I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.
I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.
Meta has made more positive contributions to society and the world than every HN commenter combined, and more than most of the other FAANGS (Amazon being the exception).
Damned for virtual signalling if they make posts about their contributions, damned for destroying tech when they don't. I love these kinds of articles and share them with students all the time.
While contributing back to ffmpeg is great, this is insanely hyperbolic lol. Do you genuinely think Instagram and Facebook are positive contributions to society?
Which is kinda crazy to me, in light of how durable their business laptops have been in my experience. I’ve owned maybe 6 pc laptops in my career, and the only 2 that’ve survived that nearly 20 year space are both dells.
Access logs were one of the main motivations (lots of repeated queries like IP/user-agent/path/status). If you try it, two tips:
1) Index once, then iterate on searches:
qlog index './access*.log'
qlog search 'status=403'
2) If you’re hunting patterns (e.g. suspicious UAs or a specific path), qlog really shines because it doesn’t have to rescan the whole file on each query.
If you run into anything weird with common log formats (nginx/apache variants), feel free to paste a few sample lines and I’ll make the parser more robust.
hey you know there is a feed on mobile, built into the app that only shows you your friends feed? not a fb employee or defending them just relaying info.
The adult engineers and adult managers responsible for such things should get the same treatment as any adult having such conversations directly. You can’t just say “wasn’t me, it’s the AI layer I built to do the abuse for me”. You’re actively choosing to abuse and groom children. Sick stuff.
The funny thing about the friends feed is that it highlights for me who is extremely active on the platform. People resharing stuff all the time. And, it's one of the few feeds you can't endlessly scroll through. It will tell you to "check back later" once you get to 3-4 days of updates. No money in showing people their friends feeds, so why let them endlessly scroll.
huge ITAD/ITAM companies. G / AWS mega datacenters have their own processes but ITAD companies will then upgrade, recycle, or straight up sell devices or full machines. they of course, have government standards when wiping hard drives / dram etc.
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