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Summary Meta is no facing another privacy hit for EU by the crack down no Behavioral Advertising Quotes My thoughts Think this a good thing that Meta/Google and others in the same category, finaly get controlled by rules/laws. Sources https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/meta-faces-european-privacy-crackdown-on-behavioral-advertising#xj4y7vzkg https://nrkbeta-no.translate.goog/2023/10/31/forbud-mot-meta-om-bruk-av-persondata-utvides-til-hele-eos/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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Summary Two issues: a bad automated mis-translation and an auto-moderation change to particular Palestinian accounts which has harmed their posts' reach. Mis-translation - reported 19/20: Meta has apologized saying a bug caused 'inappropriate' auto-translations. The bug 'affected users with the word “Palestinian” written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word “alhamdulillah” written in Arabic. When auto-translated to English the phrase read: “Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.” It now reads "Thank God". A Meta spokesperson on 20/10: “We fixed a problem that briefly caused inappropriate Arabic translations in some of our products. We sincerely apologize that this happened.” Moderation change - reported 19/10: Several individual Palestinian accounts experiencing a substantial drop in views and exposure in the past week since the conflict began, or even being banned outright and without warning. This isn't new; 'in May 2021 during a separate escalation in Palestine, Facebook and Instagram users posting about Palestine reported a similar reduction in the reach of their posts.' At the time, the auto-moderation incidents led 200 Meta employees to write an open letter to management demanding that Meta address moderation shortcomings. A subsequent independent analysis commissioned by Meta found that Instagram/Facebook had violated Palestinian human rights by censoring content related to Israel's 2021 attacks on Gaza. Quotes from Fahad Ali, the secretary of Electronic Frontiers Australia and a Palestinian based in Sydney: there had not been enough transparency from Meta on how the mis-translation was allowed to occur: Quotes from a former Facebook employee with access to discussions among current Meta employees: Quotes from Facebook back in June 2021 in response to the last time this happened. Clearly, they didn't learn: My thoughts Halon's razer: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This probably isn't some Meta executive turning the knobs of moderation to squash individual Palestinian views; it is probably automated. Which makes it worse: what will the automated system decide to subjugate and censor next?? The moderation is clearly being supported by algorithms or high-level assumptions that have internal biases of some sort, but Meta is not transparent enough to reveal what those biases might be. This isn't an isolated incident, but in this case a pattern of behaviour that has repeatedly and specifically impacted Palestinian accounts. This has been flagged by Meta, studied by Meta, and supposedly 'Fixed' by Meta. But it doesn't seem to have been fixed. What will it take to properly change big social media moderation practices? Sources 19/10 Guardian article covering the whole issue: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/instagram-palestine-posts-censorship-accusations 20/10 Guardian article, followup including the apology: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/20/instagram-palestinian-user-profile-bios-terrorist-added-translation-meta-apology Mis-translation first published by: https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/ Open letter from 200 Meta employees back in May 2021: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/2/facebook-employees-demand-change-around-palestine-posts-report
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Summary Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched action against Meta (Facebook), with the court ordering its subsidiaries pay $20.4 million dollars AUD* (included court costs) for misleading advertising of its VPN security application Onavo Protect, which was advertised to "keep your data safe" but was in fact scraping user data to form aggregated data that was sent to Meta for commercial use. * $14 Million dollars USD. Quotes My thoughts Yay! Facebook admitted it did something wrong... while their spokesman claims all their problems are in the past while ignoring they still have a Cambridge Analytica case still pending in Australia. The most disappointing thing is the last quote from the Judge that she thinks $20.4 million dollars (AUD) is enough of a "sufficient sting"... the same day Meta reported a $32 billion dollar in revenue this year, a 11% rise in revenue, and earned them a 7% surge in its share price in trading. Like $145 billion dollar maximum would of stung and woke up most of silicon valley to immediately review every advert, EULA,TOS, privacy policy and then promptly make them to just delete all the data they scraped from Australia in the last 20 years out of fear. It was a missed opportunity to sting them harder to get a positive change out of the industry. Sources Australian Broadcasting Corporation News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/meta-subsidiaries-ordered-to-pay-aus-govt-20-million/102649008 Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/
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Sorry if this is an already known topic (I couldn't find it on here). Since beginning of this year I noticed that Steam/Valve or rather PayPal forces you to accept the Facebook Data Policy by receiving the receipts in their messenger when purchasing games (pictures further down). At first I tought this was maybe a mishap on behalf of PayPal or Valve and canceled the transaction to repeat the purchase, this time without the prompt to accept the policy of Facebook. To clarify, I have no Facebook account because of privacy concerns (big news, huh?). Today I noticed unfortunately, that this behaviour is still present as of writing this post. Also it seems that I am not the only one getting these prompts when using PayPal as my payment provider as there are already these community threads on Steam and Reddit: Steam-Commuity-Thread by Nelly (dated March 7th, 2023) - LINK Steam Thread Reddit-Thread by u/HELPMEIMBOODLING (dated February 18th, 2023) - LINK Reddit Thread Within the Steam-Thread it was recommended to unlink your PayPal-account from any Facebook-account but the users in the Thread and myself were not able to find any linked FB-accounts within our PayPal. As a workaround it was recommended to try to purchase without storing the payment information to avoid this perticular pop-up, which does not seem to ask for Facebooks permissions. Another would be to not use the Steam-Client but a ordinary browser to process the payment within steam. I have tried several checkout options myself and have following results with attached screenshots: (please note that some screenshots may have been edited to hide sensitive information and to consolidate scrollable content from paypal for better format): Checkout using PayPal (not the "My PayPal" selection in Steam), like I would buy first time via PayPal on Steam and choosing to save the payment-information (checkmark before heading to PayPal). Paypal then asks you to accept Facebooks Data Policy without any visible other option except cancelation of the purchasing process: Checkout using PayPal, exactly the same as above without restarting steam. This time PayPal doesn't seem to ask for any permissions for Facebook. I assume this process differs a bit as the Steam-Client already has my PayPal-Login cached locally which also resulted in me only needing to reauthenticate my MFA: Completely restarting the Steam-Client and repeating the process as described results in first case, again asking to agree to Facebook's Data Policy. Checkout using PayPal (not the "My PayPal" selection in Steam), like I would buy first time via PayPal on Steam and choosing NOT to save the payment-information (no checkmark before heading to PayPal). This time we get a different PayPal-dialog (similar to any single-purchase process where you only consent for a single transaction) where no agreeing to any policy from Facebook is requested: I wasn't able to get in touch with any party (Valve or Facebook) yet but wanted to ask you first if you had any similar experience? Greetings from germany, Cheers! ~Palte
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Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great day. I'm having a wonderful time playing tech support for my mom, who is 80 years old and uses Facebook to post simple memes that aren't offensive in any way and to say good morning to people that she is friends with, along with using her Facebook portal to video chat with her niece and her great nephew. A few days ago, at night, all of a sudden her Facebook Portal asked her to connect to her account. I'm like, okay I can do that, so I go to log her in and her account was locked for breaking terms of service. I'm sitting there scratching my head and saying to myself "This can't be right, I know my mom hasn't done anything wrong. At this point I get on her phone and login to her Facebook to the message again "This account has broken terms of service, you have 180 days to appeal the decision". After talking to my mom and taking her picture, I uploaded it and decided it would be fixed soon. Before I know it my mom is chatting with them on Facebook and trying to get her account unlocked by chatting with them. Later that night, her account came back and everything was just fine, or so I thought. Fast forward to the next day, right after chatting with her niece and great nephew on the portal, the connect to Facebook appears on the Facebook Portal screen once again. At this point, my mom decided that she wanted to throw her phone out the front door. She was so upset, and rightly so, for she had done nothing wrong. At this point, I'm thinking, something has to be wrong with the Facebook Portal, maybe some security issue I haven't heard about. After some research, I came up empty. I tried to go to Facebook's support website and try to find a way to chat with Facebook but found none. You just have to fill out the forms and hope that the support team sorts it out. Fast forward to earlier today, her account was restored again, up until a few minutes ago. I hear my mom yell, BRANDON!!!!! and I'm like, what now? So we are sitting here, just waiting for a reply from Facebook, not knowing why her account received a ban, nor receiving an e-mail about it today. (I had to get her old e-mail account unlocked so I could receive e-mails, but that is a story for another time( I did manage to get her e-mail restored, thanks Spectrum support team)). I'm just wondering, has anyone else been through the nightmare that is Facebook tech support? Has anyone else had this issue where their account gets locked and they can't get it back till it gets unlocked by the support team without any reason as to why? To be honest, I love to see a Linus Tech Tips video covering this subject, I bet it would make for a great watch. I look forward to seeing the replies on this topic. I hope you all have had a great time reading. Later everyone, Brandon Dalton P.S. Now the portal is a giant brick, because my Mom can't use her account (unless you factory reset it and use a different account)
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Hey, guys I recently got a “Meta” link cable for my “Meta” Quest 2 and realized that my PC was not compatible with it. I already don’t have a USB C port on my motherboard because I have a MSI B450 A Pro max a budget Motherboard and doesn't even USB 3 A port which I'm pretty sure it needs because when I plugged it into my PC using an adapter it just charged my headset and was not recognized by my PC. So I was wondering what I should do. I was thinking I could get a new AM4 motherboard but that's a dead platform now and I am running a Ryzen 5 3400G or was wondering if I could run a PCIe Card to get additional USB ports but don't know if my PC is powerful enough or wondering if I should just totally upgrade my system to AM5 or something similar but don't want to do that. Any Advice or should I just return the Link cable and use Airlink instead. PC Specs Motherboard - MSI B450 A Pro Max CPU - Ryzen 5 3400G GPU - XFX AMD Radeon 6700 XT
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2023-03-28 19-44-11.mkv So this started to cut off my nerves, this platform is f s. It has been working, and from my IG account when I click on Business Suite it was opening it and there was page where I could plan my posts. And now when I click it it just shows me " Sorry, this content isn't available right now The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you're not in." Just this f message, and no effect on clicking anything. Also account in right upper angle is not my ig account, I dont know what the hell is this. My business is dying 3 days in row cus of this company useless support and this... Just how to WHEN I CLICK MDF OPEN BUSINESS SUITE TO OPEN IT FOR MY IG ACCOUNT I had deleted all cash and all on chrome, lost a hundreds of mails and stuff I ned to insert again, to it get me same message always.
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Hello, I'm another one having the problems with quest 2 and laptops. after connecting and setting up the oculus/meta software together with a link cable, everything worked. my quest 2 showed up as connected with no problems. but if you try to activate air-link or something similar, then it gets stuck on the loading screen. after some searching the solution was simple: Disable the internal graphics card via the device manager. and it worked. i got into steam vr and it was running pretty smoth. until i opened vrchat for testing. in there i only got a stable 12 fps. not more not less. i changed every graphic settings i could think of (steam vr, vr chat, oculus ) but my framerate was stuck at 12FPS no matter how high or low i set the resolution. the cable is working properly (2.1Gbits in Oculus cable testing). maybe its the backround (laptop screen, windows) that is taking all the power from the GPU but its just a guess. anybody an idea of what could it be ? Notebook: asus tuf gaming CPU Ryzen 7 4800H GPU RTX 2060 RAM 16GB 3200Mhz Windows 11
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How do you backup petabyte project just wondering.
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I don't know if they make changes after the fact, but at at 4:23 Brian says "it's actually soldering to the vice" but the title says "it's actually solded to the pipe" which doesn't make much sense as that's what they wanted.
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no one want to talk about the horizon workrooms? not even ltt made a vid on it. i highly encourage them to do it and also i want this topic to keep on boomin' . definitely not a lizard stanny but the idea is pretty good ngl.
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It seems as though Facebooks new logo for their new brand Meta is pretty much an identical copy of a German development app business called M-sense Migräne by Newsenselab. Both logos are extremely identical to one another which could lead to a potential lawsuit. Quotes My thoughts I think this is extremely funny as they pretty much look 99% identical. I'm just curious as to how the lawsuit would go down if they wanted to take Meta to court, should be quite interesting. Also the fact is Facebook most probably has invested a lot into their rebrand and if they lose a potential lawsuit it could be more problems in the can for them. Sources https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6859884591239589888/ https://www.m-sense.de/en/
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If BJP's Amit Malviya Reports Your Post, Instagram Will Take it Down – No Questions Asked Summary Seven posts by satirical account @cringearchivist were removed without any verification because the head of the BJP's IT Cell falls under Meta's controversial 'XCheck' programme. Quotes My thoughts Meta is now colluding with the Ruling Right-wing party in India and removing posts flagged by the party's IT Cell chief (a non-government post ). The ruling party runs an army of bots on social media to spread fake news and hate against the minorities, while any posts critical of them is flagged and taken down citing bizarre reasons with the help of these shameless corporations who just want to keep the Rulers happy and get their share of this huge market without any introspection. I would also like to point out that Twitter has gone to court against some takedown orders by the Indian Government. Seems like atleast someone's batting for Free Speech. Sources https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck https://thewire.in/tech/meta-xcheck-internal-email-watchlist https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/twitter-pursues-judicial-review-of-indian-govts-content-takedown-orders/articleshow/92675694.cms https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?mod=article_inline
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Hi guys, how are you ? I need help in making ad for my website on Meta Business Manager. This is my website : firebl.com Site is based on recommendation of Amazon products on my site, tech stuff. Like blog Now I want audiance in USA (should I put canada also ? ), you can see on that link whats my website about. I just want more website visitors.
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Hey everyone, A couple days ago I had my first experience being hacked on Instagram. How it happened is something I cannot figure and its seriously bugging me. I use a password manager that generates a strong password to secure to my account. I have 2 factor authentication set up and my choice was to use the password managers one time password as the authenticator as well as sms code. I have login notifications on as well so anytime I login I get an email and a push notification. I also have suspicious login attempt notifications on. Upon waking up the other day, I received a text from a few friends alerting me I was hacked. I did not receive a email login notification nor did I receive a push notification or suspicious login attempt notification. I did not receive a text with a 2-step code. Thankfully in my case, my password was not changed. I was able to open Instagram as usual and logout the other person who signed in. They were signed in from Germany. Here's what I do not understand, I logged in on my PC to change my password, immediately I got an email and push notification alerting me of a suspicious login attempt that requires my approval. Why did this not happen when said hacker logged in? I know most "hacks" are phishing except I've only ever been logged in on my phone and I have never used a third party app to sign in with my Instagram. I also change my password every 6 months out of fear of being hacked since its happened to multiple of my friends. Does anyone know how it is possible that they were able to by pass 2-factor and login notifications?
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So this parallel universe goes backwards in time.. I could spend a long time relating this to technology, but the article is definitely worth a read and I think people would love to look more into this. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/nasa-scientists-detect-parallel-universe-21996849
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What is the longest thread on this forum?
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They have 10 Million subs, with millions of views every day. If they were to just stop making obnoxious thumbnails, would it really make a dent in their revenue? I know the algo looks for certain things, and the outline of a face is one of them. But does that face have to be something that makes you cringe? Im older than anyone at LTT (cept maybe anothny), so maybe its beyond me and people like it, I know its all part of the Clickbaity OMG YOULL NEVER GUESS meta, but i feel like LTT can move beyond that and actually change the hype clickbaity meta.
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Hello there! Does anyone how to stat a new line in the meta decription ta? Something like this: <meta name="description" content="Fisrt line, second line, third line" />
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I tried to upload a new profile picture and it appears that .webp is not supported. Considering .webp completely obsolesces .jpeg in every way except for backcompat, I think it's a very small but necessary feature addition.
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Sources: PaulsHardware, JayzTwoCents, BitWit Kyle Several Tech Youtubers including the following Twitter Handles: @LinusTech @hardwarecanucks @teksyndicate @GamersNexus @bitwitkyle @paulhardware @JayzTwoCents @ScienceStudioYT @OC3D @HardwareUnboxed Were accused of not properly disclosing their business practices. Specifically stating that those Youtubers charged money to visit a booth and to create videos and other content. So far PaulsHardware and JayzTwoCents have refuted such claims and there are rumors of a Lawsuit from GamersNexus. However, best of all Kyle has dropped some sick beats and it's amazing! Personally, I doubt any of them have actually done so, but time will tell. - RC
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Right know we only have console gaming, but that doesnt include emulation. Just a thought!
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I've used a variety of forms with Markdown, and I've found it to be enjoyable and easy to use. Why don't the LinusTechTips forums use it? And if it's possible, should we?
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After seeing the iPhone bending video from Lewis Hilsenteger @ Unbox Therapy I thought of the LTT set that's being used in a lot of videos. The kitchen. The thought that popped in my mind was that I would share the Unbox Therapy video easily with family or non techy people. They look clean and professional. Don't get me wrong I love Linus' videos and I don't mind the kitchen backdrop but I think it hinders the quality feel of the videos. The video and production quality has been steadily going up but the kitchen feels like a non-optimal place to present these technology videos. Yes I know, a lot of techy people don't care about that stuff. I do, and I think it's something that would greatly improve the quality and shareability and thus growth of the channel. Thoughts? Comparison for reference Edit: I see some people choosing one or the other. My question is more what do you think about the kitchen set and what do you like/dislike about it? What would you do to improve it?