How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained
Your guide to understanding an industry where capitalism is euphemized
Airbnb (n) – A hotel company that figured out how to avoid the expense of owning hotels or employing hotel workers. See unicorn. (v) – To illegally convert an apartment into a vacation rental in a city with an affordable housing crisis.
Amazon (n) – A website that went from selling books to selling virtually all items on Earth; it’s also a movie studio, book publisher, major grocery chain owner, hardware manufacturer, and host for most of the internet, to name just a few endeavors. Competitors in nearly every industry fear its might. Formerly known as “the everything store”; soon to be known as “the only store”.
angel investor (phrase) – A wealthy individual who invests a small amount of startup capital at the earliest stages of a company or idea. Often, the angel is part of the entrepreneur’s extended network, whether because they went to the same college, worked together at a previous company, or are family friends. Frequently a vocal opponent of affirmative action. See also meritocracy.
apology (n) – A public relations exercise designed to change headlines. In practice, a promise to keep doing the same thing but conceal it better. “People need to be able to explicitly choose what they share,” said Mark Zuckerberg in a 2007 apology, before promising better privacy controls in a 2010 mea culpa, vowing more transparency in 2011, and acknowledging “mistakes” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. See Facebook, privacy.
Apple (n) – America’s first trillion-dollar company, which achieved inordinate success through groundbreaking products such as the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone. After it ran out of ideas for new products, Apple maintained its dominance by coming up with new ways to force its customers to purchase expensive accessories. See dongle.
artificial intelligence (ph) – Computers so smart that their behavior is indistinguishable from that of humans. Often achieved by secretly paying real humans to pretend they’re robots.
Autopilot (n) – The name Tesla gives to its advanced driver assistance system, ie souped-up cruise control. Named after the advanced technology that allows pilots to take their hands off the controls of a plane, but very much not an invitation for Tesla drivers to take their hands off the wheel, right, Elon?
bad actors (ph) – People who use a social media platform in a way that results in bad press. Bad actors usually take advantage of features of the platform that were clearly vulnerable for abuse but necessary to achieve scale. “The Russian intelligence operatives who used Facebook’s self-serve advertising system to target US voters with divisive and false messages were ‘bad actors’.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy
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Your guide to understanding an industry where capitalism is euphemized
Airbnb (n) – A hotel company that figured out how to avoid the expense of owning hotels or employing hotel workers. See unicorn. (v) – To illegally convert an apartment into a vacation rental in a city with an affordable housing crisis.
Amazon (n) – A website that went from selling books to selling virtually all items on Earth; it’s also a movie studio, book publisher, major grocery chain owner, hardware manufacturer, and host for most of the internet, to name just a few endeavors. Competitors in nearly every industry fear its might. Formerly known as “the everything store”; soon to be known as “the only store”.
angel investor (phrase) – A wealthy individual who invests a small amount of startup capital at the earliest stages of a company or idea. Often, the angel is part of the entrepreneur’s extended network, whether because they went to the same college, worked together at a previous company, or are family friends. Frequently a vocal opponent of affirmative action. See also meritocracy.
apology (n) – A public relations exercise designed to change headlines. In practice, a promise to keep doing the same thing but conceal it better. “People need to be able to explicitly choose what they share,” said Mark Zuckerberg in a 2007 apology, before promising better privacy controls in a 2010 mea culpa, vowing more transparency in 2011, and acknowledging “mistakes” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. See Facebook, privacy.
Apple (n) – America’s first trillion-dollar company, which achieved inordinate success through groundbreaking products such as the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone. After it ran out of ideas for new products, Apple maintained its dominance by coming up with new ways to force its customers to purchase expensive accessories. See dongle.
artificial intelligence (ph) – Computers so smart that their behavior is indistinguishable from that of humans. Often achieved by secretly paying real humans to pretend they’re robots.
Autopilot (n) – The name Tesla gives to its advanced driver assistance system, ie souped-up cruise control. Named after the advanced technology that allows pilots to take their hands off the controls of a plane, but very much not an invitation for Tesla drivers to take their hands off the wheel, right, Elon?
bad actors (ph) – People who use a social media platform in a way that results in bad press. Bad actors usually take advantage of features of the platform that were clearly vulnerable for abuse but necessary to achieve scale. “The Russian intelligence operatives who used Facebook’s self-serve advertising system to target US voters with divisive and false messages were ‘bad actors’.”
Full tech bro article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy
Or read on TG:
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/469
#howto #techbro
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How to Live Without Google | Ultimate Guide
An Ultimate Guide on Alternatives to Google's most widely used Apps & Services.
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An Ultimate Guide on Alternatives to Google's most widely used Apps & Services.
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Telegraph
How to live without Google | Ultimate Guide
1) Google Search It is most widely used Search Engine but it collects a lot of user info when used like user IP address, User agent, Location, Unique identifier (stored in browser cookies), Search queries. However, privacy-friendly search engines have caught…
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Firefox Privacy - The Complete How-To Guide | Restore Privacy
This guide contains updated recommendations and privacy tweaks for Firefox, revised to reflect the latest version and new features (October 2019). Mozilla Firefox is arguably the best browser available that combines strong privacy protection features, good…
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How to Secure Anything
Security engineering is the discipline of building secure systems.
Its lessons are not just applicable to computer security. In fact, in this repo, I aim to document a process for securing anything, whether it's a medieval castle, an art museum, or a computer network.
💡What is security engineering?
Security engineering isn't about adding a bunch of controls to something.
It's about coming up with security properties you'd like a system to have, choosing mechanisms that enforce these properties, and assuring yourself that your security properties hold.
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Security engineering is the discipline of building secure systems.
Its lessons are not just applicable to computer security. In fact, in this repo, I aim to document a process for securing anything, whether it's a medieval castle, an art museum, or a computer network.
💡What is security engineering?
Security engineering isn't about adding a bunch of controls to something.
It's about coming up with security properties you'd like a system to have, choosing mechanisms that enforce these properties, and assuring yourself that your security properties hold.
👀 👉🏼 https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything
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How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 1: The Principles
Search is dead. So how do we revive it, without billions of dollars in funding and massive computing resources? We leverage the crowd.
We need a functioning search engine if the open web is to prevail. Google and its competitors do not care to make a decent product. It counters their business goals. So we have to build it ourselves.
https://chapra.blog/how-to-build-a-search-engine-part-1-374/
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Search is dead. So how do we revive it, without billions of dollars in funding and massive computing resources? We leverage the crowd.
We need a functioning search engine if the open web is to prevail. Google and its competitors do not care to make a decent product. It counters their business goals. So we have to build it ourselves.
https://chapra.blog/how-to-build-a-search-engine-part-1-374/
#search #engine #build #howto #decentralized
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How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 1: The Principles
Search is dead. So how do we revive it, without billions of dollars in funding and massive computing resources? We leverage the crowd.