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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.
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.
Yeah but “half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn’t been updated since 2005” isn’t really a valuable secret, is it?
“You update it using this 509MB excel spreadsheet that has been worked on since June 1993, nobody really knows how it works.”
I just shuddered
Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.
I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.
There used to be more just a few years ago, but I’ve managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.
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
Isn’t VB.Net just .Net with weird syntax for the loops and ifs?
Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2
It’s the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.
There’s also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB
This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.
Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.
As an Australian, I understand what happened. They were all drinking VB while coding it.
Its not even that interesting. Working with Visual Basic is coding with all the fun sucked out of it.
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OoooooOOOOOOooooo…
It is when you’re working at the communications office for a major military base.
Hey NK, if you send me a hottie Korean gf I’ll give you all off my company crentials.
Just imagining the look on that Korean spy’s face when she’s expecting passwords and key cards and you hand her whatever a crential is
It’s like a wotsit with text on it
Hell, I’d settle for an random middle aged north korean spy if they told me that my work matters and that I’m doing ok
As long as it’s consensual I’m down. Improve the life of a bossy NK soldier girl and economically harm my country at the same time, it’s a win-win.
I’m thinking we need a federated wiki leaks. Post your “secrets” and they propagate all over the world in a few minutes.
Wikileaks was centralised because they would not publish anything that would imminently endanger lives or ongoing operations. There was a detailed verification process to make sure the leaks were legit, and redacted where needed
Ohhhhh, TIL. Thanks
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.
Do you have anything to support that claim? Julian was very persecuted for someone protecting allies
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”.
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?
Better yet, distributed. It’s called bittorrent.
Kinda could just use Lemmy / Piefed like that already if it’s text or images.
For documents we’d need a new feature
Hmmm, great idea!
Imagine how much cybercrime NK could commit if they just started a mail order bride program.
The best I can do is social media with an AI thumbnail
What is wasian?
Wikipedia says it’s a word for people of mixed white and Asian descent.
There is also blasian, same idea…
I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.
I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.
so, people who are racist, you mean?
Wasians themselves often use this term as well. It’s just a shorthand.
Not that i would equate the two, but we should all be aware of how meaningless “they use it themselves” is from the n-word. Every time i hear a white guy say “blasian” anywhere on social media its when they talk about how hot a woman is and how its “the best mix”. I know its also used completely innocently, but thats just what my experience with hearing it is.
I think youre just looking at too much porn online. Go to a city like Vancouver where like 30% of the population is wasain and you’ll see people use the term descriptively all the time and it’s not a slur.
I’ll lyk if anyone ever punches me in the face for using the word wasian or blasian around them.
Thanks :)
Not everything is a slur
Rich coming from a muggle
Whoa buddy yer mom was a muggle!
(And a very nice lady)
Is there a Whack?
Or Blite? Sounds too close to “blight” though.
I bet you feel that about a lot of things, don’t you?
Note that the term is most common for people of East Asian backgrounds! And, at least from my experience in HK, the term is also used for Asian people (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in Western culture.
I would add that it’s very much an American English and Canadian English term.
Westernised Asian, mostly used to describe mixed people (East Asian and European), but I have also heard it being used to describe Asians (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in a western culture (at least it’s common in Hong Kong).
It’s sometimes used for people who are proud of their heritage / background, but it is unfortunately also often used in a negative sense by bad people.
I am not too big of a fan of the term, it’s a bit silly and too generalised. Somebody who is part Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. will all have different cultures, experiences, and traditions! It also doesn’t help that it’s another term that generalises “Asians” as specifically meaning just East Asian people. However, some people are perfectly fine with the term, and that’s ok too!
I thought it was west Asian
I thought it’s a uwu way of saying Russian?
the new blonde
(Psst… I know where facilities keeps the key to the thermostat…)
you might have to sign some boobs
Honestly she wasn’t that hot. Think he could’ve done better.
Honestly she’s not that hot
I feel that is part of the trick. He’s the head of one of the most mentioned companies of the world, likely pretty rich himself, if all he wanted was to bang 20-year old models, he could do that all day long.
But when the special becomes normal, it stops being special.
If I were to guess how to trap someone like him, id pick someone who comes across as intelligent, creative, independent, younger but not too young to have accomplished things or act mature, attractive but not crazy Hollywood star attractive… The kind of person that wouldn’t usually jump a rich guy’s bone. Someone desirable particularly because they’re not the average groupie.
Remember Nicole on here? Similar story. Attractive but no model, just slightly alternative enough, hinting at a convoluted CV while currently getting a STEM degree…
Holy shit, maybe I am overanalysing this.
I wonder if they have a plethora of model-looking spies to choose from, in which case I think you’re right, or if this is just one of their top female spies that had the right skills to seduce him regardless of attractiveness.
Maybe it’s the classic she-was-a-normal-person-and-she-really-liked-him-then-they-turned-her-into-a-spy plot
We are really living in the most stupid timeline, even the James bond shit is straight from a reality TV show
China has roughly 4.1 billion people. 1% of that is 41 million. Among that many people, some of them have to be very attractive.
It’s 1.4 billions, not 4.1…
I mean, if China was 4.1, ans India has to be more, being the biggest population, that puts us already at 8.3B, that’s the world population.
Thank you! I thought that was high. I typed the numbers backward.
I am assuming we all know the obvious, that he was in on it and is now just feigning having gotten Honey Trapped; and are just pretending not to, to make some jokes.
Hot or not, they where clearly hot enough for him to be honey trapped.
Occam’s razor, eh. Your explanation seems simpler / more likely to me.
Why do you assume that he would intentionally sabatoge his company in the most embarrassing way possible?
He would intentionally sell GPUs to whom he wants to sell them to and then make it look like sabotage to prevent being tried for treason.
What does his affair have to do with selling GPUs to China? (Genuine question, I’m out of the loop.)
The woman he had the affair with is linked to a company that has been linked to smuggling GPUs into China
Isn’t she just a front for sending GPUs to China?
