I had the exact same experience. Never used Facebook. Wanted to create a page for a product. Suspended. Did the face scan. Now they have my face and I'm still suspended. Absolute joke. Zuckerberg can go suck a fat one.
So much this. Everyone has their own idea of that the project should do and it's hard to explain that whilst that implementation is great for their specific use case, it's pretty shit for everyone else.
But then you just move the security issue elsewhere with more to secure. Now we have to think about securing the automation system, too.
This is the same argument I routinely have with client id/secret and username/password for SMTP. We're not really solving any major problem here, we're just pretending it's more secure because we're calling it a secret instead of a password.
Cloud providers have put a lot of time and effort into making you believe every web app needs 99.9999% availability. Making you pay for auto scaled compute, load balancers, shared storage, HA databases, etc, etc.
All of this just adds so much extra complexity. If I'm running Amazon.com then sure, but your average app is just fine on a single VM.
> If I get a single email after I've unsubscribed I go back in my inbox and mark every single email I ever received as spam.
Fuck me, that is brutal and could absolutely ruin your SES complaint rate - even with the suppression filter on, as the emails are already in your inbox.
I was in the same position as you when I started my law degree!
My solution was:
- Take notes on paper
- Scan with Genius Scan (free) or similar
- Upload to Microsoft Document Intelligence on Azure to get character recognition and a PDF output (standard OCR sucks for handwriting; also free for up to like 50 docs a month)
- Tidy up the text and store in Mediawiki long-term (you can also upload a copy of the OCR enabled PDF) (FOSS)
We have just stopped accepting PRs entirely for now. It's been utterly exhausting. We never got many PRs beforehand anyway so the uptick in entirely LLM written PRs was very noticeable.
We do continue to argue with LLM-submitted security disclosures. If these aren't an issue I just instant-close because debating with an LLM what is and isn't an issue is fucking painful.