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0 pointsabduhl4y ago0 comments

You're not the first person to question people questioning whether the antiwork echo chamber is being manipulated by state actors. How do I know you aren't part of the counter counter espionage? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic posts or accounts?

What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory is to go directly into a deeper conspiracy theory then it's pretty likely you've already made up your mind about the underlying topic and aren't approaching the discussion in good faith anymore.

Edit: this is especially true after watching 4 years of the federal government waging an internal war between two factions about how much "influence" a foreign power had over our social media and elections.

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fivea4y ago

> What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory (...)

From where I'm standing, the stupidity that stands out is how some people are desperately trying to gaslight themselves and everyone around them by trying to depict people chatting about workplace abuse as being something outlandish and utterly inconceivable.

I happen to stumble upon posts from /r/antiwork and I have to say that personally I had the misfortune of experiencing far worse than what's reported there on any random day, and in western European countries where workers rights actually exist and are enforced.

sombremesa4y ago

> What a stupid post.

I don't think someone who puts this in their bio is qualified to make that comment:

> One of my favorite low key social engineering hacks is that I used to have a keylogger installed on every machine I own. Whenever a friend needs to hop on my machine to show me something, they'd log into an account they own and I would have their password.

You're lucky that not many people will tell you exactly what they think of that, thanks to HN guidelines.

abduhlOP4y ago

My bio is a quote of a post by shalmanese specifically put there so that other people can see how ridiculous the comment was. The original post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921120. Thanks for making sure everyone else in this thread reads it as well. Here it is in full. You'll find my reply at the given link telling him "exactly what [I] think of that" in the thread as well as many other people (regardless of the HN guideliness), in case you didn't find it already with your deep dive of my profile.

One of my favorite low key social engineering hacks is that I used to have a keylogger installed on every machine I own. Whenever a friend needs to hop on my machine to show me something, they'd log into an account they own and I would have their password.

Then I'd do the same Luigi-like low key messing with them for a while. My favorite was when a friend had a VNC server running on their machine with control capabilities. I would sit next to them and subtly jerk the mouse pointer right before they were about to click on something and it drove them mad for a good 20 minutes before I couldn't hold onto the giggles anymore.

edit: To add a bit of context, this was in the Windows 98 era, before the age of social media where we started putting all of our secrets onto our machines. And it was among a group of friends where everyone was trying to hack everyone else and pretty much anything was considered fair game. All of us were high school kids so there wasn't some super serious reputation we had to protect.

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