Facebook...er, Meta Hatred

[GoblinCampFollower]

Apparently, Zuckerberg is - like his unrequited cage match challenger Musk - a mercurial asswipe.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Absolutely Furious at His Own Failure

The tech tycoon has become intensely frustrated at Meta's failure to keep pace with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic in the "AI race."

futurism.com

Imagine being THAT RICH and still feeling like a failure because of a few struggles around shinny toys...

I've kept my FB account, but I rarely ever visit it any more due to the overwhelming density of assholiness and spam. (And my adult children give me squinty looks whenever I mentioned Facebook) It's my main way to keep up with family.

Monday, my nephew (age 50) had a stroke and died. FB is how we're supporting each other.

Yeah.... I hated many things about facebook but it was my only way to keep in touch with some people and I was late to find out about a friend's passing because I lost my account.

A part of me is happy to be out of their grasp, but it was such a stupid reason to have it deleted. I'm pretty sure it was deleted just because their shitty bot thought I was a bot.

 

[Khamon]

I did, however, buy a jar of Magnesium lotion for my feet. Hey, anyone ever die from a magnesium overdose?

IANAD but was told these things by the other Khamon's Rheum. Most lotions, sprays, and creams contain trace amounts of Mg that are not dangerous to apply topically. You're good if it doesn't irritate your skin, cause nausea, or lower your blood pressure. The latter is only a concern if low or erratic pressure is an existing condition.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

IANAD but was told these things by the other Khamon's Rheum. Most lotions, sprays, and creams contain trace amounts of Mg that are not dangerous to apply topically. You're good if it doesn't irritate your skin, cause nausea, or lower your blood pressure. The latter is only a concern if low or erratic pressure is an existing condition.

Just to add to this since I've looked into Mg a lot for other health reasons: One sign of too much magnesium is diarrhea. So if you're worried, watch for that. But most Americans are thought to be deficient in magnesium by contrast.

 

[Free]

I sure hope Cindy doesn't get diarrhea of the feet...

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I sure hope Cindy doesn't get diarrhea of the feet...

Toe Jam football.

 

[Free]

Taco looked closest to a football to me.

 

[Free]

No wonder Zuckerberg got along with Trump so well.

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.

arstechnica.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man | Meta | The Guardian

Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.

The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”, Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X, were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

No wonder Zuckerberg got along with Trump so well.

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.

arstechnica.com

Interesting article. It wasn't very convincing of it being any more "cult" like than most big corporations and it sounds like the whistle blower wasn't exactly the "boss" of their security, but it certainly does have some valid concerns to raise:

Baig said he found that roughly 1,500 engineers inside the messenger division had “unrestricted access to user data, including personal information covered by the FTC Privacy Order, and could move or steal such data without detection or audit trail.”

Yep.... this is pretty common in big companies and is a real risk. I'm not sure how many people at my company have unrestricted access to protected health information (PHI) but it's a lot. I do fear a malicious insider causing issues.... I'm not even sure there is a lot that can be done about this in general without compromising a lot of business and reporting obligations. Often enough, the state governments we work with just make the problem worse because they will demand tons of data dumps containing all sorts of private information and often for silly reasons.

Not sure I have a great way to fix this that will make everybody happy. Ideally a lot more of the personally identifiable information (PII) would be masked and never given to anyone who doesn't absolutely require it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

 

[Free]

META has convinced US District Judge James Boasberg - and I assume the United States Government as well? - that "personal social networking" is dead. It definitely explains why Facebook META is a virtual reality AI company now.

Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead

People are "bored" by their friends' content, judge ruled, siding with Meta.

arstechnica.com

In a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge James Boasberg said the FTC failed to show that Meta has a monopoly in a market dubbed “personal social networking.” In that narrowly defined market, the FTC unsuccessfully argued, Meta supposedly faces only two rivals, Snapchat and MeWe, which struggle to compete due to its alleged monopoly.

But the days of grouping apps into “separate markets of social networking and social media” are over, Boasberg wrote. He cited the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who “posited that no man can ever step into the same river twice,” while telling the FTC they missed their chance to block Meta’s purchase.

Essentially, Boasberg agreed with Meta that social media—as it was known in Facebook’s early days—is dead. And that means that Meta now competes with a broader set of rival apps, which includes two hugely popular platforms: TikTok and YouTube.

 

[Free]

I know it's old. So am I!

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Zuck can't make friends, so he projects nobody else can. I do wonder how miserable he really is.

 

[Noodles]

Hell I have more than 3 friends on this forum alone.

Well, hopefully.

Maybe he means like, "Friends you go to the movies with", but AI doesn't do that either.

 

[Free]

He certainly doesn't mean "Friends who can loan you a $100 dollars until next pay day."

 

[Casey Pelous]

"A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body."

- Tom & Ray Magliozzi, The Tappett Brothers​

 

[Noodles]

He certainly doesn't mean "Friends who can loan you a $100 dollars until next pay day."

If that is the case, the average person os broke AF and thus probably has zero friends.

PS, can you loan me 100L$, I can pay you back next stipend day.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Hell I have more than 3 friends on this forum alone.

Well, hopefully.

Maybe he means like, "Friends you go to the movies with", but AI doesn't do that either.

Yeah, I have a number of online friends and also a number of RL friends. To me both "kinds" of friends are great to have for different purposes.

 

[Free]

Spend a moment enjoying this.

 

[Free]

A "rogue A.I. agent." That's so cute.

A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

An AI agent tried to help, and its advice exposed sensitive data.

web.archive.org

For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The Information. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a statement to The Verge that “no user data was mishandled” during the incident.

A Meta engineer was using an internal AI agent, which Clayton described as “similar in nature to OpenClaw within a secure development environment,” to analyze a technical question another employee posted on an internal company forum. But the agent also independently publicly replied to the question after analyzing it, without getting approval first. The reply was only meant to be shown to the employee who requested it, not posted publicly.

I was going to ask if all tech/social media companies are run and managed by sluggards, but I realized a "sluggard" is hard to qualify.