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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

blake is rather more advanced in physics than we had anticipated

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

The YouTube version doesn't have the ads

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have only just noticed that this is dated a year in the future

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

yes, that's correct

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

psst it's to search and destroy

A terrible day to have ears: Google’s NotebookLM auto-generates AI podcasts in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and I’d love more eyes on it

https://awful.systems/c/morewrite

Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

It's a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes

A terrible day to have ears: Google’s NotebookLM auto-generates AI podcasts in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

having read your posts (crypto shilling??), this is probably not the group for you

Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I'm still looking for precise wording of the PEL.

It's very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.

EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.

This is a small technical violation that's easily remedied, but I understand that's what got people pissed off.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

this is why i keep hammering on how, functionally, OpenAI is a branch of MS and they're only separate so OpenAI's reputation doesn't stain MS.

A terrible day to have ears: Google’s NotebookLM auto-generates AI podcasts in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

this is what we get for opening the bag "dead dove, do not eat"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

from the godot discord:

godotclayjohn • 20h ago •

fund.godotengine.org!

Obviously I can't share access to the backend, but the numbers on the side are kept up to date. Last week we went down by about €5,000 when a corporate sponsorship expired.

Since Friday morning we lost €170/month in sponsorships but gained €1,610/month in new sponsorships. In terms of numbers of people: 10 people have cancelled their donations so far and 74 new people have signed up.

go woke, go 1400 EUR ahead and lose a pile of shitheads you never wanted

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testosterone and IQ: from the LessWrong School of Taking 4chan Memes and Just Running With Them (www.lesswrong.com)
 

dude has another banger today too, again from the bitter 4chan incel memepool but in bigger words: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nxmyGYfZaXvKALWGK/lukehmiles-s-shortform#ijhf8stE4Thc9CWXP

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I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking (www.lesswrong.com)
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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 April 2024 (awful.systems)
 

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 them, I would love to sneer at them.

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Will MacAskill wanted to go on podcasts and explain after FTX, but his laywers suggested he perhaps not send himself to jail (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one (www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 (awful.systems)
 

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 them, I would love to sneer at them.

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"Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content." (www.theregister.com)
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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)
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Remember when AI had proper hallucinations? Eyeballs! Spurious dogs! (davidgerard.co.uk)
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For anyone who doubts that AI is precisely the same BS as blockchain, we present to you: the AI UNLEASHED SUMMIT (www.aiunleashedglobalsummit.com)
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you guys, OpenAI and Facebook have totally invented your plastic pal who's fun to be with this time (www.ft.com)
 

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