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So, you want a "Facebook Messenger Lite".

Might as well ask for it. Though good luck with getting that read.

No, it doesn't. It acts like it does, but it doesn't. Facebook's timeline is a filtered feed where Facebook filters out "unwanted" posts, and there is absolutely no way to disable that or see what it's filtering.

Here's a real world example. I "follow" the local NWS branch on Facebook and Twitter. They post weather forecasts and other useful information about upcoming weather events and local weather activity. A while ago, they posted an interesting look at how you could view the increasing greenery across the region from satellite photos as spring progressed.

I know they posted this thanks to Twitter. When I went to try and share the picture via Facebook, Facebook filtered it out for me. I tried to sort it via "most recent" but what that actually does is it takes your "New Stories" feed and sorts it chronologically. And that's all it does.

There is no way to browse by newest.

Which isn't entirely true. There is a crazy workaround that allows you to sort of be able to see everything by chronological order, but that involves creating a special "list" of friends and then explicitly going to that list and not looking at either the news feed or "most recent."

This was covered on Slashdot a while ago. Essentially Facebook does this to force companies to pay to not be filtered.

Incidentally I "follow" Slashdot on Facebook too, and generally speaking Facebook will show me blocks of Slashdot stories up to a week after they were posted. For example, this story does not show up at all on my "Most Recent" feed despite being posted three hours ago.

As someone who constantly changes his FB feed to show the newest...

You shouldn't have to change anything. Just bookmark https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr.

Everyone know they are satire.

Not everyone, at least Euronews, with screenshot:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/...

Euronews had mistakenly used an image from a fake Twitter account for Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in one of its TV reports

City Park Apartments The old address was at 764 N 900 W, this one is at 780 N 900 W. But it's been around for quite some time. However, the "missing one" was marked "unofficial" so perhaps this is the "official" page.

An unauthorized person did this

That's not what the retraction says, it says that "management" circulated the new agreement and then goes on to explain what they intended by circulating it. That doesn't sound unauthorized.

This has been retracted by the apartment company.

https://www.facebook.com/mande...

You Could go here to see a Google Cache of their (now taken down) Facebook page. Place looks like a dump to me.

So were past pretending Facebook isn't a libtard safespace? Well, that's progress I guess.

Here are some group pages on your so-called "libtard safe space", you dumb sonofabitch:

https://www.facebook.com/Alter...

https://www.facebook.com/teapa...

https://www.facebook.com/Feder...

https://www.facebook.com/natio...

So were past pretending Facebook isn't a libtard safespace? Well, that's progress I guess.

Here are some group pages on your so-called "libtard safe space", you dumb sonofabitch:

https://www.facebook.com/Alter...

https://www.facebook.com/teapa...

https://www.facebook.com/Feder...

https://www.facebook.com/natio...

So were past pretending Facebook isn't a libtard safespace? Well, that's progress I guess.

Here are some group pages on your so-called "libtard safe space", you dumb sonofabitch:

https://www.facebook.com/Alter...

https://www.facebook.com/teapa...

https://www.facebook.com/Feder...

https://www.facebook.com/natio...

So were past pretending Facebook isn't a libtard safespace? Well, that's progress I guess.

Here are some group pages on your so-called "libtard safe space", you dumb sonofabitch:

https://www.facebook.com/Alter...

https://www.facebook.com/teapa...

https://www.facebook.com/Feder...

https://www.facebook.com/natio...

At THIS point, Vermin Supreme is looking good. . .

Facebook describes this very 'feature' right here.

https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Well, kind of, but it seems misleading:

No, we don't record your conversations. If you choose to turn on this feature, we'll only use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify. If this feature is turned on, it's only active when you're writing a status update.

They say that it's only things you're listening to or watching, but how can they tell the difference between a private conversation between my wife and I, and what I'm watching on TV?

https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Google Is King..

From Syed Aashir Hussain

I also posted to their Facebook page, asking "Any reason the Philly PD is monitoring license plates at your convention center during the WCRN 2016? http://motherboard.vice.com/re..."

Check for yourself - the coordinates for this Cornfield:

Kâ(TM)aak Chi (Fire Mouth) William Gadoury "Lost City" / Cornfield 17Â56'41.36"N 90Â10'1.25"W (17.944822,-90.167014)

Not likely a lost city per David Stuart

- Director at The Mesoamerica Center-University of Texas at Austin
- Professor at University of Texas at Austin Department of Art and Art History
- Director at Casa Herrera

https://www.facebook.com/david...

I see no explanation on FB of what "trending" means.

In denial much? Right bloody here:

Trending shows you a list of topics and hashtags that have recently spiked in popularity on Facebook.

This undeniably implies objectivity. Depending on how (un)charitable you wish to be, it also explicitly promises it...

No it most certainly does not. You purposely ignored this particular line:

The topics you see are based on a number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your location.

It DOES not say anything like "objectivity." The "number of factors" gives them all the leeway to put whatever the fuck they want in there.

just whining rightwingers claiming to be victims

Well, they certainly were victims here. The only question remaining is whether this was legal or not.

Nope, no victims. Just more whining.

Did FB promise you

I never had a FB-account in my life. Don't make it personal.

would contain everything, every last thing, that's actually trending

They did (still do!) promise the module to show "a list of topics and hashtags that have recently spiked in popularity on Facebook". We read yesterday, that human employees were told to a) suppress topics despite their spiking in popularity; b) inject non-popular topics in an attempt to make them popular. You and I both agree, that the allegations are credible, even if we disagree on how to qualify them.

So, oh no, FB didn't show everything.

Showing "everything" is pointless — there isn't enough time in the day to read about everything happening in that day. But they did promise to show, what "recently spiked in popularity" — the promise, that is now appearing a lie.

Is it a criminal act? No.

False Adverting is a crime. I think, their actions qualify...

I see no explanation on FB of what "trending" means.

In denial much? Right bloody here:

Trending shows you a list of topics and hashtags that have recently spiked in popularity on Facebook.

This undeniably implies objectivity. Depending on how (un)charitable you wish to be, it also explicitly promises it... And, because this can (easily) be achieved by a computer-program, a reasonable person could believe, this was actually true.

just whining rightwingers claiming to be victims

Well, they certainly were victims here. The only question remaining is whether this was legal or not.

Then guess what? You don't have friends. What you have are people you know online.

I obviously was talking about my "facebook friends". But thanks for making a moron out of your self for the sake of arguing.

Obviously most of my friends here around my place are not on facebook. Unlike you haters there are people who are on facebook for a reason ... and even if you don't believe it my "face book" friends are real friends. We meet often enough ... but on "events" ... I can not randomly message one and say "lets meet" because plenty of them live on the other side of the planet. E.g. my ex girl friend lives now in south of Gorgia ... and those who live in my country are nevertheless mostly a few hours drives away.

I truly feel sorry for you.
Thank you, not necessary. :D

If your definition of a "friend" is someone who you only know online
You are pretty retarded, aren't you? I no where implied that ... but go ahead with your prejudices ...

You seem not to grasp that plenty of people use facebook exactly in the way how it was intended to be: keep in touch with family and friends in a "community" and not single phone calls and emails.

Crazy concept, huh?
Perhaps you should become a social worker or something :D But thanks for your advice, I must be doing something wrong in meeting my friends who live close by in my most favourite pub. Like to come over and teach us?
https://www.facebook.com/pages... Oh shit, that is on facebook so you won't come ... your fault.

What about this then: http://www.scruffys.de? No worries site is in english.

Hint: learnt o read. And when you see a post that upsets you: read the damn parent.

No, /real/ hackers use butterflies after coding them up first.

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The last few weeks the fruit vendors have returned and have stationed themselves for up to 10 hours a day across from our house. What used to be a few boxes of strawberries has become the equivalent of a small market.

We're at the 4-way stop on Pine & Cottle so traffic which is already bad has become worse. Further we now have complete strangers watching our homes, knowing what time we leave for work, what time our kids leave for school and what packages arrive from Fed Ex or UPS etc. We have watched the sellers urinate in our neighbors yard and have had to pick up the trash they leave behind.

In the past the police would stop by and within a minute the fruit sellers would leave and wouldn't return for weeks and sometimes months. Now the police say they cannot do anything as they are under-resourced and refer us to the permit department at the City which of course tell us they cannot do anything and ask us to call the police.

3 weeks ago the house next to the cart was burgled. The owners (in their 90's) have lived in the house for over 40 years and nothing like this has happened in the time we've lived here (17 years). Probably a coincidence but in my experience when blight is allowed to occur it grows.

We talk about keeping business alive in Willow Glen yet businesses like Laredo Market which pays taxes, rent and employs people lose out to un-permitted street carts with questionable merchandise and generate zero dollars for the community.

I have had to temper anger with some of our neighbors who exasperated by the complete lack of action by the City to take the matter into their own hands but I know that will escalate the issue which may in fact get the neighbors into trouble with the police.

I know there are trolls here who'll accuse me of being a privileged WG blah blah blah - I'll expect and ignore those comments. I just hate to see the community we have all worked hard to proudly call Willow Glen being failed by a City that are supposed to protect us.

We'd appreciate any advice and hopefully this thread may help if one day you look out your window and they have set up in front of your house.

the big porblem with "private" postings is very very simple

1 Facebook has an office setup to deal with LEO requests and all it would take is a short convo for FB to start setting aside data from an account

2 https://www.facebook.com/safet... ----- as long as there is a Court Order exactly NOTHING is kept from a LEO request [ panic delete your account hope you do it BEFORE a LEO has submitted a data request]

3 and that is the WRITTEN policy whatcha wanna bet that this is not the effective policy at all times??

Tribute from Bloom County

The First Church of Polydeism in Toledo has many FSM adherents in attendance, I'm sure. https://www.facebook.com/First... Is church attendance now to be mandatory? The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://www.barnesandnoble.com/... is published and has 2938 reviews on GoodReads. How you define "serious" is certainly not going to pass Constitutional muster. Virtually everyone that is "positively disposed" to the FSM, whether an official adherent or not, certainly believes that the tenets of the faith would be HUGELY better than ANY of the alternatives. If you want to see a large gathering of the faithful, might I propose the Reason Rally, June 2-5 in Washington D.C.? http://reasonrally.org/

If you saw Fascism rising in your country, would you obligated to try to stop it?

Considering Feinstein still has a Facebook page, I am guessing they do not feel that obligation.

"Facebook" occulous rift.. wtf did that happen..

July, 2014

https://games.slashdot.org/sto...
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

"How can hospitals guard themselves against these attacks"

They could, as a start, keep the medical (patient records, diagnostic, monitoring, etc.) networks segregated from each other, and especially from the Internet. But that would prevent staff from checking the Bookface, so it wouldn't go over well.

You enforce blocking of "Bookface" since it is non-work related. You try to access site and you get

"URL Prohibited
Access to this website has been prohibited due to possible concerns over its safety, reputation, or due to company policy.

Event Details:
URL: https://www.facebook.com/
Category: Social Networking
Policy: Extended Access
If you have a business reason for accessing this website, please click the link below and submit the form to be routed for approval

We do that in my organization and works pretty well....

This is just one of the incidents I'm referring to. Shot by a friend of mine (my wife reminded me that this footage existed). What you don't hear in this short clip is the repeated announcements that the train will not enter the station until the yellow tiles are clear; what you don't see is that the train advanced and stopped several times because people kept stepping back onto the tiles once the train wold start moving.

There are some absolutely necessary and needed components: audit, router and firewall tech.
To some degree this is a different class of tech than most consider as needed for a server farm.

In a capability based deployment design some of the risks and attacks can
be compartmentalized and squashed. A single level breach would be limited
and with good design manageable and near worthless.

I wondered why Facebook went public on their rack level router project.
https://code.facebook.com/post...
Such projects do not exist in a vacuum. Cost or risks drive a software company to build hardware (or too much money).

It is no longer sufficient to have a hard candy outside and a soft gooey center security model.
It is the novice system engineer that does not understand the risks of monoculture and the
lessons learned by the virus attack on the American chestnut trees. In house systems are
often monoculture box canyons.

Any and all the layers need attention in today's hostile networking context.
N.B.
      The FBI added two Syrian hackers to its most-wanted list for cybercriminals, charging them with attacking
      dozens of U.S. companies, media organizations, and even the White House.
and
      I might note that the FBI wants to diminish security on a very common device. Hmmm....

Funny you mention XMPP. Facebook actually supported that until they didn't: https://developers.facebook.co... Can't drive the cattle with these open protocols, you see. Of course, this also serves as evidence that open protocols are not some silver bullet. When a monolith like Facebook is in control, they can quite easily swap in their own proprietary protocols at any time, just as they've done.

I would argue that the Russian T-50 ( which *works* and is a real tested system) would shit all over the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II">F-35 "Little Turd".

Granted, the F-22 is a fairer comparison, but many believe the T-50 will win. Apologies for the Facebook link, but the poster makes some good arguments.

From your article: "Number Built: 5 prototypes"

Yeah, ok, they can duct tape an RPG7 on the two that can fly and go head to head with operational and soon to be combat tested aircraft.

I would argue that the Russian T-50 ( which *works* and is a real tested system) would shit all over the a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II">F-35 "Little Turd".

Granted, the F-22 is a fairer comparison, but many believe the T-50 will win. Apologies for the Facebook link, but the poster makes some good arguments.

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
-- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 8

As I read the rest of the US Constitution, the TPP is invalid, even if it passes.

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article VI, clause 3

So any member of the U.S. Congress who votes for such an unconstitutional law will be guilty of violating their oath of office.

Finally, if I may suggest music to accompany the removal of members of the U.S. Congress: https://www.facebook.com/sonso...

Indeed, if wave the flag furiously when we speak of terrorists and national security, surely we can ask the vendor to side with the good guys to prevent this from recurring... and as a precedent... I was mostly puzzled by the freedom we give to facebook (and goog too) and the cold shoulder we give to OUR spies. https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Here's what presidential candidate Gary Johnson posted on Facebook:

If the government wants to search a hotel room, they don't -- or shouldn't -- demand that the hotel hand them a pass key that would open EVERY room. In a very simplified way, that is what the government is demanding of Apple in order to supposedly access one particular device. Apple is right to be fighting -- and we ALL have a stake in the outcome.

Is Johnson the "only one candidate" that the poster mentions but that the story he linked to, leaves out?

>> "Can courts compel Facebook to provide analytics of who might be a criminal?...Or Google to give a list of names of people who searched for the term ISIS?

Facebook already publishes a guide for law enforcement: https://www.facebook.com/safet...
Google does too: https://www.google.com/transpa...

we actually "know" exactly what they're providing and it IS basic internet service. All of the internet.

That would make this page rather redundant then. "Optimise for feature phones" - what they are offering actually seems more like WAP. It might still work for Africa, but India is already well served by LTE networks and cheap Chinese smartphones.

you didn't delete your account. you deactivated it. all your data is still there, on their servers.

There is a way to delete your account rather than have it waiting for you. I mentioned it on /. long ago and was given a link that did the trick.
Google: how to permanently delete your account on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/help/... - no promises

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