Graham Perrin grahamperrin

A conversation with AI about LLMs and moderation in Reddit

Taken from the public paste that's currently linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1vgbt2j/comment/p1wx76o/ under What’s Next for Mod Tools : r/modnews.

User

So reddit is trying to sunset automod in favor of LLMs. As an LLM what's your opinion on this? My biggest complaint is that LLMs still struggle with context and some some subs can get 5000+ comments a day.

Assistant

Hatred of AI

I don't hate AI. Pinned in Reddit:

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116322566914289589

… I'm a proponent of rational discussion.

Massively Negative Externalities – part of a three-part series of blog posts by Steven G. Harms – succinctly captures some of how I feel.

FreeBSD desktop installer script test

Quick start

perform a fresh installation of FreeBSD
restart
run the four commands below.

cd /root

kwin_wayland segfault, 2026-02-14 04:08

In Firefox, logged in at https://forums.virtualbox.org/posting.php?mode=reply&t=113890 whlist drafting a reply, I clicked to add an image. [img][/img] code appeared, so I keyed Control-T for a new tab then went to my logged in view of https://imgbb.com/.

Then probably Alt-Tab to bring Dolphin to the foreground, and whilst I began browsing screenshots, if I recall correctly:

on my secondary display, an HP ZBook 17 G2 (docked), the screen became distorted
apps disappeared from my main display, to the left (on DisplayPort)
some apps reappeared
plasmashell reappeared

pkg.freebsd.org package download URLs

When a FreeBSD Project-provided package is not in the usual places, we can look in unusual places.

An example: editors/vscode

Currently at https://www.freshports.org/editors/vscode/#packages:

No package information for this port in our database …

Fediverse decision time

I needed a second home. The winner:

beige.party

Runner-up:

mas.to

FreeBSD 15 VirtualBox quick start

15.0-RELEASE pre-installed. AMD64.

https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/15.0-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/
FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-zfs.vhd.xz
decompress the flie
in VirtualBox, use the media tab to add then resize the .vhd file
create a FreeBSD guest with the resized disk
choose VBoxSVGA

	{
	"title": "I Interviewed the CTO of TrueNAS (Why They Left FreeBSD for Linux) - YouTube",
	"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCtFeukJs-E",
	"sections": [
	{
	"name": "",
	"lines": [
	{
	"0:00": "What's up guys? I'm here with Chris who"
	},

	#!/bin/sh -
	## pkgsave_cleanup
	# Archive .pkgsave files created in multiple locations by messy upgrade apps,
	# preserving the original path and deleting unchanged files.
	## to do:
	# Check-in as appropriate.
	# See also: etcupdate, zfs snapshot, beadm, ...
	PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
	set -a

	PKG-UNREGISTER(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual PKG-UNREGISTER(8)

	NAME
	pkg unregister – deletes package records from the database

	SYNOPSIS
	pkg unregister [-fnqRy] [-Cgix] pkg-name ...
	pkg unregister [-Dnqy] -a

	pkg unregister [--{force,dry-run,quiet,recursive,yes}]