froztbyte

@ froztbyte @awful.systems

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I'm @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters

16h ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 16h ago
well fuck :|

2d ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D

(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there's so much fucking humanity out there with y'all!)

3d ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3d ago

I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they're typeA when they're typeB

but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|

3d ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3d ago

he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this

there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it's always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we're not talking about power plants we're talking about them

it's exhausting

3d ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3d ago

someone linked me a screenshot of the "claude helped me figure out I'm trans" post (from there) and whew, that one's a real ride

2w ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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froztbyte @awful.systems 2w ago

nasb some criticism of the human damage is tasting up eve in places like ieee spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/measuring-ai-societal-impact-khan

2w ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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froztbyte @awful.systems 2w ago

awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)

it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are

2w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 2w ago

I signed up for ACM last year, just hit my expiry (like, today), and truly don’t know if I want to renew

it’s been an extreme avenue of generative hype, constantly pushing talks, books, etc. I have no idea how they square it with the ethical pledge

2w ago

Real branding an actual startup went with

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froztbyte @awful.systems 2w ago

what a name choice

just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible

2w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 2w ago

massive bong rip musk is broadsides-ing the spacex ipo so hard not only because he's desperate for cash (he is) but also because he wants to stick it to saltman after losing the recent court case

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

just taking the piss at this point?

always-have-been.jpg

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

It’s on netflix in the states

their catalogue is notoriously variable across countries, and it's even worse in ZA (we are often-disregarded by various content cartels). but since all of these shitters just ran headlong for reinventing cable monopolies so rapidly.. I stopped entertaining the "you need to have 7 streaming services and 3 flavoured vpns to circumvent region-blocking" dance a couple of years back

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

remarkably educational, nice

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

okay damn you o7 I checked

Claude Fable 5 introduces our 5th model generation for your most ambitious work. Tackle days-long, complex, and asynchronous tasks previous models couldn’t sustain.

folks, can I get a "please god pay us for even more tokens" for 500?

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

and they listened to The Safety Dance

not sure they're cool enough even to do that

Hope you get to feeling better fast!

ty! rest is helping, but why are sinuses

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

It’s also fun to sort by pnl and see just how far the gap is for others that aren’t nvidia

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

I’ve also seen mention of “Fable” and I’ve been too sick to go check up on whatever the fuck that is

3w ago

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

I'd been betting on one of the promptfarmer companies being the ones to set off the bubble-popping chain reaction, but looks like musk is so desperate for cash that his coterie of grifts are speedrunning for the underdog position

3w ago

Total Reciprocity Public License

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froztbyte @awful.systems 3w ago

(Posting this at 01:41 after a very, very full week and with flubrain: take considered potentially faulty on delivery)

I’ve often thought about this specific problem part, and i gotta admit I’m pre-conflicted. Due aforementioned note I haven’t read the license yet (I’ll do in the week and post a reply with thoughts) but from what I’ve observed to date:

only certain kinds/sets of corps appear to give a damn about licensing
even if one initiates legal action against the offenders, they’re typically banking on financial asymmetry first and inter-area regulatory friction second

And ito a policy having defensive teeth, those are two load bearing pillars that turn out to not even be moth eaten wooden beams but instead rice crispies held together in a sugar glaze

Consider: what if some popular projects had a “if you’re using this in something making >= $thresholdOrPortionCalc, you must support the project with $percentageOfRevenue” clause in licensing? Modulo the payment distribution admit (lol @ modern aml nightmare), would help a ton with the open source funding squeeze. But can you imagine the bleeting (and probably parasitic forking) if that started happening?

Put another way: without copyright and IP reform (into what shape I have only vague suggestions), how far do licenses get us?

(I’m sorry if this sounds extremely negative -afaict with current regulatory climates and where-IP-is-at, it’s the broadstrokes view. Icbw in detail (I expect I am at least in some detail). But I want to be wrong because god this all fucking sucks)