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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 4 points 20 hours ago

@froztbyte @dgerard

This pull request is big! We're only showing the most recent 250 commits JFC

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@swlabr @BlueMonday1984

Wait wtf I once built a blockchain called equestreum *as a joke* https://github.com/hat-festival/equestreum I need to step away from the lathe

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

@Architeuthis @gerikson

The man outside Stratford station yelling through a megaphone about Jesus makes more sense than this

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@gerikson @BlueMonday1984

"biological civilization is about to create artificial superintelligence" is it though?

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

@Honytawk @sturger it's all hallucination, sometimes it's incidentally correct

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 1 month ago

@dgerard this reminded me that the Rabbit R1 exists and... they're still selling them WTF? https://www.amazon.co.uk/rabbit-Voice-Activated-Assistant-Device-Transcription/dp/B0DYK831XY

Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 1 month ago

@lIlIlIlIlIlIl @diz "We made the computer worse at arithmetic! Look how smart we are! This is surely the future!"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 10 points 1 month ago

@sailor_sega_saturn @swlabr

Bears. This always leads to some of them being eaten by bears.

"I'm not sure what the point of reporting crime is": Cyclist injured by motorist claims police "didn't care" and sent driver on course as "it's expensive to prosecute" in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@SupremeDonut @Didros Yeah, but they're not serving *you*. They're serving the interests of Capital. If they help you in the process, that's incidental

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