Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread vester . thacker
On Sat, May 18, 2024, at 00:51, Kurt H Maier wrote: > I love this article very much. Unhelpful, bossy blowhards should > experience exactly these emotions. My favorite part was the accusation > of "cancel culture," which I have learned is Boomer code for > "accountability." They really hate

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
> you’re right, i apologize. big difference between being a total knob vs > exhibiting knob behavior in certain instances. and there’s no excuse for > aspersion. i would not add html to your email. thank you. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread fig
> i would not call people "losers" you’re right, i apologize. big difference between being a total knob vs exhibiting knob behavior in certain instances. and there’s no excuse for aspersion. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
> This mailing list pre-dates the evident new philosophy of cancel-culture. > Back when this was still an only mildly hostile place the policy was "don't > feed the troll". We did indeed believe that ignoring (at worst adding their > address to an "ignore" list) was sufficient to deal with it.

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
> Why can’t we remove these losers from the mailing list? Look at this mess. If > you want to ask ChatGPT about 9front, by all means, it’s your computer. But > dumping walls of verbal diarrhea into the ML and onto LinkedIn and making > everyone fight over it is such a waste of time. I

Re: [9fans] fossil [was: List of companies that use Plan 9.]

2024-05-17 Thread wb . kloke
Just a simple note. When I compared the fossil version posted by Moody in the original discussion thread to the one I am using (and IIRC  it is the one in the 9legacy git repository), I found that they differed in 2 points. One was the increase of a msg buffer, which is probably no big issue,

Re: [9fans] fossil [was: List of companies that use Plan 9.]

2024-05-17 Thread David du Colombier
> Responding off list shortly :) I'd like to be included into the discussion as well. Thanks. -- David du Colombier -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T6b867aa3be7bf660-M789b993f6eb5e311f7e78821 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
I would _love_ a complete list of known issues. What I'm aware of: - IIRC ORCLOSE doesn't work properly (visible as acme leaving temporary files around after exiting) - At least one deadlock remaining - Syncs are not atomic, so a crash can render the system unbootable if e.g. termrc was being

Re: [9fans] fossil [was: List of companies that use Plan 9.]

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
Responding off list shortly :) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T6b867aa3be7bf660-M3fe517cc779e245e44a024b1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] fossil [was: List of companies that use Plan 9.]

2024-05-17 Thread Richard Miller
Noam Preil: > I demonstrated one > of the problems with fossil by (attempting to) install Go, which crashes > the file system _every single time_. This is a useful bit of evidence that needs following up. The go test suite (which begins by installing and completely rebuilding go) is running 24/7

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Lucio De Re
This mailing list pre-dates the evident new philosophy of cancel-culture. Back when this was still an only mildly hostile place the policy was "don't feed the troll". We did indeed believe that ignoring (at worst adding their address to an "ignore" list) was sufficient to deal with it. But I am

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread fig
> The document is blatantly AI-generated > Not accurate at all Why can’t we remove these losers from the mailing list? Look at this mess. If you want to ask ChatGPT about 9front, by all means, it’s your computer. But dumping walls of verbal diarrhea into the ML and onto LinkedIn and making

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-17 Thread Lucio De Re
"I have a branch of 9front with fossil restored. I have discussed what would be needed to add fossil upstream again, and there was acceptance to the possibility if the issues get worked out _first_." I took the Fossil sources from whatever was the most readily available distribution and after

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-17 Thread vester . thacker
On Sat, May 18, 2024, at 01:26, Noam Preil wrote: > The only company listed there is yours, no? > > That's not a good look. On a long enough timeline, it will not matter. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
he already admitted he's using grammarly. On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM Noam Preil wrote: > > There's a clear pattern, though. The document is blatantly AI-generated, > and I believe that the author acknowledged it as such ("the model was > confirmed as trained on 9front sources"); even if it

Re: [9fans] RISC-V SoC available in Europe?

2024-05-17 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:13:45AM +0100, Andrew Back wrote: > On 16/05/2024 09:54, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: > > > I add these that I finally found (not easily) in France. From > > Microchip, the expensive: > > > > https://www.mouser.fr/ProductDetail/494-MPFSICICLE-KITES > > > > and this: > >

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
There's a clear pattern, though. The document is blatantly AI-generated, and I believe that the author acknowledged it as such ("the model was confirmed as trained on 9front sources"); even if it wasn't, the logical mistakes it makes are of a type humans don't generally make. The author has many

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
I have found multiple deadlocks over the last few years, and only bothered fixing one of them. That patch is in 9legacy, as well, now. During my IWP9 talk in which, among other things, I explained why I intend to replace fossil despite curently using it, I demonstrated one of the problems with

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
The only company listed there is yours, no? That's not a good look. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M75d1829e0bc8637cd5edecf5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
It is not, but in fairness, some people really do write the same way that the LLMs do, so it's not impossible for a real person to appear to be an LLM. I'm leaning towards LLM-generated, anyways. It's far too similar in structure / syntax to other AI spam I've had to deal with recently.

Re: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
> The absence of Fossil from 9front was the one I found most difficult to > overcome, but at least in theory only the equivalent of "fossil/conf" (an > rc script I eventually shoehorned from plan9port) is essential. I can see > how it would be inconvenient to need to support software that is >

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Noam Preil
A document that had no research put into it is not a first draft, it's at best spam. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb-M636e86d3c30c32c5c186e579 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
no. On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM Michael Kerpan wrote: > > Could people please stop accusing people of being fake just because they > write verbosly? That kind of behavior is part and parcel of the incredibly > rude and mean-spirited behavior mentioned in that LinkedIn thing. > > Mike > >

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 07:32:18AM -0400, pl...@room3420.net wrote: > an other interesting reading : > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card I love this article very much.

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread vester . thacker
Ok, I'm back. I stopped by because I heard about the ruckus. I am not wrong about my sentiments. I am not submitting disinformation. I'm expressing my viewpoint based on my experience and what I've witnessed reading 9fans. Help do the right thing and help eliminate abusive behavior. The

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 02:22:01PM +, Samuel Reader via 9fans wrote: > The 2nd draft is out. I've made some corrections as mentioned by others, and > I have added those who have helped to the acknowledgements. This draft is > only for those that are interested in the content. If you are not

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread plan6
I guess that Vic Thacker and Samuel Reader are the very same person. And Ori, I was trying to be sarcastic when I called the linkedin paper "interesting". :) -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Jacob Moody
We call it as we see them, it is very clear that Vic is using an LLM. Based on his responses to being called out for it along with the way its been written. The article features AI art as well. Take one walk down Vic's story postings on linkedin. All AI art, all written in the same AI tone.

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> I confirmed the model was trained on 9front resources, including > git history. I looked quickly at the document but didn't see a statement that it was machine-generated text or what the inputs were. Though "LLM ethics" are far from settled, I think at this stage it would be good to state

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Jacob Moody
Hit the enter key a bit early... This is directed at Vic, if that is not clear already. To everyone else who called me out for assuming malice on victor's part because he was "just trying to help", does this not make my claim more obvious now? This likewise is including AI bullshit, and I

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Michael Kerpan
Could people please stop accusing people of being fake just because they write verbosly? That kind of behavior is part and parcel of the incredibly rude and mean-spirited behavior mentioned in that LinkedIn thing. Mike On Fri, May 17, 2024, 10:21 AM hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > or rename

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
it's hard to help if we don't see the query. why don't you put the query into the document, or better just make it some text files in a git repo so people can help you by sending patches. On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 4:23 PM Samuel Reader via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > The 2nd draft is out.

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Samuel Reader via 9fans
The 2nd draft is out. I've made some corrections as mentioned by others, and I have added those who have helped to the acknowledgements. This draft is only for those that are interested in the content. If you are not interested please disregard. I confirmed the model was trained on 9front

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
or rename that linkedin garbage to "using AI to disincentivize open discussion communities" On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM Jacob Moody wrote: > > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f/ > > This linked-in article is frankly disgusting, I

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Jacob Moody
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f/ This linked-in article is frankly disgusting, I suggest you take this incorrect garbage down. On 5/17/24 07:43, Samuel Reader via 9fans wrote: > It is only a first draft, and it is not a finished

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Clout Tolstoy
It's very clear at this point Vic Has never read the 9front FAQ or perhaps any other documentation provided by 9front. Some of the things they ask from the community seem I'll informed because of that and other reasons (like asking for GPU drivers from the community for Nvidia or AMD is out of

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
still you have not disclaimed anywhere that this is machine generated. i expect a warning, bec. otherwise this low quality garbage is going to be interpreted by future humans and AI alike as possibly factual, which it clearly is not. but i give you bonuspoint for making it in quotation marks. On

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Steve Simon
i got very suspicious at the mention of a procinfo syscall - unlikely in plan9, and i couldn't imagine a use for such a thing given we have /proc already. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread ori
I'm not sure it is interesting. Quoth pl...@room3420.net: > an other interesting reading : > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Samuel Reader via 9fans
It is only a first draft, and it is not a finished product. I'll correct the mistakes found. Thank you for the kind feedback. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, May 17th, 2024 at 9:31 PM, qwx via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > On Fri May 17 13:33:21 +0200 2024,

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread qwx via 9fans
On Fri May 17 13:33:21 +0200 2024, pl...@room3420.net wrote: > an other interesting reading : > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card I'm appalled and frankly furious about

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread samuel.reader via 9fans
I've included 9front git history. Here is the results. "I reviewed the 9front Git repository to confirm details about the differences between 9front and 9legacy. Here are some key points: 1. *Syscall Changes*: As mentioned, 9front did not add new syscalls beyond the 'nsec' syscall, which

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
Great that you're building AI prompts instead of operating systems. More trollfactories for "cyber" "warfare" will mean that all our trolls will be out of a job soon. Vic, what you post on linkedin sounds mainly like a big "fuck you" towards 9front, not a fair answer given the technical

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Matt Wilbur
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM adventures in9 wrote: > Suggesting ways to try out a Plan9 system is not a hypothetical for > me. I put myself out there doing videos demonstrating Plan9 systems, > and so I get questions all the time. FWIW I have found your channel *extremely* helpful in

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread plan6
an other interesting reading : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-analysis-9front-community-conflict-vester-thacker-htt3f?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread hiro
now an AI generated book? and you're blaming 9front of having invented new syscalls? what? oh come on! On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:07 PM samuel.reader via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > Someone asked about the differences between 9front and 9legacy. This first > draft provides a brief

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread ori
Quoth samuel.reader via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > Someone asked about the differences between 9front and 9legacy. This first > draft provides a brief overview. > https://link.storjshare.io/s/jx6tw46kfxskld45ussjek46ccpq/revitalizing-project/RevitalizingPlan9.pdf Unfortunately, it doesn't

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread samuel.reader via 9fans
Someone asked about the differences between 9front and 9legacy. This first draft provides a brief overview. https://link.storjshare.io/s/jx6tw46kfxskld45ussjek46ccpq/revitalizing-project/RevitalizingPlan9.pdf -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: