Hacker News: annadane

New comment by annadane in "Lithium morphology discovery could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries"

annadane — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:42:14 +0000

I laughed

New comment by annadane in "You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email"

annadane — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:48:27 +0000

They sold it under the condition he wouldn't lie, it was a condition for him to have it, and he lied

New comment by annadane in "You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email"

annadane — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:43:20 +0000

Yes but the original founders did that. Zuckerberg took it from them and immediately lied about data sharing, there's a reason why the founders left in disgust

New comment by annadane in "Threads, an Instagram app"

annadane — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:29:00 +0000

The problem with Facebook's products always comes down to one overriding fact, Zuckerberg's desire to win over everybody else; he's constantly been accused of stealing from people, it's not a surprise everything he owns is either extremely coercive or broken from a technical standpoint

New comment by annadane in "Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp"

annadane — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:25:32 +0000

Sure, network effects are hard to overcome; my point is that Zuckerberg bought it as a competition killing move so they're not likely to put any quality control into it

New comment by annadane in "Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp"

annadane — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:19:19 +0000

But why would anyone use Whatsapp after the Onavo stuff?

New comment by annadane in "Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta"

annadane — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:05:28 +0000

I think people are missing the point when they call Metaverse a 'misstep' because it implies Zuckerberg was a good actor who just happened to get this one thing wrong... if you look through his history of things like forced Whatsapp sharing (plus Onavo), Free Basics, all of the shitty things the company does... the Metaverse was never a good faith effort and people need to understand that; newsflash, he's not a shining example of what a good person is

(And the whole stealing Facebook from other people in the first place, anyway)

New comment by annadane in "Facebook Announces Meta Verified"

annadane — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:05:47 +0000

My first impression of this is literally "So, maybe a good idea, but isn't this Zuckerberg just copying yet another person like he's always done forever?"

New comment by annadane in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

annadane — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 14:16:04 +0000

He's not high, he's been treating people like contempt ever since Harvard, this isn't new

New comment by annadane in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

annadane — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:24:07 +0000

Forcing a mandatory Facebook account is "doing an ok job"...?

New comment by annadane in "Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins"

annadane — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:51:01 +0000

Lots of suspiciously downvoted comments here.

New comment by annadane in "Communities Now Available"

annadane — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:09:23 +0000

The thing is, I wouldn't want to use Whatsapp considering how Facebook got it: spy on people with Onavo and then basically pressure the original founders out of the company, and then do stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215... that doesn't sound like stewards I'd trust

New comment by annadane in "Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason"

annadane — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:25:30 +0000

And I bet if it was only Apple's iOS changes they would be fine, but that combined with Zuck's Metaverse obsession is dragging them under

New comment by annadane in "WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg"

annadane — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:27:00 +0000

But given his history of acquiring the product he has no right to talk; what he did is blatantly criminal

New comment by annadane in "WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg"

annadane — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:50:34 +0000

lol. Zuck, you spied on people with Onavo and kicked Acton and Koum out of the company, you have no moral standing whatsoever

New comment by annadane in "Linear.app"

annadane — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:05:19 +0000

A lot of websites are like this for products, it makes it really tedious to navigate

New comment by annadane in "Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)"

annadane — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:43:59 +0000

Is this Moxie's decision?

New comment by annadane in "Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable"

annadane — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:27:07 +0000

Google has a lot of failures of their own but they seem at least semi-committed to an open internet (with actual ethical standards), something I can't exactly say for Zuckerberg

New comment by annadane in "Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team"

annadane — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:10:27 +0000

And yet Meta was involved with things like Free Basics, or forcing the Oculus account with a bait and switch, and repeatedly lying about Whatsapp - but I'm sure this Instagram thing is much worse, somehow

New comment by annadane in "Facebook sued for skirting Apple privacy rules to snoop on users"

annadane — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:15:00 +0000

Yeah, but specifically Zuckerberg. He's never cared about other people