Non-IT News Thread

[mlnews]

Rough day at Theranos and for Elizabeth Holmes (and the hundreds of staffers that got laid off.)

[mlnews]

Lost time returned to European ovens.

[mlnews]

Reddit CEO allows racist posts.

[mlnews]

Facebook CEO apparently caught off guard to learn about shadow profiles in front of Congress.

[momurda]

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Facebook CEO apparently caught off guard to learn about shadow profiles in front of Congress.

Shadow Profiles of people who arent even registered. Fuck that bullshit.
edit sorry for swearz, but it is deserved.

[scottalanmiller]

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Facebook CEO apparently caught off guard to learn about shadow profiles in front of Congress.

Shadow Profiles of people who arent even registered. Fuck that bullshit.

Yeah, kinda defeats the entire "opt out" idea.

[black3dynamite]

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Facebook CEO apparently caught off guard to learn about shadow profiles in front of Congress.

Shadow Profiles of people who arent even registered. Fuck that bullshit.
edit sorry for swearz, but it is deserved.

There's been a lot of WTF moments.

[mlnews]

Sometimes it was Congress looking a bit foolish while questioning Zuckerberg.

[mlnews]

Irish judge requests that the EU court determine if Facebook can routinely ship user data to the US.

[mlnews]

End of an era, as AmEx, Mastercard, and Discover end the need for signatures, with Visa following right behind, later this month.

[mlnews]

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

[momurda]

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

Still worse than cd

[scottalanmiller]

None of it is as good as lossless audio files. Who works with physical media today!

[momurda]

wav(cd) is lossless.

[scottalanmiller]

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

wav(cd) is lossless.

That's a thing? Still annoying to have a media.

[mlnews]

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

[mlnews]

Russian woman embalmed alive during a surgery.

[mlnews]

Investor group calls for Zuckerberg to resign or be removed from at least one of his roles stating that he "doesn't understand how a large, global, and publicly-held company is run".

[coliver]

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

[scottalanmiller]

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

The news is that they announced it as a major investor.