While a bunch of NSA spies groan as (probably) a perfectly good vulnerability they paid top dollar for, dies.
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dojan@lemmy.world 1 year agoBet some overworked and underappreciated engineer is working on it right as we speak.
ours@lemmy.film 11 months ago
pensa@kbin.social 1 year ago
If that engineer is coding that they should not be appreciated. They are part of the problem. I don't care about the pay or the status of being a facebook engineer. I really don't respect any engineer that has worked for any of the FAANG companies. Those fuckers sold out their morals the second they typed the first character of the first line of code while employed there.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like an unpopular opinion. I rather get your sentiment, but I don’t think it’s that black and white.
I’ve a friend who through Amazon (AWS) managed to leave his rather shitty country with an oppressive regime, for a much better place. I personally would never want to work at the ACRONYMCLUBS, but they do have a lot of money to swing around. If you’re from some shithole, I totally get doing some less than moral (yet still perfectly legal) work just to get yours on the dry.
I’m glad I’ve never been forced to make such a choice but still, I get why people do it.
pensa@kbin.social 1 year ago
In that situation I would view the person as self serving. Doing something to improve one's own situation at the expense of others is not conducive to a good society. I care more about the group than one friend in a tough situation. I liken it to the trolly problem.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Writing a single line of code for Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or Google means you don’t have any morals? That’s a pretty extreme stance. Are you at least consistent about it? Let’s see.
By your logic, if a person has ever purchased anything from, viewed an ad served by, or used a service or product created by any of those companies, they’re part of the problem and unworthy of your respect. After all, their actions have increased their value even more directly than a developer’s actions did - and unlike the developer, they didn’t get paid for it.
Do you apply that logic to every other for-profit corporations, just these, or some subset of them? Are nonprofits safe? Is it just developers that you have a problem with? What about product managers, scrum masters, engineering managers, HR? What about Apple storefront employees, Amazon warehouse employees, Amazon delivery drivers, Customer Service for Netflix, or content moderators for Meta?
pensa@kbin.social 11 months ago
Most of what you typed is reductio ad absurdum and I will not entertain it.
To the part that is not I will say that yes I do apply the same standard to any business or employees that uses their size to to enshittify. It's called Right Livelihood and if more people lived by it we would not have the current problems with mega corps.