I made a whatsapp business account yesterday, started a test advertising campaign. Went to log in to the developer area, "Your account is banned, there is no appeal". And whatsapp customer services says "Your account is fine and there are no issues and this ticket is closed"
I really, really don't understand why you have to make a facebook account in order to get access to the developer area, and now I get to watch my advertising spending tick up with no way of accessing anything about it.
A trillion dollars of value disappearing in 2 days. We've still got our NFT metaverse shipping waybill project going on somewhere in the org chart, right? Phew!
That's because it was never real to begin with. "Market cap" and "value" are not the same thing. "Value" is "I actually need this and it will dramatically improve my life". "Market cap" is "I can sell this to some idiot".
> The cavity magnetron, one of the first practical microwave transmitters, was an invention of such import that it was the UK's key contribution to a technical partnership that lead to the UK's access to US nuclear weapons research.
No, that's not correct at all. The Tube Alloys project[0] was the key, codified in the Quebec Agreement[1], giving the USA access to UK nuclear weapons research.
It is an item of some irritation to me that many people think the USA was the nation which started nuclear weapons development first. "In July 1940, Britain had offered to give the United States access to its research, and the Tizard Mission's John Cockcroft briefed American scientists on British developments. He discovered that the American project was smaller than the British, and not as advanced."
I'm referring to the Tizard mission exactly, in which Cockcroft brought a magnetron to the US for show and tell. Nuclear weapons were less of an emphasis than radar (and jet engines, also a UK-led development) at that point in time.
Yes! I will draw a slightly roundabout connection here to my pet topics, the British shared a number of fuze concepts as part of the Tizard mission and designs based in large part on the British concepts were developed and tested at the New Mexico Proving Grounds, part of what would later become Kirtland Air Force Base. Much of this work was directed by physicist E. J. Workman, president of the New Mexico School of Mines.
I could probably rewrite the above sentence to improve it, but I focused on the magnetron because it was seen to be of special significance at the time (directly addressed issues that US efforts at e.g. MIT Radiation Laboratory were struggling with) and that there's an interesting story surrounding the couriering of the "most secret" magnetron to the US (it was briefly lost). These were the early days of "classified" as a concept and consistent techniques around safeguarding classified matter hadn't been developed, so the magnetron plays an interesting role there as well (along with documents on a number of topics, but I believe the magnetron was the only "physical artifact" brought by the Tizard mission).
> Do we know how these apps were able to track browser activity? The only clues I see in the article are that it was on a per-website basis, and that it worked in incognito mode.
The App listens on localhost:xxyyzz when backgrounded. You open your browser and go to onesite.com and then differentsite.com the ID you are known as on those two sites is transmitted by having the JS on each site that supports Facebook functionality / ads etc for that site, and runs in your browser, make a request for an asset on your localhost with args <your ID on that website>. The app gets the args, and sends it off to HQ. That ties your signed-in account on the app to your activity on all the websites that was using this. And to be clear, FB Pixel calls are tagged with the 'event' that you're doing like "checkout" "just looking" "donate" etc. While I don't know for sure, I'd assume that the fact you're in Incognito Mode is just an aspect of the data report, I would say. Nothing would stop it.
Nice article, although I despise the "lowercase only" affectation that so many of us techies pass through. Capitalising the first letter in a sentence is a courtesy to the reader, not a stylistic choice you should impose to make yourself feel special.
For balance, I clicked the link and (after a moment of my browser imposing my will) the video started playing. Opera + Ghostery is quite a pleasant experience, at least when compared to mobile browsing (at the other end of the spectrum).
> Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?
Yes, I'd say so. Bear in mind that, outside of the Terminally Online, very few people would deliberately hobble their business by deliberately choosing an inferior product.
I really, really don't understand why you have to make a facebook account in order to get access to the developer area, and now I get to watch my advertising spending tick up with no way of accessing anything about it.
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