Apple’s stock wasn’t growing a lot a decade ago when the FANG term was coined.

When Twitter launched, they used “post” instead of “tweet”. Tweet was a word created by the community.

“FAANG” is interesting because it was initially only used to represent high-growth stocks that were leaders in their respective fields. It was originally just “FANG” - Apple was added later.

At some point, it changed to mean the best tech companies to work at. I’m not sure I agree with the list, though. I’d swap Netflix for Microsoft (TC is lower but it’s a more prestigious company and work-life balance is better), and I’d swap Amazon for another company. Not sure. TSMC, Nvidia, or AMD maybe?

MANGA

MANAA. If you’re going to swap Facebook for Meta, you also need to swap Google for Alphabet.

Their strange stock vesting schedule makes me think that they’re aware that people won’t actually want to stay for four years. A back-loaded vesting schedule never benefits the employee, only the employer.

Other companies usually have an even schedule, for example Meta vests 25% per year (actually it vests quarterly instead of yearly). Google is an outlier too, but they do the opposite of what Amazon does - 33% in year one, then 33%, 22% and 12%. I suspect Google do this so they can list a higher total compensation (since initial total comp is salary, stock, and benefits for the first year), but getting more of your stock sooner is a good thing.

I can focus a lot better when I’m at the office. I guess part of it is that I’m surrounded by people who are also working. There’s too many distractions at home.

Having said that, my employer only requires us to go into the office three days per week, which I think is a good compromise.

Facebook doesn’t sell your data, nor does Google. That’s a common misconception. They sell your attention. Advertisers can show ads to people based on some targeting criteria, but they never see any user data.

Some newer TVs are starting to have hard-coded DNS servers, which means they’ll bypass most PiHole configurations.

You could try configure your router to redirect all DNS traffic (UDP port 53) to your PiHole server, but that won’t work if they’re using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) which is becoming more and more common.

There’s sometimes cases people don’t think of ahead of time. For example if you log stack traces, they may contain details about the arguments passed to functions.

Oh sorry, I completely forgot to mention that. I’m using an Nvidia Shield for all my streaming.

Another approach is to connect the TV to the internet but block all LG/Samsung/whatever stuff, for example by using a firewall on your router.

Waze is owned by Google, and they’re slowly converging over time.

I’m still amazed that immobilizers aren’t a legal requirement in the USA, and that Kia would remove them from US models just to save a small amount of money.

Delivery starts at $19 at my local IKEA, as long as you’re within a certain radius from the store.

My wife’s mum was helping me move everything from a two-bedroom unit, in a Toyota Yaris hatchback. Completely filled the car with stuff. It took maybe six or seven trips back and forth, but we got it done eventually.

This was before I had a drivers license or much money, so I couldn’t just rent a truck, nor could I afford to pay a mover.

Don’t let your TV connect to the internet. I have mine on my wifi so I can control them using Home Assistant, but they’re on an isolated VLAN with no internet access.

Edit: Of course, this only works if you use an external box for streaming, like an Nvidia Shield, Apple TV, Google Chromecast TV or whatever they call it now, etc.

I mentioned this in another comment too: Nobody seems to reads the actual posts, just the headlines. They were accidentally stored in logs:

As part of a security review in 2019, we found that a subset of FB users’ passwords were temporarily logged in a readable format within our internal data systems,

which is something I’ve seen at other companies too. For example, if you have error logging that logs the entire HTTP request when an error happens, but forget to filter out sensitive fields.

Also, nobody reads the actual posts, just the headlines. They were accidentally stored in logs:

As part of a security review in 2019, we found that a subset of FB users’ passwords were temporarily logged in a readable format within our internal data systems,

which is something I’ve seen at other companies too. For example, if you have error logging that logs the entire HTTP request when an error happens, but forget to filter out sensitive fields.

Elongated Muskrat

It’s amusing. Meta’s AI team is more open than "Open"AI ever was - they publish so many research papers for free, and the latest versions of Llama are very capable models that you can run on your own hardware (if it’s powerful enough) for free as long as you don’t use it in an app with more than 700 million monthly users.

Ohhh I didn’t consider that. Good point!