So what does it mean, concretely? What repercussions will he personally suffer?

People will snark him 30% harder for a week.

I dunno what you expect, everyone wants to avoid the negative consequences of their actions, should we be surprised that the rich and powerful can actually do it?

No one is surprised, but why shouldn't it be called out and ridiculed as fake accountability and moral theater.

If I had a roommate who spent huge swaths of our monthly budget on house cleaning we didn't need, I might tell them to go find another place to live.

Or to stop stretching metaphors.. The investors should be mad that the layoffs were even necessary.

Yes, and being mad is not 0 or 1.

Investors are mad to a certain degree for a mishap, but then investors are also happy about something else.

To continue analogy, Zuck has made $10,000 for shareholders and had a mishap of $1000.

How much should Zuck be punished here? I don't have a good answer but it is certainly not firing himself for it.

But they were fine with the hiring in the first place. Making mistakes is allowed - it's worse to pretend like everything you did in the past was flawless.

Also, Zuck controls 61% of the vote for Meta. Investors knew that it was his show when they invested

Are you implying the 10% being fired are all bad workers? What if the house cleaner was not the problem here?

Ok, let's continue the analogy. The house cleaners weren't the problem. They are the best of the best at cleaning the pool.

You have the pool but now want to get rid of the pool.

You thought you liked the pool but you don't. It was your own mistake for wanting the pool and changing your mind.

Would you fire yourself from the house? You did make a mistake.

The missing bit is where you say "I take full responsibility for this situation", to the cleaners who's lives are impacted by this significantly more than yours.

> Would you fire yourself from the house?

You keep pushing this false framing/binary for some reason. You made a bad call, you lost the money, that's a given (a passive if you will). Where's the active "taking responsibility" part? That's the main critique.

It is irrelevant if the workers did a good job. They are at the service and discretion of the house. The house, i.e. the owner, always remains. Until everything burns down. In case of Meta, pipe-dream, one can only hope.

A closer analogy would be that you asked the house cleaner to clean the pool house when you actually needed the main house cleaned. The house cleaner recognized that you asked for the wrong area to be cleaned, but went ahead and did it anyway, but did a great job cleaning the wrong thing.

The cleaner isn't the problem with respect to the cleaning itself, but what about the culpability in exploiting someone who has lost their mind? In this case Zuckerberg is willing to accept the exploitation that occurred in the past simply for what it is, but now that he has had a moment of clarity he also cannot let it continue.

> My grandmother would often identify stitching on my slacks. I was, quite literally, blind to it!

I'm telling myself that this is an intentional "blind hem" joke.

Enterprises love Windows for the ability to centrally manage an entire fleet's configuration using Active Directory. Is there anything for Linux that comes close to that?

Ansible is what gets used for large Linux fleets for config management. It's not a 1:1 analog.

Univention Corporate Server.

As much as I want to agree with you, the people who like TikTok make up a significant amount of the population, and their opinions do matter--arguably more than yours, due to sheer numbers.

Smugly dismissing them doesn't do you any favors except for making you feel good about yourself for a few seconds.

You’d be surprised how many people don’t give a shit about TikTok. It’s just another blip in history like Facebook, Instagram, Vine, MySpace and others before them.

All of those were extremely influential and half of them had enough power to select a president.

Regarding "why care." It's where a shockingly large portion of voters and adults get their "news."

• 43% of US 18-29 year olds regularly get news on TikTok

• Half of US adults get news on TikTok, 1 in 5 US "regularly" do so

• This is 2 points less than Twitter and two points more than Facebook

Data from Pew Research (Sep 2025): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-am...

I feel the same way every time I read that someone did something "quietly" in a headline.

Yeah, this is an incredibly common metonym.

Personally, I'm diametrically opposed to the idea of letting Google dictate how web browsers must function, which is what happens if everyone uses Chrome (or a fork) and web developers start targeting features that are only supported by Chrome (and its forks).

The question is not "Is Opera a valid choice instead of Chrome?"

The question is actually "Is Chrome, or anything that's based on it, a valid choice?" and the answer is "no."

> The question is actually "Is Chrome, or anything that's based on it, a valid choice?" and the answer is "no."

yes! and this is what i am interested in. why is the answer "no.", please try to convince me in more detail. i am not interested in "no.", but why is your answer "no"? :-)

e.g. I still have to use Chrome for testing and to use the occasional site that is Chrome-dependent, and I even use the Chrome-based Polypane because it has some really useful features for testing, but when it comes to ordinary browsing non-Chrome is table stakes for me. I'm willing to put up with the completely dysfunctional organization behind Firefox to do that but I'd love to have an alternative.

You just reminded me that I got about halfway through Soul of a New Machine. Maybe I'll pick it back up this week.

Using the example from the article: "K let circle back nxt week bout it . thnks"

I'm not buying your argument. The amount of additional time that it would have taken to write that same message with proper grammar and spelling is minuscule.

typed on a phone, so unlikely to have been at the office.

You have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones

I hare auto correct. It ducks me over all the time.

I'm not sure that's a literal quote from their boss. It seems to be an illustrative example, probably exaggerated.

That depends on your typing ability. My mother only looks up at the end of the sentence to see if she hit all the right keys.

The boss was following Strunk & White's advice to omit needless letters.

You must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt