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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024 (awful.systems)

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A friend saw this on LinkedIn.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

not much of a sneer but a passing chuckle:

Received: from <snip>.net (unknown [snip])
Subject: ***SPAM*** Binance Distribution of MyEtherWallet (MEW) Airdrop

my spamtrap addresses get these every now and then. I'm still amazed that I get that type of subject line in tyol 2024 - spammers are usually far more agile

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

somehow missed this previously, but: Redhat Chatbot Linux!

Today, Red Hat announced a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation model platform to seamlessly develop, test and run best-of-breed, open source Granite generative AI models to power enterprise applications. RHEL AI is based on the InstructLab open source project and combines open source-licensed Granite large language models from IBM Research and InstructLab model alignment tools, based on the LAB (Large-scale Alignment for chatBots) methodology, in an optimized, bootable RHEL image to simplify server deployments.

the "LAB methodology". I wonder if someone broke out the rack and thumbscrews to get a name that tortured

given what I've seen people do to ubuntu-based machines to make their kerases and tensorflows run, combined with redhat's historical trend of extremely bullshit repo pains, I have to wonder what nightmare experience this will result in

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Oh great I mentioned in another context that Linux would be the only LLM-free zone and someone with RH connections just laughed pityingly at me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I asked a RH friend about this and they told me that they just had a breathless all hands about it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (25 children)

utterly off-topic but to usher in the weekend (and because I’ve dropped Spotify): what’s some music

no wrong answers just start listing artists and albums you like

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the fuck? any of you happened to have seen this?

I don’t know if I’ll get it on my one droid (both because I’ve turned near every setting and tracker and whatnot off in advance, and because ZA - less likely to get shit like that in advance) but loooool

they’re all just shoving this shit into every damn input control

coming soon: mousegpt?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

coming soon: mousegpt?

unfortunately, logitech’s ahead of you on that one, and of course it’s the type of lazy shit you could design in an afternoon, so that means they’re gonna sell you a $50 AI Edition mouse:

Logitech Signature AI Edition mouse: $49 @ Logitech

This is a new version of the Logitech M750 wireless mouse that comes with a new teal button on top specifically intended to be used for the AI Prompt Builder. Of course, you could likely remap it using Logitech's software to do whatever you want.

and I realize the article I linked is essentially a paid undisclosed advertisement, but holy fuck:

I just tested Logitech's new shortcut to ChatGPT — and it's a big time-saver

Get ready to summon ChatGPT with the press of a button

it’s a fucking macro key that opens a popover that pastes text into ChatGPT running in a browser get the fuck over yourself

fuck me this is why I make peripherals from components these days instead of buying keyboards and mice fucking laden with this bullshit. when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it

If you like trackballs, Ploopy is great. They’re open source all the way down, mostly 3D-printable, and actually better than most commercially available trackballs.

They also have a mouse kit, but I can’t speak for that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

One of my kids is a huge fan of Dog Man by Dav Pilkey. This particular page from The Scarlet Shedder really captures the mood today.

Edit: apologies for potato image quality

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