Hard to say what the takeaway or lesson is here, other than having trustworthy professionals disseminating unbiased information is a public good and losing it creates paranoia and social distrust everywhere.
We didn't "lose" it, we never had it. It's extremely difficult to rigorously analyze and present data. Even the smartest professionals are mostly consensus machines outside maybe a very niche expertise that they've spent decades on. That is before we get to the institutional interests of the places where these professionals work.
This doesn't seem like a full article without bothering to interview ANY of the arrested 130 people.
What I will say is that getting tiktoks in front of hundreds of thousands of people in a coordinated way isn't easy, and they won't come out if they weren't already passionate about something. If there are written records proving this was made to cause chaos specifically then they should subpoena tiktok for exact records.
> and they won't come out if they weren't already passionate about something
First time protesting and/or rioting in Barcelona? There is definitively always people taking advantage of our peaceful protests to cause chaos and mayhem, this happens every time there are protests, and especially once the police wants to shut down the events but people want to keep on partying.
> they should subpoena tiktok for exact records
Absolutely, straight up attempts to subvert democracy, should be met with investigations immediately.
Ludicrous take. I'm tired of people who aren't experts on observability having such strong opinions.
Having used scuba at meta, I can authoritatively say it's bottom-tier quality. Especially in the era of having competent LLMS able to write sophisticated queries.
Genuine expert level observability is being able to query things like "Of all the users who updated versions of the APP in the last week, what % of them had fewer errors after the update (per hour of usage) than before"
I don't see how you can possibly consider scuba to be bottom-tier. I have used nothing even remotely close to scuba at any other company. For example, Amazon Athena is a joke compared to it.
Your example seems like it would be a great system to have access to, but it seems like that question would be formed after using a more general system like Scuba where you can iterate on the data rapidly.
Do you really consider Scuba as good as datadog? Or splunk?
The article's arguments "Look if you squint logs and traces kinda overlap" misses the point that if you want to use traces effectively you need to be able to graph them as flame-graphs and also query these relationships ("count average number of userLogin spans that failed that have a subsequent succeeding userLogin span with the same userId and same originatingIp")
To be fair even the more advanced products struggle with sophisticated queries, though splunk and sumo have usually met my needs just fine. Honestly even SQL has an order of magnitude more powerful querying than scuba.
There was just a post yesterday about how to root your samsung. I rooted my samsung and removed ads, mics, and my agent is looking into this one as we speak [codex].
I haven't looked into TCL at all, but everything I know on this topic I learned in one day, so if you have even a $20 a month AI subscription and you're passionate I'd say give it a go.
Just yesterday I hacked my Samsung Frame tv. The AI (codex) used an off-the-shelf root with Developer Console access (built in). Though root doesn't give you the signing keys to blow everything away and still boot (is my best understanding), but as a workaround you can still change anything you want after boot automatically.
I had it do:
- Stripping ads
- Disabling mics
- Turning off updates
- Leaving root SSH in place (protected) for future access
The key to getting codex to do this was that this is legal under DMCA, but after a certain point I had to get a new session to change all the "hacking" words into synonyms to not trigger false security alarms. Wouldn't be surprised or bothered if my chatgpt account gets banned though.
I can write a blog post and publish the repo if you want
Could be. Another simple explanation is that there is a lot of bot activity messing with the algorithm.
I'm relatively sure I see bot activity on public facebook groups where I live in a blue county in a blue state and see hundreds of vitriolic angry comments that aren't aligned with voters current frustrations (i.e. economy)
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