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froztbyte

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

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  • just taking the piss at this point?

    always-have-been.jpg

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  • 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

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  • remarkably educational, nice

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  • 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?

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  • 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

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

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

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  • 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

  • Total Reciprocity Public License

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  • (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)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • good morning

    that fuckin company had another funding round

    the further one reads, the more depressing it gets

    Joining them are strategic infrastructure partners—Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix

    cool so it's going to be even longer before one can buy affordable computers again

    I wish all of this a very fuck off and stop already :|

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  • and since it's likely that there is no writeup, I am now already starting with "polymarket site:lesswrong.com"

    we all know the abyss would get upset if I don't visit enough

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  • hey awful, a Question:

    do any of y'all know if there's a decent writeup of the rationalist/hanson/thiel pre-history of prediction markets (a la polymarket etc) before they hit the much-heightened popularity of the last ~18mo?

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  • the only kind of spine casey has is the kind in his old school ringbinders, and you can't convince me otherwise

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  • fuckin casey is at it again

    haven’t got time to sneer it just yet, but had to share

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  • it’s funny because it’s almost directly the eve capsuleer picture, but we already knew these dipshits don’t read

    also, how would this work? body grows old, but brain just….doesn’t? self-rejuvenating hermet crab brain!

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  • ooh, brava!

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  • may they enjoy their introduction(s) to tomato milkshake ducks and shiver in fear nightly at the memory of feeling unpopular

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 2 June 2024

  • FreeAssembly @awful.systems
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    a blind man stumbles into the activitypub

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    In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times

    www.theverge.com /2024/4/11/24127545/discord-suyu-sudachi-server-shutdown-account-ban
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    Quelle surprise

    fortune.com /2024/04/01/ai-crypto-deepmind-google-demis-hassabis-chatbot-hype-grifting/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!

    thebaffler.com /latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    retrochat

    github.com /9001/r0c
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    A tale of well-designed systems

    boehs.org /node/npm-everything
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    Revision 2024

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    economics reporter learns "surprising facts" from no data

    www.maximumtruth.org /p/top-ais-still-fail-iq-tests
  • bless this jank @awful.systems
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    shitpost?

    [idea] a “days since” counter

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    is everyone ready for the next wave of facile promptfawning on social media? google is

    blog.google /technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    better tools thread

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    the adults did not like these uppity EAs toying around with the share price

    www.reuters.com /technology/microsoft-president-says-no-chance-superintelligent-ai-soon-2023-11-30/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    openai keeps on winning: the new guy is Pretty Grate too

    nitter.net /stokel/status/1726502623967392060
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    Sammy's gotta go

    openai.com /blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
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    C64 Demo: E2IRA by Arise! 29 May 2022!

    oldbytes.space /@EC64/111383219032561853
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    I present to you: the New Computing paradigm

    twitter.com /karpathy/status/1707437820045062561
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Github has decided that people aren't copiloting hard enough

    github.blog /2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/
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    the measure of a man ^W AI ^W something

    www.wsj.com /tech/ai/ais-costly-buildup-could-make-early-products-a-hard-sell-bdd29b9f
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    The promptfans reckon you can fix moderation in post

    www.404media.co /260-million-ai-company-releases-chatbot-that-gives-detailed-instructions-on-murder-ethnic-cleansing/