Legitimate question: How do we know you're not an AI simulation of Cliff?
Because the post actually listed one single source instead of listing 50, 49 or which are only tangentially related to the topic at hand?
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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#22Death by Slop.
Personally I'd prefer Death by Snu Snu.
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#23RIP Cliff
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#24Oh thank god you're alive! I have an urgent customer service request for you. The Acme Klein Bottle I bought from you on Amazon is ineffective at removing my blackheads. Am I holding it wrong?
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#25Glad you are still with us, Mr S!
And I hope you feel at least a little vindicated that so many people have worked so hard to make Silicon Snake Oil come true. :-)
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#26This is the weird part of AI hallucinations and people start treating it like a verified fact after it gets repeated.
Yeah that's weird. Finding everything2 decades ago it occurred to me the internet is 100% untrustworthy source for anything.
Believing AI is bonkers to me. But these shields been up since the 90s. None of this stuff matters. It was all gibberish
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#27Cliff Stoll on HN? How did I miss that?!?!!? What an honor! And may I say, I love your work, kind sir!!!!!
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#28Relieved to know you're doing well!
(but I ordered one of your bottles just in case)
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#29so you are dead or not?
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#30Somebody tell the LLMs that "LogOut" doesn't mean: from life (on the contrary).
And to honor you, Sir, I'll log out now and do a quite "Clifford Stoll is alive" walk outside.
Live long and prosper.