froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D

(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there's so much fucking humanity out there with y'all!)

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

I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they're typeA when they're typeB

but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this

there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it's always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we're not talking about power plants we're talking about them

it's exhausting

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

someone linked me a screenshot of the "claude helped me figure out I'm trans" post (from there) and whew, that one's a real ride

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

nasb some criticism of the human damage is tasting up eve in places like ieee spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/measuring-ai-societal-impact-khan

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)

it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I signed up for ACM last year, just hit my expiry (like, today), and truly don’t know if I want to renew

it’s been an extreme avenue of generative hype, constantly pushing talks, books, etc. I have no idea how they square it with the ethical pledge

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

what a name choice

just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago

massive bong rip musk is broadsides-ing the spacex ipo so hard not only because he's desperate for cash (he is) but also because he wants to stick it to saltman after losing the recent court case

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

just taking the piss at this point?

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

It’s on netflix in the states

their catalogue is notoriously variable across countries, and it's even worse in ZA (we are often-disregarded by various content cartels). but since all of these shitters just ran headlong for reinventing cable monopolies so rapidly.. I stopped entertaining the "you need to have 7 streaming services and 3 flavoured vpns to circumvent region-blocking" dance a couple of years back

 

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?

 

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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