Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
I’ll give a shout out too to everyone in the military monitoring warning systems and maintaining stance to protect us from being killed while we’re with our families.
Hundreds of thousands are fighting in the trenches right now to protect their homes, to protect their families, to protect democracy while politicians went on holiday break without approval of military aid for allied army.
It was more what I perceived as a weirdly gleeful insincerity in your comment combined with a _lot_ of similarly weirdly gleeful insincerity in the big comment thread about the SMTP smuggling attack, which had a lot of 'GRRRREEEEAATT WORK BY THESE GUYS' type of comments
Just too much discordanism seemed to surface all at once and it was exhausting.
I know this is 'hacker' news but I always perceived that to mean 'hacker' as in the hacker ethos, not the pejorative 'yeah break shit lol' type of hacker. Sometimes it seems to be all the latter.
Let's not confuse on-call firefighters or a water facility staff with the on-call admins that maintain money-making machines monetizing attention of billions. The latter is a net negative on society.
That firefighter is probably using YouTube or scrolling through Instagram to unwind while they’re stuck at the station waiting for a call. Just because someone works in entertainment or ads doesn’t mean that the economic puzzle piece they represent isn’t valuable to society.
I am currently viewing this on ethically sourced rfc1149 (birds gave consent via a scientifically proven “brain electrode interface”), manually decoding packets using an abacus made out of various animal droppings foraged on the forest floor. If I can’t view your content this way, it should not be on the internet.
