Any idea of how much of their code is still primarily PHP? Curious myself.

If you mean stock vanilla php: none. If you mean Hack, Meta’s PHP dialect which is internally just called “PHP” colloquially: a lot. Basically everything that responds to a public HTTP request, both for APIs and for the website. And since Meta is a lot less “service-oriented” than some companies, a lot more application logic happens in the web server process than you might expect.

Backend services in languages other than Hack do exist, of course. When I left Meta (then called Facebook) in 2019, they were almost exclusively in C++. Now I don’t know for sure but I think Rust is gaining a lot of popularity for non-Hack stuff.

IG should still be Django I would think? I'm kind of curious about Facebook / IG's use of GraphQL, is it hack or just nodejs?

You might be right about IG, I never worked on it so I’m not sure. Certainly there was still some Django when I joined in 2015 but now, who knows.

I’m not sure what you mean about the GraphQL question. Meta doesn’t use Node at all, or at least not to any significant extent.

The entire website is still a PHP-like derivative language (with an optimizing compiler, etc). Backend services are largely C++.

Well “hack”, but the same idea

I've seen people use them as a way to replace pauses in speech. I see it more with boomers / Gen-X.

example:

he isn't wrong... why do you think that ... it's a good thing

Well, now that AI makes heavy use of it, I've been using it less. AI LOVES it.

I've been using double hyphens (which auto-corrects to emdash now) for as long as I can remember. Now that it's a marker of AI, I find myself removing it whenever I reply to comments.

Same as my bank pin too!

Now your balance is 00000!

Also, on TMobile if you dial #662#, it'll block the Scam Likely calls at the carrier.

Oh man. They start at 7AM and end around 4-5ish PM. I was hoping the war between Pakistan and India would make these stop. Jk obv. Nobody likes wars. But other than Tmobile are there similar methods for different providers? It can get so annoying. I did restrict calls from known numbers only.

I had no idea. Thank you!

I have my phone set to silence Unknown callers. What did you have setup on the Pixel before to block them?

That’s too heavy handed for me. I get valid calls that I need to answer that aren’t in my contacts.

The calls they flag as potential spam and telemarketers has been 100% accurate in my experience so i wish I could just silence those

Usually you are expecting these calls tho so you can turn off that feature when you do. If said person calls often, add them to your contacts.

They could also just easily enhance the feature right? It’s an extra if statement in the code. I get enough calls that it’s not practical to constantly edit a setting that’s like this. There’s nothing else in the settings app I change regularly, it’s mostly set and forget.

It’s much better to just silence every spam call manually instead of having to go into voicemail, listen , decide if I need to respond, hope that I’m acting quickly enough that the other person answers when I ring them back, etc. i imagine this works for a lot of people. But if you get enough calls, or get urgent calls for any reason, it’s not ideal.

For those that can’t imagine the use cases. Consider you are primary contact for your elderly parent. If they fall in the middle of the night you might be getting a call from any random number. Do not disturb isn’t an option and sometimes the EMS guys will call you from their personal cell phone. Even some services like home security will call from random numbers. If ask a plumber to come over, some random technician will call from their device to talk. If a potential client gets my number somehow, I’d prefer to answer versus them get my voicemail.

You have to also factor in that a lot of people don’t even like leaving voicemail so they don’t leave one and I’m left guessing if it mattered that

I just see if they leave a message. If they don’t, they’re sorted. If they do I can always call them back.

I need calls from unknown numbers (doctors, vendors, etc.) Pixel would flag spam calls and not ring, all the unknown-but-valid callers got through without issue.

Scams have gotten better since AI. Most of the common spelling mistakes are gone.

I was looking through some phishing e-mails the other day out of curiosity and found a weird unicode character mistranslated. Immediately knew it was an artifact of bad translation. So they're not perfect, but they're damn good.

The common spelling mistakes are there for a reason most of the time.

> a reason

Because people who read the message and think it's professionally written despite the spelling errors have a large overlap with people who will fall for the scam, at least far enough that money is transferred.

Can't wait to buy from some west coast hipster with a garage fab now that it's economically viable. /s

But wouldn't it be cool if that were a thing? Miniaturized fab tech that some extreme tech hipster could produce bespoke chips out of the garage?

I wonder if you gave the right people a billion dollars what the best garage sized fab they could develop could do.

The ESP32-C6 has a Zigbee radio. I have 6 myself -- they're great.

Does the Zigbee work well/as expected? Does it have lower power draw when doing Zigbee vs. wifi?

I'd like to know that too, have been considering doing some zigbee tinkering, and battery powered would be a requirement. I've read in some other comment that nRF would be much better in that regard. Need to do some googling for numbers...

I bought a few of those, but at $8 they're a bit pricier than the $3 Espressif spoiled me with.

supermini boards with esp32c6 on it can be had for approximately 4 euro each.

Do you have any links? I couldn't find any.

Digikey has the modules for under 4 EUR in unit quantities, but they aren't the friendliest to integrate, since they only have pads on the bottom. I also found some boards with the bare chip for just over 4 EUR there, you can also find similar ones on AliExpress.

Nice, thanks! I didn't find them a few days ago when I looked, and I spend $40 for 5, when I could have gotten 10. Thanks again.