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Ça sent les menaces ouais, c'est assez classique, mais s'ils pouvaient ils continueraient leur plan d'origine (DC américain donc open bar et services européens -donc avec un peu de bol quelques subventions et une grosse "optimisation" fiscale).

DCs qui existent deja.

A quoi va leur servir d’héberger en Europe s'ils ne peuvent pas exploiter les données comme ils le faisaient jusque là ?

À justifier leur présence si c'est comme en Irlande, où on leur a dit en gros (à Fb): "Vous voulez exercer en Europe? DC européens alors, et vous faites pas transiter les données vers les USA".

Bon, à la place ils ont probablement fait une triche genre miroir à distance EU->US, mais bref.

Ils ont deja des DCs en Europe:

Luleå, Suede 2013: https://datacenters.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lulea.pdf
Clonee, Irelande 2018: https://datacenters.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Clonee.pdf
Odense, Danemark 2019: https://datacenters.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Odense.pdf

(Tiens FB utilise Wordpress o_O)

Oui, pour garantir leur présence ici aussi, ça sert de caution en sus de l'utilité première et évidente d'un DC.

C'est rassurant...

Ca les "décharge", c'est tranquille !

Au contraire. Ça prouve que non seulement ils ne respectent pas la réglementation, mais surtout qu'ils ne sont même pas capables de la respecter, vu que leurs systèmes ne sont pas conçus pour. Du coup, ça va être beaucoup plus difficile pour eux de pipeauter devant les régulateurs à coup de "vous inquiétez pas, on est clean".

Ah oui ça c'est évident. Mais bon, avec cash infini, ils trouveront toujours la main dans laquelle tendre le chèque...

Si toi aussi t'es surpris tape dans tes mains...

*crickets*

"We changed the ID component of these URLs as a privacy measure intended to deter scrapers from collecting and potentially misusing people's Facebook IDs. These modified IDs aren’t used to track people, and have not been designed to prevent browser tools from removing tracking components from the URL." - a Meta spokesperson

Hahahahaha. La raison pour laquelle le facebook ID est inclus est justement parce qu'ils veulent faire du backtracking. Et oui ce backtracking en plus de ne pas être bien pour la confidentialité, peut en plus être utilisé par des tiers. Donc c'était doublement mauvais, mais ça pouvait s'enlever. Maintenant ils ont fait un truc qui est juste simplement mauvais, mais pas enlevable.

Bah la plupart des gens n'enlèvent pas les URL parameters inutiles.
Là ce ne sera juste plus possible, il ne reste plus qu'à ignorer tous les liens facebook, instagram est autres.
Le pire que je reçois c'est les services d'URL-shortener. C'est double peine, le service obtient l'info et ensuite le fournisseur du contenu sans que je puisse intervenir sur l'URL.

Quelqu'un doutait il que Facebook voulait le bien de ses clients ? Par client, je ne parle bien sur pas de ses utilisateurs.

Monde virtuel, travail bien réel.

How Mark Zuckerberg Is Leading Meta Into Its Next Phase
Mike Isaac
8-10 minutes
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‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase
Facebook’s founder is setting a relentless pace as he pushes his company through a tech transformation during a global economic slowdown.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the company formerly known as Facebook, called his top lieutenants for the social network to a last-minute meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area this month. On the agenda: a “work-athon” to discuss the road map for improving the main Facebook app, including a revamp that would change how users browse the service.
For weeks beforehand, Mr. Zuckerberg had sent his executives messages about the overhaul, pressing them to increase the velocity and execution of their work, people with knowledge of the matter said. Some executives — who had to read a 122-page slide deck about the changes — were beginning to sweat at the unusual level of intensity, they said.
Facebook’s leaders flew in from around the world for the summit, the people said, and Mr. Zuckerberg and the group pored over each slide. Within days, the team unveiled an update to the Facebook app to better compete with a top rival, TikTok.
Mr. Zuckerberg is setting a relentless pace as he steers his $450 billion company, which has been renamed Meta, into a new phase. In recent months, he has reined in spending, trimmed perks, reshuffled his leadership team and made it clear he would cut low-performing employees. Those who are not on board are welcome to leave, he has said. Managers have sent out memos to convey the seriousness of the approach — one, which was shared with The New York Times, had the title “Operating With Increased Intensity.”
Mr. Zuckerberg, 38, is trying to push his company away from its roots in social networking and center it on the immersive — and so far theoretical — world of the so-called metaverse. Across Silicon Valley, he and other executives who built what many refer to as Web 2.0 — a more social, app-focused version of the internet — are rethinking and upending their original vision after their platforms were plagued by privacy stumbles, toxic content and misinformation.
The moment is reminiscent of other bet-the-company gambles, such as when Netflix killed off its DVD-mailing business last decade to focus on streaming. But Mr. Zuckerberg is making these moves as Meta’s back is against the wall. The company is staring into the barrel of a global recession. Competitors like TikTok, YouTube and Apple are bearing down.
And success is far from guaranteed. In recent months, Meta’s profits have fallen and revenue has slowed as the company has spent lavishly on the metaverse and as the economic slowdown has hurt its advertising business. Its stock has plunged.
“When Mark gets super focused on something, it becomes all hands on deck within the company,” said Katie Harbath, a former Facebook policy director and the founder of Anchor Change, a consulting firm that works on tech and democracy issues. “Teams will quickly drop other work to pivot to the issue at hand, and the pressure is intense to move fast to show progress.”
Meta declined to comment. The company plans to report quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s repositioning of Meta started in earnest last year, when he began rearranging his bench of lieutenants.

In October, he elevated a longtime friend and colleague, Andrew Bosworth, who is known as Boz, to chief technology officer, leading hardware efforts for the metaverse. He promoted other loyalists, too, including Javier Olivan, the new chief operating officer; Nick Clegg, who became president of global affairs; and Guy Rosen, who took on a new role of chief information security officer.
In June, Sheryl Sandberg, who was Mr. Zuckerberg’s No. 2 for 14 years, said she would step down this fall. While she spent more than a decade building Facebook’s advertising systems, she was less interested in doing the same for the metaverse, people familiar with her plans have said.
Mr. Zuckerberg has moved thousands of workers into different teams for the metaverse, training their focus on aspirational projects like hardware glasses, wearables and a new operating system for those devices.
“It’s an existential bet on where people over the next decade will connect, express and identify with one another,” said Matthew Ball, a longtime tech executive and the author of a book on the metaverse. “If you have the cash, the engineers, the users and the conviction to take a swing at that, then you should.”
But the efforts are far from cheap. Facebook’s Reality Labs division, which is building augmented and virtual reality products, has dragged down the company’s balance sheet; the hardware unit lost nearly $3 billion in the first quarter alone.
At the same time, Meta is grappling with privacy changes from Apple that have hampered its ability to measure the effectiveness of ads on iPhones. TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, has stolen young audiences from Meta’s core apps like Instagram and Facebook. These challenges are coinciding with a brutal macroeconomic environment, which has pushed Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter to freeze or slow hiring.
So, Mr. Zuckerberg has kicked his company into overdrive with a strong message: It’s time to do more with less.
This month, Meta lowered its engineering hiring targets for the year to 6,000, from 10,000 to 12,000, and said it would leave some open positions vacant. Budgets that were once fat are being trimmed, and managers have been told not to expect unlimited head count for their teams. In a memo last month, Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, said the economic environment called for “leaner, meaner, better executing teams.”
In an employee meeting around the same time, Mr. Zuckerberg said he knew that not everyone would be on board for the changes. That was fine, he told employees.
“I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.”
Another memo circulated internally among workers this month was titled “Operating With Increased Intensity.” In the memo, a Meta vice president said managers should begin to “think about every person on their team and the value they are adding.”
“If a direct report is coasting or a low performer, they are not who we need; they are failing this company,” the memo said. “As a manager, you cannot allow someone to be net neutral or negative for Meta.”
Mr. Zuckerberg is focusing the efforts of those who remain on areas he believes will benefit Meta the most in the long term. Those include the metaverse, messaging, Instagram Reels, privacy, artificial intelligence and higher revenue from products that currently bring in little to none, according to Mr. Cox’s memo, which outlined six “investment priorities” for the company in the second half of this year.
Meta is pulling back in some areas, including low-selling products like the Portal video chat device, which will no longer be offered to consumers and will instead be aimed at businesses. Mr. Bosworth has also halted development of a dual-camera smart watch, according to people with knowledge of the matter, though the company is working on other prototypes. Bloomberg reported earlier on the smart watch.

Just days after the “work-athon” with Facebook managers this month, Mr. Zuckerberg posted an update to his Facebook profile, noting some coming changes in the app. Facebook would start pushing people into a more video-heavy feed with more suggested content, emulating how TikTok operates.
Meta has been investing heavily in video and discovery, aiming to beef up its artificial intelligence and to improve “discovery algorithms” that suggest engaging content to users without them having to work to find it.
In the past, Facebook has tested major product updates with a few English-speaking audiences to see how they perform before rolling them out more widely. But, this time, the 2.93 billion people around the world who use the social networking app will receive the update simultaneously.
It is a sign, some Meta employees said, of just how much Mr. Zuckerberg means business.

In an employee meeting around the same time, Mr. Zuckerberg said he knew that not everyone would be on board for the changes. That was fine, he told employees.
“I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here.”

hahahaha

N'empêche c'est là qu'on ressent le fossé générationnel… perso TikTok je n'accroche pas. Je comprends que ça puisse être addictif, mais par rapport à la qualité du divertissement qui existe, et l'évidence de fraude que c'est (Insta c'est pire, quand tu mattes une vidéo il te la fait rebondir vers la fin pour te pousser à scroller vers la prochaine ; facebook encore pire, il passe à la prochaine vidéo sans te demander), je me dis qu'en fait on a dû apprendre à reconnaître tout ça, et les jeunes n'ont pas cette éducation semblerait-il.

C'est l'utilisation du FOMO dans toute sa perfide splendeur.

C'est surtout des accusations de résistance au changement déguisées et assorties de menaces: "si tu montes pas à bord, fous-moi le camp".

À noter que cette auto-selection est très culturelle aux USA. Bon au final ils ont raison, s'ils te veulent pas ils te rendront la vie pourrie donc t'as meilleur temps de te barrer quand tu sens une mauvaise odeur…

Le truc de devenir la dame pipi comme en parlait Amélie Nothomb finalement c'est pas spécifique. Probablement qu'on n'oserait ou n'aurait pas osé à ce point en France, mais la réalité c'est qu'aux USA c'est ça, juste plus subtil. J'aurais presque envie de dire qu'au moins dans le cas de Mme Nothomb on pouvait difficilement faire plus clair (à moins de communiquer frontalement bien sûr). C'est d'autant moins excusable qu'aux USA il n'y a aucune loi particulière pour protéger les employés d'être virés.

(à noter que contrairement à ce qu'elle laisse entendre, le roman de Nothomb dont tu parles est une fiction, elle n'a jamais travaillé au Japon et il semble qu'elle ne parle même pas la langue)

(Ah bon je savais pas. Je pensais que c'était juste romancé. Comme quoi.)

(j'ai découvert ça après avoir lu le bouquin. Elle affirme que c'est une autobiographie, mais des gens ont trouvé des choses bizarres : elle serait née à Etterbeek (en Belgique) et non à Kobé comme elle le prétend, la boîte dont elle parle aurait démenti et n'embauchait pas d'étrangers à l'époque... C'est pas évident de trouver des infos dessus, mais il y a par exemple ça. Bref ça a un arrière-goût de bidonnage avec complicité de l'éditeur, ce qui ne serait pas la première fois dans la littérature.)

Il y a un personnage Amelie Nothomb, et la vrai personne Fabienne Claire Nothomb.

Wikipedia ne cache pas grand chose que je sache:


Il n'y a pas de doute qu'elle ai vécu au japon, ses romans sont de l'autofiction, c'est basé sur des choses vrai mais reste de la fiction, ça ne trace pas Fabienne Claire, mais Amélie qui est son persona d'auteur.

Bah si elle le reconnaissait, pourquoi pas. Mais elle prétend le contraire :

http://classiquesetcontemporains.com/interviews/amelie-nothomb-et-sylvie-testud-parlent-de-stupeur-et-tremblements
Josiane Grinfas : Quel genre attribueriez-vous à votre récit ? Autobiographie ou fiction ?
Amélie Nothomb : Stupeur et Tremblements est entièrement autobiographique. Mais je suis une romancière et, pour moi, il suffit qu’on raconte quelque chose en travaillant le style pour écrire un roman. Cette histoire m’est arrivée à 100 % : j’ai seulement déguisé les noms de la compagnie et des personnages.

Mais justement: est-ce Amélie, ou Fabienne-Claire qui est interviewée?

Je l'attendais, celle-là

Apres il se peu qu'elle se soit un peu perdu dans son persona. C'est courant malheureusement.

Et il y a des gens qui en vie publique ne sont pas eux meme mais un personnage.

Si c'est pas du mensonge, alors c'est maladif.

C'est perturbant, cette histoire. Je pensais aussi (béatement) que c'était autobiographique. C'est plutôt étonnant qu'on n'arrive pas à recouper la réalité pour le coup ! (Quelque part, "bien joué, Nothomb!")