• perishthethought@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    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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      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

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      6 hours ago

      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

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      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.

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    9 hours ago

    Yeah but “half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn’t been updated since 2005” isn’t really a valuable secret, is it?

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        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.

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            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.

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              32 minutes ago

              As an Australian, I understand what happened. They were all drinking VB while coding it.

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      I feel that is part of the trick. He’s the head of one of the most mentioned companies of the world, likely pretty rich himself, if all he wanted was to bang 20-year old models, he could do that all day long.

      But when the special becomes normal, it stops being special.

      If I were to guess how to trap someone like him, id pick someone who comes across as intelligent, creative, independent, younger but not too young to have accomplished things or act mature, attractive but not crazy Hollywood star attractive… The kind of person that wouldn’t usually jump a rich guy’s bone. Someone desirable particularly because they’re not the average groupie.

      Remember Nicole on here? Similar story. Attractive but no model, just slightly alternative enough, hinting at a convoluted CV while currently getting a STEM degree…

      Holy shit, maybe I am overanalysing this.

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        I wonder if they have a plethora of model-looking spies to choose from, in which case I think you’re right, or if this is just one of their top female spies that had the right skills to seduce him regardless of attractiveness.

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          China has roughly 4.1 billion people. 1% of that is 41 million. Among that many people, some of them have to be very attractive.

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          Maybe it’s the classic she-was-a-normal-person-and-she-really-liked-him-then-they-turned-her-into-a-spy plot

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            We are really living in the most stupid timeline, even the James bond shit is straight from a reality TV show

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      I am assuming we all know the obvious, that he was in on it and is now just feigning having gotten Honey Trapped; and are just pretending not to, to make some jokes.

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      Westernised Asian, mostly used to describe mixed people (East Asian and European), but I have also heard it being used to describe Asians (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in a western culture (at least it’s common in Hong Kong).

      It’s sometimes used for people who are proud of their heritage / background, but it is unfortunately also often used in a negative sense by bad people.

      I am not too big of a fan of the term, it’s a bit silly and too generalised. Somebody who is part Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. will all have different cultures, experiences, and traditions! It also doesn’t help that it’s another term that generalises “Asians” as specifically meaning just East Asian people. However, some people are perfectly fine with the term, and that’s ok too!