Raining Man - 70,000 trapped by mud at Burning Man 2023. Pray for the techbros - eviltoast
    • maol@awful.systems
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      1 year ago

      I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.

      But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I’m angry again.