> People were no longer aligned or empowered, and the incentive system was changed to basically destroy engineering culture.

Same with Google. The intentional misrepresentation and ousting of Damore was a turning point where engineering culture was run over by activist culture.

Would you argue that the outsing of Gebru and others is a turning point where engineering culture is running back over activist culture?

That's pushback, but engineers haven't reclaimed the culture and are mostly still silent and afraid.

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Same. It's extremely concerning. Where's the transparency? If the backend has been compromised and turned into a honeypot, how would we know?

That would only compromise metadata as signal is e2e encrypted and the client has always been opensource and up to date.

All the SGX stuff is about making metadata more private for features that absolutely must be done serverside. So a compromise in SGX is more an issue if Signal itself becomes adversarial or gets compromised. Most services only rely on this for security and don't use things like SGX to hide things from themselves.

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Depends on when they joined Facebook. Early employees had no idea what it would become.

Totally. I tried to phrase it as a "cool off" period since they were last employed by the company. If someone hasn't worked there in five years, they're not involved in the present day debacle and can't vote against company practices.

They are aggressive. For each person you follow, you get notifications "Sometimes" when they are on stage. In practice, it seems like "Almost Always".

The greatest privilege is being born in the West in the modern day, to 2 loving parents. Even if poor, you already won the birth lottery compared to 99% of every human that ever lived. Other notable advantages: Intelligence. Attractiveness. Charisma.

Is anyone born into this position happier than 99% of everyone who’s ever lived?

Yeah, though it was their funniest service.