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   David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 06:07:41 JST David Smith

   Your employer offers CORBA coverage as part of your termination agreement. You accept before noticing the typo, but it's too late; they've already attached a Portable Object Adapter to you and started forwarding you remote method invocations.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 06:07:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @Catfish_Man
     The irony is I noticed the typo while reading, and started to mentally make the joke before discovering the post was already making it.

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     David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 06:16:45 JST David Smith

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands some of the terminology gets really creepy in this context. I originally had a bit about registering you with their servant locator and then was like "…y'know what, the joke doesn't need to be that grim"

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 06:16:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @Catfish_Man
     As cursed as CORBA may be, it’s really the health insurance side of this equation that’s going to win out in the creepiness context.

     “Requests may be denied by the broker due to preexisting conditionals.”

     “Clients may be billed any number of times for the same item. Failure to pay bills may result in seizure of the user’s home directory.”

     “A server may run a ‘stop loss’ program, which allows arbitrary execution of users. The only mitigation is reincarnation.”