Readit Newsconsider where that management debt may have come from, and whether accepting the current crunch will somehow alleviate it, or signal that crunch will solve all problems and should be used, likely more aggressively, in the future
while prior context is absent, at least in this email zuck isn't offering assistance or asking what he could do assist, it's just a politely-worded "get it done, fucker"
i find a servant leadership approach far more effective, and better able to acknowledge that said team problems were quite likely caused by previous "stop complaining and get it done" leadership whose only skill is cracking the whip
cloudflare offers a lot of self-service tools, which can and do allow customers that cloudflare doesn't want to service to use it until someone finds out (my favorite example is that, briefly, the foreign ministry of Iran briefly managed to register and activate properties on the service)
registering while only directing brazilian clients to cloudflare would be difficult using the standard method (setting your domain's nameservers to the cloudflare servers), but cloudflare's CNAME setup option only requires a TXT record. it's possible x.com did that by just paying for a business plan and never interacting with cloudflare staff
doing so for the _root_ record is a bit dicier, but as x.com operates its own nameservers they're probably able to handle the not-quite compliant fuckery necessary to CNAME the root: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...
rather strange trip to see the same arrive in the us
Yes, this can, and will, be abused for tracking users across domains that they don't expect to be related.
But there are also legitimate use cases for this.
For example, consider the stackexchange family of sites. They are clearly related, have a unified branding, etc. but are on separate domains. On Firefox, which blocks third party cookies, I have to log in to each of those domains separately. I can't log in to stackoverflow.com, then go to superuser.com and already be logged in. That is a problem that First party sets would solve.
You can argue that it would be better for those sites to be subdomains of a single unified domain, but when the sites were created there wasn't any compelling reason to need to do that, because third party cookies were still very much alive and kicking. And I can say from experience that migrating an app to a different domain without breaking things for users is a royal pain, and can be very expensive.
I'm not saying that First Party Sets should be accepted as is, but it is attempting to solve real problems. And I think a solution that simultaneously protects users' privacy and maintains a good experience for sites that are legitimately related will be difficult to find, or maybe impossible.
i generally like having the option for "sign in with github" as opposed to the all-encompassing "sign in with google" (ignoring that github is a microsoft account but not quite at this point)
smaller-scope IDPs for a particular field ("ey, you work on code stuff? you probably have either a github or gitlab account to log into our code-adjacent service" or "ey, you use stackoverflow? you can use that same login on superuser") is maybe a decent middle ground, where shared authentication is more explicit than third-party cookies were
I say, let the generative AI be racist. Let it hallucinate and come up with all kinds of crazy shit. And with that, stop using it for things that matter. Use it for art, entertainment, experiments, explorations. Use it to mine the depths of the human soul and reflect back at us what we are. Don't use it for law, health care, directions, or anything humans depend on. Acknowledge that it's just a stupid program with output that "looks impressive", and that we've all been fleeced into thinking it would be anything more. Regardless how many billions we sink into it, it only appears intelligent when we conceal how batshit crazy it can be.
you could, but the companies building these things very much want to sell it to other companies that do "things humans depend on", because that's a much larger market than just the entertainment industry.
this shit gets sold as a way to replace employees with, essentially, just the middle manager that was over them, who is now responsible for managing the chatbot instead of managing people
while managers are often actually not great at people management, it's at least a somewhat intuitive skill for many. interacting with and directing other humans is something that many people are able to gain experience with outside of work, since it's a necessary life skill unless you're a hermit. furthermore, as a hedge against managerial ineptitude, humans are adaptable creatures that can recognize their manager's shortcomings and determine when and how to work around them to actually get the job done
understanding the intricacies training a machine learning system is a highly specialized and technical skill that nobody is going to pick up base knowledge for in the regular course of life. the skill floor for the average person tasked with it will be much lower than that of people management, and they will probably fuck up, a lot
the onus is ostensibly on AI system vendors to make their systems idiot-proof, but how many vendors actually do so past the point of "looks good enough to close the sale in a demo"? designing such a system is _incredibly_ hard, and the unfortunate reality is that if you try, you'll lose sales to snake oil salesmen who are content to push hokum trash with a fancy coat of paint.
these systems can work as a force multiplier in the hands of the capable, but work as an incompetence magnifier in the hands of the incapable, and there are plenty of dunning-krugerites lusting to magnify their incompetence
shoulda maybe stuck the joke under the other comment re people wanting to fill the anglosphere with garbage to destroy it
2015: what is this nonsense plot? how would you even create a virus that destroys a language? it's inconceivable! it makes no sense! why!?
someone please find whomever it is feeding Hideo Kojima advance knowledge of exactly what the next poison trend in the information industry will be