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mawhrin flere-imsaho @awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024
  • yeah, pretending that this is just a misunderstanding of the language is a bit disingenuous, but i'm not going to argue with the results.

    this:

  • Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI *also* made us miss our climate goals, so
  • spoiler

    an image of a placard with text “our expectations for you were low… but HOLY FUCK!”


  • Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI *also* made us miss our climate goals, so
  • i'm amazed that you folks come here from your own will and just type these inane sentences expecting… what? praise?

  • AI influencer bots: my sexy robot is just too horny
  • it would help if you could state your position more clearly. (in case of caryn marjorie, it was clearly not what she wanted, which should be enough, and that before we even consider the ethics issues built-in into the technology.)

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • i gues we're all living in the post-scarcity utopia then, because otherwise such growth would exhaust resources.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • you do not have much medical knowledge, do you?

  • Why I'm leaving EA
  • jfc. i remembered that the aurini motherfucker was very liberal with hard-r, but listening to that clip in 2024 is something else altogether.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • (that was mid-to-late 1990s, the cocom was just in the process of being lifted, and the judiciary really did not have much knowledge about the technical aspects of computing)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • mind, i know the type from my usenet days. in polish usenet we had that crank called, i kid you not, expert, who presented himself as expert in almost everything.

    some time later one bored person did an official query, and learned that apparently the fucker managed to get himself onto the state-approved list of expert witnesses in the area of computing (unclear if that predated his usenet antics or not)…

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • oh goddess, he's already a bleeding muppet, and going to be a major crank. from the researchgate profile:

    I am an aspiring polymath and a rōnin scholar. I also tend to look at questions, rather than fields of study, as a research question often does incorporate many disparate topics. Research interests include the psychological and anthropological nature of religion, vaccine efficacy and impact on asymptomatic carriage, and the application of paraconsistent logic to scientific research.

    rōnin! fucking! scholar!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • that \hbox overfull on the subsection title was painful, wasn't it?

  • It can't be that the bullshit machine doesn't know 2023 from 2024, you must be organizing your data wrong (wsj)
  • i think this is a common european misconception; the us is bloody religious, even compared to our polish parishes.

    (and if you want to know how the salespeople think? remember the movie glengarry glenn ross? the movie about alienation and lack of humanity? this absolutely inhumane monster is thought by them as an example of the right attitude.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • (nothing wrong with that per se, i don't have any c. s. degree anyways and yet i work in the field for years. but the gall of a dude who has finished a few two-year courses to tell fucking law professionals that they don't know enough… this is indeed the threadnought-level of recklessness.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science

    wait, wait. that's basically the bootcamp level of education, no?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • jaysus, mary, joseph and the wee donkey. (ESPECIALLY the wee donkey.)

  • polish train manufacturer newag used geolocation to lock-up trains at 3rd party service depots

    social.hackerspace.pl q3k :blobcatcoffee: (@[email protected])

    Attached: 1 image I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so. We (@[email protected], @[email protected] and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced a...

    q3k :blobcatcoffee: (@q3k@hackerspace.pl)

    from the “i'll drm your arse” and “industrial sabotage r us” department, a true scandal: a polish train manufacturer used firmware to lock out trains at 3rd party service depots in order to disrupt the operations of the trains for the railways who did not choose to service the trains at the manufacturer's; at the same time they blamed the 3rd parties for their inability to properly service the trains.

    further reading in polish (but translates via google well): more technical and less technical, but with more political/economical details.

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