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hrrrngh @awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024
  • I don't think the main concern is with the license. I'm more worried about the lack of an open governance and Redis priorizing their functionality at the expense of others. An example is client side caching in redis-py, https://github.com/redis/redis-py/blob/3d45064bb5d0b60d0d33360edff2697297303130/redis/connection.py#L792. I've tested it and it works just fine on valkey 7.2, but there is a gate that checks if it's not Redis and throws an exception. I think this is the behavior that might spread.

    Jesus, that's nasty

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • caption: """AI is itself significantly accelerating AI progress"""

    wow I wonder how you came to that conclusion when the answers are written like a Fallout 4 dialogue tree

    • "YES!!!"
    • "Yes!!"
    • "Yes."
    • "               (yes)"
  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • I've seen people defend these weird things as being 'coping mechanisms.' What kind of coping mechanism tells you to commit suicide (in like, at least two different cases I can think of off the top of my head) and tries to groom you.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • Hi, guys. My name is Roy. And for the most evil invention in the world contest, I invented a child molesting robot. It is a robot designed to molest children.

    You see, it's powered by solar rechargeable fuel cells and it costs pennies to manufacture. It can theoretically molest twice as many children as a human molester in, quite frankly, half the time.

    At least The Rock's child molesting robot didn't require dedicated nuclear power plants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NgUhEs1R4

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
  • Oh wow, Dorsey is the exact reason I didn't want to join it. Now that he jumped ship maybe I'll make an account finally

    Honestly, what could he even be doing at Twitter in its current state? Besides I guess getting that bag before it goes up or down in flames

    e: oh god it's a lot worse than just crypto people and Dorsey. Back to procrastinating

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • I know this shouldn't be surprising, but I still cannot believe people really bounce questions off LLMs like they're talking to a real person. https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/47183/are-llms-unlikely-to-be-useful-to-generate-any-scientific-discovery

    I have just read this paper: Ziwei Xu, Sanjay Jain, Mohan Kankanhalli, "Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models", submitted on 22 Jan 2024.

    It says there is a ground truth ideal function that gives every possible true output/fact to any given input/question, and no matter how you train your model, there is always space for misapproximations coming from missing data to formulate, and the more complex the data, the larger the space for the model to hallucinate.

    Then he immediately follows up with:

    Then I started to discuss with o1. [ . . . ] It says yes.

    Then I asked o1 [ . . . ], to which o1 says yes [ . . . ]. Then it says [ . . . ].

    Then I asked o1 [ . . . ], to which it says yes too.

    I'm not a teacher but I feel like my brain would explode if a student asked me to answer a question they arrived at after an LLM misled them on like 10 of their previous questions.

  • Elon’s double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro.
  • I think he might have adhd.

    Oh no, I don't think we're ready for him to start mythologizing autism + ADHD.

    Watching my therapist pull up Musk facts on his phone for 40 minutes going "bro check this out you're just like him frfr" the moment he learned I was autistic was enough for me. Please god don't let musk start talking about hyperfocusing.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 13 October 2024
  • I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.

    Also, I can't remember but didn't Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I don't think it was ever deleted, but that's the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but there's content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.

    Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like it'd take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I don't know but I'm hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if it's not 3-2-1. I'm only mildly paranoid about it lol.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 13 October 2024
  • Oh look! Human horrors beyond regrettably within my comprehension

    https://x.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1843780415175438817

    Tweet description

    New sensitive breach: "AI girlfriend" site Muah[.]ai had 1.9M email addresses breached last month. Data included AI prompts describing desired images, many sexual in nature and many describing child exploitation. 24% were already in @haveibeenpwned . More: https://404media.co/hacked-ai-girlfriend-data-shows-prompts-describing-child-sexual-abuse-2/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 13 October 2024
  • I don't know how materials work in Asset Forge, but they have a guide on their site for exporting models to animate with Mixamo: https://kenney.nl/knowledge-base/asset-forge/rigging-a-character-using-mixamo. You could also animate things like moving platforms or doors in-engine with an AnimationPlayer.

    Speaking of Asset Forge, Kenny Shape is a similar thing for quickly throwing assets together. It has a really fast 2D workflow for creating 3D models that reminds me of Doom mapping a little bit. For lo-fi levels, you might also like Crocotile 3D or the combo of TrenchBroom + Qodot. Crocotile is great for repurposing 2D pixel art tilesets from itch or OpenGameArt into 3D assets, and Trenchbroom/Qodot is a more fully featured level editor I've seen people work crazy fast in.

  • No Refunds: The Gala Games Saga by Jauwn ["Web3.0 gaming" scam review]
  • Every time I see these crypto games, I can only think of the online uwu pit bosses shown in that one Folding Ideas video who were driving workers to slave away for less than the minimum wage in the Phillipines. Just permanently burned-in mental imagery.

    This is a cool channel by the way. I'm stealing this description from someone in the YouTube comments, but he has a creative "glitchcore SFM aesthetic" that I kind of like and his speaking cadence reminds me of Primer. His style works strangely well for ripping into NFT games. This video felt like looking into a funhouse mirror dimension where every genre of game is somehow even worse than the worst games I've ever seen.

    Also, the Dr. Disrespect-Chewbacca mask guy doing NFT lootbox openings is something I can't unsee. That's honestly so much funnier that he's still doing it after the Dr. Disrespect sexting minors scandal.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025
  • I think a dark theme with red accents would make sense.

    Oh HELL no that's the same editor theme I'm using. How do I cast a spell to banish these people

    It was some Adobe-style theme I downloaded a long time ago but I guess I'm using the anti-woke theme now

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
  • This quote flashbanged me a little

    When you describe your symptoms to a doctor, and that doctor needs to form a diagnosis on what disease or ailment that is, that's a next word prediction task. When choosing appropriate treatment options for said ailment, that's also a next word prediction task.

    From this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fkn0aw/chatgpt_is_still_very_far_away_from_making_a/lnx8k9l/

  • bless this jank @awful.systems hrrrngh @awful.systems

    Deleted posts are wonky

    For some reason deleted posts on Lemmy still show up and they appear to have comments, but you can't read them. This one from almost a week ago is on the front page and I'm dying to know what it linked to or at least what the 8 comments are: https://awful.systems/post/346114

    They must have deleted their account or something. Which is fine! But Lemmy really leaves a mess behind here. I think Reddit handles deleted posts by removing them from public feeds and deleting any attached text or embedded images, but it keeps the original link and it keeps the comments. It also hides what user submitted the post. Lemmy seems to do the exact opposite of that in every way which is just weird.

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