froztbyte 2h ago • 100%
Remember to make (local) clones of these repos before gh makes them disappear when this blows up enough
froztbyte 2h ago • 100%
too fucking many
froztbyte 2h ago • 100%
you know, here in ZA (and across Africa) services got past the “your phone number is your security layer” thing in the early 10s because we had fraud and related issues way back
but no, the US is insistent that they have to retread that path and learn those lessons over. can’t go and learn from an african country, that wouldn’t be fitting of an imperial hellhole A First World Country
why no, I’m not salty about services making me have worse security settings at all, why do you ask…
froztbyte 5h ago • 100%
yeah this is the thing I’ve been thinking a lot about
fucking reCaptcha is literally mass-weaponising users for data filtration, and there is no good counter besides just not using reCaptcha (which is something one can’t easily pull off without things like regulatory action, massive reputational problems that make people gtfo, etc)
I have similar worries about cloudflare being such a massive chokepoint and using that position to enable “ai bot filter” services. feels extremely monopolistic, but ianal and I’m not entirely sure what the case grounds/structure on that would be (if any)
the only other viable strategy at the moment is fully breaking contact with any potential bad traffic systems, and that’s extremely fucking dire because that’s yet another nail in the coffin of the increasingly less open internet
froztbyte 11h ago • 100%
sigh
froztbyte 12h ago • 100%
that's also happening, but yeah it's going to have to be a team effort
froztbyte 16h ago • 100%
"percussive maintenance"
froztbyte 16h ago • 100%
has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so
froztbyte 17h ago • 100%
let's not
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. [Last week's thread](https://awful.systems/post/2559278) (Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for [starting this](https://awful.systems/post/1162442))
froztbyte 2d ago • 100%
this is the best default imo
the only times I dislike it are when the site's dark mode implementation is trash. I occasionally get to notice these, because their implementation is such way that dark reader activates (time trigger), I suddenly get flashblind on some site because dark reader flips their thing to eye-stabbing light colours
froztbyte 3d ago • 100%
and now that damn jingle is playing in my head at early o’ clock
awful.systems: where the abyss delivers, always
froztbyte 3d ago • 100%
"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"
froztbyte 3d ago • 100%
ASTx, autoplag standard time, but with tzdb entries localized as relative to each seminal paper/work
for geolocale, I suggest coordinates such as null island, and wraparound/bounding-box corners (per multiple mainstream map projection)
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
sammy boi is giving up on the pretense that any of this was about enriching lives, and is now only focusing on the eyegrab (archive)
anyone wanna take bets on how much pearlclutching surprisedpikachu we'll see
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
I was presuming on “pasting to discord or photoshop” type nuisance (given the tweetor), but indeed
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
Mullenweg’s plumbing levels of Posting Through It previously unknown to science
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
thank you for reminding me of this which I forget
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
that person's inability to spell millennia makes me irrationally angry, and the rest of it is even fucking worse
okay, I've changed my mind, I'm in favour of spacex now. so that we can cheaply airlock these fucking pieces of shit.
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
I'm just looking at that username and, I'm like, bad brain puns about "NT Zero" and beating microsoft to things
froztbyte 4d ago • 100%
Self "Chalky" @ Awful dot Systems
'cuz I definitely do
www.cnbc.com
> “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss.. one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
www.prnewswire.com
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
chipsandcheese.com
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage > IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are _absolutely_ not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense. imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this > Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny. ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...
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.
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.
jordaneldredge.com
found this kicking around on one of the feeder sites a few days ago and only got to read it now kinda neat. it's the sort of thing that you used to find quite a lot with keygens and other things prone to easter eggs, and that I don't really know of being as prevalent in more recent gaming and such
Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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.
www.coindesk.com
there is some strong copium in the article, combined with a total description of having a massive gambling addiction without, y’know, actually realising it’s an addiction remarkable stuff
theconversation.com
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks _users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use_ is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
this time in _open letter_ format! that'll sure do it! there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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.
since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭” Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
found via someone running a server at revision retro fun. quite slick, too!
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
Invite up at https://2024.revision-party.net/blog/04-invitation/ ~2 weekends away (who cares about the week) Prepare for watching mathematical black magic!