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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] gwl 4 points 7 hours ago

noticed someone like "comments are lazy! never use them! write better code!"

A:

  • I'm paid for doing the job, I'm not paid to be not lazy.
  • comments are fucking useful
[-] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago

I once had someone tell me to my face that comments were a code smell.

[-] misterbngo@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

I've found that people who talk about "code smell" generally should not be listened to as it's entirely vibes-based-on-the-last-medium-post-i-read-this-morning. I had a dipshit manager tell me that he didn't like my use of decorators (in python mind you) because it was a "code smell" and recommended I read "clean" code, and I immediately threw every other opinion he had in the trash.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

So anybody else noticing regular outages here today or was it just me?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

current issue is likely the most recent bout scraper waves (based on it matching data myself and others have seen elsewhere); suggestions have been made, so hopefully soon(tm) changes

(don’t mean to speak on @self’s behalf ito plans, mind. that’s for them to do :D)

[-] self@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

uggggh yep sorry, I meant to deploy some changes that would mitigate this a couple nights ago but had a bunch of things crop up. I’ll do my best to work it in tonight!

some specifics for the changes to expect:

  • iocaine finally
  • some better nginx settings to kill likely scraper connections faster
[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, there's been a bunch of outages recently.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

nah same for me

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 hours ago

Guys, it's a problem that GenPop thinks "AI" is useless, because that means they will deny the inevitable coming existence of the Evil Robot God and make it harder to stop it

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W2dTrfTsGtFiwG5hM/origins-and-dangers-of-future-ai-capability-denial

The whole thing has to be read to be believed. But there are some fun nuggets:

  • saying that an evil robot god is coming is Rational. Doubting that is a conspiracy theory
  • slagging flat-earthers on LW is truly the pot calling the kettle black
  • "I can imagine a world where AI becomes extremely good at flipping burgers or driving cars well before it learns how to write software or detect cancer. In that case, I think it's a lot harder to deny its achievements. But in our world, a lot of AI's greatest achievements take context to understand, like protein folding or playing board games." - yeah sure buddy all the pro board game players are quaking in their boots
[-] aio@awful.systems 1 points 40 minutes ago

Well, it is true that computer programs have far surpassed humans in board games. They are very well suited for it. It just has nothing to do with the hypothesized abilities of future "AI" as rationalists conceive them.

[-] sansruse@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

i'm only at the beginning, but this already stuck out to me:

It would be extremely bad if many people come to believe this: arguments about existential risk mostly rely on the assumption that AI is capable, so they fall flat for people who don't agree with that. I think we should be emphasizing the core capability of AI more and talking about x-risks less.

"Guys we need to pump this ~~bubble~~ Rational Stock Appreciation Trend more, the plebs are starting to think it's all bullshit!!"

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

I suppose it is an iambic tetrameter, but the third and fourth lines do not fit.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago
[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
[-] gwl 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

one of today's lucky 10,000

very short children's book, with intentionally atypical rhythm, by Dr Seuss

written in call-response style in dialogue between two characters (unnamed and Sam-I-Am)

https://www.readstoriesforkids.com/Green-Eggs-and-Ham-text.html - text without images, but best enjoyed with the images

the full book on The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/greeneggsham0000unse/

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago

dr seuss - green eggs & ham

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

That’s how you know a human wrote it

Amazon unveils AI-Powered AR glasses for delivery drivers.

The response I've seen from actual drivers has been somewhere between "eh? I guess?" and "fuck you, pay me".

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 10 hours ago

Does it have GPS so it can flash "WRONG HOUSE, FUCKWIT"

[-] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

The glasses also support prescription lenses along with transitional lenses that automatically adjust to light.

Actual prescription lenses or generic supermarket lenses?

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

For something lighter, here's an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest "video game" I've ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn't do it justice):

In lieu of sneering this shit, I'd like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn't matter - give them four years of art so they don't turn out like this guy.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago
[-] misterbngo@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I literally can't even.

As someone who spent countless hours of my youth in hammer, laying out areas with props and lighting and doing play testing about areal movement with test npcs, it's hilarious that these people see this slop and say, yes this is the future.

also : "I’m working on a theory that “AI is art” boosters have some kind of limited ability to perceive details. Like they literally only perceive large shapes, colors, and noises. Anything remotely more detailed than ‘big thing go boom’ they actually lack the ability to see it." 🤔🤔🤔

also: after discussing with my brother I came to the realization that this rube was likely very into the "play2earn" bullshit during the nft era

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Level design, color palette, continuity, assets and physics by a bowl of salvia

[-] corbin@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago

Hey now, at least the bowl of salvia has a theme, predictable effects, immersive sensations, and the ability to make people feel emotions.

[-] nightsky@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Besides the ridiculousness of those issues, I'm taken aback that this "game" is just a series of crappy cutscenes and then you can pick 1 of 3 choices here and there? Worst "choose your own adventure" ever...

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 4 points 1 day ago

@blakestacey

Salvia, LSD, peyote, and three hallucinogens unknown to science.

Also: They made a "game" that is 100% glitches.

Oh, so Call of Duty

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 1 day ago

@blakestacey

The video game equivalent of

40 year old virgin sand GIF

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago
[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago
[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

https://eepy.moe/notes/ae7rhgxvpw8d09kw

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[-] flaviat@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Lol at the sealion in that thread

I'm running Hyprland on my Framework 13 (not doing omarchy cause I'm a NixOS fan,

of course

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Naturally, the worst people on that thread are praising it - for example, here's the "DHH destroying Basecamp is based" guy whining about people not accepting outright fascists:

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

100% certain this dork has the wikipedia page for logical fallacies open 24/7

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

The fact that a mod named "catastrophe" did this is morbidly funny to me.

Anyways, whatever doubts I (or anyone had) about Framework are basically gone. I hope Nirav and the Framework team enjoy their Nazi bar.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

just once i want to buy a computery thing and not have it end up being fasctech

i was so excited about this laptop 😭

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

MNT Reform's doing a similar thing to Framework, but its nowhere near what they offered. The team is completely free of venture capital, and its got a non-binary head representing it, so it should be safe from a fashtech turn.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

this is cool, but honestly, after the red hat/fedora announcement that they'll allow slop contributions, i may just try and use my phone for everything

android 16 QPR1 gets a proper desktop mode and it should get ported to grapheneos soon enough

this is just copium, of course. thank you for sharing the link to the mnt reform. <3

[-] fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 day ago

@BlueMonday1984 @Seminar2250 LGBTQ is no protection from fascism. Pim Fortuyn, the predecessor to Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, was gay.

[-] tshirtman@mas.to 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@fazalmajid @BlueMonday1984 @Seminar2250 peter thiel, too, and probably many others indeed, heck, ernst rhöm, leader of the SA, was homosexual, too, bad people come in all shapes, colors, culture, and orientation.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Uh I think his name is actually jimbob snuffleupagus

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Did not know Farage was gay

[-] tshirtman@mas.to 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@gerikson actually you got me to doubt and verify and i'm not sure anymore, i might have mixed up with someone else, will edit out.

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

today in I fucking called it fedora aka mostly red hat has decided to allow slop code in a way that violates even their utterly mid stated principles around the tech

if you’re downstream from any fedora packages (and I don’t know the scope of this policy so it might be safe to consider anything owned by red hat in general to be tainted — yes I realize most of us are downstream from a bunch of red hat shit) it might be time to evaluate an alternative if available

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