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   :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 18:06:17 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

   Publicly traded companies are based actually.

   You have the ability to financially benefit directly from people's blind, religious brand loyalty to a product.

   It's completely understandable if you invested money into a company that you are part owner in like Microsoft or Apple and then need to justify the quality of their product offerings. It completely boggles my mind when people do so out of simple brand loyalty. Even atheistic materialists will invent a god for themselves.

   Like my DeWalt Hammer Drill has never failed me in my 10-11 years of ownership but you never have heard me talk about it until now because DeWalt is not paying me to advocate their tool quality I just have batteries in their ecosystem.

   It's bizarre because people on here do the exact same thing here but for Windows and Mac and don't bat an eye.

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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:32:40 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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   @agasramirez @pixiecata Yep, it can sell for a good price. They usually collect them first, and once it reached a certain length, they sell it. The price is cheaper but still it's a good price than buying from suppliers.

   The buyers are usually small to medium suppliers (so only buy from those you fully trust). They'll sell it for the actual price. And if the customer asks for a discount, they'll agree because the one they planned on giving in the first place are the stolen ones. The customer is none the wiser because well it's a legit product.

   It's an endless cycle, and rarely anything done against this underground system because there isn't much complaints. Also, it takes a lot of budget and long-time planning to catch them. They have to infiltrate for months, if not years, to find worthy targets that will cripple their network. And the teams who can do this, and without any leaks or tips, are better given bigger projects like catching foreign spies and traitor Pinoys. 😅

   But in fairness, it's much better today than compared to, say, in the 80s and 90s. Back then, stealing cables were done in broad daylight, and the demand was high (and so they actually earn a very govery good price).

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   Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 19:32:08 JST Stephen Farrugia

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   The ai pin and rabbit should be seen as the virtual being taken away for a moment of clarity. A look behind the curtain. They weren’t crap products, they were manifestations of a crap product.

   It’s important to remember there are two ends to the snake oil spectrum. Inert ones like homeopathy or potent ones like irradiated water. They all depend on a belief in potential.

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   Thom, absolute station wagon (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 17:18:23 JST Thom, absolute station wagon

   I'm just so very, very tired of how personal the GNOME drama always feels. It's always about the people, not the product.

   It's just tiring, y'all. Nobody's forcing you to use GNOME. KDE is right there. Be free of your frustrations. This is the open source world - alternatives abound. Just fucking switch and stop being whiny-ass bitches.

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   Aaron (harpaa01@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 12:47:20 JST Aaron

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   @juuh42dias Amy and I used to be in the same department at GitHub and she's awesome!

   We had a great discussion once about incident response.I described the anxiety I felt being on call. She suggested that when I join a call, I think of myself as a subject matter expert coming on to help out, and that my job was to help evaluate what systems are having issues and translate that to what it means for my product.

   It really transformed how I approach it and I have a lot less stress when I'm paged.

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   Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 07:09:57 JST Tim W RESISTS

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   @szbalint what's funny is that (years ago) even hardware load balancers like F5's products didn't actually do these things correctly natively and you had to go in and optimize them yourself. When that was literally the intended value-add of the specialized product.

   It's amazing to me how bad the tech industry is at some of these things.