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gerikson

@ gerikson @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • I think they're different people but may be in communication out of band.

    edit a search for "HandofLixue" on Google only gives one hit, an old profile on LessWrong now renamed to "The Dao of Bayes":

    https://www.lesswrong.com/users/the-dao-of-bayes

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • Maybe instead of worrying about obscure wiki pages, Habryka should reflect why a linkpost titled Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism is on the front page of his precious community now, with 48 karma and 22 comments.

  • Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued

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  • Pretty sure Altman is gonna get away with settling with Iyo. Hopefully they demand cold hard cash and not weird-ass OpenAI company scrip.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • Following up on the thread that spawned from my comment yesterday:

    https://awful.systems/comment/7777035

    (I'm in vacation mode and forgot it was late on Sunday)

    I wonder if Habryka, the LWer who posted both there and on Xhitter that "someone should do something about this troublesome page" realized that there would be less pushback if he'd simply coordinated in the background and got the edits in place without forewarning others. Was it intentional to try to pick a fight with Wikipedians?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft!

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  • I'm no fan of MSFT but in this case I hope they squeeze Saltman for everything he has.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • They have a badge now, JFC

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • Lionsgate: "The AI movies are coming, we swear, they're just stuck in Canada"

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  • "Mr. Burns" -- too on the nose. Try better, scriptwriters.

    Using Runaway’s AI technology, the studio can avoid a pricy film shoot that would cost millions and take a few days and use AI to create the shot for about $10,000.

    "I have been in this business long enough to become vice chairman. What is this "CGI" you speak of?"

    (not sure you can get that sort of shot for less than $10K but you don't have to literally go out an shoot on film/digital actors and shit)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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  • Anecdata: if you're working in IT in Sweden you can get away with just English. I know a guy living in Berlin who hasn't botheredgot around to learning German yet, he also manages with English.

    But it's a big Community and different parts have different requirements and of course different expectations.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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  • If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

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  • I have downloaded the relevant page from an open tab in Firefox ("Save as HTML), but it doesn't contain the latest craziness. If anyone is interested, let me know the best way to host such content.

    What's scary is the raw number of upvotes he got for basically admitting to defrauding a FLOSS maintainer.

  • If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

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  • Well that took a turn.

    The initial comment spawned a GIANT THREAD which I haven't had time to parse, but after 2 days or so the initiator (username Kerrick) ragequit.

    Here's the modlog message (timestamp 2025-05-15 23:02)

    User 7u026ne9se

    Action: Banned

    Reason: Was ~Kerrick from kerrick.blog who picked and lost every fight in /s/gkpmli, deleted/disowned all his comments, lied about stalking bc someone told a maintainer he admitted to misleading them, and asked us to delete his username change from the modlog. No.

    Here's the old profile:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20250312141826/https://lobste.rs/~Kerrick

    I suggest open source projects keep an eye out for this username and maybe take an extra look at their contributions.

    Edit found the last comment they made before deleting. Textbook DARVO, considering they have almost unmerited amounts of positive karma in the thread itself.

    I came here to give a simple explanation of why people aren’t noticing as many open source vibe coded contributions as they’d expect. Fights were picked with me by others: I was called a sneak, incapable, a pedant, an ignorer of consent, and a threat to human expression. All through that I’ve worked extremely hard to steer it away from such abhorrent behavior and towards the free expression of ideas, rather than engaging in the same kind of name calling.

    Even so, I’ve been emailed, text messaged, and even called on my cell phone about this thread. Someone stalked me to other social media to bring it up there. This thread has brought about the most toxicity I’ve ever experienced on any forum, and these last couple days have been the among the worst in my life.

  • If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

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  • The broken search bar is symbiotic with the bullshitting chatbot

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  • several old forums, [...] are being polluted by their own admins with backdated LLM-generated answers.

    I've only heard about one specific physics forum. Are you telling me more than one person had this same idiotic idea?

  • elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games

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  • white always wins

    this is the method Elon prefers

  • Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards

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  • I've had his number since way back.

  • Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards

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  • “Sufficiently polite nazis–which you cannot tell apart from normal users–will help a community, but uncivil people–even if good!– will harm it.”

    This is literally how you get a Nazi bar.

  • Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards

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  • I too want a badthink wrongtribe brush and wonder if it's available on Etsy.