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mawhrin flere-imsaho @awful.systems
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did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the *distant* past
  • it's a bloody biweekly caliper gentlemen's club meeting in the replies there

  • The Origins of ~~Totalitarianism~~ Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham
  • “don't imitate other people's accents, it's rude”. less than 10 words.

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it
  • i would swear that in an earlier version of this message the optimal batch size was estimated to be as large as twenty.

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it
  • maybe try to learn from the past

    we did. you just don't listen.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025
  • oh, typical techdirt eu-bashing, this time again because we have regulations.

    (i wouldn't be surprised if they're conflating regulations with panic on purpose and packing valid criticism of llms and image plagiarism generators with the ridiculous tescreal screeds just to discredit the former; masnick's primary stance was always extreme tech libertarianism and american exceptionalism, and the whole publication follows this)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025
  • one day i'll finally catch a lobste permaban thanks to your links :-)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
  • I liked ptaček better when he still knew he doesn't know everything.

  • Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object
  • i bet that bluesky worked with them to get their company and all their personal accounts established at bluesky as the primary social media channel.

    i don't expect they will get anything more than a slap on the wrists, if at all.

  • Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object
  • the aggrieved attitude of “but i am a socialist” is really adorable.

  • Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of Microsoft
  • (it's programming dot dev again, isn't it?)

  • JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react
  • the problem is that you post things here, though i guess that by the time i'm commenting it has been alleviated.

  • the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold
  • stalinists, like pigeons, are gonna shit over every place where they congregate. it is a pity that they have half the brain and quarter of the cuteness of the pigeons though.

  • the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold
  • …and that's one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

  • US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
  • ironic eugenics is genocidal the same way

  • US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
  • there is no unobjectionable eugenics

  • 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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