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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

How the fuck is that not a mature question? What a childish way to police your own comment section. Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think this perplexes us because we’re tying ourselves in knots trying to rephrase it that it might be deemed more ‘mature’. But that is missing the point: bringing up the concerns of the users at all is just a fundamentally immature remark.

We, the developers, are the adults in the room, and we want to slop it. So fuck off.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago

See this is a proper mature remark, it explains reasoning clearly, it shows empathy for the first comment both understanding it, and explaining where it was wrong. And ends with some powerful mature words.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes, they've all fried their brains with the slop machines by this point, and some of them probably never had any.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean, if I wanted to be childish I'd say that Nate's ok chasing all the users off because he's used to playing with himself.

It's obvious, by comparison, that the OP was being perfectly reasonable.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think he realized it too and sockpuppeted a better example. Check the comment by "Gerard"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Wtf.

E: So my german is bad, like bad bad, but I feel like it should be 'dir' and not 'dich' in this case for some reason. Is it just me? Anyway saying that all in German is pretty weird anyway. (In addition to death threats not being ok).

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Je, wrong gramnar and the german feels totally off. Much too wooden amyway for a proper death threat.

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well now I’m very confused. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing particularly special about ‘töten’, and its object is accusative. So why should it be dative in this… uh, case?

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

You're right. The grammer is right, but it still sounds off. Like, idk, someone fully capable of english leaving threats in his second language to be sneaky?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Time to tell Yud his german sucks, and to stop threatening KDE people.

(Im making a joke out of it here, but to be clear I have no reason to think he made up the death threat, and I dont think those sort of messages are acceptable. The seemingly bad German can just be explained away by gerard thinking because kde is a project with a lot of ties to Germany everyone who is active in it understands German).

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

The answer to that question might surprise you.