Your post isn’t asking a question, it’s pushing an agenda. Really doesn’t seem in the spirit of this community to me.

I’ll take FOSS over the proprietary software we can be sure will do malicious things to us any day.

AI can’t do that.

Nope.

For a minute, I was thinking it might be that someone made a bot that just made posts generated by ChatGPT with no supervision, but then looking at OP’s post history, there’s no way AI could think up this.

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Hell?

Every cult has as one of its core tenets that only evil, terrible people wouldn’t want to be part of it.

The U.S. is currently being run by a cult.

Not everyone in the U.S. is part of that cult. But a damned lot of the population of the U.S. is.

Source: Am american.

They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn’t have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.

Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because “well, I’ll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out.”

Watch out for scams

…such as Bitcoin.

Are you thinking of AlternativeTo?

If just one of them turns out to be true they can call me up and rub it in my face.

I tried something somewhat like this once.

He’d constantly be like “something big is coming very soon, just wait.” And I kept pressing him for “due dates”. Like by what date are you 99% sure “it” (like, official announcements that ETs have been living among us disguised as humans since the 60s or whatever) will have happened? Because if he gives a date, I can finally nail him down and say “hey, so, you were wrong, see? The incorrectness of your prediction is some amount of disconfirming evidence right?”

So when he finally did tell me a “due date” for one of his conspiracy theories, I kept that in the forefront of my brain. He said that Trump would arrest “thousands” of high-profile Democrat pedophiles engaged in child sex trafficking within a year after his first term in office started.

Well, it happened! Not really. All the right-wing news outlets vastly misrepresented an FBI sex trafficking bust that had nothing to do with Trump or “high-profile Democrats” as the one and the same massive bust of sex-trafficking high-profile Democrats that Q and Fox News and my conspiracist former friend had predicted. And it fell within the timeframe he predicted.

Of course, it was horse shit. This was no confirmation of his wacky theories. But to him, I was just being willfully blind to the obvious vindication of his prediction.

The lesson I took from that was that the fantasy they live in is far to resilient against actual reality to be phased even a little bit by any actual real-world events. And promising someone bragging rights “if such-and-such of your predictions come to pass” isn’t going to pan out for you as well as you might hope. It would require them to have a connection to reality for that to work, and they don’t.

My solution is scp with termux. I can’t suggest any better alternative.

Advertising? Even if only word-of-mouth.

It would have to be pretty secretive. But it’s not like there aren’t other services out there that do similar things illegally under cover of anonymity. (Silk Road, anyone?)

Uninstall it and make the world a slightly better place?

A drug.

Whether it’s an important medicine for health and wellbeing or a hard recreational drug can depend greatly on the context.

What’s the minimum you’d count as strong enough evidence to justify anger at the accused?

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Yeah, I guess I can understand the cognitive dissonance making people want to deny everything, but it doesn’t seem like there’s much room to doubt the veracity of the case against Gaiman. Really, that article has been a long time coming. Anyone paying much attention to Amanda Palmer (Gaiman’s ex-wife) has had plenty of clues this was coming, even if the full extent of the sheer depravity of the details weren’t publicly known until now.

Also, I haven’t read the Vulture article yet, but from what I’ve heard, it makes it sound like Palmer was complicit. She has also withdrawn from public places/platforms (like from her Patreon) since its publication.