Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by ChrisKnott on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:12AM (#35208423)

I just tried to find a FOSS tool for converting MS Outlook .pst file to .mbox.

I first tried Google; the results are dominating by commercial crap.

Then I tried the "google reddit" trick to try and find some real people's opinions... but look at all the blatantly bullshit comments on this Reddit thread; https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ae4cdg/good_ps...

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(if anyone is wondering, the best option for Windows is to use 'readpst' command via WSL. Comes in the 'pst-utils' package).

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by siva7 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:17AM (#35208455)

So a GPT bot instead of the human commenters would make reddit more useful in the end, this is what you're saying right?

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by ChrisKnott on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:21AM (#35208483)

How so? The commercial organisations will be able to use a GPT bot to provide more believable comments, at greater scale, and cheaper.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by deafpolygon on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:48AM (#35208655)

I'm blind maybe, but what are the blatantly bullshit comments? The spam of PST to MBOX?

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by SalmoShalazar on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:14AM (#35209302)

Yeah they are almost all clearly spammy, broken english ads for paid software

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by vageli on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:58AM (#35209604)

Yes and if you look at the comment history of the posters in that thread, it is clear they are all spam accounts.

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