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bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English4·1 day agoThere certainly are delivery robots going around in Helsinki, but not to the extent you’re guaranteed to see them on any given day if you’re just strolling around.
Glad you enjoyed your visit.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English6·1 day agoI think this mostly proves that Leo XIV is a moe anime character.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish17·2 days agoThat’s a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English6·20 days agoI’m not polite to chatbots because I don’t use them in the first place.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•How prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case studyEnglish14·22 days agoHell yeah rule by dickgirls
bitofhope@awful.systemsto NotAwfulTech@awful.systems•AI crawler blocker Anubis gets deployed by the United NationsEnglish6·23 days agoWhy do people think this appplies only to Firefox? Is it because it’s checking for “Mozilla” in the UA string? Might wanna check what their own browser uses (I don’t care what browser you have, it probably has “Mozilla” in the user agent string)
bitofhope@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Is Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!English6·26 days agoReally manning that steel bro. It must have taken a lot of effort not to put the echo symbols on (((DEI shibboleths))). Out of spite, I’ll now proceed to somehow incorporate the idea that white people cause earthquakes into my worldview.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English3·26 days agoI dunno, how’s the “I’m not Donald Trump” platform been working out so far?
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English5·28 days agothe hawk tuah teapot is actually hysterical which is how I knew the poster was taking the piss
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English6·28 days agoOh, but you see the axis powers only ever wanted to conquer most of Europe, North Africa, a bunch of islands in the Pacific, most of Southeast Asia, Korea and large parts of mainland China, which the allies would have been completely fine with. Nothing suggests they would actually go for full conquest victory. What is a “Lebensraum”? Is it a type of cheese?
Ooh, pants-on-head stupid semantics nonsense detected.
First, the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the “executive” branch. “Executive” is a literal synonym of “monarchical”—from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy,” meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: if these words don’t mean what they mean, what do they mean?
Executive, as in pertaining to execution. Executing the the duties of a government as defined by legislation. Where the fuck did Curtsy get the impression that “executive” is somehow synonymous with “monarchical”? Did he mix it up with “exclusive”? Even corporations often have multiple executives with different roles.
Mr. Thiel you have so much fucking money couldn’t you afford a fascist philosopher king who is more intelligent than this guy who thinks an “executioner” is a guy that makes you a dictator?
bitofhope@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish2·1 month agoWow, these Japanese jet coasters are getting crazier day by day!
bitofhope@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish2·1 month agoDow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) 37,108.54 -1,206.32 (-3.15%) As of 9:30:56 AM EDT. Market Open.
lol, lmao, happy Monday everyone
Critical support to comrade Trump in his struggle against AmeriKKKan imp€riali$m. Death to the great SSatan United $naKKKeSS.
bitofhope@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Yet another rant about the state of the modern webEnglish4·1 month agoI didn’t ask for advice, but the painkillers are kicking in so I forgive you. I was browsing the intertubes from my bed on my smart telephone. Marvelous, handy little devices these things. The only problem is they don’t have a proper fucking version of Firefox available on them, only poor imitations that lack such necessities as ublock origin and whatnot.
This rant is about the way search engines have been kneecapped and searching for simple information on the web is now a massive hassle because some suit wearing bottom feeders with the moral backbone of crustacean thought they could squeeze a few more drops of our collective lifeblood on the unholy altar of mammon by poisoning the well and not even having the common decency to peddle a better cure than fucking markov chains. I don’t have anything against content blockers, some of my worst enemies are javascripts, but a client side patch does not solve the problem of every major website (aside from maybe Wikipedia) relying on spyware as a business model, gaming the system to make search engines ignore better sites if there are any, giving a middle finger to regional regulations telling you not to rely on spyware as a business model, and burying whatever useful and relevant information may still be left in droning filler that reads like a middle schooler padding out their essay word count.
As tragically true as it is that intentionally maiming my web browser by disabling web features it’s supposed to support in order to browse the actual website I’m browsing on the web with my web browser whose purpose is browsing websites enables it to browse the websites, that’s only another item on a long list of reasons why and how the web has been ruthlessly defiled into the grotesque monstrosity it is now. Blessed be ad blocker developers, I hope their next move is inventing a time machine and preventing Google from purchasing DoubleClick in 2008. Preferably using violence.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Renowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter FanficEnglish1·1 month agoFirst impression: queer (and therefore better) take on whatever Cybersmith was on about(??)
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troublesEnglish5·1 month agogrind for a decade [trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer] OR [whatever]
I have spent the last decade doing either:
- riding a flying pig to frozen hell and back
or
- something.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025English5·1 month agoI missed the AI bit, but I wasn’t surprised.
Do YC, A16z and their ilk ever fund anything good, even by accident?
bitofhope@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025English2·1 month agoHey, there’s a new government program to provide care for dementia patients. I should found a company to make myself a middleman for all those sweet Medicare bucks. All I need is a nice, friendly but smart sounding name. Oh, that’s it! I’ll call it Frenology!
I don’t get it. It’s like you’re saying the sexy robot woman is a representation of seductive futuristic promises of a problematic technology. I don’t see how that ties into the article at all.