| 11 Feb 2024 |
 damentz | but you can't even get an AI or translator to write like that | 18:10:22 |
| damentz | that user, Ricky-Tigg, has their profile private for a reason | 18:11:02 |
| damentz | I suspect it's someone in academia writing a thesis about what maintainers will put up with, or how convoluted can you make your requests and reports before the maintainer gives up | 18:11:42 |
 heftig | i mean, i get what they're trying to ask | 18:11:51 |
| damentz | reminds me of the university that was seeing what bad code they could get through sub system maintainers, and Greg Kroah-Hartmann reverted all their code once he found out | 18:12:10 |
| heftig | "do i need to match the LQX version I install to my current kernel version"? | 18:12:13 |
| heftig | the first thing they're confused about is that liquorix doesn't release for fedora | 18:12:52 |
| damentz | right, and you are correct, but these also questions that no one is concerned about or matter | 18:14:01 |
| damentz | they seem like time wasters, like asking on a car forum, do my brake pads need to be the same color as my car | 18:14:16 |
| heftig | btw, that aur user has been a member since 2015 and only has that single comment, so i'm not sure that "this is a bot" has much water | 18:14:50 |
| damentz | yup, what triggered me was we helped the maintainer of that package write the pinned comment | 18:15:41 |
| damentz | me and some others when it was first introduced | 18:15:46 |
| damentz | it's written specifically to help people with DNS as best as possible, so to see someone randomly write a worse version in the comment seems so out of place | 18:16:05 |
| heftig | * btw, that aur user has been a member since 2015 and only has that single comment, so i'm not sure that "this is a bot" holds much water | 18:16:31 |
| damentz | it just looked like what an LLM bot would do given a simple system prompt to provide a helpful comment | 18:16:37 |
| damentz | or it's someone reusing the comment system as documentation for themselves, but to completely miss the well written pinned comment is out of place and bizarre | 18:17:26 |
| damentz | heftig: I prefer to give people benefit of the doubt but some things raise massive red flags for me, since they're things a human would never do, or rather it's impossible or you have to be in a weird mental state | 18:18:27 |
| damentz | anyways, just letting you know, it's an odd coincidence that in 1 week I see two instances of incredibly bizarre behavior, I figured this is probably happening at a larger level but it's really hard to tell | 18:19:51 |
| damentz | * anyways, just letting you know, it's an odd coincidence that in 1 week I see two instances of incredibly bizarre behavior, I figured this is probably happening at a larger level but it's really hard to tell, so most people will just shrug and move on | 18:20:10 |
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| 6 Mar 2024 |
 CyberJudas | In reply to @damentz:matrix.org
reminds me of the university that was seeing what bad code they could get through sub system maintainers, and Greg Kroah-Hartmann reverted all their code once he found out That was the University of Minnesota i think, and they ended up getting banned from making any contribs to the kernel. | 15:53:29 |
| CyberJudas | Ah crap, did I break the awkward silence? | 15:53:52 |
| damentz | yep, I wouldn't be surprised if there was something else like that going on | 15:56:09 |
