Lol, imagine working at an evil empire and this being your biggest annoyance.
Actually so absurd yeah. Im still on their side from a workers perspective, but also they are part of the reason this shit exists...
Came here to say this. They facilitate so much violence and bloodshed, and this is what they take issue with.
What kind of fucker works at Meta?
"Hey, the massive spy machine isn't supposed to be used on us!"
Employees working for evil company: "Hey evil company don't do evil stuff to us"
Evil company does evil thing to them
Employees: =O
Employees*
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?
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.
I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him "but what're you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?"
He just shrugged. Didn't care. The money was good.
I don't know if this alone is proof that's a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.
Why does the military advertise the most towards the poor?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor? 🤘
Mercenary mindset. No snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche.
obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on ~~third life~~ the zuckerverse
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.
Millions? Try $77 B-b-billion.
I can't tolerate surveillance software on my PC that I use to develop surveillance software!
Except this surveillance software is for training AI that will probably replace them.
Live by the slop, die by the slop.
It's always just a matter of time until you're not part of the protected in-group anymore...
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.
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.
People with morals already don't work at meta.
And you be left with shitty, immoral, um …. wait I think I just noticed something….
People who can afford such things don’t work at meta to begin with.
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
This is my kind of kink. No cap.
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.
The fuckers have become the fuckee’s.
Torment Nexus devs protest being tormented.
This is a pretty misleading headline. There's no reporting in the article here about a staff protest, just the same information reporting the change as the rest of news sources, with the Register's more editorial writing style.
Hey, I got some bad news for you: a shitload of corporations - and particularly, every one of the FAANG et al orgs - are surveilling the shit out of their workers, and this is not a new development.
I was going to say… almost any big org does this now. Tools like slack, teams, whatever… they all allow the bosses to spy on everything the worker bees do.
Hahahahahah!!!
Suck it.
Mine has been doing it for once half a year. Really sinister and illegal shit for my state of CA.
You work at meta or you have keyloggers for some other reason?
So quit them.
Zuck wants to quit them.
So that's what that feels like.
Meta has always been surveillance, and pushing propaganda, thats the only thing meta does.
Quit your job. Finding a new one shouldn't be hard if you worked at Meta before.
The job market is actually pretty bad right now and with all the recent layoffs in tech very saturated. Unionizing would make more sense.
Doesn't work on a Nazi threatening death with H1Bs.
When you sacrifice all morals to work for tech bros so you can get more money I don't think you have much of a say in things.
Oh, cry me a river to fill that data lake. I guess all that user and non-user data they helped collect was not enough...
If a least those folks had decent sindicates, they could stand a chance resisting it 🤷♂️
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