It's not a matter of "do they take the job or not take the job".
They have the job already, and instead of doing something to build solidarity and worker power, they're just thinking about how sad they are about the world.
A bunch of lameass engineers and computer scientists who literally make the drones and bombs that they drop and then post on hexbear about how #alienated they are is the exact same as a philosophy duo who provided us with the framework of class analysis.
My plan is to just continue being a good little coder (or promote into a manager) for a few more years and then retire in some cheap house somewhere with my partner and try and live as cheaply as possible while spending all my time doing drugs, walking around in nature, and meditating
Somebody asked something about doing "daily standups", which are basically short daily meetings with your software team. There were a few replies and "SalivaHoles" made a comment along the lines of, Apple and some other company do standups, but google and meta don't. They later they replied that they didn't have to do standups. So that would narrow it down to them being an employee of Google or Meta. The whole exchange was just generally awkward because they framed having this meeting as this binary occurrence at the company level which is just not how it works.
In this sequence (https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3174259), the top post asked if they worked at google and why tensorflow sucks. Tensorflow is google's "open source" machine learning framework. "SalvieHoles" responded with something like, they "work at meta and are part of the NSA". But then edited their post to remove that they work at Meta. If they work at Meta doing ML stuff, they should be aware of TensorFlow, but they might use PyTorch. So I made a sarcastic comment about them confirming they work at google and dunked on TensorFlow with some very specific examples (https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3174292). They then played dumb that they don't know about tensorflow and removed their comment saying they work at meta and did some vague claim about denying they work anywhere. I told them their opsec was bad and they called me a redditor, I called them an asshole and they deleted the whole thread within 5 minutes of that comment. I personally wasn't paying enough attention to know if there were other examples, but I did read a fair amount of the thread. One of the other threads was about open source contributions and they seemed to have a very cursory understanding.
These aren't smoking guns, but overall they didn't demonstrate a consist narrative. My basic conclusion is that the "SalviaHoles" account was roleplaying.
Their story wasn't square at all and they were soliciting resumes and offering to help people with personal information. Their account was a day old too.
It was a bad troll at best, and at worst somebody attempting to phish for user information.
How long have you worked at Google? Why does tensor flow suck so hard? Is it because of you? How long have you worked for the cia?
"SalviaHoles" wrote something like:
I actually work at Meta. I'm not involved with the CIA, but I'm more involved with the NSA.
Then very shortly after that post, it was edited to remove the Meta part:
I'm not involved with the CIA, but I'm more involved with the NSA.
I do not remember the whole sentence verbatim about the NSA, but if read literally it implied involvement with the NSA. The response could be interpreted as sarcastic, but the whole exchange was weird.
I am completely entrenched in the Silicon Valley culture. I live within an hour drive of Meta, Google, Apple, and LinkedIn HQ. All my friends are also coders at high profile companies. I also went to Stanford lol
I'm just the gal that does the scut feature implementation coding work for the ML researchers, I'm not qualified to answer your question unfortunately.
A cia agent was trying to run an ama as a tech bro
Ah okay, I saw that post’s title earlier today and was like ‘why tf would you tell anyone on here that’ and never read the thread
Marx: "I would never have been able to complete Kapital without the assistance of my dear friend Engels, who owns a factory"
Leftists in 2023: "Is doing wage labor class treason?"
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Pretty fair to say being a labor aristocrat at the class warfare factory is somewhat bad
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can you fucking blame them? if I could I would
it beats a lifetime of drudgery and death in the water wars and it's not like their life savings, though substantial, will fund an army
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It's not a matter of "do they take the job or not take the job".
They have the job already, and instead of doing something to build solidarity and worker power, they're just thinking about how sad they are about the world.
A bunch of lameass engineers and computer scientists who literally make the drones and bombs that they drop and then post on hexbear about how #alienated they are is the exact same as a philosophy duo who provided us with the framework of class analysis.
It is if you're a pig or a scab lmao
Edit: The whole post should be a tagline.
AMA I am currently building socialism among the working class of Langley, Virginia
I was trying to be excessively generous with that poster, to a fault. And now I feel extra ridiculous. :funny-clown-hammer:
You know people have hobbies other than throwing bricks at cops, right?
Why do you think she was a fed?
There were two suspicious discrepancies:
Somebody asked something about doing "daily standups", which are basically short daily meetings with your software team. There were a few replies and "SalivaHoles" made a comment along the lines of, Apple and some other company do standups, but google and meta don't. They later they replied that they didn't have to do standups. So that would narrow it down to them being an employee of Google or Meta. The whole exchange was just generally awkward because they framed having this meeting as this binary occurrence at the company level which is just not how it works.
In this sequence (https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3174259), the top post asked if they worked at google and why tensorflow sucks. Tensorflow is google's "open source" machine learning framework. "SalvieHoles" responded with something like, they "work at meta and are part of the NSA". But then edited their post to remove that they work at Meta. If they work at Meta doing ML stuff, they should be aware of TensorFlow, but they might use PyTorch. So I made a sarcastic comment about them confirming they work at google and dunked on TensorFlow with some very specific examples (https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3174292). They then played dumb that they don't know about tensorflow and removed their comment saying they work at meta and did some vague claim about denying they work anywhere. I told them their opsec was bad and they called me a redditor, I called them an asshole and they deleted the whole thread within 5 minutes of that comment. I personally wasn't paying enough attention to know if there were other examples, but I did read a fair amount of the thread. One of the other threads was about open source contributions and they seemed to have a very cursory understanding.
These aren't smoking guns, but overall they didn't demonstrate a consist narrative. My basic conclusion is that the "SalviaHoles" account was roleplaying.
Their story wasn't square at all and they were soliciting resumes and offering to help people with personal information. Their account was a day old too.
It was a bad troll at best, and at worst somebody attempting to phish for user information.
She said she works for the NSA?
Yes.
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"SalviaHoles" wrote something like:
Then very shortly after that post, it was edited to remove the Meta part:
I do not remember the whole sentence verbatim about the NSA, but if read literally it implied involvement with the NSA. The response could be interpreted as sarcastic, but the whole exchange was weird.
That is weird.
link?
The whole post was deleted, but here's my contribution:
https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3174292
damn it, I wish they would leave things like this up. This is the slop that makes me feel alive.
Here's some quotes:
https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3173989
oh come on, this HAS to be a bit :debord-tired: