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froztbyte

@ froztbyte @awful.systems

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I'm @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters

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

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  • for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

    I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit

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

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  • It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

    I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

    so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing

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

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  • I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision

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

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  • thank you for saving me a search

    and even then I regret looking

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

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  • 151 thousand views

    one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.

    brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account

    did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • ‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil

    (I jest I jest)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • casey newton, well-known fawning stan of promptfarmers, has now started on some mildly revisionist wording

    you could’ve been engaging with this point for 2+ years casey! why *now you spineless shit? goose-goose-meme.jpg

  • Office workers are spending way too much on AI too

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  • yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul

    it's deeply fucking frustrating

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

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  • well fuck :|

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

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  • 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!)

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

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  • 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 :|

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

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  • 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

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

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  • 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

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

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

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  • 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

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

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  • 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

  • Real branding an actual startup went with

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  • what a name choice

    just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    froztbyte @awful.systems

    what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

    join.piefed.social /2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    ethical Ai alliance, clause 0

    ethicalaialliance.org /clause-0
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    community lego mindbricks project looking for help

    pybricks.com /project/saving-lego-mindstorms/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    London permacomputing club

    london.permacomputing.net
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    revisiiiioooooon!

    2025.revision-party.net /events/timetable/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    seeking input - android apps for things

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    broken containment warning

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    hands up anyone else who wants one

    ideas.lego.com /projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    fresh money in, and mira’s bouncing

    www.cnbc.com /2024/09/25/openai-cto-mira-murati-announces-shes-leaving-the-company.html
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE

    www.prnewswire.com /news-releases/k1-acquires-mariadb-a-leading-database-software-company-and-appoints-new-ceo-302243508.html
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ibm mainframes: now featuring AI

    chipsandcheese.com /2024/09/08/telum-ii-at-hot-chips-2024-mainframe-with-a-unique-caching-strategy/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 11 August 2024

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    accidental time capsules in winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024

  • Buttcoin @awful.systems
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    apparently it was Opposite Day at coindesk

    www.coindesk.com /opinion/2024/06/14/mass-adoption-would-ruin-crypto-keep-it-a-niche/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store

    theconversation.com /ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473
  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    the loons are at it again

    righttowarn.ai