• Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      Definitely satire.

      “We had 847 AGPL dependencies blocking our acquisition. MalusCorp liberated them all in 3 weeks. The due diligence team found zero license issues. We closed at $2.3B.”

      Marcus Wellington III Former CTO, Definitely Real Corp (Acquired)

      Or further down

      Trusted by industry leaders who prefer to remain anonymous

      [Redacted]

      [Under NDA]

      [Confidential]

      [Classified]

      [See Legal]

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        1 month

        There’s also the nice “trust us” under is it legal?

        Its a parody on how all of the data was stolen in the first place, also I caught some subtle nids to how fucked the maintenance will be.

        • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1 month

          It feels like an art installation that actually can be used if someone really wanted to sabotage their business by creating a dependency on an unfixable mess. I truly believe there might be a substantial amount of business idiots out there who think all of this is a good idea lol

    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
      1 month

      The company name is literally Malus

      On second thought people keep naming companies things like Palantir

    • Gork@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1 month

      I have no idea, their website doesn’t seem to work very well on my phone, I can’t bring up their About Us or Privacy Policy / Terms of Service for some reason either.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      It’s real. It’s very real, they’re very transparent about how shady and horrible they are, and their entire process, and why it is technically not illegal, and how aware they are of all of it.

      Edit: I got got. Honestly, in this modern landscape, can you blame me for thinking people bragging about how they’re legally using AI to steal data were being satirical? The Onion notoriously can’t keep up with real world news, cut me a break.

    • lastweakness@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      It’s real satire, the worst kind. Or I guess you could call it self-aware trash? The whole site is “satire” and makes jokes about how this is bad for the ecosystem… But then, the product works. It accepts payments and delivers code in return.

  • db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1 month

    The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of the result.

    Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      ahem

      Create value, by taking it from whom?

      The stock market was invented to make it less risky to plunder the everloving shit out of Non European countries.

      It’s always been about extracting value.

  • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    1 month

    This is most definitely a joke website. Half of the links don’t work. They are hosted on GitHub Pages. And these passages in FAQ:

    Can I see the robots?
    Our robot workforce operates in a secure facility in [LOCATION REDACTED]. Tours are available for Enterprise customers who sign our 47-page NDA.

    And these reviews. “Definitely Real Corp”? “TaxOptimal Inc”? “Profit First LLC”?

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 month

      Isn’t this that site that lets you pay to rewrite code to bypass any open source license?

      While it looks like a joke, it apparently is not.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1 month

      How did you listen to the dialogue and not conclude it’s satire?

      “We get a lot of love letters and fan mail. They love us so much they’re asking where we sleep at night so they can pay us a visit.”

      Gotta admire his ability to keep a straight face.

      That said, it might be considered performance art more than satire (or maybe not mutually exclusive), since they apparently do actually accept payment for actual jobs. And if you trust anybody with a website like theirs, good luck with whatever code you receive from them.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1 month

        In a way, I like to think about these [open source] maintainers kind of like 18th century weavers in North of England. Uh these weavers were kind of known as Luddites. They were specialty weavers. They built uh they wove amazing clothes. They were the best in the world at what they did. And then, British colonialism happened. They were replaced with machines. And these well-compensated weavers uh that lived on nice for farms in Yorkshire, they were forced to move to London and live in cramped housing and eat stale bread.

        So, the future of open source maintainers is moving to London and eating stale bread.

        Potentially.

        • waz@feddit.ukEnglish
          1 month

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

          The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textileworkers who were against the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, child labour, working conditions and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids.[1][2] Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.[3]