froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

this is impressively atrocious

also, I archive-mirrored it, incase you don't want to give the youtube link clicks

(e: still busy uploading but should be there in 2min or so)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you know, I've been thinking thoughts along this line (starting from my earlier comments on awful of the creeping loss of the open internet to gated communities) progressing along the current arc of "with teeth" stuff necessary in today's infosphere, and this is a hugely helpful perspective!

it's pretty weird seeing a coming time when the old mostly open-and-connected-widely internet is ... not. even now it's already on us quite a bit (geoblocks, countries doing specific shutdowns, whole areas being handled with less trust, etc). it all follows cultural lines, of course, and I often wonder whether that will see some kind of directed effort to change (for the better) after some of the coming dark years

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

can't wait for the llm crowd to "reinvent" pagerank for model context, and get into "ad fraud detection"

(and I say that from the position of thinking the digital advertising industry needs to be burned to ash)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers.. 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

thank you for saving me a search

and even then I regret looking

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

151 thousand views

one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.

brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account

did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil

(I jest I jest)

 

as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

 

stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting

 

seen via this

might be a cool thing some here may enjoy contributing to

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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)

 

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.

 

Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

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