• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I can’t tolerate surveillance software on my PC that I use to develop surveillance software!

    • Facebook employees
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    6 hours ago

    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

    • SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      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.

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    11 hours ago

    If I wanted to reduce the workforce, but didn’t want to pay for redundancies, I’d implement some nasty, overbearing policies that would make anyone with morals, a sense of decency, or integrity, resign.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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    20 hours ago

    Employees working for evil company: “Hey evil company don’t do evil stuff to us”

    Evil company does evil thing to them

    Employees: =O

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    22 hours ago

    ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on third life the zuckerverse

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      20 hours ago

      obviously 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.

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    21 hours ago

    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.