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it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026English
7·4 days agoThere have been a tragically large number of generated fics uploaded this year, but at least they’re tagged…
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-upEnglish
8·14 days agoThere are too many of these companies to remember at this point, to be fair. I keep getting things mixed up with SoftBank.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
2·15 days agoSadly I think the popularization does owe a lot to the intermediate stage where 4chan started calling mass entertainment media “goyslop,” but even the Protocols types switched to tacking on specific descriptors before it made it out into the mainstream and got picked up as a term for genAI output.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
8·18 days agoKind of fascinated by how this guy has gone into reddit threads about this to complain about being bullied, including complaining that people are sharing this screenshot with his full name and face unredacted. Buddy, I don’t know what to tell you about who’s responsible for that one.
There was a study that stopped checking for rapid development at 25. They didn’t show a “significant freeze” at 25, they just didn’t gather any data after that.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
4·24 days agoHasn’t most of that automated terminal guidance been directed at people and tanks in open fields, away from buildings?
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
8·28 days agoI think this is just the standard 4chan use of both terms, so kind of yes but filtered through years of shitposting.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
10·28 days agoHe’s a provocateur who believes in the value of extremism for its own sake. Getting as many people as possible to find his politics offensive and argue with each other in the comments is the point.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026English
3·1 month agoHere I thought Supreme intelligence would have that “By any means necessary.” print and cost several thousand dollars.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
20·2 months agoIs it just me, or does the whole thing smell like slop?
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
Femcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•is being chaotic and low-key kinda rude enough?English
7·2 months agoGet way too into a show or video game, become unable to talk to people about anything else, and realize 2 years later you’ve slowly become one of the characters?
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI Companies Look to the Ocean as a Place to Put Data CentersEnglish
1·2 months agoAnd sure enough, the maintenance costs proved too much for it to have caught on, conveniently making the whole thing obscure enough to pull out for another round of hype.
Snorting launch. Snorting hack. Snorting go. The possibilities are endless.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
Privacy@programming.dev•ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers "illegal" in Stop Killing Games hearing: "We consider it piracy", we have lawsuits.
1·4 months agoFunny how the key distinction is that developer-sanctioned private servers are usually for games monetized through a single, up-front purchase of the client rather than a subscription service with which the private server would compete directly. I’m sure that isn’t relevant to the context this argument was used in at all.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026English
6·4 months agoIf you post hard enough, it stops being a debilitating fear of mind-readers and becomes forward-thinking philosophy instead.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
4·5 months agoSadly, I think Epic was always the most serious about making sure that every game made by every studio is part of the same cash shop scheme forever, and the most likely to realize that vision in any practical way. It’s the ultimate dream of all the deskilling, destylization, and asset trading built into their engine since UE4, turning the industry standard for games into interchangeable mush made of interchangeable parts by interchangeable workers.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
8·5 months agoIs it NFTs, or is it what Epic have been aiming for since the peak of metaverse hype, to get the entire industry dependent on an asset store and account system where Epic takes a cut?
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
10·5 months agoThe obsession with utility-maximizing Bayesian agents only gets weirder as time goes on. You couldn’t really get further from the paperclip maximizer concept than an LLM, and yet they still won’t shut up about unaligned goals and hidden utility functions.
it_wasnt_arson@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
13·5 months agoA real pre-WWII understanding of autism on display. It’s also honestly profoundly upsetting to me to see people who have had the experience, at least as a child, of having sensory issues and poor communication skills, not be able to relate at least a little to the notion of someone having a violent meltdown over something they can’t coherently explain. Somehow even more pick-me behavior than Hans Aspberger.



I will not publicly mention my personal recommendation, but hell yeah sister