just because I try to regularly review places I go to

That’s what appears to be the problem. Quantity over some definition of quality makes it easy, and even creates the incentive, for some hustlers to go around soliciting money for positive reviews.

Pay and your shit is marvelous, the best in town. Don’t pay and you get 3/5 at best (I would presume smart hustlers don’t go for 1/5 often to avoid getting too deep into blackmail territory).

This is kind of funny, because in the “reviews” part of Google Maps, a “Local Guide” giving a restaurant ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ is usually a strong indicator that you shouldn’t eat from there 😉. That has been my experience, at least.

It’s so nice to see my procrastination paying dividends once in a while.

I never made the move, despite being a registered M$ hater since 2004.

Is it just me, or is the “among others” in the title made it sound like an outbreak, instead of referring to other projects?

Dare I ask, what ssh thing?

Side Note: It was already believed that SSH encryption was broken by state actors since the first NSA leaks. So, people should at least always use it over another encrypted channel anyway.

Does it qualify as cognitive dissonance maintaining a fork of a partially vibe-coded product to remove vibe-coding tooling because you hate vibe-coding?

skill issue

People can distrust whomever they wish to. But hallucinating factually inconsistent and logically incoherent theories around that distrust is another matter.

What part does switching from dual-licensed software to GPL-licensed software to MIT-licensed software play in an evil plan? Are there sky angels out there preventing evil doers from adding backdoors to binary packages of AGPL-licensed software in particular?

My innocent self thought these “theories” only get purported by YouTube/X teenagers. I guess I was wrong.

sudo is not GPL software, chrony didn’t even complete a year as a default choice in Ubuntu, and gpsd actually adopts a BSD license. Read the comments @ISO@lemmy.zip wrote in this thread.

It’s kind of funny how you didn’t pick up on the connection between 3 and 4 😉

AUR malware and DDoS attacks are not even correlated, for there to be any minimally credible speculation about causation.

Such “speculation” would only come from someone very unintelligent who would see two news items about X within a smallish time frame (weeks), then obtusely start drawing connection lines between them where there is probably* none.

* We don’t know who the malware spreaders or the DDoS attackers are. So we can’t be 100% certain about anything. But indications point to script kiddies being behind AUR malware attempts. And a more sophisticated entity behind the DDoS attacks, not just some kid or an adult with a grudge paying a botnet, like some are sillily suggesting. One should also not forget that there was always the conspiracy theory that DDoS protection service providers are behind most DDoS attacks (before AI crawlers accidentally took that crown).

The attacks started before that retarded non-news post. And no one actually cares about DE’s, other that youngings still in their hopping phase.

Arch community is kind of rough

What?

The AUR is already officially mirrored on GitHub, at least since the last attack (that I heard of).

For the Wiki, I’m not sure if database dumps are provided for people to provide proper mediawiki mirrors. If they’re not, you should propose the idea. It’s a good one (as long as the dumps themselves are not hosted in one place that can be DDoS-ed itself).

Funny replies you got.

I don’t know if any of them actually is, but it is claimed that GPT5 was tuned for the Indian tech sector, and the model fans replying to you sound like they belong to the target audience 😊

Thank you for the source.

% xan select issue_stance issue_stances.csv | rg 'prioritize investment in nuclear energy'
"The U.K. should prioritize investment in nuclear energy as part of its Net Zero strategy, even if this requires significant upfront costs.  "
"The U.K. should prioritize investment in nuclear energy as part of its green energy strategy, even if it requires significant upfront costs.  "
"The U.K. should prioritize investment in nuclear energy as a reliable low-carbon energy source, even if it delays renewable energy advancements.  "
"The U.K. should prioritize investment in nuclear energy as a reliable alternative to diversify the utility market, even if it leads to higher initial costs.  "
"The U.K. should prioritize investment in nuclear energy as a low-carbon power source, even if it means delaying the decommissioning of older reactors."

That explains it.

I skimmed through the PDF, and didn’t find more info about the 700+ supposed “political” issues, other than that they relate to the UK somehow.

What could those issues be? Like, try to enumerate all supposedly “political” issues in your head, and you will get to stuff like “compassionate death” (a still debated topic that gets a decent amount of news coverage in the UK), and you would still be nowhere near a 100.

I think using a larger number hoping for a larger impact may have backfired 😉, or maybe no one clocked the bullshit.

The proposition that the modern nation state humanoid population is so fundamentally divided and extremely varied in epistemological thought, is itself a hilarious one to begin with of course.

this is funny because why even protest in the us. the attitude would be one of completely giving up.

What’s really really funny is how it’s easy to see the applicability of “a proper diagnosis is the first step to a successful treatment” in all contexts, except this one.

Not only are facts ignored/glossed over/danced around to convince people to believe in an ineffective treatment, but everyone must also believe, with a lot of gaslighting if needed, that the blue cancerous cells in the uniparty cancer will somehow produce an amazing cure.

“Nazi Bar” analogies are also somehow appropriate to push everywhere, except the congress, the senate, …

People who actually care about Palestine with moral consistency, know the uniparty for what it is. In fact, they know post-WW2 America itself for what it is, the primary worldwide genocider. They also know that it wasn’t a random change in direction.

And it would have been funny the irony of talking about literally anything else being inorganic in the last election, other than Kamala’s manufactured and fake popularity, that is if the world situation wasn’t as sad as it is.

But hey, if such coping delusions make you and others feel better, …