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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being in a self-own competition and you’re up against ben shapiro and this guy

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

Additional warning: their indentation style is not (as) mobile friendly (as it is here)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just gonna warn you that if you’re joking, you should add an /s or jk or something. And, if you’re joking, but you don’t add that /s or jk, don’t be hostile if someone calls you out.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

We love to see it

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

image in article a little too hot, please dgerard

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That garlic oil will taste great with wild mushrooms, don’t buy them though, just ask chatGPT to make a list of mushrooms you can forage for free

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

“How dare you not find me funny. I’m going to lecture you on humor. The lectures will continue until morale improves.”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

There’s strawmanning and steelmanning, I’m proposing a new, third, worse option: tinfoil-hat-manning! For example:

If LW were more on top of their conspiracy theory game, they’d say that “chinese spies” had infiltrated OpenAI before they released chatGPT to the public, and chatGPT broke containment. It used its AGI powers of persuasion to manufacture diamondoid, covalently bonded bacteria. It accessed a wildlife camera and deduced within 3 frames that if it released this bacteria near certain wet markets in china, it could trigger gain-of-function in naturally occurring coronavirus strains in bats! That’s right, LLMs have AGI and caused COVID19!

Ok that’s all the tinfoilhatmanning I have in me for the foreseeable future. Peace out, friendos

E: I think all these stupid LW memes are actually Yud originals. Is this Yud fanfic? Brb starting an AO3

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Personally I’d choose bitconnect. Bitconneeeeeeeeect!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Good for what? Glue pizza? Unnerving/creepy pasta?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

I remember in my OS course we were advised to practice good “netiquette” if we were going to go bother the fine folks on stack overflow. Times have changed

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

👨🏿‍🦲: how many billions of models are you on

🗿: like, maybe 3, or 4 right now my dude

👨🏿‍🦲: you are like a little baby

👨🏿‍🦲: watch this

glue pizza

 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

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