Firefox also sells personalized ads

Is this in reference to sponsored content on the new tab page?

and tracks your keystrokes.

Telemetry? Or something else?

You might be right now that you mention it. 🤔

Through the wonder of Sci pulling random bullshit out of their ass.

Since you couldn’t search for ‘trauma psychology definition’ or similar, here you go

https://www.apa.org/topics/trauma

Your comment is every bit as nuanced and informed as I expected it to be.

A big part of it seems to be manipulation of the results? So, like, devs writing tests for more parts of the code base, but ones that are written to always pass.

Ok I’m going to answer my own question because I’m too curious to wait lol

Goodhart’s Law states that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” In other words, when we use a measure to reward performance, we provide an incentive to manipulate the measure in order to receive the reward. This can sometimes result in actions that actually reduce the effectiveness of the measured system while paradoxically improving the measurement of system performance. … The manipulation of measures resulting from Goodhart’s Law is pervasive because direct measures of effectiveness (MOEs), which are more difficult to manipulate, are also more difficult to measure, and sometimes simply impossible to define and quantify. As a result, analysts must often settle for measures of performance (MOPs) that correlate to the desired effect of the MOE. … These negative effects can sometimes be avoided. When they cannot, they can be identified, mitigated, and even reversed.

• Use MOEs instead of MOPs whenever practicable and possible
• Use the scientific method to generate new measurement data, rather than harvesting existing and possibly compromised data
• Help customers establish authoritative and difficult-to-manipulate definitions for measures
• Identify and avoid the use of manipulated data and data prone to manipulation
• Use measurement data not generated by the organization being measured
• Collect data secretly or after a measurable activity has already occurred
• Measure all relevant system characteristics rather than just a representative few
• Randomize the measures used over time
• Wargame or red team potential measures

This report recommends that the organizations that employ analysts should do the following:

• Return to the roots of operational research to focus more on direct measurements in the field
• Answer the questions that should be answered, rather than the questions that can be answered simply because the required data are already available
• Train analysts on MOEs, MOPs, and Goodhart’s Law and how they are interrelated
• Make recognition of Goodhart’s Law part of the internal peer review process and part of all delivered analytical products
• Identify and share mitigation best practices

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So how does a company manage anything if they can’t use measurement targets?

Like software engineering. How do you improve productivity or code quality if setting a target value for a measurement doesn’t work?

Is it? Maybe I’m out of the loop.

FWIW, EFF just published this:

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

And privacy badger

I see all too many recommendations to use Brave in comments so a post like this is of value.

Linux mint ftw

In effect, it will be for some people fed up with all this bullshit.

Fuck yeah it is. I love PSL, pumpkins, fall leaves, cool weather, harvesting shit, and all that autumnal crap unironically and unapologetically.

I think there’s a meme about that

Idk but here is info on ‘Christian Girl Autumn’

“Christian Girl Autumn” is a years-old, seasonal meme created to lightly mock a certain type of, usually white, woman who is obsessed with all things fall, from knitwear to hot beverages.

From an evolutionary standpoint, yeah, we’re donuts or tubes. It was either that or cups. Those creatures, like sea anemones eat and expel, erm, waste out of the same hole.

An example of a fellow tube is a sea cucumber

At least you can admit you were wrong and change your mind. Those abilities are all too rare.

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Ha that hit hard. This is basically the system I just upgraded to. Well at least it’ll run the game well.