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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurking_swe on Sunday June 08, 2025 @01:23AM (#44214723)
> For employees it gets normalized at the first signal that your livelihood might be affected if you don't comply.

um, what? meta does not have an easy interview process to say the least. Ignoring recent job market madness…engineers at meta, historically, could have easily found another job that was not as sleazy. EASY. So why didn’t they?

As another commenter mentioned, it “says a lot”.

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by cherryteastain on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:15AM (#44215221)
The fact that most people don't care about the second order implications of their work on a daily basis makes your point irrelevant.
Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by whstl on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:17AM (#44215230)
Meta or not, people don't like being fired or being threatened to. Period. They like the comfy job.

But don't ask me why. I'm a troublemaker. I bring up this stuff, I talk to the CEO, I refuse to do stuff that breaks the GDPR or other laws, I got people to scream at me for being stubborn. Other people aren't like that.

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurking_swe on Sunday June 08, 2025 @08:19PM (#44220351)
I agree with you. To clarify my comment a bit. I’m confused why a software engineer of Meta caliber would even APPLY at meta to begin with.

I suppose $400k comp instead of $350k (making up numbers here) is worth selling your soul for these days? These are people with options, that’s ill i’m saying.

i’ll never understand…

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurk2 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @02:17AM (#44214941)
> um, what?

This is obnoxious.

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by herewulf on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:00AM (#44215143)
It's conversational, emotive, and expressive. I'm sure you hear it all the time out in the real world.
Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by isoprophlex on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:55AM (#44215424)
The passive-aggressive equivalent of "your opinion is dumb".
Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurk2 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:29AM (#44215304)
If someone talked to me this way in the real world it would be the last time I would ever interact with them. It’s a Redditism used to express incredulity that the parent commenter could be so stupid as to have posted what they posted. It adds nothing to the conversation and doesn’t belong here.
Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by roenxi on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:21AM (#44215773)
You're reading a lot into two words there. And someone probably has said "um, what?" to you in the real world; but you wouldn't notice because it is a common pattern of speech.

The internet will be a remarkably combative place if that is the standard you set for when someone calls you stupid - it'd be a lot better to only read that into a statement if it actually gets explicitly said.

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by const_cast on Sunday June 08, 2025 @08:35PM (#44220422)
No, it's not, it's among the same vein as "huh?" - it's a thinly-veiled attempt to paint opposing view points as so stupid that you literally cannot comprehend them.

But you can comprehend them, we all can. So it's just abrasive and annoying. You can express a conversational tone without being an asshole. You don't need to act like your conversational opponents are super far out there or crazy or whatever.

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurking_swe on Sunday June 08, 2025 @08:17PM (#44220335)
it’s how i talk in real life when I'm completely confused by someone’s comment. The tone matters a lot - which is hard to express in a text medium. Emojis can help with this a bit but no emojis on hacker news. :)

Apologies if it came across as obnoxious.