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  • the product produced by the producer operating in a violently censorious state has complied with censorship in the production of the product? omg, stop the presses!

    (nevermind the fact that if you spend half a second thinking through where said state exercises its power and control, the reasons for the things you observed should all but smack you in the face)

  • neither our posters nor our instance really give a fuck which posts random federated weirdos like or don’t like

    although every now and then some of those come by and get a fedifuckton of updoots, but when you look at it it's all very 🤨 and

  • there are lots of complaints one can level at ccp-run china without having to dip right into this strand of sinophobia, what the utter lazy fuck. bullshit like this that helps the world stay bad and intolerant. fuck off with it.

    (sincerely: one of your downvotes from sunny ZA)

  • so I ran into this fucking garbage earlier, which goes so hard on the constituent parts of "the spam is the point", an ouroborosian self-reinforcing loop of Just More Media Bro Just One More Video Bro You'll See Bro It'll Be The Best Listicle Bro Just Watch Bro, and the insufferably cancerous "the medium is the message" videos-made-for-youtube-because-youtube that if it were a voltron it'd probably have its own unique Special Moment sequence instead of being one of the canned assembly shots

  • pin it on the AI developers or something and not the practice that used it and didn’t double check it’s work

    okay so, what, you're saying that all those people who say "don't employ the bullshit machines in any critically important usecase" have a point in their statement?

    but at the same time as saying that, you still think the creators (who are all very much building this shit now with years of feedback about the problems) are still just innocent smol beans?

    my god, amazing contortions. your brain must be so bendy!

  • oh are people just training it wrong? wow where did we hear this before

    sure is a good thing that you, wise turtle soup, could be here just in time to tell people the secret wisdom! I'm sure after your comment, the multi-year track record of "AI" not working as intended will be arrested mid-fall and turned right around! we're saved!

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024

    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 insist

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    fresh money in, and mira’s bouncing

    “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”

    yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..

    one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on

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    good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE

    I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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    ibm mainframes: now featuring AI

    saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage

    IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator

    ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.

    imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this

    Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.

    ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024

    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 insist

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 11 August 2024

    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 insiste

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024

    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

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    hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store

    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

    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

    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

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    In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times

    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

    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!

    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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    A tale of well-designed systems

    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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    Github has decided that people aren't copiloting hard enough

    will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:

    it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet

    flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale

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    with barely a hint of irony