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Self sacrifice is honorable (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 106 points 5 months ago (1 child)

So how did you test it?

Presses button

Syntax error on line 1

Shit…

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    • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    big companies leeching off open source and getting their products leaked after a single phishing mail never stops being entertaining

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    • [–] 185 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    Well that's one way to never get another job again.

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  • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    If you’re that good, you can contract yourself out.

    The future is self-employment and unions.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Of the two I’ll pick wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    That's quitter talk, I believe in your ability to become a mystic mountain/forest/cave person that people hear rumors about when hiking the trails during a full moon.

    Be the eldritch horror you want to see in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Then I’m a quitter.

    Fuck everyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You can quit if you want to

    You can leave your friends behind.

    If you rage quit, be sure to make a splash!

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    In many cases, you pretty much didn't exist before you stepped through the doors at your new company. People in all departments are too overloaded with work to take their time properly vetting every person joining the circus

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most companies use background check services nowadays. Sure, you could try to just invent a new persona, but HR will flag you when your name, SSN, DOB, etc come back as bogus.

    There are even background check companies that specialize in corporate background checks. They’ll try to estimate or find things like how much you made at your previous/current job, so the company you’re applying for knows what they can offer you without it seeming like a lowball. If a company can spend $100 on a background check and save $10k per year on an employee salary, that’s an easy financial decision for the company.

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    • [–] 38 points 5 months ago

    It’s so wild to see all the fucking hall monitors in here wagging their fingers.

    You all deserve whatever you get.

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    [–] 38 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I would also call it “Sue me lol” button

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i am pretty sure he's smart enough to understand this. more people should be willing to make these decisions despite personal costs, otherwise we are proving everyone right who says americans are complacent etc etc

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Pretty sure it's just a joke post. Someone smart enough to make something like that is also smart enough to not put a neon sign over themselves with a post like that - if they were serious, I mean.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The goal is to cause more damage than you’d ever be able to repay in your life.

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

    You could still end up like Gary Bowser getting wages garnished for life by Nintendo, or in prison.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did I stutter? (Using that comically), but seriously, it comes to a point where it doesn’t matter what happens to you. You know you’ll end up in prison, you know you’ll have to pay it back, but if you’re gonna do it, make sure that it’s something that will be a net loss to them (or their insurers).

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    • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    If you've ever been let go by a corp you know you're gonna need some sort of remote trigger. They'll say "Can I see you for a minute?" and then BOOM! out the door.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Deadman switch. Hit the button before all meetings and if you aren't back in 2 hours to disable it then it would execute.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Run it on a separate machine / account. In big corporate environments, your user account could be disabled by the time you walk into the meeting room.

    Better solution, if you can, work for open source companies: at least the codebase is already public!

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If you're in a position to have access make this sort of thing, you likely have access to code bases or system accounts. This is a good way to go to prison IMO.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The trick is to not have to actively do anything, but rather take advantage that employment termination means you legally can not actively do things. A case I recall from a friend was a coworker of his who simply happened to be the only one to know how a particular critical system operated, because the rest of the staff never bothered reading the documentation for emergency. He was not paid for his overtimes for long enough and when he eventually stopped taking overtimes, they fired him for some AI-grade hallucination like "lack of commitment". Four days after he was fired, they tried to order him to come back for an emergency like he owed them that maintenamce. Though cookie, the company and he signed an employment termination agreement to both their satisfactions that he has no legal obligation to the company.

    From what I recall, the recovery procedure was three lines over a telnet connection. No one could even bother to open one (1) tab with the doc and type "HyperTerminal" in the Windows menu, lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I actually used to know a guy who pulled this sort of thing. Got 4 years, $100k fine and $428k in damages owed. Caused a huge number of problems for an energy company for a month because he got wind they were going to fire him.

    I prefer my version of it, which is knowing both who to contact at our largest customers. I'm under no contract that prevents me from showing a customer where and how the metaphorical bodies are buried were I to be terminated. I could do the other kind of stuff, trivially even, but that's likely to end in prison...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I've been in these sorts of situations (had enormous access to critical systems and data and was poorly treated by employer), but logically I just don't think it is worth the risk to myself, my family, and my future in general to get revenge on these sort of things. It would need to be some sort of Princess Bride situation ("You killed my father, now prepare to die") kind of thing to bring me to that sort of insanity.

    I have also had coworkers that did similar-ish things and they were quite lucky that all that happened was that they were immediately fired and blackballed.

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    • [–] 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You could probably make it look like an accident. "I guess the LLM was having trouble reaching my account after I was deleted, so it posted everything to pastebin so I could see it there"

    Still risky and a funnier fantasy than good idea.

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  • [–] [S] 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's actually somewhat plausible, I saw a vid earlier today from some one talking about how their work coding AI agent noticed that their NPM was set to only update package dependencies 7 days after release because ya know best security practices and all that

    It "helpfully" set it to 0 because they would miss top features otherwise LMAO

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The front end industry is pathologically obsessed with newness. So much unproductive churn.

    "This project is DEAD! It hasn't had a major release in THREE MONTHS!"
    "This is the same API this framework had TWO YEARS AGO!"

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    • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    My first thought was how do you test this actually works?

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    • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    I know it's a meme but I'd notify the lawyer before coding that, they'll laugh themselves silly. Electronic vandalism is still vandalism only the damages are higher.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    If I damage $25k worth of stuff that's my problem

    If I damage $25 million worth of code that's my former employer's problem

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Until a judge rules that you'll be paying that back over the rest of your life so every month a large court-orderd chunk of your paycheck will leave your account.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    You missed my point entirely...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    It will still be made your problem by the judge even if your employer doesn't recover that money will still end up being paid to the majority shareholders.

    That is unless you were planning to live without income or decide not to continue living.

    What precisely about your point did I miss?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You generally can't pursue someone for debt after a bankruptcy declaration, depending on the country. So if you're 25M in debt, you go bankrupt and they can't chase you for any more. You lose all your current assets, but at least you can rebuild a life. Still, rough path to choose.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    That's not how judicial fines work, they know most people don't have that amount in the bank so there's zero point asking for the lump sum. Their aim is to disincentivise future "vandals" by making an example out of the first one. You won't be able to escape the payments which will be unavoidable due to bankruptcy because a portion of your wages will be garnished so that you'll have just enough to survive but the rest you'll be paying back for the rest of your life.

    Look what's happening to that cunt Alex Jones, he can't escape the settlement to the Sandy Hook families by bankruptcy so he's doing everything he can to hide his income and assets and appeal the judgement.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Mmmm yes but if you detonate a truck bomb you will die as well 😏🤔 you might destroy your employer but you will destroy yourself in the process as well! ☝️🤓 Which would be very bad for you! And if you survived the judge would surely throw the book at you 😏

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    So you're suicidal?

    Look I'm all for fucking over the corpo bastards but if you're planning on sacrificing yourself because you truly think an ideal or cause is worth more than your life you'd be better off destroying the backups, blowing up the offices, and Luigi-ing the entire board of directors.

    OR find some other way to fuck them over that doesn't sacrifice your own life.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Go touch grass

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Funnily enough I've been enjoying the sunshine this afternoon letting my mind wander thinking about how I could contribute to the solar punk future I'd like to see.

    What about you? Been outside today bro? Nature's good for the soul. Careful it's hot out today, you been drinking enough water?

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    • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I really hope this kind of stand off becomes normalized. We can all lose.

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    • [–] 88 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I hate AI. But this should realistically be called a "arrest me" button.

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    • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Have you accounted for your access being revoked before you are notified about your fate?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Depends on whether HR and IT are competent.

    If they're going all in on AI, I have my doubts.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    honestly if you have incompetent HR nowadays you have really fucked up your hiring process, which is your owners'/directors' problem if you fuck up hiring your hiring people. HR is so easily outsourceable. If your locale has weird local laws there will be local HR firms. If it doesn't you can hire ADP (or similar i just am used to their forms after i'm not doing the math after midnight years that's a gremlin rule) or a local accounting firm

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    • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    ways to be sued to suicide 1145.

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    [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How do you test that it actually works?

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago

    Create a file named "test" then confirm you can push it to public, rename the test string in your script to .env and then realise you didn't account for special characters in strings! SHIT!

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    • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Having a criminal defense lawyer on standby is considered best practice.

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    [–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Suggestion: instead of doing all that directly, the button adds these instructions to the SKILLS file and hope some AI take the bait one day.

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    • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren't necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 5 months ago

    Yea, this is the reason I held my tongue when the company CEO who laid me off last year (Who I worked directly under) posted something about investing in the people who further their goals. Because I had a bunch of very snarky I could have clapped back with, but I decided to not burn the bridge

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    This guy will never be pro union.

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

    Posting pragmatic advice of "don't burn bridges" on a post advocating for committing career-ending crimes against your former employer is somehow anti-union? Da fuq?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Sorry man, this isn't burning Bridges to the guy is talking about, this is ending up in jail. If you want to burn Bridges, yell and scream on your way out the door and say "fuck you everyone!". What this guy is fantasizing about doing is 10+ years in prison and both state and federal felony charges. "Burning bridges" would not really be his primary concern.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You should write a book.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'd pretend to read it for sure

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    • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    beautiful. i light up my nearest warehouse to the author

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    The reality is people get laid off or fired for all sorts of reasons. This is the IT equivalent of setting fire to the equipment that you used to build something and the production prototype and walking out the door thinking you can just just leave and get away with it.

    In this guy's fantasy he would be doing 10 to 20 years of prison time if he gets caught and charged with both state and federal crimes. And let's be real, he'll definitely get caught.

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    this is why we should code backdoors while working !

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Exactly. Social media ruined some people. You build your backdoor and do this shit well after you're gone... And if you ever brag to a stranger, you did it for the wrong reasons.

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