yeah, gots to love mate. i use it for pretty much all the reasons listed above.

What advantage does Octave / Matlab have over say python and matplotlilb? Jupyter notebook would offer a more interactive experience if necessary.

Hey, I can’t but I could build you a bot that pretends to be a beautiful young Eastern European / Thai (your choice) single woman looking for a husband with face pics, videos who needs a down-payment for a flight to visit you.

• AI slop != spam
• No one can tell the difference between AI slop and real people.
• Creating hundreds of AI posts in seconds/minutes is possible, but easily detectable. People have the smarts.

I don’t get it. An OS is to help you do stuff and not get in your way. Why do people argue over which is the best one to use and why is it Debian? No one cares what you use, just shut up and be productive.

“AI” has existed since the 70s in terms of computing. In terms of the theory, much further back.

Regarding pointing out examples of posts made by bots, that is just a waste of time! No one will know for certain, people will argue, those bots will argue, other bot accounts with the same agenda will argue, people will be manipulated, they will argue, and status quo returns…

By talking about ‘anything of substance’ is being framed by the bot posts, repeatedly, to manipulate. But, take a step back and you’ll realise it really isn’t ‘anything of substance’ but something to distract.

As for the early internet, I think you’re thinking about early pre-banhammer-FBI-raid 4-chan.

Arch users don’t value their time.

Having a “great” understanding of how a Linux system is tied together is fine for the now, but in five years time, will be useless as things change so why not spend your time being productive in the now.