I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
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froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English3·15 hours agoI’ve logged a support ticket.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English4·15 hours agoafter I’ve previously posted this and this, an update: both the memrise browser version and the iOS app now have “chat to a buddy” as a non-skipable step in course iteration
the “buddy” is a chatbot of unclear provenance. this page mentions “MemBot - powered by AI” at the top, which is a link to this zendesk page, but that’s a dead link
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English10·16 hours agoso it looks like duolingo is planning to become damage to be routed around
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English5·21 hours agoFrom: The Sentry Team <noreply@sentry.io> Subject: Update to Sentry’s List of Subprocessors ... - Google LLC (Google Cloud Services) and OpenAI, L.L.C. are now reflected as subprocessors for all Sentry products, instead of select features only; and - Anthropic, PBC is now added as a subprocessor.
sigh
they do still have user-specified controls (and appear to respect them), but… sigh
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English5·1 day agowhich reminds me, I’ve wanted to post this as a NASB
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6·2 days agohaha I was just about to post this after seeing it too
must be a great feather to add into the cap along with all the recent silicon issues
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6·3 days agogotta make sure to catch that wave before the air goes outta the balloon
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English5·4 days ago(I should be clear, they based “their” thing on the “not steve”… but, well…)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English5·4 days agoI bring you: this
they based their entire public support/response/community/social/everything program on that
for years
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English10·4 days agookay look, I wanna be quite fair to this comment
and that starts with first apologising to you for what I’m about to do, which is engage in one of the worst social patterns and false logic modes of engagement that plagues forums
so I just gotta ask you: what the fuck made you choose that abominably shitty semi-clone of a rust emblem? good god. do better.
breathe
okay. with that out of the way. on to the meat.
I’m sorry you fuckin wot m8?
did you ever fucking pay any attention whatsoever to the details here? are you so fucking thoroughly up your own goddamn ass that you do not see the problem here?
holy fucking christ in a tapdancing duet with the devil, how did you think this post of yours was an okay one to make?
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6·5 days agoDidn’t know it had come out but I was wondering if they’d manage to continue s2 like s1
Also worried for the next season of the boys…
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6·6 days agoJulien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating
gnnnnnngh
this shit pisses me off so bad
there’s actually quantifiable shit you can use across vendors[0]. there’s even some software[1] you can just slap in place and get some good free easy numbers with! these things are real! and are usable!
“measure the power consumption of the chatbot generating”
I’m sorry you fucking what? just how exactly are you getting wattage out of openai? are you lovingly coaxing the model to lie to you about total flops spent?
[0] - intel’s def been better on this for a while but leaving that aside for now…
[1] - it’s very open source! (when I last looked there was no continual in-process sampling so you got hella at-observation sampling problems; but, y’know, can be dealt with)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6·6 days agolooks to be! thanks, I’d seen that before and remember the incident, but I’m beyond abysmal at names
(this is a problem to solve, I know)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English5·6 days agotook me 3 tries to read “yodaist” correctly (brain kept going s/d/g/ which, well…)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English12·6 days agoexploitation-offshorer “Nick Huber” (@sweatystartup) finds that the leopards will, in fact, also eat his face. but still takes it as a fine opportunity to pitch his exploitation:
(I guess at least his account name is directionally accurate? indicates willingness to induce sweatshops…)
tweet 1
I was pro tariffs.
Until about 30 of our clients at Somewhere dot com cancelled searches over the past three weeks. Hiring freezes all over the place.
Hit me in the pocket book already.
REMOVE TARIFFS.
tweet 2
By the way:
If you want to hire folks internationally for 80% less than US employees, check out somewhere[.]com or send me a DM for a discount.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English10·7 days agofor the betterment of muddled waters, I suggest a secondary meaning for
opus dei
- a WIP codec that the xiph group hasn’t really released yet, because they’re not sure it fully enough mutes maga voices
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English3·7 days agothe associated “date” video is so multi-dimensionally cringe it had me reaching for numpy
froztbyte@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English11·7 days agoI opened the site for it and browsed a bit, my first thought being something like “christ, the worst of glamper festivals”, shortly after followed by “god this like is like if the worst of burning man fucked TED”
then, bottom of the “music & performances” page:
Europe’s answer to TED
gnnnnnnngh
no idea, sorry. “find some wordpals online” maybe but then you need to also deal with the vetting/safety issue
it’s just so fucking frustrating