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Do you ever feel like an LLM found the equivalent of your LiveJournal and posted it to a public mailing list?

A-W-K-W-A-R-D

#9fans

@driusan “Please leave the me of 10 years ago out of this thread…” - good line. :-)

That LLM noise is so frustrating. :-/

@a@pdx.social I was comfortably ignoring that thread until I saw that URL and was like "wait, what? What the fuck? What? Fuck."

Luckily I re-read it and it wasn't as embarrassing as I'm sure some of the things on that github.io site are.

@driusan @a it's not too embarrassing, really. And everybody has to start somewhere

@sirjofri @driusan I don’t think there’s anything remotely embarrassing about it, I think it’s a great example of common issues for newcomers and frustrating lapses in our documentation.

@a@pdx.social @sirjofri@mastodon.sdf.org I don't know if any of them are still valid. (Though I guess it was based on 4e, so nothing's technically changed..)

sirjofri

@driusan @a one of the biggest lacks in my opinion is this: you can read a full year about everything around plan 9, all documentation, all man pages, even a basic installation. But once you set up a plan 9 system you're done and you need help. You need help using the system, you need help configuring it, and there's often just no documentation for you.

@driusan @a the best document in that regard is probably the 9front fqa, but that's biased, humorous and not for everyone