The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

I chuckled at the first commenter's description of this as a boulder, but honestly the metaphor is pretty robust.

We're just doing pro cop memes now? How bout no

Only one person can win when it comes to property ownership

Meaning, at the end of the game, more people hate the rich than are the rich. It's not capitalist propaganda.

Both of those things are part of the joke. Monopoly is a parody of capitalism, intended to make you hate rich people. The luxury tax is tiny, reflecting how there's no real cost of living for rich people. Rich people can "go to jail", but it's trivial to get away again.

This feels like the way email scammers operate. Send a troll so obvious that reasonable people are pre-filtered out, leaving only the rubes.

I'm not sure why they'd want to do that to influence an election, though

You're right but let's be clear here: Microsoft doesn't care if it changes the industry for worse, so the only calculus that matters to the execs is whether it works

You're right, the toll roads should be collected by the government, and the amount collected should be based on income so it's not regressive.

Also, they should be placed every 15 feet, so people stop driving altogether.

Maybe he pulled it back to proofread for spelling, grammar and clarity

OP not understanding that they're making a joke about a post that is already a joke on purpose

I don't usually read walls of text (attention span) but this was a good one, worth reading to the end. Well said tbh

Google is actually the sine qua non of what I'm talking about. I'll concede that it's possible Google as a corporate entity will still exist in 2048 (it was founded in 1998). But Google has undergone such a drastic and dystopian management change that it's almost not even the same company now--

--but that isn't relevant to what I'm actually talking about, which is the products. The proposition that Slack logs would still be around 50 years from now was what catalyzed my quip. Google kills everything it makes, usually quickly. Will we be able to look at Google Reader logs in 2048? Or--even closer to the target--Google Wave logs? Google Podcasts? Google Stadia? (I could go on.)

At the end of the day it was just a quip, but I fully expect the SaaS companies you currently think of as indestructible titans to be on the dustheap of history in 20 years, let alone 50.

Yeah. Technically I'm not talking about Microsoft, as their primary product is the OS and they are not purely Internet-based. IBM, of course, is much older than that and also has some Internet products, as does every software company.

In my statement "Internet company" means a company whose only product is SaaS on the Internet; i.e. someone who, if they went away, their product would disappear with them.

EDIT: Noticed you're talking about Gitlab in the question, and I responded about Github, but I'm certain that gitlab does everything the same way, because that's all the technology is capable of. (I have no way to test the ssh -T command at the end for gitlab, though, so ymmv.)

To clear up some minor confusion here:

1. Github knows nothing about your private key. There's very little metadata stored in the private key, and github.com has access to none of it. That includes email address or identity.
2. Github has identity information stored for you, and then, separately, you uploaded a public key. The public key also contains no information about you, but github knows it's part of your account. Additionally, github enforces a requirement that your public key can't be uploaded to any other account, for the reason I'm about to state below.
3. Github has an index built of everyone's public keys (or more likely their digests, although the technical details of the index are not something known to me--and it doesn't matter). When it sees an authentication request, it looks up the digest in the index, which maps to a user account.

At this point it already knows who is trying to authenticate. Once your authentication request succeeds with your public key (the usual challenge-response handshake associated with asymmetric cryptography), github interacts with your ssh client (most likely git) applying the permissions of your user and your user account.

BTW, github has a documented method for testing the handshake without doing any git operations:

        ssh -T git@github.com


  

Depending on your ssh config, you might also need to supply -i some_filename.pem to this. Github will reply with

        Hi aarkon! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.


  

and then close the connection.

Note that the test authentication uses the username git and, again, contains no information about who you are. It's all just looked up on github's side.

Imagine any internet company lasting 50 years.

I think the term "metal" is overused, but this is probably the most metal thing a programmer could possibly do besides join a metal band.

They were chanting "hit the showers" (to prove how pro-Israel they are?? I guess???). So exterminating jews is fine, but getting in trouble for racist slurs is not.

Let me get this straight. Jack Dorsey is:

• not on the Bluesky board,
• no longer the owner of a Bluesky account, and
• heavily posting on Twitter.

Did Elon make him some kind of offer?

I can understand him bailing on Bluesky if he wants to focus on billionaire "philanthropy" or he's just fucking tired of working (wouldn't you be?) but it doesn't explain the Twitter presence.

You can infect a hospitalized patient with MRSA by paying off one (1) nurse, and I guarantee you can find a nurse who will play for cheap. At this point I'm 50/50 on whether the second whistleblower was murdered.