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.

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.

Waiting for imaginary events to happen is not needed. We already know how these things actually turn out.

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