Post #2862255

2025-10-12 21:57 UTC

@wakame@tech.lgbt @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social thus far, we've had no trouble noticing it's wrong because it's clickbait promising to be either an article or a forum post about our exact topic, which only needs a one-line answer, but the actual content is 2,000 words of relevant background information we already knew, and no actual answer to the original question

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2025-10-12 21:58

@wakame@tech.lgbt @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social for older Unix topics that haven't changed much, we would legit have better luck grepping 30-year-old Usenet archives... sigh

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@TheIdOfAlan@hachyderm.io 2025-10-12 22:17

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @wakame@tech.lgbt @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social I wonder how long it takes until we start seeing trust chains designed to validate a human wrote or vetted a thing? (at least, I hope it's only a matter of time. I figure librarians would be the central authority)

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@dj3ei@mastodon.radio 2025-10-14 08:41

Apparently, you read or at least skimmed 2,000 words and it got you nothing. You summarize the overall experience "we've had no trouble". Interesting. I'd call that "life time waste". @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @wakame@tech.lgbt @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

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