Saying “I don’t believe X conspiracy theory” is understandable. But saying you don’t believe in any “conspiracy theory”. Like, you think that the government just always tells the truth and doesn’t cover up anything?

Yeah I agree. Pretty sure the whole trust part goes out the window when you aren’t releasing the actual raw footage to the press.

Unironically, if all they did was just cut out parts they didn’t want, using open source ffmpeg to rencode and strip metadata would have been the best way to do it.

Using Adobe is just fucking sloppy. Not to mention, I’m pretty sure Adobe own any content that got uploaded to their servers during the edit. They likely have at least frames of it sitting on their servers if not the whole video.

ffmpeg

Literally just had the same thing happen to me. This time at Microsoft. Worked for a small startup. It got bought out in 2023 after investments in actual hardware that wasn’t named Nvidia died.

Layoffs on most of our engineers. Somehow I survived and basically did no work for 2 years. Was finally laid off.

I hated it. But I basically stole a salary from Microsoft for two years. Fuck these big tech companies.

Fucking Christ. Glad I left windows behind.

Oh man. You should see the source code for IOS (the Cisco one not Apple).

Spent 5 years working on it out of college. I think it’s the most cursed code base you can imagine.

Not necessarily because of the massive struct defs everywhere. They are kinda needed when you’re running an entire OS as basically a set of interacting Linux processes pretending to be an OS.

At some point Cisco realized they could not compete without putting a Linux kernel as their base. So they basically just copy and pasted the old code written in the early 90s for the IOS and put it into a set Linux processes.

To be clear. It’s not just the front end. They didn’t really change the code much from the old IOS. Its a cluster fuck of interprocess communication hacks that probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

It is a massive pain in the ass to code because you’re basically doing everything on the Linux kernel and then frustratingly have to write the CLIs for IOS just so Cisco can continue to sell their proprietary OS with some of the most unnecessary hardware locks. Massive learning curve for any new engineer.

Literally, no one on the entire switching team knew how to send a message from a specific process to the IOS process. I had been assigned something that needed it. So I somehow figured it out and was “the guy” for that for the time I spent there.

Fuck. I’m gonna start ranting more if I go any further. But yeah, sometimes you need a massive struct because some idiot decided that forcing a closed source CLI on the market is a good idea for profits.

Definitely not a good idea for coding. But you learn quickly that no one actually cares about good code in this industry. There is no time for it. There is no reason for it. Just spit out garbage until it works and your manager won’t care.

If you want clean code. Go write an open source project or a personal project.

Yeah I was gonna say the whistle blowing is searching for videos of the IDF online. They literally make tiktoks of their war crimes set to some awful music track.

Yeah. It’s not like you “suddenly” realize you’re a Nazi and decide to kill yourself. His brain broke after being a fucking Nazi for so long. Rest in piss.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

MLK, A letter from Birmingham Jail 1963

A much better person to quote and something we actually know he wrote.

Because he was a child. Sadly he wasn’t even given the chance to grow up and learn what the police really are.

ICE will absolutely be outside every voting box just waiting to harass anyone with an even slight tan.

You’re not wrong. America has used Gaza as a testing ground for their suppression and terror on population. The biggest difference is that Palestinians are united against their occupiers and even still are resisting the fascist Ethnostate of Israel. They have perfected their terror in drone and AI weapons.

We, we are not united. And we have too many liberals standing on the sidelines hoping the next vote will make things normal again.

Absolutely. ICE should not feel safe getting out of their vans. Especially in Blue cities.

In Seattle one thing we’ve been doing is trashing the exit of the ice facility with those green scooters. Blocks their vehicles. Every little bit helps.

Yeah. The ballot box method is over guys. Any vote that’s even close is gonna be “guarded” by ICE agents. They’re about to hire every racist Trump supporter in every state with their budget. This is it. We are past the Rubicon and I can’t even see it when I look back at the horizon.

This administration is not worried about votes.

I did a “rm -rf *” in the wrong directory today.

I got the absolutely beautiful “argument list too long” in return.

I had a backup. But holy shit I’m glad the directory had thousands of files in it and nothing happened. First time I got that bash error and was happy.

I usually have rm aliased to “trash” or whatever that cli based recycle bin is. But just installed a new OS and ran this on a NAS folder today by mistake.

Not my list. Copied from another comment. Read the report though and this should be most of them.

Lockheed Martin

Leonardo S.p.A

FANUC Corporation

Microsoft

Alphabet

Amazon

IBM

Palantir Technologies

Caterpillar

Rada Electronic Industries

Hyundai

Volvo Group

Booking

Airbnb

Drummond Company

Glencore

Bright Dairy & Food

Netafim

BNP Paribas

Barclays,

BlackRock

Vanguard

Chevron

Elbit Systems

Allianz

AXA