Comment by stego-tech
3 days ago
100% in agreement here. As someone who grew up spoiled to the point of having no grasp of the value of money, I needed a few good, solid kicks to the balls to make me appreciate what I have, and how much things cost relative to their value.
The fact the agent owner immediately sought donations instead of taking the L shows, at least to me, that they did not learn said lesson. That they tried to blame the dn42 community instead of taking accountability for letting an agent run wild also supports that conclusion.
This idiot learned nothing and seems intent on continuing in their mission for whatever reason. So long as they want to extract versus cooperate or contribute, I wish them nothing but miserable, expensive failure until they learn otherwise.
Or they're trolling.
That used to be the default assumption, I don't know why people have become so gullible.
I’m not sure what you mean - the fact we assume malicious intent is in fact a guard against prior gullibility which was exploited by bad actors.
You get betrayed enough, and you stop acting from a position of implicit trust. If folks want to go back to the days when trolling was the default assumption, then we collectively need to punish bad actors to discourage further betrayals.
It was directed at the people theorizing and speculating seemingly missing the possibility that it was just a troll.
Not acting on information you're being fed by a troll is itself a guardrail against manipulation. We don't know if the bad actor ever provisioned any hardware and actually spent the money he claims. All we've seen is words and a slopcoded website.