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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • This looks like a rebranding of Urbit: Radiant Computer

    Has AI in its guts but not something they mention on the front page. Slop images throughout tho

    https://radiant.computer/system/os/ - "It’s an AI-native operating system. Artificial neural networks are built in and run locally. The OS understands what applications can do, what they expose, and how they fit together. It can integrate features automatically, without extra code. AI is used to extend your ability, help you understand the system and be your creative aid."

    https://radiant.computer/system/network/ - "Radiant rejects the Web as a general purpose software platform, while embracing the Internet protocols as the powerful substrate on which sovereign technologies like Tor, BitTorrent, Gemini and Bitcoin are built."

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  • I have an analog radio-controlled solar powered watch from both Casio and Citizen. The Casio has stepper motors for the hands, which is so cool when you see the minute hand advance 1/6 tick each 20 seconds. When the second hand is used as an indicator, the minute hand doesn't move. It does on the Citizen.

    That said, I'm keeping an eye out for a used or good deal on a GPS watch from Citizen. I appreciate the styling more.

    Edit I used to be a watch nerd and I still follow the news for entertainment, but for personal use a solar powered, externally synced quartz watch is ideal.

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

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  • drivers have mixed some trucker speed into their cokes

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • I have an analog Casio G-Shock that's the perfect beater watch - radio controlled, solar charging, I can discern the hands in the dark without glasses, and almost indestructible. It wasn't terribly expensive either.

    I think Casio is threading the needle quite well with new technology. I'm sure they're exploring pure smart watches, but the core ideal is "no maintenance" - you don't have to change the battery or set the time[1]. This naturally leads to tough, energy-concious engineering, and as they make millions of watches, they have economies of scale.

    The newer models have BT low energy so you can use the admittedly fiddly controls with an app. But you don't need to. It's just a complement.

    [1] obviously this only applies to the more expensive models, and if your local time source supports DST

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  • Big Yud posts another "banger"[1], and for once the target audience isn't impressed:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3q8uu2k6AfaLAupvL/the-tale-of-the-top-tier-intellect#comments

    I skimmed it. It's terrible. It's a long-winded parable about some middling chess player who's convinced he's actually good, and a Socratic strawman in the form of a young woman who needles him.

    Contains such Austean gems as this

    If you had measured the speed at which the resulting gossip had propagated across Skewers, Washington -- measured it very carefully, and with sufficiently fine instrumentation -- it might have been found to travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum.

    In the end, both strawmen are killed by AI-controlled mosquito drones, leaving everyone else feeling relieved .

    Commenters seem miffed that Yud isn't cleaning up his act and writing more coherently so as to warn the world of Big Bad AI, but apparently he just can't help himself.

    [1] if by banger you mean a long, tedious turd. 42 minute read!

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  • jfc

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  • It's been a while since I used Reddit. Is the thesis that subscribers to ChatGPT will be rounded up and killed? By whom? For what stated reason? It sounds like a weird inversion of victimhood, considering the number of GenAI user (even if they're just casual users) and the massive money and hype around GenAI by companies and way too many govs.

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  • Thoughts / notes on Nostr? A local on a tech site is pushing it semi-hard, and I just remember it being mentioned in the same breath as Bluesky back in the day. It ticks a lot of techfash boxes - decentralized, "uncensorable", has Bitcoin's stupid Lightning protocol built in.

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  • Nah it's real. As mentioned, they launched a limited metal ring model that was immensely popular. This is just them riding the wave.

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

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  • there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.

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  • don't forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun...

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  • The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers

    edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue

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  • Bungie made Marathon before Halo and it's basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many "integrated" species. It's a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.

    OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pfor's leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and there's an eldrich horror living in a star too.

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

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  • I have a webserver using Ubuntu. Are any of the popular LLM-poisoning solutions packaged for that?

    I ran across this today and while I had fun mashing together the Sequences, Moby Dick and 1984, a pre-packaged solution would be even better.

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  • Via a prev sneer, here's a Bloomberg post about call center workers being accused of being LLMs:

    https://archive.is/K3N51

    I used to work in a call-center adjacent industry and the amount of crap some employers used to make sure their workers sounded as much as robots as possible was astounding.

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    Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year

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    Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike

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    Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

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    Looking for: random raytracing program

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    The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread