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jaschop

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

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  • I can't tell if this is serious.

    If that's really how we react to someone who admits AI use although they know why AI is bad, we need to listen to Dr. Fatima some more.

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

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  • Tante nails it again. No notes.

    That he has a LinkedIn finally explains how I first heard of him. A liberal but very startup/hustle culture brained colleague shared an anti-blockchain thing on the Slack. Always wondered how she stumbled on a comm(o|u)nist tech critic, but it must've been LI.

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

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  • Yeah, but he's been saying this for a while, and I don't think this is a new way of saying it that is particularly useful.

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

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  • Too narrow of a scope to be useful I think.

    When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he's referring to has to be capitalism. The "unaligned AI is already here, it's corporations" trope has been around for a while, and I don't think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists.

    I think you can't usefully tackle just the capitalism of the tech industry, if you don't understand the wider system around it. I mean the VC that sloshes around in tech to raise up one bullshitteer after another comes from somewhere. Real estate, mining, fossil fuels, etc.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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

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  • I just watched the whole thing. She makes a consistent case.

    I felt a little called out by the being tolerant bit. I for sure haven't had great success in talking to close people about their AI use. And I was maybe a little too cold to colleagues, who tried to get ahead of the AI literacy circus with good intentions, although I grudgingly agreed that they are right.

    Maybe I don't meet enough randos to get feeling on the level of pervasiveness of chatbots. Maybe it's a personality thing; I worked myself out of depression mostly by disciplining myself and stopping to buy my own excuses, and that's kind of how I approach every problem now. That sure isn't a vibe that most people respond to.

    There was one part of my AI beliefs that wasn't adressed. Besides the "front-end" and "back-end" harms, that can be mitigated, the tech as a whole still seems trash to me. That may be boomerism setting in, but chatbots just feel counter to and displacing my positive vision for a social fabric, be it for responsible professional communities or for interpersonal connections.

    (I do buy into the use-case for a context-sensitive search engine, e.g. for walls of legalese. But the current framing of the tools is just so harmful, even that use is hazardous as seen in the anecdote.)

  • Rule

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  • Reminds me, some colleague was once trying to pull up a YouTube vid in Chrome on our megafancy 8k conference screen, but it wouldn't play. He suspected it might be because YT locked down large screens because they didn't like public viewing or whatever.

    Pulled it up on my Firefox on Linux, ran fine.

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

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  • Sounds kind of like the Baldur Bjarnason strategy but for your coworkers instead of your boss.

    I can see the value of someone with a critical understanding diving into the technology, so they can talk others down from the ledge.

    But you also need the social pressure to maintain some slop-free spaces. Not everyone can be asked to accomodate recovering slopaholics.

  • Rip and rule, until it's done

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  • Rip and rule, until it's done

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  • Against all the grease that Dr Oetker can conjure, all the heartburn that cheese stuffing can produce, we send onto it only you.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • Not the Saudis, just a Saudi focused outlet.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • a cubic milleruler of brain

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  • David Attenborough voice

    While definitely impressive, this synaptic network represents only about one thousandth of a percent of the connections necessary to articulate a typical racial slur.

  • Serial rule

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  • I installed the apt package on Debian. It runs bare-metal (no container) and comes with a pre-configured systemd unit. Runs instantly, no problems except making sure it has enough disk space.

    (Not using a GPU though.)

  • Serial rule

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  • The Linux elders deemed you unworthy then.

  • Serial rule

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  • My experience is that it will sort of work with whatever you dump in there, might just not be organized perfectly neatly.

    If it bothers you, you can dig into strict filenames and metadata annotations and such.

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  • Just did that a month ago. My office is already filling up with strange equipment which I'm not 100% sure where I got it from. I feel enticed to plug it into something...

    (/srs happy to answer Linux/Jellyfin questions btw)

  • When that no-LLM policy hits you like...

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  • I wish 'em well, but I have spent too many hours relearning keybindings and am firmly in the grasp of the sunk-cost fallacy.

    Also Neovim's LSP support genuinely seems to be pioneering a sustainable way to get multi-language code completion/code actions outside of a clunky corporate IDE. So I guess I'll check that out.

  • fyn forks uv after OpenAI acquisition

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  • I have been informed by another commenter, that I am engaging in "knee-jerk reactionism at its finest". I shall reflect deeply on this, once I stop giggling.

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    When that no-LLM policy hits you like...

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    fyn forks uv after OpenAI acquisition

    github.com /duriantaco/fyn
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    👀🎯🏳️‍⚧️ Rule

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    PwC CEO survey reports no business advantage from of AI investment for the majority

    www.heise.de /en/news/AI-disappoints-CEO-hopes-so-far-11147964.html
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    conviction rule

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    ich📧🗑️iel

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    German FOSS agency defies my expectations, keeps funding useful shit.

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