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Ben Savage

@btsavage

Software Engineer at the company formerly known as Facebook. Opinions my own.

Joined March 2021
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Blink: Intent to Deprecate & Remove: Third-Party Cookies groups.google.com/a/chromium.org…


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Hilariously, Apple tried to claim with a straight face to the EU, that it offers not one, but three distinct web browsers all coincidentally named Safari.

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"I'll take Present-Day Monopolies for $1000, Alex"

Ok this is absolutely mental. The entire marketing team should be fired. @MobileDevMemo

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Exciting Web Privacy News The Web is undergoing a significant advance in privacy at the moment. In recent weeks, the Chrome browser enabled cross-site storage partitioning. That is: many features in Chrome that used to leak data between websites, no longer leak. In Chrome 117,…

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62/ So, in closing, the reason I picked this title is Silicon Valley's 2,851 miles away from Washington. And as these people put their eyes towards this, I would state the following: The reason Silicon Valley has been so successful is because it's so fucking far away from…

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Every day we get one step closer to the day when the AdTech industry starts using PET-based platform provided APIs to measure advertising… …because there is no alternative… These clickIDs are only removed in Safari private browsing… for now… ruleranalytics.com/blog/insight/i…

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Poland is starting to build a fleet of large reactors TODAY, immediately after signing contracts. They have this one great chance to bury Germany economically. Germany's economy was based on large and middle-sized industrial companies running on cheap energy. Where did that…

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Engineering site work begins immediately on Poland's first three AP1000® nuclear reactors in a historic moment for the country's clean energy future! We today signed the Engineering Services Contract with @PEJ_PL We're excited to get to work! Read more: bit.ly/3PsSRqK



Installing an app shouldn’t cost you your life savings. Android - please fix your permissions system. asiaone.com/singapore/woma…


This is an interesting about-face from Apple. Personally, I think it’s really commendable that they’ve: (1) responded publicly and in a clear fashion (2) were willing to change their stance in light of new information and experience

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy. Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $. If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.) wired.com/story/apple-cs…



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Honestly every single climate change story needs to end with "so anyway, stop screwing around with paper straws and slightly better fans & just roll more nuclear everywhere." We have the technology to have abundant, green elemental energy. Enough monkey business let's build


What a terrible experience. Discovering new and interesting content is the best part of Reels. The EU only seems to know how to write dumb laws. No more excellence in anything else… except maybe luxury brands.

"on Facebook and Instagram, users will have the option to view Stories and Reels only from people they follow, ranked in chronological order, newest to oldest" #DSA



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"on Facebook and Instagram, users will have the option to view Stories and Reels only from people they follow, ranked in chronological order, newest to oldest" #DSA

Meta has announced that European users can now opt out of algorithmic feeds on Instagram and Facebook, in order to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act 9to5mac.com/2023/08/22/opt… the company is not extending the same choice to users in the US or anywhere else outside Europe



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Llama-2 was almost at GPT-3.5 level except for coding, which was a real bummer. Now Code Llama finally bridges the gap to GPT-3.5! Coding is by far the most important LLM task. It's the cornerstone of strong reasoning engines and powerful AI agents like Voyager. Today is…


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I’m as big of an AI bull as there is and have been for about ten years but holy shit most of the biggest grifters I know have become “AI people” and it absolutely terrifies me.


Contraversial opinion, I know, but I am very satisfied with Singapore’s approach to dealing with drugs. I have never observed anyone taking drugs here. Not even once.

Anyone who has spent time in SF recently is shocked to see thousands of addicts strewn across the streets slowly rotting. Every day two more die and we pick up the bodies off the concrete. My friends who visit always ask how it go this way. An attempted explanation

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This year… is not like the others…

Truly shocking wildfires in Canada 🇨🇦 Cc: @davidfrum @sapinker @LKrauss1 @Noahpinion

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This year… does not look like the others…

🌍🌊🌡️📈 The North Atlantic Ocean is 25.2°C for the first time in observational history. Parts of the ocean are starting to exceed thermal tolerance thresholds for present aquatic lifeforms.

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