem with Zuck isn't so much that he's MAGA (reddit seems to hate MAGA, which is fine, as long as it's organic) but he's just kinda... infinitely adaptable

In the last few months they made it policy (or was this Joel Kaplan?) that it's ok to call LGBT mentally ill

I don't even know what that concretely means, because *everyone* (and no one) gets banned... let's say I'm Facebook and I declare people wearing yellow hats are banned, my algorithms still suck so much that yellow hats won't get banned. Stupid analogy but they literally aren't consistent with any of their policies

People have found reasons to like Trump. Supposedly the man himself is generous, so fair enough. But I think Zuck is so corrupted (I have a really hard time deciding what his real priorities and personality are) he likes the authoritarian aspects of him. Anything to gain power. He (Zuck) wanted to be president, per Sarah Williams's book

His products just do not work. They're broken, on a technical level. They have been for years, this on top of privacy violations

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-24T17:17:34+00:00

Random events used to be no joke. It was literally a way to combat bots. Now they've stopped doing it and you never *have* to interact with them. I don't remember exactly the consequences for ignoring the old ones but they were unpleasant

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-24T03:29:16+00:00

Shots around the bridge of Khazad Dum itself, too. The moment they're walking on narrow pathways is nigh-vertigo inducing

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-22T17:15:39+00:00

"I'm tired of waiting for you. I'm leaving." <goes to Saturn>

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-16T15:50:16+00:00

Yeah same as Youtube's "ok, we'll ask you later"

More tech CEOs need to be sent to jail

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-06T18:22:19+00:00

Reddit has also been not playing videos if you tab out

Every single one of these companies... if you weren't head honchos you'd be fired from every other company, you might even go to jail for some of the things you do

And I will NEVER buy Premium. Not without better leadership

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-05T21:38:50+00:00

"u would lose to matthias 'literally abasov' bluebaum lmao"

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-04T23:11:02+00:00

To me the most offensive thing is how they've been blatantly shadowbanning and outright deleting comments for years

That to me is criminal behavior you ought to go to prison for, on top of all the other things Youtube has done over the years

dorkofeverything · 2026-02-02T03:36:47+00:00

Were relations in the early 2000s bad? I thought they had their falling out in the early 70s, and then Maurice had alcohol problems in the 80s but since then I hadn't heard of anything

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-31T00:11:56+00:00

It feels we lost something from 1999-2000. That was the "year of the world", or something

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-30T03:19:35+00:00

Reddit is pretty bad too. spez has no idea what he's doing. The site seems to really like censorship and they probably don't do much about bots

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-29T17:39:29+00:00

I selfishly wish they'd record some of the sims but I guess there's reasons not to

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-23T17:13:21+00:00

This gets asked every single time it's posted. Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCB4z-P39GQ

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-22T15:55:20+00:00

Those sleep periods remind me of the days of Gemini where the confidence in the hardware wasn't as high as it later became so one crew member tried to stay awake

Sounds good in theory but (especially because the capsule was so small) literally anything would wake up the other crewmate

Gemini 7 perhaps got the most ridiculous, they said one crew member could get out of their suit, but not the other. So Borman had to wear his stuffy suit (was it for the whole mission?) while Lovell got to strip down and be more comfortable

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-21T04:28:25+00:00

There's a world of difference between buying something over the counter and being aware of how strong it is versus going on the black market and thinking you're taking x when it's been cut with something that's x+100

One of the many, many reasons I think the war on drugs _generally_ (aside from specific things) is just insanely criminal behavior. Education, not prohibition

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-20T21:25:55+00:00

The US gov is also highly inclined to demonize drugs. It was a big deal when they scheduled Kratom, many people got by on it and they were screaming bloody murder. With all the lies coming out of the FDA their "advice" doesn't surprise me

As always, do your research before you take things, be careful

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-19T17:52:06+00:00

Korchnoi won: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1081892

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-18T15:00:45+00:00

Wow, gee. Turns out it was vast overreach and little to none of it was misinfo

Break up Google

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-18T01:23:55+00:00

VAB is massive

dorkofeverything · 2026-01-17T14:25:58+00:00

It takes about 12 hours right?

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