Comment by drewg123

Maybe if Meta joined a preservation initiative, but that doesn't seem to be the case

We need an 'IP over Gangbang video' RFC

So the 'anti terrorist police" are monitoring porn transfer quantity specifically because they think messages might be hidden in multi-terabyte media transfers? What part of this story is even adjacent to reality.

> like literally too, 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content

You could run them in parallel, like a Zoom or Teams mtg, but with each square a different movie.

Would be more entertaining than the next status mtg.

Even if the dude would consume only the "highlights", that's a load of content, if you catch my drift

> 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content

You are making the mistake of assuming someone can only have one monitor displaying porn at once. Have you never seen a real gooncave?

Being a tech, I had access to people's mp3 collection so my collection got huge but I never listened to them.

Yeah but then if you're trying to replicate Spotify functionality, then you'd need a lot of "dark" tracks so that you could listen to the ones you want to listen on a whim.

I regret that wording, tbh, should have said "yeah, that's not a healthy amount of porn to consume for your own amusement"

The music industry had more political power in 2001 than it does now.

More likely training porn detectors for moderating the feed

> Residential ip's map to a specific person,

Since when does every household member have their own residential IP?

Even in single households that's not true (friends visiting, on-and-off partner, one night stands, helping the neighbor out cause their wifi is broken, ...)

And I don't know the logging + data retention requirements for CGNAT.

From the ISPs perspective, companies are still just as responsible for whatever takes place over their connection. From the law's perspective, the person responsible is whoever a jury can be convinced did it.

In cases where the company wifi is open or places like hotels the person who did it could be long gone. Unsecured residential wifi connections aren't much of a thing anymore, but I've seen a lot of people lending out their residential connection when they airbnb their vacation homes to strangers.

Cambridge alum here. Agree; admissions is a crapshoot. Job interviews are a crapshoot. C'est la vie.

I agree with your point, but UK students also have to get very high grades in standardized national exams. That’s by no means a perfect measure of intelligence either, but it’s not something you can just blag your way through in an interview.

There's a strong luck component to interviewing.

Which interviewers you get, vibes, which team is hiring, whether the folks in your hiring bar are grumpy, ...

Best thing you can do is know several people who can act as direct hiring manager.

In a related article linked at the bottom of the article's page, it says Meta confirmed it was a former data engineer:

https://torrentfreak.com/meta-confirms-data-engineer-is-behi...

I doubt executives even go through the typical employee interview hazing. It's more vibes and "do you know the right people or go to the right prestigious school?"

is "executive" a well defined term for american corporate law? like "a person who can allocate funds from the master bank account without approval" or something like that?

and, like, literally you need some dumb or mediocre people.

you don't need 75k generals or fighter pilots, you need average folks who are going to STFU and get the unfun, unsexy tasks done.

you go trying to hire a Stanford/MIT hot-shot rockstar type and they'll either crash out or jump ASAP once they realize they got nailed with drudgery.

The employees at any particular company are a random sample of the population, and will therefore have traits that occur in the larger population.

To be fair, you'd have to be pretty dumb to apply to work at Meta anyway.

In my experience, executives get special treatment.

Zuck & co released Wirehog in late 2004… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehog

we was all running napster

but i ain't dumb enough to do it off work IPs

It’s much more expensive. You as a consumer can buy a movie for $5 with a DVD on sale. But tos generally don’t include commercial activities. If you reach out to the film studio to get their permission, they can charge you anywhere from $10K to $1M+ for same thing.

And I’m sure meta paid for some specific content but they generally wouldn’t want to set a precedent where they paid everyone.

Because that would have been the right way to do it, and if they do it right even once, they can't say "We DiDn'T KnOw aNy BeTtEr" or whatever excuse they fall back to.

Leaks would be a very, very big problem given how aggressively they want to promote child safety and restrictions.

Just never ever ask how they train the models for CSAM.

"Guys we can't sell a VR headset that doesn't do porn good, nobody will buy it" seems just as likely to me.

But would still be a copyright violation

The potential output. You train on movies and animation and you get a model that can

- produce your own movies/animation - identity movies/animation from context - identify actors/characters and cross-reference them in other works

You apply these parallels with porn, a more anonymous and intimate setting, and you can see how the kinds of results can be more morally dubious. And that's before getting into if the kinds of porn being trained on is even legal in your given jurisdiction.