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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

reviewing their contributions in general, this user is not suited to this forum and has been T-shirt cannoned off the egress.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

looks good!

i would LOVE them to get an actual designer though. If ever a laptop looked like open source ...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the Eich controversy is dumber than that. His donation against gay marriage made international press in 2012! Somehow nobody on the Mozilla board realised this would be the entire story in 2014! jfc

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

the report uses the figure "82%" a lot for other things, I expect they summarised it with Copilot

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

also dorian is a solid chap and that's in very diplomat mode

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am pretty sure the "$3m" deal is fake. There are many ways to claim you're doing a deal that absolutely does not involve a penny moving (except to the publicist), from just fuckin' lying to churning to provisions behind so many conditionals they can't happen, but sum them anyway.

anyway yeah thiere is nothing not fake about this story

and in particular no non-fakeable evidence of actual public interest

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

there's only one YouTube channel everyone should be following

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

there's a writeup to do of Bluesky and AT-protocol as fashtech, start from this one https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/

there's more detail to add for the explicit case for atproto as fashtech (including the bit where they're increasingly mask-off rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries and transphobes), but yelling about decentralisation while keeping a pile of obscured but load-bearing points of central control is a good tell

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

holy shit that site

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

as part of Syllable it was absolutely an interesting nerd project "yeah let's write a browser!!"

then fashtech funding knocked on the door, Kling put on his red baseball cap and took ladybird out on the road

 

in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason: they're spending real money to achieve imaginary private equity valuations and this was enough to make their stock go up. So they can't stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYxEVRiCvM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky:

Tired: cloud computing

Wired: could computing

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