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The fact that it took me the comments sections to understand this is satire speaks a lot about the current status of where things are going. EDIT: Reading it a

The fact that it took me the comments sections to understand this is satire speaks a lot about the current status of where things are going. EDIT: Reading it again its quite obvious, I was just skimming at first, but still damn. Hilarious

frenchie4111 8mo ago
lol - it's literally called malus but I guess that's only an obvious giveaway in retrospect
- hmry 8mo ago
  It's perfectly realistic! E.g. Palantir, the surveillance analytics company named after the magic orb that purports to let you remotely view anything you want, but actually allows its creator to view you while manipulating you by selectively showing some things and not others.
  - whacko_quacko 8mo ago
    Especially given that a popular open source project recently tried to do exactly that. https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 I really got fooled here for a second, but the unfortunate reality is that people will try this soon, and someone will have to litigate this, if open source is to survive, which will take years and millions of dollars to resolve
    - JoshTriplett 8mo ago
      Not just "tried"; the current state is that they've done so and are ignoring people telling them they cannot. The "destroy as an example to others" phase hasn't finished yet, but hopefully they'll get sufficient backlash from the projects they supposedly did this to work with to deter future attempts. e.g. they supposedly did this in order to make it part of the Python standard library, so hopefully the response from Python is a massive WTF and "nope".
  - JoshTriplett 8mo ago
    In fairness to the original mythos that that particular family of awful companies has misused: the palantiri were in fact designed purely for far-seeing, and Sauron wasn't the creator of them, he just got his hands on one and corrupted it into a tool for manipulation.
- fph 8mo ago
  Malus is also Latin for "apple tree", coincidentally.
Aachen 8mo ago
I didn't see it was satire (having only skimmed the site) until scrolling through the comments and seeing this fake review being quoted. That's when I went "surely not", checked the site, saw it was really there, and was quite relieved this is not yet an actual thing!
comboy 8mo ago
Under this name or not I think it's happening regardless..
- overfeed 8mo ago
  As any etymology/Latin nerd will tell you, "this name" (MalusCorp) literally translates to EvilCorp, everything about the site is over the top satire. I know Poe's law and all that, but I'm looking askew at commenters in this thread who fail to realize it as either only reading the headline, or are AI-controlled. Satire points out the absurd
  - 5- 8mo ago
    one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.
gault8121 8mo ago
This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

frenchie4111 8mo ago

lol - it's literally called malus but I guess that's only an obvious giveaway in retrospect

hmry 8mo ago
It's perfectly realistic! E.g. Palantir, the surveillance analytics company named after the magic orb that purports to let you remotely view anything you want, but actually allows its creator to view you while manipulating you by selectively showing some things and not others.
- whacko_quacko 8mo ago
  Especially given that a popular open source project recently tried to do exactly that. https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 I really got fooled here for a second, but the unfortunate reality is that people will try this soon, and someone will have to litigate this, if open source is to survive, which will take years and millions of dollars to resolve
  - JoshTriplett 8mo ago
    Not just "tried"; the current state is that they've done so and are ignoring people telling them they cannot. The "destroy as an example to others" phase hasn't finished yet, but hopefully they'll get sufficient backlash from the projects they supposedly did this to work with to deter future attempts. e.g. they supposedly did this in order to make it part of the Python standard library, so hopefully the response from Python is a massive WTF and "nope".
- JoshTriplett 8mo ago
  In fairness to the original mythos that that particular family of awful companies has misused: the palantiri were in fact designed purely for far-seeing, and Sauron wasn't the creator of them, he just got his hands on one and corrupted it into a tool for manipulation.
fph 8mo ago
Malus is also Latin for "apple tree", coincidentally.

Aachen 8mo ago

I didn't see it was satire (having only skimmed the site) until scrolling through the comments and seeing this fake review being quoted. That's when I went "surely not", checked the site, saw it was really there, and was quite relieved this is not yet an actual thing!

comboy 8mo ago

Under this name or not I think it's happening regardless..

overfeed 8mo ago
As any etymology/Latin nerd will tell you, "this name" (MalusCorp) literally translates to EvilCorp, everything about the site is over the top satire. I know Poe's law and all that, but I'm looking askew at commenters in this thread who fail to realize it as either only reading the headline, or are AI-controlled. Satire points out the absurd
- 5- 8mo ago
  one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.

gault8121 8mo ago

This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.