Allfather help me, I’ve got too much o’ th’ computer
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istewart@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers downEnglish10·5 days agoMe and Charmander who lives on my keychain are never hanging out with you again!!!
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish6·5 days agoWhat in the world is a catturd2 public appearance like, anyway? This sad, drunk old loser shouting random slurs at the crowd?
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish12·11 days agoApparently, for some corporate customers, Outlook has automatically turned on AI summaries as a sidebar in the preview pane for inbox messages. No, nobody I’ve talked to finds this at all helpful.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish7·11 days agoAn underappreciated 8th-season Star Trek: TNG episode where Data tries to get closer to humanity by creating an innovative new metamaterial out of memories of past emotions
istewart@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Are EA billionaire philanthropists actually effective in their 'altruism'? (spoilers: no)English6·11 days agoEA SPORTS: If it’s in the game…
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English3·12 days agoThis is, sadly, pretty unsurprising, as carrying forward the anti-FDR/anti-New Deal movement was a foundational pillar of the libertarianism that Trump co-opted. Heavily promoted by the LewRockwell.com/Mises.org crowd.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English5·15 days agoBut how are they going to awkwardly cram robots in everywhere, to follow up the overwhelming success of AI? Self-crashing cars are a gimme, but maybe a “sealed for your protection” Amazon locker with a robot arm that handles the package for you?
I was in LA this time a couple years ago, and some robot delivery startup had already left their little motorized shopping carts littering the sidewalks around Hollywood. I never saw them moving, they just sat there almost like they were abandoned.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·16 days agoI’ve seen conspiracy theories that a lot of the ad buys for stuff like this are a new avenue of money laundering, focusing on stuff like pirate sports streaming sites, sketchy torrent sites, etc. But a full scraped, SEOd Wikipedia clone also fits.
Sajam deviated from fighting games to do over an hour on this game, if you’d like to feel your brain gently melting out your ears:
Oh my god, the gacha anime-waifu horse racing phone game is real. Why did I have to find this out today, or ever. Better than 50% chance that Roko is a paypig for it
Over the last few years, I have fully gotten on board with the idea that the haunting vestige of the idea of people as property is one of the core weaknesses of American society, and the “western civilization” enthusiasts that promote its supremacy.
Of course, there are a lot of other people who have been on board with that point of view for centuries.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6·18 days agoThey’re doing it with cryptocurrency right now.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Venture capital is lending money against video cardsEnglish3·18 days agoOr their cooling design stinks, or they/Nvidia are just telling the fab we don’t care about yields, just send us everything that powers on and we’ll figure out which ones are good in production
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Venture capital is lending money against video cardsEnglish1·18 days agoVery true. I think one of the possible low-key outcomes of the bubble is a rise both in open-source driver hacking and manufacture-on-demand PCBs to accommodate what would otherwise be high-dollar e-waste.
istewart@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Venture capital is lending money against video cardsEnglish6·19 days agoSomebody gotta adapt them to boards with actual video outputs tho
istewart@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•We need to escape the Gernsback ContinuumEnglish6·20 days agoWhat with all the rapid innovation surrounding small modular reactors, I still firmly believe that I will be able to bolt a nuclear reactor to a DeLorean in my garage
istewart@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•We need to escape the Gernsback ContinuumEnglish6·20 days agoMuch the same mistake I (and many others) made trying to get into the series! Although I have to say that I’m still one of the philistines that gerikson brings up who’s read Phlebas and Player of Games and not much else.
A piquant little reminder that Yud himself is, of course, so high-status that he cannot be brainwashed by the machine