The long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders is that it's impossible to negotiate in good faith with an extortion racket because there's no incentive for the other side to actually walk away.
Edit: go ahead and downvote me all you want but mark my words - in 1 to 3 months this account is going to switch to shilling the online marketing strategy consulting website it’s already heavily advertising in its profile. The website is literally promoting marketing bots pretending to be real people to sell you stuff.
Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋
“Hey ChatGPT, generate me an epic roast of this guy that wouldn’t be out of place if it were in a Neopets forum in 2005. Include a stupid emoji at the end too.”
“It’s not X it’s Y” LLM slop BS.
Comment history is full of similar chatgpt slop.
Edit: go ahead and downvote me all you want but mark my words - in 1 to 3 months this account is going to switch to shilling the online marketing strategy consulting website it’s already heavily advertising in its profile. The website is literally promoting marketing bots pretending to be real people to sell you stuff.
Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋
“Hey ChatGPT, generate me an epic roast of this guy that wouldn’t be out of place if it were in a Neopets forum in 2005. Include a stupid emoji at the end too.”
“I always speak openly under my own name”
Has generic, anonymous username
“I’ve been on the fediverse for decades”
Account is 11 days old and the fediverse hasn’t even existed for a fraction of that time.
I‘ve been on identi.ca back in 2008. What about you? 🤷
Oh yeah, I started on there myself back in 1892 when the server was powered by steam engines.