They simply say they have that memo. Who knows whether they even drafted it for real? And if anyone starts looking, Gemini can quickly draft one itself. Nice!
It had the feeling the author made his backend guys develop "product teams dashboards", which they lacked the skill to implement.
Even though that's not what leadership wanted and they tasked the CX team with the dashboards (..for good reason?)
I was definitely confused the whole article and have had to guess at the author's intention. I hope the communication was clearer during working hours..
This is full of red flags. "Mysterious new team nobody told me about", "I don't focus on why I wasn't included in the meeting", "the problem is they don't report to me."
This definitely reads like someone up top – with the obvious power of creating teams – circumvented the author, and for good reason.
Your peers' and bosses' motives shouldn't come as a surprise, nor remain mysterious for months!
If you have factual observations to make that's fine but can we stop with the "smells like vibe coding" attacks? It's like an AI version of an ad-hominem attack.
I’m sure the others saw the value too. It just wasn’t worth as much to them as Zuckerberg was prepared to pay. Not surprising given it’s a service that directly competed with FB in the social space.
Probably because Instagram wasn't a direct competitor to any of those other companies (except maybe Google+, which wasn't even a year old at the time that FB bought Instagram). I don't know why softbank didn't get them.
The site "reclaimthenet" calls it age "verification", but it's not a "verification" at all. There's your mystery.
All the bill wants is that you can set up an iPhone for kids, an children account on Ubuntu (YOU decide whether it's a children's account) and then, presumably, the browser vendors implement an AgeAPI that allows website operators to query the user age.
Your device tells us you're 10 years old. Access to Instagram denied.
Your device tells us you're 16. You're not allowed to visit gambling-porn-and-industrial-accidents.org
It's, of course, exactly the opposite of the "identity-tied age verification government-control, ID-document-leak" dystopia that the scare crowds here are peddling. But you'll never hear a word of acknowledgement from them.
These people act as if those "I'm 13 or older, i can create an Instagram account and waste my life" or "I'm 18 or older, let me watch porn and strangle my girlfriend" buttons are the peak of civilization.
I've noticed this reclaimthenet site has very mixed factuality. Sometimes it posts good content but more often it just posts its preferred form of propaganda. I've reported it to dang but he doesn't care. I don't know why 404media is shadowbanned but reclaimthenet is not. I guess it's about who aligns with YC interests.
Ah, well that's at least half of what I suggested. Telling the site the age seems leaky to me, I would still prefer the apps check for the RTA header so all decisions stay on the device and not leak anything. Curious where it goes from here but based on your reply it does not seem quite as bad as I imagined. Thankyou for the clarification. I imagine eBPF or MAC rules could be used to block this.
Government should like the RTA header as they can fine sites daily that are missing it. Lobbyists could push companies that do the header checks.
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