I had to double check to see if I didn't accidentally click on /int/ a few times.

Thread is 100% going to get y'alled because there's a lot of outright racism. Some of the shit here seems so outlandish that my first reaction is that it has to be fake ragebait, but on the other hand, I've seen a lot of similar things firsthand.

Ahahahahaha I almost dropped from my chair laughing and thinking of our former teammate Dinesh.

I dunno what the dude was doing, but out of 5 daily standups every week he would probably straight not show up to at least 1 or 2 of them, show up and claim network or mic issues to another 1 or 2 (with obvious sounds of driving and clicking turn signals in the background) and just tell some utter bs on the remaining one he would come and actually participate.

I once got on a small project with him and from the first day to the last day of that assignment I couldn't even understand what his role was supposed to be - I literally had to write all the code myself. Maybe he was a QA or even a manager over me and I haven't noticed that? Shame on me.

The thing is that when he disapperared one day (probably after 6 months on the job), the team did not even notice him not being there - I don't think I've seen any meaningful code in the whole repo authored by Dinesh.

honestly kind of based if he got paid the whole time

American Express in Phoenix AZ(Phoenix AZ and Scottsdale AZ) should be named Indian express. Systematically Asian Indians replaced every other people of color. Only 15%-20% non Asian Indians work here. Huge corruption. Lot of Asian Indians who are director and above take cut from the billing hours of the contractors being placed there in various IT projects. American Express, Cisco, Citigroup, Verizon Wireless are all like this - they are living heck - nobody trust anybody(exact India kind of situation)

the immigration system being used to exploit and abuse workers?

One of my coworkers is an Indian women, who I'm relatively certain is from a lower caste, and my Indian male manager is unbelievably disrespectful to her. She is legit the best dev we have and the team loves her. There's definitely the general misogyny as well, but this feels different. No matter what or how much she does he treats her like she's trash.

On the one hand I feel bad for this woman, but on the other hand:

It gets better. I worked for a federal VA contractor. They hired an Indian woman with no background in the work we were doing. You couldn't find her on LinkedIn, she would never mention the last place she worked like normal people do. She'd never name drop. You know, typical stuff a new person says in their day to day interactions with new peers. She did the exact same thing from above. One by one she PIPd the white members of the team and replaced them with Indians. I pointed this out in a skip level and was told I was being racist. Then I got PIPd and ousted as well. I was replaced by an Indian.

I am not racist. But there is something strange going on in tech right now.

I noticed this a few years back to be honest when I was job hunting. The minute I stepped in an interview with Indian people, I knew it was over already.

Its been happening for a while unfortunately and many people are sick of it. The problem is that people label you a racist for bringing it up so people just keep it hush hush, which is ironic since Indians exclusively hiring Indians is racist. Ignoring Indians exclusively hiring Indians the main reason why companies in general like hiring people on H1Bs is that theyre basically forced to work at the company or else theyll be sent back to a country much worse than America. On top of that theyre paid less on average (last I checked about 5%-10% less) most likely for the same reason. Company's can easily take advantage of them.

good materialist analysis

The large majority of Indian ppl I work with are chill, friendly, and reasonably competent, though some of them are freakshows, but that's the same for any other group. But no amount of DEI cultural sensitivity training is going to fix this mess.

I was asked by a kind Fredrick Brennan for my comments that I might offer on the discussion of removing ReiserFS V3 from the kernel. I don't post directly because I am in prison for killing my wife Nina in 2006.

it's actually a really interesting read, shame about the murder

orange sight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626

NEW - Chinese scientists experimenting with a "mutant coronavirus strain" that is 100 percent lethal in "humanized" mice — Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/SJv5PP9xsZ

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 16, 2024

PrePrint: Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-1 related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(short_3UTR)

Daily Fail

Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic.

Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice.

The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.

Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick.

The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.

r/prepperintel

LipStick Alley lol

I promise this will be my last VIRUS related post until the next time I post one.

you can read the full article here

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/195kv2j/men_who_identify_as_incels_have_fundamental?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/195nlih/study_finds_that_incels_need_mental_health?sort=controversial

It's old and from 2022 but it's still funny

The chuddie who wrote that is also a GME ape and antisemite lmao

While responding to poomodomoodododo's comment about the banana diet, I remembered a story from years ago about a dumb woman who ate nothing but bananas and got brain damage. I couldn't remember the details, so I searched for "banana diet brain damage."

Duckduckgo yields 2 negative articles and a bunch positive adverts articles about the greatness of bananas. BIPOC, I am doom-searching, so give me doom and gloom results.

I even found this garbage article by a female doctor :

https://www.thehealthy.com/food/i-ate-bananas-every-day-for-a-week-heres-what-happened

>tl;dr - omg liek i ate a banana everyday and I have so much energy!

Written by Dr. Patricia Varacallo, DO

Updated: Dec. 23, 2023

Medically reviewed by Latoya Julce RN, BSN

>by r-slurs, for r-slurs

No, duckduckBIPOC! I am looking for bananas and brain damage. Not women prancing around and singing about the glory of Big Banana.

So I tried google which wasn't bad. Looks like a bunch of informative stuff! But as I kept scrolling, I get hit with this pile of carp:

Oh yeah, if you click on Images, it's nothing but fat black women eating bananas.

So I settled for Pootine's yandex:

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=banana+diet+brain+damage&lr=21348

And it's nothing but articles about the dangers of banana diets. That's all I wanted, but not really because I was looking for a news story about the lady who ate too many bananas and went into a coma or became even more r-slurred , but I got distracted because I had to give YOU, dear reader , this hard-hitting research.

That's why search engines are crap, and will save the west.

Hey, Marsey! Tell us how you really feel about today's internet.

It's full of BIPOCs.

Apparently C peasants like myself are too low-born to engage directly with the type theory aristocracy, only subtweeting is appropriate ;)

— Andre Weissflog (@FlohOfWoe) January 5, 2024

This guy has a neat cross-platform C library https://github.com/floooh/sokol. The original tweeter is friends with a committee C++ CUTE TWINK who is ruining C by adding dumb features like breaking the auto keyword or nullptr.

You should probably download the things you want to save, but I don't care about the IA after what they did to the Farms.

Year of the Maestro desktop when?

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38852360

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/18xi0zm/maestro_a_linuxcompatible_kernel_in_rust?sort=controversial

https://lemmy.world/post/10275857

No idea what's the deal with this kick.com website, they allow softcore porn on it or something? idk

Holy shit this guy's whole blog is based as frick.

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1735292040986886648

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1735315976827101274

Abridged summary from Ledger themselves:

• This morning CET, a former Ledger Employee fell victim to a phishing attack that gained access to their NPMJS account.

• The attacker published a malicious version of the Ledger Connect Kit (affecting versions 1.1.5, 1.1.6, and 1.1.7). The malicious code used a rogue WalletConnect project to reroute funds to a hacker wallet.

• Ledger's technology and security teams were alerted and a fix was deployed within 40 minutes of Ledger becoming aware. The malicious file was live for around 5 hours, however we believe the window where funds were drained was limited to a period of less than two hours.

• The genuine and verified Ledger Connect Kit version 1.1.8 is now propagating and is safe to use.

• For builders who are developing and interacting with the Ledger Connect Kit code: connect-kit development team on the NPM project are now read-only and can't directly push the NPM package for safety reasons.

• We have internally rotated the secrets to publish on Ledger's GitHub.

• Ledger, along with Walletconnect and our partners, have reported the bad actor's wallet address. The address is now visible on chainalysis

• Tether_to has frozen the bad actor's USDT.

• We are actively talking with customers whose funds might have been affected, and working proactively to help those individuals at this time.

• We are filing a complaint and working with law enforcement on the investigation to find the attacker.

• We're studying the exploit in order to avoid further attacks. We believe the attacker's address where the funds were drained is here: 0x658729879fca881d9526480b82ae00efc54b5c2d

https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1735326240658100414

There is a certain kind of programmer who wants to implement stuff as programs running other programs on whatever specific operating system, passing output of one to the next program that may or may not be installed or at the location or version you expect.

People need to…

— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) December 8, 2023

Seriously just expose a function no need for your gay-butt shell scripting language. Unrelated, but oil-shell guy is strag (See the re-write it in rust incident).

Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.

Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.

They do not exist.

Nada.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 24, 2023

It's not often (read: ever) that I get to post about drama from my country, but this one is hot off the press and I think you guys might find interesting.

Full info is in the nitter thread, but here's a quick rundown:

QRD

Eduards Sizovs is some bloke that organizes and runs several international tech conferences, of those the two that are important to this are DevTernity and JDkon, though there are others

Apparently the organizers of these events do not accept applications from potential speakers, but instead reach out to people they are interested in, thus creating this more of a closed group of speakers.

Well, now as it turns out, there are fake speakers that are signed and advertised at these conferences (and have been in the past). In reality, they are merely fake online personas created by Eduards, and have never actually appeared at any of his events. Currently 4 such personas have been identified, all of them being women.

Here's Alina Prokhoda, a speaker at the upcoming DevTernity conference with prior experience at WhatsApp and Microsoft MVP who has been identified as a non-existent person who has never worked for those companies:

And here's Anna Boyko, with the same issues

Besides these there's also Julia Kirsina who worked as Uber's software Architect in Estonia, despite Uber not even having such division in that country, and there's also Natalie Standler who (didn't) work at coinbase.

Eduards has pushed back against the notion of him creating fake speakers by saying that a single fake was added by accident, but was quickly proven wrong when it was shown that these 4 fine ladies have been signed up to his conferences on 5 different occasions in total, and yet have given 0 speeches, without anyone ever seeing them in person.

This caused the organizer to go into full damage control mode as other, actually real speakers started pulling out of the conference after being informed of the controversy

But how could this happen? Surely someone would've noticed that these people don't exist?

Well, as it turns out, while the people themselves are fake, they have a very real online presence- we're talking several different social media accounts with over 100k followers, actively posting motivational quotes about girls who code, all while hiding behind what are likely AI-generated pictures of women. In short, Eduards has been quite successfully running several catfish accounts pretending to be women

Even Kiwifarms' LFJ gave her opinion on the matter, which is a complete moment which just shows that fricking everything and everyone is connected

So now for the big question: why would he do it?

Well, the guy who broke this story speculates that the reason behind why every fake persona is a woman is that Eduards, the organizer, has been trying to up his DEI compliance to attract bigger fish to his conferences by making them seem more inclusive than they really are, and probably to get some gibs/shoutouts from the organizations that promote such nonsense in the first place. Oh, and of course to milk attendees who pay... up to 800$ to attend? WTF people?

Well, now he's been caught and his entire life's work will likely go down the drain. Sucks to suck

So what's your opinion? Is the dude based for duping r-slurs, or is he an r-slur himself for thinking no one would find out?

Based - 253 votes

R-slur - 51 votes

I would like to apologize if this is a bit clumsily written because I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here trying to write about shit I have no understanding of off twitter, but I wanted to do it quickly so none of you strags manage to snitch it first

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 22, 2023

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883

i love openai, and everything i've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya's support, i'm looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721

We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.

Tard reactions, still early and it's late at night, so not much happening.

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1812faf/sam_altman_back_as_openai_ceo?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1812fco/same_altman_is_ceo_of_openai_again?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1812f4j/sam_altman_to_return_as_ceo_of_openai_with_a_new?sort=controversial

Semi-serious question (rdrama is somehow both extremes of the bell curve in one environment and thus 100% of the opinions i want), what would you index?

I'm currently running at all of serverfault, and I'm shocked at how well it's working.

Pic related.

Anyways, give me your weird conspiracy blogs, your obscure technical forums, your good reads and everything else that piques your interest.

You can bully me with troll links because I miss being lastmeasured, but I'm sincere posting because the modern internet is boring and fricking useless if you're not trying to mindlessly scroll feeds or watch short form video. The greybeards are gone and now my generation are the greybeards and I'll be motherfricked if I'm going to be part of the reason shit gets fricked beyond all repair.

Anyone here that knows how to port forward like whats for the xbox live, go install https://yacy.net and leave it running. Takes being online for about an hour to git gud, and now you can go index all the weird shit you want to be able to find. Millions of URLs is a few gigs of memory, less resource usage than a bitcoin miner.

>2 Comments, +3

>"gonight never posts"

Let me be clear: America will lead the way during this period of technological change.

But we're going to do it in a way that puts safety first.

Today at 2:30 PM, I'll sign a historic Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence that will do just that.

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 30, 2023

ok, this is a lot of fun https://t.co/XP46mvtlCA pic.twitter.com/glqP8HrdM9

— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) October 5, 2023

Changed my App Store Région to download final fantasy ever crisis and couple other games that are banned because of loot boxes

And got this message

Account nicht in diesem Store

Dein Account ist nicht für Einkäufe im

Store für Deutschland gültig.

This account is not from this store so you can't “buy” this free app.

On my moms android I just downloaded the apk from some Indian site.

Apple promised side loading with iOS 17 and it came out today and guess what… iOS 17 came out today with no side loading