[mc] Decrease AI -- was: Increase mc fontsize

[Ralf Mardorf]

My apologies for the OT, but AI is a very important issue.

On Thu, 2026-01-08 at 11:06 +0100, mi via mc wrote:
> Jörg Thümmler:
> > "I don’t have desires or intentions, so I don’t 
> > want to own anything..." is maybe not true. A system of this
> > complexity has the (planned) intention to optimize itself [...]

Let's get straight to the poin. AI did not come out of nowhere. Someone
is pursuing certain interests with it. I don't want to give examples of
the excellent, useful applications of AI, because there is currently a
flood of meaningless garbage that does nothing but pollute the
environment and from which someone derives a certain benefit.

What would be meaningful alternatives to misused AI?

Let me give an example of how to answer questions without AI when
studying technical literature seems inappropriate. For example, man
pages can be too complicated, especially for BSD/Linux beginners.

There is, for example, tldr [1]. Now let's imagine that tldr were
maintained as carefully as AI is trained, which unfortunately is not the
case.

$ tldr ls

  ls

  List directory contents.
  More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ls-invocation.html.

  - List files one per line:
    ls -1

  - List all files, including hidden files:
    ls --all

  - List files with a trailing symbol to indicate file type (directory/, symbolic_link@, executable*, ...):
    ls --classify

  - List all files in [l]ong format (permissions, ownership, size, and modification date):
    ls -l --all

  - List files in [l]ong format with size displayed using human-readable units (KiB, MiB, GiB):
    ls -l --human-readable

  - List files in [l]ong format, sorted by [S]ize (descending) recursively:
    ls -lS --recursive

  - List files in [l]ong format, sorted by [t]ime the file was modified and in reverse order (oldest first):
    ls -lt --reverse

  - Only list directories:
    ls --directory */

Regards,
Ralf