[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community

I'd heard of these but never looked into it (hadn't needed to), opened now and saw who the bug was reported by. imagine getting that report from that source and then your first answer is to start arguing

double up that multiple distros going back older than that report have had support for automatic user mount systems (and that calibre could've just used that)... goddamn

recently I ran into the term "outsider programming" and I really like it as a frame for the kind of inexpert contributors (driveby or otherwise) that you get in a project like calibre, people who just trying to make their own little thing work as best they can - you could look at e.g. the code for the dedrm plugin if you want some examples of this. but then you also get whatever the fuck goyal is doing here, which is ..... far the other way

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

Heh yeah, “infrastructure” in the same way that moneyed bayfuckers are “builders”

It is also a useful study in just how little they fucking by get about how anything works, and what models of reasoning they apply to what they perceive. Depressing, but useful

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

The result is, in technical terms, four pictures of a schoolgirl waifu in fetishwear.

I try to avoid having to even see the outputs of these fucking systems, but you just made me realize that there's going to be more than a few of them that will "leak" (read: preferentially deliver, by way of training focus) the kinks of its particular owner. I mean it's already happening for the textual replies on twitter, soothing felon's ever so bruised ego. the chance of it not Shipping beyond that is pretty damn zero :|

god I hate all of this

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 2 days ago
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

(note: out-of-order to linked post for comment cohesion)

Terminals are an invisible technology to most

what a fucking sentence

...that are hyper present in the everyday life of many in the tech industry.

hyper? like this?

But the terminal itself is boring, the real impact of Ghostty is going to be in libghostty and making all of this completely available for many use cases. My hope is that through building a broadly adopted shared underlayer of terminals around the industry we can do some really interesting things.

oh good so the rentier bridgetroll wants to do just a monopoly play? that's fine I'm sure. note: I don't think there's a more charitable reading of this. those shared underlayers already exist, in the form of decades of protocol and other development. many of them suck and I agree about trying to do better, but I (rather strongly) suspect hashi and I have very different ideas of what that looks like

I've already addressed the belittling of the project I really find useful and care about. So let's just move on to the financial class.

Regardless of my financial ability to support this project, any project that financially survives (for or non-profit) at the whims of a single donor is an unhealthy project

"uwu, think of the poor projects. yes sure I could throw $20m at this in some kind of funny trust and have it live forever but that wouldn't allow me to evade the point so much!"

I paid a 9-figure tax bill and also donated over 5% of my other stuff to charity this year

"I'm not as bad as the other billionaires I promise"

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

second person today I saw mentioning wezterm, guess I should look sometime for familiarity

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

right? like, is felon finally getting competition for unhinged billionaire gamerposting?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

I took psychic damage by scrolling up and seeing promptsimon posting a real doozie:

I have been enjoying hitting refresh on https://fuckthisurl/froztbyte-scrubbed-it-intentionally throughout today and watching the number grow - it's nice to see a clear example of people donating to a new non-profit open source project.

"oooh! look at the vanity project go! weeeee, isn't having a famous face attached to it fun?" with exactly no reflection on the fucking daunting state of open source funding in multiple other domains and projects

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

oh I just saw this is almost a month old! still funny tho

(and I've been busy af afkspace)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

there's some more cursor fun too. no sneers yet, I've barely started reading

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

saw this elsewhere. the account itself appears to be a luckey stan account, but the next

There’s more crust than air or sea or land... so a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to be a huge deal

I have built working prototypes of this

so are we talking mining, or The Core (2003)? it feels like he's trying to pitch it as though it's Tiberian Sun style subterrean APC, but I can't be sure whether I'm reading into it

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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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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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