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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Enjoy" this toxic stew of prediction markets, racism, and the objectifying of women:

https://protos.com/polymarket-criticized-for-racist-post-targeting-fake-baddies/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Saw this quality nickname for prompt receivers: Chet Jippity

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Linux puritans are as fissile as the OG Puritans. There's already Devuan which is Debian minus systemd, and now with XLibre. Not sure why this nerd thinks his particular non-denominational chapel will bring in the crowds to hear him sermonize.

Edit BTW Devuan for me is the epitome of FLOSS techfash.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Semi-relevant, Matthew Garrett has won a court case against the kooks running Techrights:

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115581959497817474

About the only positive thing you can say about Schestowitz (and probably his wife) is that they are rabidly anti-AI, but that is only because they are also rabidly against anyone who does not subscribe to their personal purity-test vision of Free Software (basically it's them, RMS, and maybe his parrot).

I have an unhealthy interest in them, because during the Andrew Lee putsch they were basically on his side, until he fucked even them, and I kinda drifted into their IRC server to see what was up. It was my unwelcome introduction to the toxic underbelly of FLOSS, with rampant RMS-worship, misogyny, racism and incipient techno-fascism. I ducked out quite quickly.

Tellingly, Techrights is all in on the Gemini protocol.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Paul Campos - The medium is the mob

Discusses the "reverse Flynn effect", filter bubbles, and infopollution via GenAI

up uP UP!!! in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is Hercule Poirot levels of observation. Kudos.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

210 IQ is not enough

Being really "smart" (along some axis) doesn't make you succesful or even happy.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

also a massive massive promptfondler

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

While you partied

I studied THE BLADE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

WTF are databricks? LLM feces?

On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI by Elizabeth Sandifer in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Schrödinger's essay except the cat is always dead

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk" (time.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the "obscene energy demands of AI" with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on canvas, hmmmmmm??????

Maybe it's just my newness antennae needing calibrating, but I do feel the extreme energy requirements for what's arguably just a frivolous toy is gonna cause AI boosters big problems, especially as energy demands ramp up in the US in the warmer months. Expect the narrative to adjust to counter it.

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