[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

ugh and the disease is spreading

I guess they couldn’t find enough marks ^W “investors” in the US

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

the Nazi bar distributing leaflets about indie Nazi feature nights is Concerned about this “accidental” distribution coming from their own printers and being handled by their own towncriers

(the context, in case you haven’t seen it)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

the kind of people who think “look, no one said they don’t have empathy. they have empathy. I’ve seen it. it’s at their house tied up in the basement. apparently they have some kind of thing going on” is a normal line

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

why buy expensive corporate bleach when HCl is perfectly good?!

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

now listen, you might think this contributor seems like an utter cost,

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago

continuing on the theme of promptfondlers shitting up open source (or at least attempting to), look at this nightmare pr

for those who may not software:

  • this pr is basically unreviewably large
  • it’s clearly just autoplag-sourced slop
  • there is zero engagement from the person with the actual goals of the project or open source
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago

I present to you, this amazing screenshot from r/vibecoders:

transcriptsubject: thoughts on using experts (humans) to unblock vibe coders when Al fails? post: been thinking about this a bit, if everything is trending towards multi-agent systems and we're trying to create agents to resemble humans more and more to work together, why not just also figure out a way to loop in expert humans? Seems like a lot of the problems non-eng vibe coders have could be a quick fix for a senior eng that they could loop in.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

remember, the actual design name is Liquid Ass

screenshot of youtube video pre-roll still showing the Liquid Glass themescreen with the play button obscuring the letters g and l

(still amazing that they PR blundered that, and how rapidly just that got fixed while addressing nothing else about this stupid thing)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

yes, sneerclub exists to ridicule these people (see sub sidebar for some links)

and yep, your takeaway about that language is exactly right. although every single one of them continues to swear at every opportunity that they're not a cult, even midway through praising their cultlord

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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

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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

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage

IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator

ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.

imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this

Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.

ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...

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