Agreed, it’s a good book.

My personal criticism is just that the author, at times, fails to look at the topic objectively due to his own personal grudge with the four from the time he had his own company.

But it doesn’t ruin the book, the book is indeed good.

E: And good point about the downvotes

I had a similar experience. Some niche local groups only exist on facebook and that’s why I had an account that I never deletes since making it like 15 years ago.

My feed was filled with sketchy ads and recommendations so I didn’t use it. Kept in contact with some old friends via messenger and only used groups pretty much.

That all changed few months ago when facebook locked my account for “suspicious activity” and showed me a prompt after logging in stating I need to upload a government issued ID to unlock my account. I checked and made sure this is actual facebook and not some fake site I accidentally would have somehow entered.

“Suspicious activity” was me logging via the web browser on my phone using another teleoperator while traveling.

When I returned from traveling I suddenly was able to unlock my account with just my email. Took the chance and deleted my account.

Facebooks groups are amazing, but yeah, the price is your privacy. And I don’t mean just email and your personal preferences, shits wild what they know about you and what/how they gather information about you.

If you are interested in reading about it:

The book “The Four” from Scott Galloway. I personally didn’t like the authors bias on the matter but he summarizes it pretty well how/what facebook knows about you.

Edit: why would people downvote OP’s question? It’s a good question imo.

Appreciate the thorough explanations, thanks!

The last part is fucked up, yikes…

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense for targeted ads for sure. Still a bit worried about hashtags being used for ads since I follow a lot of hashtags on mastodon and usually have a quite a nice “organic” feed compared to other social media.

Might be a stupid question, but can’t threads just post ads as “posts” via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots?

Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same.

I sure fucking hope not.

You mean on android mobile? Firefox for Android has a extension that works nicely to allow you to play e.g. youtube videos in the background: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/

For iOS though I’ve got no idea, sorry :(

True shitposting

Oh thanks!

You did not disappoint, have to download that when I get home. Even has maps of some of the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft

This makes me happy! I just recently got really into maps and was glad to see a bit of community here as well.

Have to checkout those books, thanks for the suggestions!

Yiss 🗺️!

Ah, a fellow !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

Exactly my point, thank you for clarification!

Yeah no I think I would just butcher the language trying to speak it.

I for one vote for EU wide usage of Latin commands, EQUALITER AMBULA!

I might be wrong here but NATO countries already have to adapt language related practices to NATO practices, e.g. the NATO phonetic alphabet.

That’s just the thing - women provide more challenge.

If you had been doing the same thing for hundreds of years you’d be bored of an easy solution as well.

I like the Witcher universe explanation for vampires drinking human blood:

In the books a vampire (Regis) explains that drinking human blood is just for getting high / drunk.

I believe so aswell, but there is lemmy.ml for example, which apparently is meant to stand for “marxism-leninism” in that specific instance (.ml is Mali’s country TLD).

They are shitting bulls, probably living a life of constant pain

Definitely, good way to put it.

I switched from controls engineering to information technology - in industrial automation interviews not once was I asked to prove my knowledge about PLCs or anything like that, they trusted my education and experience.

The interviews in information technology were like “make us a working app for free before we have a second round of interviews” even after few years of previous experience in their specific field and a repository to show off my free-time projects.

I switched because I got tired of traveling, but holy shit I miss the job market of industrial automation. I still feel like I got more respect working in automation field than I have ever gotten working as a software developer.

This happened in Finland, but I didn’t want to specify it to spark a universal conversation, which succeeded!

I know people from all around the globe deal with privacy issues and hoped that others would share their experiences.