venturecruelty

Legislation is how we hold the powerful to account, ideally. It turns out, when people have billions of dollars, sometimes you have to stand up as a society and tell them "no".

No, obviously... What?

How do you square that with "use AI and get this feature done in three days or have your 'performance reviewed' with HR in the room"? Because I'm having trouble bridging that gap.

Edit: help, the new org said the same thing. :(

Edit 2: you guys, seriously, the HR lady keeps looking up at me and shaking her head. I don't think this is good. I tried to be a real, bigboy engineer, but they just mumbled something about KPIs and put me on a PIP.

Lmao no, my job is to make the line go up and make my boss happy. It was ever thus.

Call it what it actually is: societal abuse from wealthy oligarchs with their masks removed. One man bought up all the RAM on planet Earth, and everyone's like "lol I guess computers are just expensive now".

Not that America's car culture isn't a dangerous problem, but I'm pretty sure highway deaths don't explain this...

You people are exactly what you claim to be fighting against. Grow up. Or, come out and profess your love for the taste of boot leather.

Well, consider how awful it is to be poor in the United States, and it makes sense why people work so hard to avoid it.

>Never expose your server IP directly to the internet, vps or baremetal.

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>Edit: A few people on HN have pointed out that this article sounds a little LLM generated. That’s because it’s largely a transcript of me panicking and talking to Claude. Sorry if it reads poorly, the incident really happened though!

For what it's worth, this is not an excuse, and I still don't appreciate being fed undisclosed slop. I'm not even reading it.

Yeah, mom and I sat down one afternoon and we changed all of her passwords to long, secure ones, generated by 1Password. It was a nice time! It also helped her remember all of the different services she needs to access, and now they're all safely stored with strong passwords. And it was a nice way to connect and spend some time together. :)

Not for anyone who doesn't have a financial stake in said fraud, no.

I still can't believe that there are so many people out here popping boxen and all they do is solve drug sudokus with the hardware. Hacks are so lame now.

How is that different from any regular election year?

That makes collusion okay. QED.

Thanks, I'll pay my rent with this information when I get laid off.

You can also just pay your workers in scrip and then hire Pinkertons to kill them if they get uppity about it. It's hard not to become cynical when people seem almost willfully ignorant of the despicable history of capital in this country...

>Because if you read the other comments, there are perfectly reasonable explanations that don't involve graft. Jumping to "bribe" every time there's bad behavior is just lazy thinking and means you don't actually figure out what the root of the problem is.

Right. I'm sure, in spite of this and the decades of overwhelming evidence, this was all just a silly coincidence, and they can lower food prices now.

Edit: I'm shitlimited to five posts per X number of hours, so I'm going to respond here: the evidence is in TFA, thanks.

Don't you see, someone just has to say "this is not a bribe", and, like magic, they can finagle their way out of their corruption. "Bribery" has a very narrow definition, which conveniently doesn't apply to the corruption in question.

Block GCP, AWS, Azure, and various datacenter prefixen, and you're pretty much golden. There are scant few legitimate reasons a human being's traffic would originate from those hosts.

Everyone who has prayed for rain: thank you, your services are no longer required.

Weeping and gnashing of teeth because RAM is expensive, and then you learn that people buy 128 GB for their desktops so they can ask a chatbot how to scrape HTML. Amazing.

Please absolutely do not use that ragebaiter to draw conclusions about poor people.

Because their TC is $400,000 and they need it to justify their Bay Area mortgage. Come on, folks, follow the money.

There is if you want to blame the victim and/or work for Apple.

Waiting for all the weeping and gnashing of teeth because holding companies accountable might mean programmers have to actually care.

It's company scrip for Boomers.

We are the petro-state, and they're our aging leaders.

Which is most of us. I'm paid well, and I feel fortunate for the privilege. But even my bills (healthcare, housing, etc.) are bonkers lately, and I live in a sleepy suburb. My health insurance will be much worse next year, and I probably need surgery, so that'll be nice and expensive. Meanwhile, we blew billions on an acquisition and laid off a lot of good senior talent. My colleagues and my friends.

I don't think people here truly understand how much people are struggling, even other software developers. I think everyone here thinks every other programmer pulls six figures working at a FAANG, but it's not true. Except now, capital is out for blood, and the Palo Alto is the only place with some fat left to trim.

"We can't end slavery! The cotton industry would collapse!"