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froztbyte

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • came here to react from the same sentence

  • When that no-LLM policy hits you like...

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  • vscodium isn't immune to the problem tbh - put it behind a gating proxy (mitmproxy or something is probably easiest) and watch just how chatty it still is (for plugin mechanism etc)

    the entire design of how the vscode ecocystem is put together is in service of their telemetry aims, imo. they may argue it's "for safety" or whatever, but it's just control and surveillance. alternative options that don't do this shit exist and operate just fine

  • fyn forks uv after OpenAI acquisition

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  • the posting account for that comment looks like such a hollow shell.. real from-outta-left-field shit

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • oh sure, I didn't mean to imply that good isn't happening, more observing on how far and popular the whackjobs have managed to come

  • When that no-LLM policy hits you like...

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  • why's that name familiar? calibre?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • I’ve been rewatching ReGenesis and you can sorta see a similar background to it (it being of the same vintage): bio attacks are the Big Bad, there’s actual mobilisation against viral spread, etc

    kinda whiplash just how fucking rapidly the antivaxxer movement (and general anti-science) managed to spread and become popular in the years hence (and specifically circa the ~2016 mark)

  • OpenAI courting private-equity firms with guaranteed minimum 17.5% return - Who the fuck believes they can deliver this shit?

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  • and the other wild part is now this whole mess is only the one part mirroring it, there’s a whole other debt market thing that’s also replaying CDOs too. this one is more likely to be the fuse tho

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • do they know that doing this won't solve their NYSE link latency problem?

  • OpenAI to acquire Astral

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  • (and that I even had to type that second bit is a big bit of my gripe with python in the last decade)

  • OpenAI to acquire Astral

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  • yeah the dep resolution and instance management being snappy as hell are big reasons why people went for uv, but I suspect this will now get reevaluated (it should’ve been earlier)

    pdm is what you want afaik btw, poetry is outclassed for a while now

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • watching the saltman interview (in this frame) is…so much worse

    I was planning to get drunkwatch it but I haven’t really had the headspace to get that mad this week

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • it’s amazing what knowing even a lick of history can do, hey?

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • …..snrk

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • I’ve heard of it, including in some outlets that (at the distance I am to it) seemed to pass the sniff test

    but I’ve also seen it kick around TPOT

    so I’d definitely want to seek out the advice of an expert if I cared about it

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • found a paper that may be of interest and review interest to some here

    linked via this toot that hit my feed

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • Missed this when it was first going around

    Leave it to fucking zuckco to figure out the worst way to make They Live happen

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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    ethical Ai alliance, clause 0

    ethicalaialliance.org /clause-0
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    community lego mindbricks project looking for help

    pybricks.com /project/saving-lego-mindstorms/
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    London permacomputing club

    london.permacomputing.net
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    revisiiiioooooon!

    2025.revision-party.net /events/timetable/
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    seeking input - android apps for things

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    new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024

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    hands up anyone else who wants one

    ideas.lego.com /projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024

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    accidental time capsules in winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
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    Quelle surprise

    fortune.com /2024/04/01/ai-crypto-deepmind-google-demis-hassabis-chatbot-hype-grifting/