endofcapital

So the possible #2 (it was debatable as to whether Sandberg or Cox would have take over) and the person who run Whatsapp just quit.

Some pretty big power struggles going down it seems.

"But Google Fiber got something out of its time here. It learned that nanotrenching—the cost-saving process of burying fiber optic cables just two inches underground—was a bust. “We currently do not have plans that call for 2 inch trenches, our primary specifications are focused on going deeper,” a Google Fiber spokesperson said in an email."

It's so weird to just use cities as A/B tests and just disregard all the people and plans built around a failed case at the drop of a hat. Are they going to start A/B testing countries against eachother next?

The web is what I know well, this may not be true in other areas, but the W3C has a long history of being hostile to end users, ignoring privacy, and pushing corporate interests over others.

Following their recommendations and doing things just because they were in the spec does make those decisions ethical or even legal. Developers have an obligation to push back against standards boards and corporations that make bad decisions.

Hiding behind the business rules or the standards committee is completely unacceptable anymore. Especially when it comes to bad security/privacy practices that generally favor a market over an end user.

I think when we get into cool near sci fi stuff we'll have faster than light communication pretty soon with quantum entanglement effects, which should be way easier to wrangle than neutrinos.

Some companies (I worked at one) are creating separate floors or entire buildings for the executive team with steel security doors and high security locks, walls, etc. And men with hidden AR15s to protect them.

Many of the big name CEOs and COOs have permanent security details, which means a truck full of men with hidden AR15s following them around.

I'm not sure how much farther this trend goes, but at some point things fall apart. We can't just pretend the elephant isn't in the room, there are too many men with rifles standing around this is getting absurd.

Here we go, buckle up. With the amount of power democrats are likely to consolidate in the next few elections there could be some serious movement on this if it becomes a priority for the party.

I think the big three are way too powerful and need to be broken up, but doing so intelligently is a tricky problem that I don't have much faith in government tackling.

Zuckerberg integrating all the services yesterday seems to be a transparent attempt to short circuit splitting the company along these service lines, he knows this is coming. I'll bet $100 he'll soon be talking about how it's impossible to split out insta from facebook because of database keys and integrated AI or whatever.

The odds of it not being a scam is pretty tiny number. Not scientific notation small, but getting there.

I have reported and watched maybe half a dozen bugs get fixed on Amazon, starting in 2003 I think. Never even experienced a reply from any other company when trying to report problems over the years.

I think a handful of companies are getting more proactive with security reporting, but everyone still treats the quality of their services and front line support system as an afterthought.

This is so bizarre, so Google/Youtube is still trying to claim that they are NOT a media company, just a platform, no media, not responsible of course, but at the same time they are putting responsibility of moderating user comments ONTO THE VIDEO MAKERS themselves.

This is completely hypocritical and idiotic. Youtube comments have been famous for a decade for being among the worst of the worst content on the web, and now they're going to try to just foist that cancer on channel owners and wash their hands of it? Are you kidding? Is this a joke?

Is nobody in charge at Google anymore? Are they just going to keep endlessly reacting to whatever media story got the most attention last week instead of actually trying to build something new?

They didn't have any clue. Back in 2005 personal data and access logs and analytics was considered a chore, you'd delegate the annoyance of log rotation to some sys admin or helpdesk intern and generally purge all data as quickly as possible because storage was expensive.

Occasionally someone would make a cool tool that parsed htaccess logs and gave you a neat visualization or something, but that was it. Literally nobody tracked anything on the internet.

It almost seems like fiction when I type it out now.

If I was running a marketing team or PR firm working on this problem I'd keep pushing the nonsense of AI magically solving everything someday. The actual nuts and bolts of content is pretty horrific, and they are obviously going to want to hide this reality.

At least pay these people more than a dishwasher, please.