How about people with direct database access?

I am close with some people who worked there until recently. All data access is audited; production access is limited via ACLs in both the main data storage system as well as all the others like the warehouse, realtime ingestion, etc.

FB appears to take this extremely seriously. I just pinged my friends and they said the only way people get fired is for sexual harassment or improper data access. And the second is the one that gets audited and monitored every day.

I imagine at Facebook's scale that nobody has direct access to individual database or application instances; and that if someone actually needed to run queries of any kind in production, it'd be as stringent as deploying a code change.

Pretty strict. You don't get direct db access unless in a very specific team/role. You have to request access to tables on a per-table basis.

I believe this is similar to how Google does it.

Like where? Is there any other community that is open, respects free speech and allows anonymous, long posts?

There are a large number of video game journalists at respected publications (e.g. Bloomberg, Vice) who would gladly publish this info if vetted, using industry-standard privacy measures.

if this is real, i doubt the intention is to get a bunch of publicity. really seemed more like venting

I trust 4chan over "journalists" any day.

>By making sites request this information rather than simply always sending it like the User-Agent header currently does, browsers gain the ability to deny excessively intrusive requests when they occur.

Browsers can just not send a UA header

I tried this. It breaks a surprisingly large number of sites (or perhaps not-so-surprisingly), and good luck trying to beat Google's captcha without a User-Agent header.

Good luck trying to beat ReCaptcha if you're doing anything that puts you outside of the normal web browser behavior as imagined by Google's Algorithm.

If User Agent Client Hints become the new normal, I'm sure anyone excessively denying requests will be flagged in the same way.

Evidently, since Reddit is a content aggregator.

The article states that Israel is still seeing 90%+ protection against hospitalizations and death for those who are vaccinated, while the Delta variant spreads there.

Vaccination has been the answer all along. You may still get symptomatic COVID but the likelihood of it putting you in the hospital, or worse, is greatly diminished.

The biggest issues in developed countries who have been able to vaccinate everyone willing to get vaccinated are:

1) People choosing not to get vaccinated 2) Children, who either can't get vaccinated, or parents are unsure if it's a good idea

#1 seems simple -- lockdown post-vaccine was pretty much a non-starter most places and there isn't much evidence with this Delta variant that this was a wrong decision. Those at-risk who can't get vaccinated need to isolate. Those who can get vaccinated and choose not to are accepting the risk. With the vaccine still protecting at 90%+, I don't even see the anti-vax folks causing much external effect outside of their population.

#2 is trickier. Vaccinating children feels much riskier to me and I've not decided if my own kids should get the shots or not. Given that COVID has shown to be minimally impactful for children compared to adults as well as compared to other viruses children commonly get, it seems mostly unnecessary. However, if Delta proves to be more dangerous for kids, those who feel vaccines are fine for adults but are doubtful for kids, will really need to rethink things.

I think the richer countries helping pay to vaccinate the world is a good and smart thing to do.

Help get the rest of the world vaccinated, too.

Luckily we don't have to vaccinate infinite people.

Increased funding and coordination can absolutely increase the available supply of vaccines.

In the EU for major countries you can get vaccinated any time, it's the same reasons as in the US some people just don't want to.

It's a bit more complicated. In France vaccination has only been open to everyone one month ago, (and those people − including me − only had one dose so far) and in the UK the waiting time between the first and second dose is roughly twice higher than in most countries, which means there's still a significant fraction of the population that just can't get fully vaccinated yet (my brother must wait another month before getting his second shot).

Some regions fast forwarded the government given the prevalent hesitancy among vulnerable populations.

Here it was open to everyone 2 months ago.

I've been able to book a time for vaccination for weeks now but the first free time wasn't until the end of July.

We're also about 7.75% ahead of the US when it comes to the percentage of the total population who has gotten their first dose, with the trend still being upwards. So I'd say that the problem isn't really willingness.

What major countries? I live in Spain and in most regions people under 30 still can't get vaccinated.

According to a few news sources, those in their twenties can now get vaccinated in Catalonia, Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Baleares/Navarra, and Madrid.

I don't know how accurate that is. It may depend on where/how you book the vaccine. I'm in my 40s and live in Madrid, and only got my first dose last week in the local health center rather than a large vaccine hub, because it hasn't been very well advertised. I assumed I still wasn't eligible.

You should just try booking a vaccine, worst that can happen is the system won't let you.

Right now in Germany vaccines are available in abundance, just today Berlin opened a Drive-In Vaccination Center at a furniture store and at Vaccination Centers in Saxony appointments are not needed anymore [1].

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-coronavirus-di...

And with this the government makes sure those media conglomerates have a positive opinion of the ruling party.

It's basically corruption no matter how you see it.

>And with this the government makes sure those media conglomerates have a positive opinion of the ruling party.

That probably got a hearty laugh, or at the very least a chuckle, from anybody familiar with French media.

They do adulate the ruling party/President.

The hate of Google blinds some to the point that we have to see people happy that Google is getting fined for showing news excerpts.

So why the f** Google can screw youtubers with the Disney laws but it should not also apply to Google Search. On Youtube if Google thinks you have a snippet that is similar to something claimed they will punish you , so they decided that using snippets from others and making money is BAD , then the other arm of Google is extracting snippets from others and they make money and this is good now?

That’s Disney’s doing, not Google’s. Sonny Bono used to be known as “the Congressman from Disney”.

So is it fair that Google only respects Dsney(american) laws ? From what I understand if your video has some claimed stuffgoogle can take your money and give it to the big companies, would be fair that also Google search money to go to newspapers too.

Or Google can defend Youtubers rights for fair use too, but we all know they will do whatever makes more money so the a few billionaires will buy a new jet or yacht

You can use parts of copyrighted content for certain kinds of videos including commentary.

Google previously brought up that the newspapers can use robots.txt to prevent the scraping of there site. If you check the robots.txt of the major French newspapers, both allow Googlebot on the main content areas.

The French news paper's both want to be listed on Google yet don't want Google to show previews/snippets. It looks like beggars can be choosers if they cry to the French government.

It used to be that your customers were supposed to like or respect you. Now we have a growing number of companies with customers that actively dislike them, just waiting for a better alternative so they can jump ship. It is a problem with monopolies.

In this case, as mentioned in the article, Google is fined for not complying with a formal order by France's Competition Authority.

This is how it works in all countries. In the US, try not to take an order by the SEC seriously, for instance...

If users continuously spam "SaveVideo" on every thread, what Reddit should've done is implement a "download video" button.

Yes, I know you're a troll. Just saying.

Sorry but you are the namecaller here, and wrong to begin with. I couldnt agree more regarding the download button in reddit itself. Its the spamy services I have a problem with.

That's not the services' fault, and there is now a void of a service that people found useful.