I don't doubt the thesis, but reviewing commit history is next to useless. I'm probably not top 50% of activity within our organization but I've literally invented most of our tech and my name is on the patents.
If anything, it's the people who spend all day making pedantic code review comments just to boost git actions who have nothing better to do.
I don't mind it when it's done well, just as some more diverse gameplay to change things up. The problem is that it's often done in the most annoying way possible where it just becomes a dumb timing puzzle that you need to memorize in sections and it ends up being almost impossible to do it right the first time.
Yeah this is literally just the newest version of what people have been doing with Amazon and Ebay markets for like 20 years. Anyone can bulk order random shit on Alibaba and then mark it up for the US market. This is just cutting out the middle man.
Praise be upon him
Some VC funded social media is certainly less fascist than other VC funded social media.
Lol you think the feds won't notice that a person of interest's phone went dark for the first time in 5 years?
Everyone gets this wrong. If you want to hide, hide inside your established patterns of life. You want to do shit across state line for a weekend? Don't turn off your phone, have your friend carry it around while you are gone.
The thing which pop security types miss here is the need to blend in. Being a hole in the noise is like the worst thing you can do. Establish a pattern of life and you can use it to obfuscate your alternative activities. Understating how tracking works and using it to your advantage is 100x more useful than pretending like using a different app store or some random ROM is keeping you safe.
New passing meta just dropped
I actually had "an entire country fails the Bechdel test" on my 2024 bingo card.
That's because apple wants to form an abusive relationship with you where you try to justify all the dumb shit they do because you build it into your ego identity.
Wait until you find out how much of Linux the NSA has built.
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