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

seems unlikely, see here for reference

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

well would you look at that, some consequences

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

"posting from the slop hole" is probably the best description possible for this, brb stealing

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

me here still steelman-following casey and masnick and such all like 😬😬😬

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

god this sounds exhausting

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

accountability sink go brrr

(and to step on my pedestal for a moment: turns out “flat file” semantics for reasoning about and managing computer instructions is kinda fucking terrible, who knew?! (gods I wish we could have had some of the alternatives… worse is better is why they won out, but we could do so much better with modern compute capacity..))

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

lol, lmao even

I wonder what will happen if people still continue (and I’m sure a few can afford to..)

but holy shit talk about absolute desperation…

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

^ this

all the other stuff around it is bloody unhinged, including how kent reacted when someone promoted his bot to reply in a manner that didn’t fit his deluded conception of it

from a distance, it looks like the kind of unhinged that doesn’t take much to progress into being dangerous

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ethical Ai alliance, clause 0 (ethicalaialliance.org)

stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting

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seen via this

might be a cool thing some here may enjoy contributing to

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London permacomputing club (london.permacomputing.net)

Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting

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revisiiiioooooon! (2025.revision-party.net)

I forgot to post it here earlier but it's revision weekend!

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in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

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some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:

but buyers are warned that purchases will “require approval”

aww, the poor babies. even with literal nazis in the whitehouse they still feel uncomfortable to spout their weird shit

hopefully if this thing happens at all, someone documents the everliving hell out of every attendee

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 46 points 1 year ago

far, far, far, far, far, far, far fewer business people than you’d expect/guess are data-driven decision makers

and then there’s the whole bayfucker ceo dynamic which adds a whole bunch of extra dumb shit

it’d be funnier if it weren’t for the tunguska-like effect it’s having on human society both at present and in the coming decades to follow :|

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some months ago I mentioned I couldn’t see comments in safari but could in fx (on ios). figured it out now: the 1Blocker “disable comments” filter sweepingly includes lemmy comment field types, but for some reason only on safari and not fx (despite apple forcing engine as they do)

the fix: add awful.systems as an allowed domain inside 1Blocker config

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m a senior software engineer

ah, a señor software engineer. excusé-moi monsoir, let me back up and try once more to respect your opinion

uh, wait:

but I can’t trust a junior engineer to be perfect either

whoops no, sorry, can't do it.

jesus fuck I hope the poor bastards that are under you find some other place real soon, you sound like a godawful leader

and the engineers I know who are still avoiding it work noticeably slower

yep yep! as we all know, velocity is all that matters! crank that handle, produce those features! the factory must flow!!

fucking christ almighty. step away from the keyboard. go become a logger instead. your opinions (and/or the shit you're saying) is a big part of everything that's wrong with industry.

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the precision and clarity are astounding

by the time the hilbert curves got there my mouth was hanging open, and it still gets better

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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.

Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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'cuz I definitely do

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“stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”

yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..

one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on

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I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 46 points 2 years ago

(And then I glanced at your post history and noticed a trend of JAQing off so I now doubt whether you’re sincere in asking)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 57 points 2 years ago

Someone who takes it on themselves to act as apologist for the words/actions of tech sociopaths

Often seen as “weird nerds coming to defense of $x” (such as musk, or in this case the kagi dudebro)

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