Re: Ferrumc

On 3/26/26 7:55 AM, Janne Johansson wrote:
[...]
>>>> Is this a sad AI joke?
>>> The answer is yes.
>>
>> If the submitter is indeed 11 years old as indicated by the github repository:
>> No, it isn't. Come on.
>
> It is a sad joke for ALL the listed operating systems for which it was
> listed as already packaged and working.
>
> Contrary to what it might appear as, I do not care at all about the
> age of the submitter. 11 years would be totally fine, if one could get
> a decent answer on "did you even test this port?" and getting any
> other reply on the initial detail questions than "I ran out of claude
> tokens".

I regret having responded to this thread. Not because of you, but because
I feel this matter has received more collective attention already than it should
have.

I care about the age of the submitter only as much as I think that exposing a
11-year old kid to ridicule and scorn on a public mailing list isn't right.

That does not mean that I think we should look into porting "FerrumC", and it
does not mean that I'd ask anyone to endorse, let alone praise the effort.
Simply ignoring this would have been altogether a better solution (imho), one
that incidentally works equally well for run-of-the-mill trolling attempts.

> I would not like for openbsd to even consider to import a submission
> like this based on someone using a free email to get a GH account,
> fork a million dollar project like LLVM with a click of a button, add
> claude to the project, and make a website hallucinated by AI until the
> free tokens ran out and then post submissions to all OS ports lists
> without even having tested it on them. Not even close.
I dislike these things as well, but being unkind towards an overambitious kid
won't fix them.