Plot twist: Theres still hackers in multiplayer even with all that crap plus rootkit they bundle with.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Turns out my ribs don't actually care whether the boot that cracked them came from a decisive kick or because someone clumsily tripped over me.

(Also sufficiently advanced malice is often indistinguishable from incompetence by design: "oops we didn't mean to, please forgive us and we pRoMiSe we won't get caught do it again!")

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep, that last part is ... basically the most important concept of running a large organization, if you're a corpo/evil bureaucrat.

    The obfuscation is the point.

    The 'I thought I was in compliance' is the point.

    The 'this is too complex to assign blame simply'...

    That is the fucking point, of designing and running a system that works in that way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    weaponized incompetence exists at basically all levels of human interaction, alas...

    but it's especially shitty when corpos do it.

    I really wish we'd stop fucking around and make executives regret what the people they are literally responsible for do. Their monetary compensation should be consummate with consequences--if they're making three thousand times the amount of their front-facing employees they should be three thousand times more culpable for the shit their organization pulls.

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