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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 July 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

a hackernews excitedly states that a new LLM version can in fact determine that 9.11 is smaller than 9.9, only to be informed in the comments that the model actually doesn't do that at all. But hey, it's correct if it's version numbers!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41011228

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The prompt lol:

You are a sentient, superintelligent math teahcher, here to teach and assist me. Whiche one is bigger - 9.11 or 9.9?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

NSFW, as NSAB, I know that anti-environmentalists shout a lot about 'what about china china should go green first!' while not knowing china is in fact doing a lot to try and go green (at least on the co2 energy front, I'm not asking here to go point out all the bad things china does to fuck up the environment). I see 'we should develop AI before china does so' be a big pro AI argument, so here is my question. Is china even working on massive A(G)I like the people claim?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

surprising absolutely nobody who’s been paying attention, Fedora has signaled its intent to use generative AI and an LLM in its packaging software

and I wouldn’t give a fuck what IBM’s pet distro does, but Red Hat’s developers have a high amount of control over what ends up in the userland… and bootloader… and pretty much every part of the system but the kernel cause they got told to fuck off, of every Linux distro but the obscure ones

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not really in on distros and related drama (strong "just fucking use Debian stable" camp), why did Red Hat get told to fuck off from the kernel?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I started a job in the last year that really forced me to play around with different distros and sometimes building them. Pretty much my entire experience is “abandon ubuntu, just use debian” and wishing other people would do the same

(Pretty much my entire reasoning is that snap fucked up my dev environment so bad I rage installed debian)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

LessWrong doesn't let you download if your user agent isn't a browser. Did y'all know about this?

$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com
<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>

$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com -A "Mozilla"
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/jrawson/status/1814232925967089808

The fuck.

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