I'm thinking we need a federated wiki leaks. Post your "secrets" and they propagate all over the world in a few minutes.
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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
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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
Ohhhhh, TIL. Thanks
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!
The best I can do is social media with an AI thumbnail
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.
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.
VB.NET isn't all that uncommon - it isn't exactly Fortran, and it's still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he's just used to it...
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.
OoooooOOOOOOooooo.....
It is when you’re working at the communications office for a major military base.
Imagine how much cybercrime NK could commit if they just started a mail order bride program.
What is wasian?
Wikipedia says it’s a word for people of mixed white and Asian descent.
I would add that it's very much an American English and Canadian English term.
There is also blasian, same idea...
I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.
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.
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