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froztbyte @ froztbyte @awful.systems
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I'm @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters

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  • what a baffling way to describe it

    this is a recurring problem with them/their posts; if you look across history you can see a continual pattern of “de jour grumpword a la $somecommunity” leak forth

    I have on occasion asked them to try to make better posts. they don’t seem to give a fuck to do so tho

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  • Given that this is the person who composed the ode with the hook “we appreciate power”, let’s just say that my take re their opinion in this post is rather minimal

  • It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad

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  • me, a ZAian, while waking up (with only ~6h after a 2.5 day awake stretch): "huh? perfectly normal for them to drive on the left side? .....oh wait, right. elsewhere."

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  • wasn't common crawl the one that pulled a similar trick to goog's "if you label a thing as $x we won't include you"[0]? I could swear I heard their name in association with some derpshit intake management stuff above and beyond the typical fundamental "free/open scraper set" problems

    [0] - a tactic google first pulled with Streetview cars pulling in a pile of wifi beacons and tying it to location - "if you don't want it just rename your AP to '{prefix} - {apname}'". a reply that was just dumb and aggravating but also it fucking sucks that basically no standards have taken this problem to heart in the ~15y hence

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  • the exasperation I so often express is not for nothing :|

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  • curious, that art style in that reply strongly matches the image I saw on this toot drifting by in my timeline earlier

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  • haven't seen them before, but a short tour around their infra/systems providers isn't particularly exciting - depending on both your threat model and what-you-want in a vendor

    some parts/pages do provide some detail in encouraging depth, but I'd have to do a much more full review to give you a good answer

    there's been a couple of "where email" threads over the last year, tuta's still one of the top options on that but you can check the threads if you want to see some of the other promising options

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  • fuck nostr. flere and fullsquare covered the details well tho

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  • did you also see the FUTO shit? it's getting Red String On Corkboard bad to track all these fuckers

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • yeah it’s very much an intentional usage of poisoned language to construct a targeted outcome

    but arrrrrrgh

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  • could I, like, not do that? would suit my needs better. kthx

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  • I realize it’s been poisoned since/by coiners, but god I hate that usage of “democratize”

  • Python Software Foundation withdraws $1.5 million NSF grant proposal due to actually having been driven by ethics

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  • at time of this post, 542 comments. I have barely gotten to scroll yet

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • @sundogplanets was posting about this not too long ago, I’ll try find the thread a bit later

    e: thread

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  • rewatched all of DS9 over a while, its writing hits even harder in the current year

    (apple shows but that can be worked around:) invasion, slow horses, shrinking

    haven’t been watching a lot of series tho so limited bucket recommendation

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  • I’m not really sure how far that’ll go, tbh. a couple of dipshits will gripe on the orange site but I can’t see this becoming any real kind of wailing flashpoint - largely because I don’t think that most of those clowns even have any idea that the psf exists and even less what it is they do

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • rubber duck debugging with a cost multiplier magnitude coming in at a couple of zeroes tail end of the figure

    and worse results

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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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    broken containment warning

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    new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out

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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/
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    retrochat

    github.com /9001/r0c
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    A tale of well-designed systems

    boehs.org /node/npm-everything
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    Revision 2024

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    better tools thread