David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsto
important instance shit@awful.systems•scheduled downtime: November 12 at 8 AM GMT [iocaine, better metrics, and eventually a treat]English
9·1 day agolemmy falls over at some pitifully low number of hits per second, it’s just scraper shitheads
spammers are stupid
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
5·3 days agoIf you get under all the hype slop, it’s an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].
This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.
At least they don’t claim to be doing qubits.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
6·3 days agoExtropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. “We have a thing! please give us more money? we swear we’re still Nazis”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
9·3 days agoDavid Hamburger-Helper
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
7·3 days agowhen you get this working i am totally copying this for rationalwiki
i nearly installed caddy just to get iocaine
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025English
8·3 days agoIf you’re having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
1·4 days agosticky note under the keyboard
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
6·4 days agounrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as “fuck [name]” and “punch [group]”.
why are they so bad at this
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•KeePassXC doubles down on AI useEnglish
14·4 days agosticky note under the keyboard
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
3·4 days agoborn to e-waste
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
2·4 days agoI’m failing to see the ambiguity here. He repeatedly says it’s in the devices (PC, phones) and then that it’s on the edge. So those devices are what he means by the edge.
This comes across as failure to read the text.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025English
10·5 days agoKeepArseNX
lead dev: Jia Tan
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas WeaverEnglish
3·5 days agoyeah. LLMs are fat. Lesser ML works great tho.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketingEnglish
8·6 days agoi have a pile of long winded comments and emails pretending this tech can be apolitical and how dare i impugn their hard work and science
there’s a reason i moderate against fucking idiots. you have a billion other loungeroom floors on the internet to piss on
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•The Biggest, Craziest Wikipedia Drama EverEnglish
1·7 days agoEpoch Times and all associated media is deprecated
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiotEnglish
19·13 days agoI’M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY’RE ALL FP4
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!English
8·14 days agoyeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
5·15 days agolooks pretty good to me, I’d be delighted to produce this sort of work and he’s doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
4·15 days agodo please continue!
(i mean, like i can talk)




















Keep Arse