link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112
this thread is filled with insane shit
all about things technology has done to actively make life worse for us all
these people should all be shot
“Built an aircraft-mounted camera gimbal pointing system that I thought was supposed to be used by energy companies to look for power poles but was also sold to US Border Patrol to hunt down immigrants. Not my finest hour.”
- Least fascist enabling ycombinater poster
I used to work at a grocery store in a very small town. The late shift was just me and one other person. 11:30 pm on a Tuesday in a small town of less than 700 people, right? Nothing going on, there hadn’t been any customers for hours. My coworker was amusing himself by throwing pencils against the ceiling and catching them as they bounced back down.
11:36pm, we get a phone call. It’s someone claiming to be from “corporate surveillance” who asks us to stop throwing pencils against the ceiling. I never felt comfortable at that job again.
message to all hackernewses: detonate bombs in your boss’ office to get into heaven
On the ethical side I built a paywall for a billion dollar news company and stoped people from bypassing it, then they change the cancel button for a call customer support button to effectively steal money from the elderly etc who signed up but don’t want to go through the long cancel process
I spent a day on the phone playing operator tag while trying to cancel my Houston Chronicle subscription. At the end, I just called my credit card and told them to stop payment.
