FWIW, probably not a lot of devs willing to tarnish their reputation (well at least tarnish it THAT much) they pay (unlikely very well), and they probably figure people are going to do it anyway (on their own hardware, or on a competitor) so they might as well make money off of it while they can.
And they definitely use it themselves.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 day ago
They have two types of people:
The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day ago
LMAO. Except even dumber, they’re the von Brauns of the “fake illegal nude” world
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn’t seem to matter to him
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 day ago
—Upton Sinclair
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 day ago
That's the thing, Software Engineers have choices.
Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.
But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.
And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.
At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There's no way they don't notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don't care.
Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
Can’t believe this is the first time I hear the expression “Wernher von Braun club”, fantastic.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
There is a 3rd type: people desperate for work / experience who are simply taking the best paying job they can find. It is actually the most common type of working in the US.