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Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

followed by the next level of hell: "oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?", and crying in a corner

Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"what do you mean you can't model your whole site on Posts"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

seemingly yet more chatgpt jailbreaks just by providing input that barrierbreaks some n times, and then readily provides details

y'know, if I were the one making safety nets for these systems, I'd make them return such kind of results (or other typical honeypot type behaviour). and it's possible that that's what oai did. but it seems extremely unlikely that that's what they did, because it goes again the bayfucker gottagofast philosophy (and, frankly, against the level of competence I've seen displayed in the genml space overall)

Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

nod

I ran into some fedi post somewhere recently where someone showed some neat all-css hacks (for doing this), and I'm sure I have the tab or bookmark somewhere but .... going to be hard to find atm. and flipside is probably it won't work on the wp modes anyway because wp is of course utterly fucking cursed

Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been making use of wpcli for the small constellation of wp sites I have to deal with, primarily because it means I can actually do some semi-reasonable automation against the damn things (update checks, settings blocks, etc etc). Feel free to steal ideas for a script :D

Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

speaking of, with darkreader loading your blog occasionally makes it go a bit wild. I haven't tried to dig into it but you just made me remember about it

if/when it happens again, I'll see if I can profile it to see what's going on

Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

a couple years back I recall seeing some interesting stuff re the nyc subway (link1, link2)

leaving aside how hilariously far they've overrun constructions and estimations (wow nyc is bad at this), it was kinda wild to learn that they didn't even know where trains were during operation. made perfect sense in context with the info, but still wild

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I realize that these are going to have been utter fucking idiots to start with, but

no air channeling, no structures heatsinks, wide-open roof that could cause further air movement, mismatched fan sizes, extremely insufficient extractors

-15/10, would watch it burn again

TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

aaaaand then I actually looked at the page. fuck me it's even worse.

TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

"wikipediocracy"? fucking seriously?

for all the good and bad bits that wikipedia has (and there are notably many of the latter too), a rulership is definitely not among that list afaik. wtf.

(e: I'm going purely off the domain name there, but holy shit what a name)

TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

drunk thought: I want to hear Till Lindemann singing this, in the closest manner to Mein Herz Brennt as could be managed, with as much genml bullshit strewn in for serious insanity

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apparently it was Opposite Day at coindesk (www.coindesk.com)
 

there is some strong copium in the article, combined with a total description of having a massive gambling addiction without, y’know, actually realising it’s an addiction

remarkable stuff

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hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store (theconversation.com)
 

there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark

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the loons are at it again (righttowarn.ai)
 

this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!

there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 2 June 2024 (awful.systems)
 

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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a blind man stumbles into the activitypub (awful.systems)
 

since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti

feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well

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In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times (www.theverge.com)
 

It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts

Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”

Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?

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Quelle surprise (fortune.com)
 

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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History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book! (thebaffler.com)
 

Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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retrochat (github.com)
 

found via someone running a server at revision

retro fun. quite slick, too!

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A tale of well-designed systems (boehs.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
13 comments fedilink
 

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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Revision 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Invite up at https://2024.revision-party.net/blog/04-invitation/

~2 weekends away (who cares about the week)

Prepare for watching mathematical black magic!

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