The suddenness of the firing, and the bridge-burning language (basically "he lied to us") rather than any sort of soft exit, suggests that it must be something in the "other" bucket.
The details are anyone's guess. But if we're engaging in wild speculation, how about this weird coincidence: one day after Xi Jinping and Sam Altman are in the same place, Sam Altman is abruptly fired.
The anti-snitching culture within this community seems to rival that of even the mafia. Perhaps that's why it's been called "the gay mafia" in the past...
More so just irresponsible to share 2nd hand rumors without evidence. If someone else had first hand experience that would be one thing, but its far enough away from me to confidently share.
Yeah, rather than take a reputational hit, they've now got a reputation for paying ransoms to hackers. They will now be targeted by more hackers wanting ransoms.
(I once saw a Google result for Stackoverflow that included a username in it. I never saw it again or investigated it further, though.)
I don't know what's going on with archive.is, but that service has always struck me as sketchy. Unfortunately since I use Cloudflare WARP as a VPN, I'm not actually able to access archive.is (although technically I believe this is not because of the VPN, but rather due to 1.1.1.1 DNS and its lack of support for EDNS [0]). So again, I haven't investigated it much.
But I've always wondered who has the time and resources to maintain the archive.{is,ph,etc.} websites, which must cost a lot of money for no directly obvious financial gain. But there is some serious intelligence value to knowing who views those sites and where the links to them get posted. And that's not to mention how weird it is that they insist on EDNS (which sends client IP with DNS queries) in the first place.
