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self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
8·15 days agoso maybe this is a bit too obvious to state at this point but: conover’s very obviously tied up in aella’s plzdontkillus EA influencer scheme, his apparent anti-AI stance is purely performative, and the apology he did for doing marketing for worldcoin on his channel isn’t accepted. he knew what he was doing.
also, I really don’t need the Adam Ruins Everything guy in the same part of my brain as sex, thanks
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
10·15 days agoholy fuck that’s infuriating
imagine the worst possible CLI and then make it even worse and then make it an asshole
real rich of their CEO (presumably? it looks like a burner account which still checks out if it’s their CEO or someone who works for him doing damage control and trying to take this shit to DMs) to both anthropomorphize their chatbot and assert that the problem is you need uhh training on the system that doesn’t do what you want it to do and keeps trying to charge you for shit that makes your workflow worse
honestly the thing that makes me think it is actually their CEO is I’ve watched these fuckers use “let’s take this to DMs/email” as an attempted power move. they seriously think we want to talk to them privately about, like, anything at all. no fucker I’m here to call you out in public because your product is shit and you’re shit too.
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
3·18 days agoI wrote a reply to this article where I thanked Liam for the shoutout and sincerely hoped that next time he writes on this subject, he has reason to come to a different conclusion
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
5·2 months agouh oh, ours? that’s a different disk but it’s also a tiny disk
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
9·2 months agouggh, I dragged my feet too much on giving our instance more disk and the database fell over
it seems to have recovered alright, but please check if there’s any weirdness or missing posts around the time when it went down
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
8·2 months agothank you! I feel terrible I haven’t been posting as much here as life’s been finding a way to consistently disrupt my writing and admining time, but mastodon’s format is pretty good for turning disrupted, high-anxiety writing into threads
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•@jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dyingEnglish
9·3 months agoit’s amazing how once the LLM cooks these guys they all start spewing the same crap
version 3.5 is going to “raise the bar enormously with regards to rsync security”
did rsync previously have a particularly flawed security model? it sounds like it had a couple of CVEs that this asshole decided to slop out fixes for, alongside breaking a bunch of parts of rsync. maybe somebody showed him mythos (which is fucking terrible at finding vulnerabilities when it’s not backed by a bunch of invisible labor doing the actual work or just finding bugs that originated by letting Claude or some other LLM loose on the codebase) and that pushed him over the edge?
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outragedEnglish
12·3 months agodid you mistake this for a fucking tiktok video?
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google is replacing search results with only the AIEnglish
9·3 months agoWOW DOWNVOTES
you got 2 downvotes and no attention and threw a fucking tantrum, what is wrong with you
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google is replacing search results with only the AIEnglish
17·3 months agoI have anti-recommendations:
- kagi is a piece of shit run by a bigot who loves AI and anyone paying for it because they hate AI is embarrassing themselves. their fans will probably find and raid this thread because suppressing critique about the awful search engine you pay for monthly is a normal thing to do.
- ecosia is a piece of shit doing extremely obvious greenwashing, and none of their claims about their LLM somehow magically being green pass muster. I don’t think ecosia has rabid fans, it’s pretty much for the kind of asshole who wants to feel good about the damage they’re doing to the planet.
best of luck with the recommendations
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Somehow, I've been chosen to speak at my company's internal meeting on whether or not AI integration has actually been useful to us. I want feedback on my thoughts + inputs from you people too.English
3·3 months agoit’s utterly normal to come back 2 months after shitting up a bunch of lemmy threads with terrible fucking posts to have a weird tantrum over the downvotes you got
anyway thanks for coming back for your ban you fucking weirdo
get the fuck out
also hexbear has a new domain? thanks for letting us know with a typically shitty fucking post
e: when in the fuck did we refederate with fucking hexbear? I’m assuming somebody misclicked
I’m glad you’re able to join us. what you went through — both the acts themselves as well as the Rationalists defending each other and ostracizing you afterwards — breaks my heart. I have just a couple of questions for now:
- are you ok with links to your previous writing on this topic being posted in this thread? this isn’t to establish proof (it’s already abundantly clear that you’re telling the truth, and we know the Rationalists have a history with both committing and systematically excusing SA), it’s just to provide further detail to anyone who wants it.
- is there anything our community can do to help make it easier to discuss what happened?
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
6·4 months agok
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
251·4 months agobelieve it or not we’ve read the posts and context in question and come to the conclusion that the use of LLMs for summarizing posts and confirming a moderation decision still obviously fucking sucks and obviously represents algorithmic bias in a way we don’t want on any instance we federate with
I know you kids won’t read this but uhhh if you come at us with an attack on our ability to read, all that’s going to happen is I’m going to tell you to fuck yourself before I ban you
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
6·4 months agohey fucko, you know we don’t have to take their word for it right? we can read all the relevant posts and come to the conclusion that actually the use of LLMs as stated fucking sucks, and that we don’t fucking want it. we can read something and come to a different conclusion than you, believe it or not.
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
131·4 months agooh no the goalposts! think of the theoretical shitheads who might do this in secret!
please see the pinned post and fuck off
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
132·4 months agoperform away! please keep in mind that Lemmy and ActivityPub are communities, and the only proof of intent we have is through action. a change in policy might feel performative, but it gives me something I can boost as a positive example and a sign that things will be better going forward.
self@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
132·4 months agoI’d rather make this a learning moment than a purging moment.
absolutely! please show me you’ve learned from this moment by taking a stance against the use of LLMs anywhere in the moderation process and making it part of your instance’s policies going forward.









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