Preacher: Can you read, my son?

Bubbles: Well that depends; can you go fuck yourself?

source

OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944

There’s a link at the top for the full pdf. And do note, OSS is Office of Special Services, the WWII precursor to the CIA - not Open Source Software lol.

Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.

Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:

• Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

• Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

• When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.

• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

• Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

• Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!

I read about some smart tvs computing a hash of what’s on screen to phone home about, in attempt with figuring out what content a user is watching when that content is 3rd party controlled.

We need some privacy laws up in this mother fucker.

No I hate MS. I won’t ever forget the pain that was developing edge cases around Internet Explorer (fuck IE 6, that shit was the worst).

stupid clear background thing

In web design that’s called a modal.

If you buy OEM laptop, how would you sell subscription windows with it?

“SomeShittyAntivirus free for 12 months with purchase of this laptop!”

s/SomeShittyAntivirus/Windows/g

Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.

It’s called meth.

A moose once bit my sister.

I’ve been using mine for 10+ years, maybe changing batteries once.

I currently use it with a NUC loaded with linux mint, and have the UI HD scaled (it’s an out-of-the box option).

The only native functionality of the actual smart tv that I use, is the power button.

Edit: Tilde

I prefer the call it a floppy hyphen. Though I’m not allowed to use the term in code reviews anymore.

Edit: Oh shit! An sdf.org account, first one I’ve seen in the wild. I haven’t used mine since I don’t want to goof off like I do and reflect poorly on them.

Would you like some making fuck, berzer ker!

“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”

This dude is going to look real foolish in five years (if not already).

Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

(The idea’s that the company tanked, just like this tanker did.)

The front fell off.

I’d go with state actors first.

When a particular social media platform is centralized, you can buy yourself a say percentage of stock and have sway over it (cough tencent), or have a useful idiot ruin the platform (cough musk), or another useful idiot to run propaganda you like anyway (cough truth social, cough fox news, cough newsmax…), or yet another that will sell out it’s host country’s citizens for cold hard cash (cough facebook).

But when that social media platform is decentralized? Well, then you’d need to figure out how to poison the well early on to stave off adoption. The Saudi Arabias, UAEs, Chinas definitely don’t like the idea of lemmy, and it’ll be way harder for them to control if critical mass is hit.

Didn’t you see what musk said about legos and pop cans? It can be done, the tronk just needs to be built out of legos and pop cans, duh!

wife installed it accidentally and now she’s fucked

Do you guys have kids by any chance? If so, that means MS is a mother fucker.

sudo modprobe i-can-do-it-myself

I guess I’m missing where you made your initial point of “this applies to any profession”. Could you please restate your point?