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  • liara@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldUnity apologises.
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    1 year ago

    This is called the “Door in the face method” of bargaining. Start with a request so high and absurd that you “slam the door in their face” because it’s so absurd.

    The next time they try, they’ll come back with an offer that sounds far more reasonable than the original request. Since you’re still primed with the previous context, your brain makes it sound less bad than it probably is ("At least it’s not the first offer!). You’re more likely to accept after this.

    The opposite technique is called “foot in the door”, start with a small request (get your foot in the door) and then increase the ask after the small request goes over.




  • I don’t really use it for this, but here are some things I do use it for:

    • metrics scraping on servers without needing to open ports or worry about ssl encryption. Works great for federating Prometheus instances or scraping exporters
    • secure access to machines not directly exposed to the internet. I.e. ssh access to my home box while I’m traveling
    • being an exit node for web traffic while traveling. I.e. maybe you are traveling and have a bank who is giving you grief about logging in – masquerade that connection from your home IP

    I mostly just use it for metrics scraping though