Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 4 weeks ago

from someone on Mastodon:

Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

i used to be the sysadmin for lemonparty

it was quite a surprise when i found out i can tell you

Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

you'd almost think they were literally the same fucking guys

A terrible day to have ears: Google’s NotebookLM auto-generates AI podcasts by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

this is what we get for opening the bag "dead dove, do not eat"

People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains - with notes on a similar appeal that failed hard just recently by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

You're posting too much without reading, please come this way to the egress.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

welcome to the abyss! here's your hazmat suit with a leak! it sucks here!

Let them fight: Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigs by dgerard in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

oh yeah. no way are you going to make any appreciable money here.

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LLM vendors are incredibly bad at responding to security issues (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour. (www.thenation.com)
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Paris' editors are awesome and made my hesitant rambling sound snappy and lively too. This came out extremely well.

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a16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chips (pivot-to-ai.com)
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OpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbots (pivot-to-ai.com)
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this has been discussed here previously, but we mostly thought you'd enjoy the picture of your friend and mine Sam Altman

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LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk (pivot-to-ai.com)
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whatever you call it he’s going to talk to you in a hundred different languages, he’s going to connect with you, he’s going to fall in love with you

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MetaMed, slight return: BayesMed, featuring Jann Tallin. AI workflows for clinicians. No medical advice. No sign of Vassar. (bayesmed.com)
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Google put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser. (xcancel.com)
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How batshit insane are the rich in 2024? Here's a Bloomberg article on the estate law aspects of cryonically freezing your head and trying to keep all your money (www.bloomberg.com)
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archive link: https://archive.is/a2ITL

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Pivot to AI: Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024 (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Pivot to AI: Venture capital will eat itself (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024 (awful.systems)
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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.

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Actual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist” (arxiv.org)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How do you deal with ADHD overload? Everyone knows that one: you PILE MORE SHIT ON TOP

https://pivot-to-ai.com - new site from Amy Castor and me, coming soon!

there's nothing there yet, but we're thinking just short posts about funny dumb AI bullshit. Web 3 Is Going Great, but it's AI.

i assure you that we will absolutely pillage techtakes, but will have to write it in non-jargonised form for ordinary civilian sneers

BIG QUESTION: what's a good WordPress theme? For a W3iGG style site with short posts and maybe occasional longer ones. Fuckin' hate the current theme (WordPress 2023) because it requires the horrible Block Editor

CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

pushing 100%, they already tried to sneak in a TOS provision to do just that

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake. "Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge." by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

true, it's going to make it worse

Guy who “would convince employees to take shots of pricey Don Julio tequila, work 20-hour days [and] attend 2am meetings” wants to own WeWork again by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

WITH THEIR OWN MONEY

it's hard to say that Softbank didn't ask for it of course

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