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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

"Enjoy" this toxic stew of prediction markets, racism, and the objectifying of women:

https://protos.com/polymarket-criticized-for-racist-post-targeting-fake-baddies/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Saw this quality nickname for prompt receivers: Chet Jippity

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Linux puritans are as fissile as the OG Puritans. There's already Devuan which is Debian minus systemd, and now with XLibre. Not sure why this nerd thinks his particular non-denominational chapel will bring in the crowds to hear him sermonize.

Edit BTW Devuan for me is the epitome of FLOSS techfash.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Semi-relevant, Matthew Garrett has won a court case against the kooks running Techrights:

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115581959497817474

About the only positive thing you can say about Schestowitz (and probably his wife) is that they are rabidly anti-AI, but that is only because they are also rabidly against anyone who does not subscribe to their personal purity-test vision of Free Software (basically it's them, RMS, and maybe his parrot).

I have an unhealthy interest in them, because during the Andrew Lee putsch they were basically on his side, until he fucked even them, and I kinda drifted into their IRC server to see what was up. It was my unwelcome introduction to the toxic underbelly of FLOSS, with rampant RMS-worship, misogyny, racism and incipient techno-fascism. I ducked out quite quickly.

Tellingly, Techrights is all in on the Gemini protocol.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Paul Campos - The medium is the mob

Discusses the "reverse Flynn effect", filter bubbles, and infopollution via GenAI

up uP UP!!! in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is Hercule Poirot levels of observation. Kudos.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

210 IQ is not enough

Being really "smart" (along some axis) doesn't make you succesful or even happy.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

also a massive massive promptfondler

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

While you partied

I studied THE BLADE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

WTF are databricks? LLM feces?

On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI by Elizabeth Sandifer in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Schrödinger's essay except the cat is always dead

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Looking for: random raytracing program (awful.systems)
 

Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?

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The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
3 comments fedilink
 

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

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Any interest in an Advent of Code thread? (awful.systems)
 

The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative?

If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?

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ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now (www.astralcodexten.com)
 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

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