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• @Mordikan@kbin.earth 2026-11-08 06:52

  Why do people always use "clanker" as some weird stand in to make faux-inappropriate comments? Like it's always "Well, I'd like to do a racism today but want to make sure I can get away with it on technicality."

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• @Corbin@programming.dev 2026-11-09 20:46

  Over on programming.dev, in this comment, you posted a chatbot’s analysis of the flake. You then deleted it, perhaps after reading it and realizing that it was inane and uninsightful. At the same time, you’re over here getting into a fight over the word “clanker”, which you used to refer to the very same chatbots whose output you uncritically posted. I understand that you have some inner turmoil, and that your behavior is merely an external facet of your emotional processing. However, I think that it’s important to understand that the chatbot never has any ideas; indeed, it cannot ideate or cogitate. As such, your fencesitting is not gaining you any actual insights. To the current example, before you deleted the chatbot-output comments, I noted that the biggest and most insightful takeaway that the chatbot found was the ability to build a NixOS configuration locally, SSH to a remote host, copy the configuration to that host, and switch that host to the new configuration without rebooting; this is a standard part of NixOS which is in the man page, the official wiki, and the unofficial wiki. I get why you deleted the original comment, but I don’t get why you posted it unless you genuinely believed that it was full of “hallucinate[d] useful ideas.”

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