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froztbyte

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • yeah, that's about where I land usually too

    I guess the thing is that I know how much "shithead with a column" has become possible so I don't really, off the cuff, know how journo most journos are

    (I shall leave aside for the moment the entire tirade this makes me want to go on)

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • the merit seems to be stored in the balls

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • side observation: I’m constantly finding myself being both 2051 and 1053 about this sorta thing

    it feels like table stakes that anyone writing about this shit these days knows, and yet…

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • that article is rather a few interesting curveballs

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • "reportedly", a german word meaning "this author couldn't be arsed to go looking"

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • low effort post: it's a bit hot for namecheap in arizona

    I giggle grimace at how the post says all that without even once addressing the moonwalking bear

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  • til amodei's married, and his wife is among the top advisors. she also has a rather stunning set of choices, including seeking money for a porn site (with what in summary appears to be a sensible goal) from epstein after his conviction

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • you made me look

    But I feel that as time moves on, the level of future shock will subside

    fuck of a thing to “just” shrug all the criticism off simply as future shock

  • Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity

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  • he’s met with yud, presumably there’s some others too

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

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  • this is impressively atrocious

    also, I archive-mirrored it, incase you don't want to give the youtube link clicks

    (e: still busy uploading but should be there in 2min or so)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • you know, I've been thinking thoughts along this line (starting from my earlier comments on awful of the creeping loss of the open internet to gated communities) progressing along the current arc of "with teeth" stuff necessary in today's infosphere, and this is a hugely helpful perspective!

    it's pretty weird seeing a coming time when the old mostly open-and-connected-widely internet is ... not. even now it's already on us quite a bit (geoblocks, countries doing specific shutdowns, whole areas being handled with less trust, etc). it all follows cultural lines, of course, and I often wonder whether that will see some kind of directed effort to change (for the better) after some of the coming dark years

  • Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents

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  • can't wait for the llm crowd to "reinvent" pagerank for model context, and get into "ad fraud detection"

    (and I say that from the position of thinking the digital advertising industry needs to be burned to ash)

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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    a ray of light in the middle of things

    lake.computer /blog/help-wanted/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers.. 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress

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  • for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

    I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit

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  • It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

    I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

    so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing

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  • I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision

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  • thank you for saving me a search

    and even then I regret looking

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  • 151 thousand views

    one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.

    brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself

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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

    join.piefed.social /2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/
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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    ethical Ai alliance, clause 0

    ethicalaialliance.org /clause-0
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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    community lego mindbricks project looking for help

    pybricks.com /project/saving-lego-mindstorms/
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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    London permacomputing club

    london.permacomputing.net
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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    revisiiiioooooon!

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

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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    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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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    accidental time capsules in winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    Quelle surprise

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