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• Post #4498659

  I really cannot explain telling people when it came out “don’t buy Hogwarts Legacy, Rowling is a massive bigot and the money goes straight to her” and getting the response “but I really want it” in a weird whine as if I were talking to a child

• Post #4428863

  responding to “on a scale from 1 to 10, how much pain are you in” with “give me Deus Ex”

• Post #4428611

  hey so about your favorite boy hank green. it’s such a shame that he went overboard with the LLM stuff, that was impossible to see coming, good on him for realizing he was addicted right? well wishes for the good boy! anyway there’s smoking gun evidence that he was paid by effective altruists to do marketing for the “AI is so dangerous but so revolutionary” flavor of critihype. this is alleged by hank green expert hank green in the washington post, as well as an EA in charge of influencer marke...

• Post #4394025

  oh cool, somehow the Symbolics Lisp Machine is now an LLM grift: > Outproduce engineering teams. Lisp Machine productivity (1,000 lines of debugged Lisp per day, equivalent to 10,000 lines of C) compounds with LLM coding agents driving the image directly. The leverage approaches one hundred to one against conventional C engineering teams. https://hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/117044268951603975

• Post #4393376

  today in the Linux kernel turning into slop: this is what LLM code reviews do in every project that uses them you get spammed with exhausting, mostly irrelevant text from a machine that gaslights you if you disagree with it you deal with human reviewers who think you’re incompetent if you ignore the LLM review, especially if it catches a bug by pure chance but it got lost in the output or stated in a way you couldn’t decipher if you disagree with the LLM in matters of style or taste, both the...

• Post #4382544

  today in “please make a regular fucking bicycle with a motor”: Segway! yes we already did Segway, but today you get to experience the PUMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Urban_Mobility_and_Accessibility >The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA) was an experimental electrically powered road vehicle created by Segway and adopted by General Motors as a concept vehicle representing the future of urban transportation. jesus christ

• Post #4355121

  hey who wants to see how fucking slimy the influencer shill economy is note that my email address isn’t listed anywhere, it’s an admin address and has never been used in a business context note “funds are held in escrow and released when the work is delivered” aka say exactly what we want or you don’t get paid at all note that I’m already in their database of “verified influencers” without my consent, and that they cold emailed an admin address to try and extract my consent after they did tha...

• Post #4328531

  do you remember that one time like 3 years ago when Technology Connections, a YouTuber who makes really good short but in-depth documentaries on ultra-specific tech topics in exchange for, drumroll, money to live and make more videos, got chased off of fedi by like 50+ tedious assholes because he doesn’t post his videos to peertube, a platform where he would not make the money he uses to live and make more videos

• Post #4261537

  hey while I’m ranting about edgy 90s computing magazines when maximum pc aka boot magazine (a much better name, bring this back, I don’t care in what form) decided a gaming PC was called a rig, was that a reference to driving an 18-wheeler truck for a living, or was it just a drug reference?

• Post #4256527

  my youtube recommendations are again flooded with identical guys with computer science degrees named some shit like Engineer Engineering Engineering whose only hobbies are tesla and testing unsafe self-driving systems (plural) with their kids in the back of their tesla, with thousands of identical videos about how smart it is that the cybertruck is steer by wire because , who all talk exactly like the least pleasant guys I’ve ever worked with

• Post #4247364

  every time I see low level learning on YouTube it’s a thumbnail where he’s extremely concerned about something and I never click on the video because he’s always making this face

• Post #4220575

  here’s every type of bicycle YouTuber that talks about e-bikes: - some guy who’s been riding mountain or road bikes for decades and hates e-bikes but covers them as lazily as possible with very little understanding because it gets views - some guy building The E-Bike THEY Don’t Want You To Have because it’s an illegal motorcycle that goes 50 mph and has no torque at all because its drivetrain is ornamental - AI reading the manual for your e-bike to you - a libertarian cryptobro tells you how...

• Post #4215411

  there is a type of dickhead who thinks having a bicycle speed limit is ableist and sexist and they’re a cautionary tale about letting ancaps into leftist spaces

• Post #4208869

  hey so I’ve been meaning to ask is there a reason why a lot of people who hate the guy act like they’re on a first name basis with Musk? the guy is a fucking ghoul who you presumably don’t know personally. why are you anthropomorphizing the fucker? why are you softening your tone by using his first name? “oh but what if someone thinks I’m talking about the other members of his family” they’re all fucking ghouls too, but nobody talks about them in any context other than their temporary trillio...

• Post #4199217

  so uh would anyone else use an emacs feature phone where you write your own features with elisp or is it just me

• Post #4191193

  it would be very special if a boy like cory doctorow could realize he was defending a system of oppression, but he will only pretend to do so in 6-12 months when the money in the LLM game starts to run out

• Post #4171387

  the number of computer science professors on fedi doing mindless LLM boosterism is pretty fucking depressing

• Post #4165234

  https://awful.systems/comment/12187892 > It gets worse. I found another article about the same podcast: Sam Altman says AI won’t shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy. > “I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we were supposed to be in a post-superintelligence world. We’re still going to complain about it, but secretly we’re going to be happy,” Altman concluded. we’re still going to be working ourselves to death but sam altman of openai pretend...

• Post #4163228

  cory doctorow posting a 34 part crash out where he starts with doing a LGTM on the tao chatgpt log (it’s very impressive because he doesn’t understand it, you see) and derails into ranting about the people calling him out for using LLMs while carefully avoiding any of the actual critiques of his LLM use is, well this is just how cognitive surrender looks, unfortunately

• Post #4140499

  with almost comedic timing, here’s some of the money behind torvalds coming out as a slop peddler and look at that, a number of these companies (Palantir being the most notorious) have ties with fascism, right-wing misinformation campaigns, and the military industrial complex I wonder why linus used a barely obscured right-wing conspiracy theory to try and justify the use of slop machines in the kernel? https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116992357509562695

• Post #4133745

  > Source? Thanks! my source is that I looked it the fuck up

• Post #4118533

  US cities really will half-ass some bicycle infrastructure and then a couple years later when nobody uses it they’ll loudly declare that their studies have revealed that bicycles have failed

• Post #4086301

  “it’s just an ordinary tool like any other” I said, before throwing the biggest tantrum I can because a project voted to not allow use of the tool because they evaluated it and collectively found it to be unfit for purpose

• Post #4076723

  how do I post at ghosts? I want to tell John Forester he’s a motherfucker for being bicycling’s leaded gas guy, but unfortunately he’s too dead to notice

• Post #4068211

  doctorow ignoring all of the well-researched problems around bias and AI-washing unethical decisions so he can carve out ethical exclusions for his own privileged use of local models by describing a fantasy version of an LLM that can’t realistically exist is uhh well, that’s a doctorow. same guy who treats socialism like a country club I’m not invited to because I’m not a legacy

• Post #4062328

  the primary thing you need to know about the Doritos liquor is that they made it by soaking a giant filter bag full of mulched Doritos in a giant vat of the cheapest vodka available, so it tastes like extremely stale chips and Doritos cheese dust that went bad the secondary thing you need to know is that the distiller was going bankrupt at the time so it really is the cheapest vodka available so after the stale Doritos taste you’ll get the taste of gasoline, and any amount of Doritos liquor in...

• Post #4048427

  tell me your weird european opinions about bread

• Post #4020159

  it must be so confusing when Americans obsessed with Britain go there expecting everyone to be minor nobility named some shit like Lord Bridgerton but instead everyone’s just gregg

• Post #4016709

  plan 9 was so commercially unsuccessful most installations didn’t bother upgrading from plan 8 ah hah hah hah hah

• Post #4008986

  clive “fuck gearing and fuck inclines” sinclair, bicycle designer