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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

"It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped

https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction

Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn't mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-Singularity Sky.

[1] MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it's not mentioned (also, it's unfortunately not very good)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is a new method of bootlicking: if you as a FLOSS developer don't use LLMs to fix vulnerabilites identified by LLMs, you're being unethical

https://lobste.rs/c/5toqqs

Dune stuff in c/morewrite@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

I'm just going off memory here on Herbert's works, but I re-read a couple of Dune books a few years ago

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Dune-and-Heretics.html

I wrote them before the movies appeared, and I haven't seen any of them. How is the jihad handled there?

Oh yeah, Chapterhouse Dune has way too much Tleilaxu, and also Space Jews.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

This all reads as a very elitist and privileged perspective.

Dude look where you’re commenting

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I haven't experienced the situation you're describing myself, but it feels very plausible.

Similarly, all developed societies depend on a number of people selflessly working in positions of elected or non-elected authority (local councils, HOAs, school boards) and treating them like people who cannot afford to make any mistakes is not a recipe for increased democratic engagement.

Anyway, so far no-one has commented, negatively or otherwise, and I think most LWers are treating it as harmless fun.

It's not making me any more interested in coming more than 200 feet from any of these people, and neither is this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZKzWgAqWrE2tXrQ/contra-dance-at-lessonline, but maybe that's just me being mean.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Are you worried about AI taking over the world and killing everyone? Fear not, the people who can stop it are collecting hats. Surely everything is under control.

rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

CW M:tG weirdo Zvi's slobsack + Xhitter references, but he accuses an OpenAI / Palantir-funded PAC boosting a fake "AI doomer" account calling for violence:

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-171-false-flag?open=false#%C2%A7openai-pac-engaged-in-false-flag-advocacy-for-violence

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

"seeded ladies" I see what you did there

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

George Santos got reported(!) for insider trading on Kalshi:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/prodigal-son

@jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

FWIW, Rsync dev has written this blog post from his point of view: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

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Why do many rationalists like cryptocurrency? (www.lesswrong.com)
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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)
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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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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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Turns out that the basic mistakes spider runners fixed in the late 90s are arcane forgotten knowledge to our current "AI" overlords (mailman.nanog.org)
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AI grifters con the US gov that AGI poses "existential risk" (time.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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