I dunno. I think I’d be pretty safe to hire for $millions/ year & stocks, medical, etc, sworn to secrecy, no problem.

…unless they start sending BTGGs my way. Then I might falter. I mean, I’m not stupid, I would know at some level that I’m being honeytrapped, but at some point, some part of me would be saying “might be worth it? I’ve missed out on so many chances at BTGGs, maybe the universe is sending me one to make up for it?”

I’m about 95% sure I wouldn’t falter, but that other 5% of me is thinking ‘bout how fun the ride down would be.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    That sounds very conspiratorial, wikileaks didn't create the leaks, the leaks were sent to them. If US intelligence operatives and military staff sent in files, why did Russian operatives and military staff have to to the same extent too?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Recently in the car I told Siri to remind me of something when back home and that dumb ass piece of shit tells me it can’t do that since I have to store my home address in settings first. “Intelligence” and “assistance” my ass. How about to use the location the phone is for 90% of the time each damn day?! Or the address Apple Maps uses when I hit the “drive home” button?! Or the address from my own fucking name in the address book?! There is absolutely nothing intelligent about these systems.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    npm, or node js by extension, is famous (infamous?) for having a library for however simple something is to implement. For example a whole library to trim spaces of a string, but only for the left side. Here the joke takes it to the extreme and even import numbers, if conditions, etc., features that are already available in the core language, from external npm libraries, and use that to write a code snippet.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Got no valuable secrets but if anyone wants to hire me and pay me a few million a year, stock etc I'm fine with keeping my dick in my pants. Its really not that difficult if you take your marriage and job seriously.

    You can buy a serious amount of focus, discipline and keeping dick in pants for a fraction of what these CEOs take home.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Julian was a scapegoat that outlived his usefulness and was tossed to the wolves.

    important to point out that the rape allegations against him were dropped quietly after the 2016 election due to the "statute of limitations" being triggered. he served his time and was officially released in 2024.

    every major release from wikileaks attacked the US state in some way, albeit deservedly. though, it's odd that no other major world government was attacked as thoroughly as the US was.

    it's clear that the US is in the state it's currently in, due in-part to the leaks published by wikileaks.

    so ask yourself, of all the other countries that participated in the Afghanistan war. the ones we now know committed war crimes against the people there. Canada, Russia, Israel, Australia, Great Britain. out of them, who lost the ability to govern itself the most other than the US? Who continued to govern itself with impunity?

    wikileaks was a weaponized intelligence operation that was supposed to target the US, specifically the citizens. it was supposed to sow the seeds of discontent, and it only took a short decade to show positive results. it set the stage for Trump to become president through brainwashing the American population with the simple honest truth, "you cannot trust your government".

    not saying this makes what the US did in Afghanistan "ok", though the outrage that followed was a bit misdirected due to the machinations of "worldly powers".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    alternatively...

    Wikileaks was centralized because they would not publish anything that would imminently damage the goals they were attempting to achieve. There was just enough beurcracy to ensure leaks that were attacking allies were silenced and leaks exposing targets were amplified.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    It is not, and I've heard of people preferring it even. Just not me. In my eyes, it's just a worse version of the C#.NET aspx views that might make OC shudder again.

    Maybe more to your tastes, we also still have COBOL systems. Not quite Fortran old, but close

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