[–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

but, who the hell gave them $100k for this?

the third name is a vc-type, and I bet it won’t take much scratching to find that linked to our good friends and the ongoing public image adjustment campaign that’s seeing funding from a few corners

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    a great sneer found in the wild:

    transcript

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    part one is a post by Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge), reads: “This is going to come off as grumpy, but it needs to be said: Stop showing people your junk. Everyone can build junk with Al now. Nobody else wants to see your junk. We're not kindred spirits just because we both build junk. Play with your junk strictly in private. Thank you.”

    part two is a reply by kitze ⚒️tinkerer.club (@thekitze), reads: “counterpoint: “, showing a link card that points at Yegge’s Gas Town post

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    idly, I do wonder how well an ocr-only clodjeepeetea would work. every time I look in on all these “agent session” tools they appear to be a very mech turk thing of a phenomenal bit of hidden state, and a tiny little bit of visible distraction. feels like ocr-only might break a bunch of the usual tricks that are used to build on for the shiny demo

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    the networking part is fine (I do a looooot of networking), but the software quality and choices (esp with containers) is just extremely meh

    re the gapping, eh, there are ways. just off the top of my head: rig up the serial console, screen+camera and usb keyboard signalling (which you can data diode on transmission later via usbnet). and that’s before you go for esoteric side channels and utter silliness

    but “I turned off spectre and friends mitigation” is just some extremely funny shit

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    in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

    I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

    immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

    judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

    tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

     

    some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:

    but buyers are warned that purchases will “require approval”

    aww, the poor babies. even with literal nazis in the whitehouse they still feel uncomfortable to spout their weird shit

    hopefully if this thing happens at all, someone documents the everliving hell out of every attendee

     

    some months ago I mentioned I couldn’t see comments in safari but could in fx (on ios). figured it out now: the 1Blocker “disable comments” filter sweepingly includes lemmy comment field types, but for some reason only on safari and not fx (despite apple forcing engine as they do)

    the fix: add awful.systems as an allowed domain inside 1Blocker config

     

    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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