Huh?
No. X is an app that’s a sizable on google Play. If they are banning dokindoki, why not ban X, which has far worse shit?
That’s what they meant. is the one doing the banning, so it makes sense to criticise it even if they are not the owners of X. Reading comprehension.
It’s not really that they get the clear texts, but that they get access to who you talk to, when, and kinda how long are your messages. That metadata is super valuable. Over long periods, just with that metadata there’s a lot that can be inferred.
I’m a data engineer, ofc I know that. But you were excusing it as if their service has costs. That’s bs, because their reported earnings that done without whatever profit they are going to gain from this harvest of train data already were very profitable.
That’s why I said you were in the wrong. Not because you expected them to sell everything they could, so did I, but because you justified that behaviour from the free to play model. That model exists in plenty games that are extremely successful without harvesting things beyond metadata.
Pokemon go has been extremely profitable, the free to play model works. They don’t need to subsidize shit.
Free to play games work by being pay2win and by catering to whales. Sorry but you are wrong.
Oh, I wasn’t trying to diss you, I was mentioning that I failed to recognise the difference between grok and X, I was actually berating myself from accidentally understanding the title for the wrong reasons haha.
I guess my brain equated from with X and reached the intended conclusion. I assumed that the title meant what you say the article is.
Unions and non-profits are as much “unelected part of our system” as private companies are, is he proposing to regulate those too? Of course not, what a piece of shit.
An app that gets requests to verify access and returns ok/no is minimal surveillance. We are so past that in terms of surveillance that complaining about it seems silly.
Why are you implying that we would need to do that? The proposed solution in the article is an app that social media apps would need to interact with to get approval. Something like an external verification tool. All the billionaires would get is an “ok, go on” or “stop”.
Is it so hard to read the article before criticizing your own hallucinations?
Wym you would be at a disadvantage? College isn’t a competition. By not using AI in the learning process and submissions you might get a lower grade than others, but trust me no one fucking checks your college grades. They check if you know what you are doing.
In fact you wouldn’t get a lower grade, others would have an inflated grade which then won’t translate to skills and will have issues in the workforce.
This is not how most people operate around subscription services. People expect that the online subscription service will manage that shit. Less secure I know, but you live either in the past or in a much higher risk environment than most.
You don’t get hacking protection from bots, you get protection from DDoS attacks. Yeah some customers would have gone down, instead everyone went down… I said that instead of crashing the system they should have something that takes an intentional decision and informs properly about what’s happening. That decision might have been to clo
You can keep the policy and inform everyone much better about what’s happening. Half a day is a wild amount of downtime if it were properly managed.
Yes, bot detection is not the most critical…
So you agree that if this were controlled instead of open crahsing everything them being able to make an informed decision and opening or closing things, with the suggestion of opening in the case of not detection is the correct approach. What’s the point of your complaint if you do agree? C’mon.
They probably mean that they did a change in a config file that is uploaded in their weekly or bi-weekly change window, and that that file was malformed for whichever reason that made the process that reads it crash. The main process depends on said process, and all the chain failed.
Things to improve:
I’m sure they have several of these and sometimes shit happens, but for something as critical as CloudFlare to not have automated integration tests in a testing environment before anything touches prod is pretty bad.
My answer is that I have a degree in CS and I work on the field. I know what I’m talking about. I literally work in the massive data processing field (not tracking, bank data but still).
“No, they are not listening to me through the microphone of my phone. They don’t need to, that’s the scary part.”
*data engineer
I’m also one but I don’t work for advertising. Most data engineers work for consulting companies that work for banks. We program automatic data processing pipelines. For example, bank transactions are stored somewhere, all the historic data, that needs processing to then be graphed out for exec number 3, or for whatever.
Other companies might send you files that need to be automatically processed, cleaned, and put correctly where then other tools can pull that data correctly.
We basically do all the background work concerning data manipulation. File processing, databases… all that stuff. And by databases it can be normal ones like posture to distributed ones like hdfs/hive/athena/whatever.
Ad world is basically the same but with tracking info instead of transactions.
If you are interested in day to day work, it’s a mix of coding SQL processes, then porting them to spark/pyspark for distributed massive processing. There are new shiny tools for those that don’t know much of the technical side to manage, sorta.
I choose mailbox as my email service, it’s mature, based in Germany, privacy focused and has given me zero issues in terms of my emails going into people’s spam folders.
I guess that eu-west-1 counts as Europe for them.
Fyi, “AI” has been used in medicine research for decades. GenAI is the one that’s wonky. I’d be surprised and sceptical of any researcher that would suggest genAI as the star tool when there are so many predictive ML models that already work so well…
We use it at work to access remote GUI work environments, VDI. It’s forcing all the Linux users to swap to windows 11 computers, it’s baaad.
Why are you talking about the internet as a whole when the context is apps on the play store, a (extremely poorly but yet) curated subset?
No one is talking about banning X as a whole. Well, you, since you misunderstood apparently.