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froztbyte

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

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  • it continues to be amazing to me that this is the “high impact” area they’re going with: even if their analysis systems are better (and frankly I still don’t buy this wholesale, there’s a whole rest of the owl being handwaved[0]), bug-elimination is by definition diminishing returns so you can only fanfare like this the first time

    [0] - having fucking gigantic budgets to throw at running a parse of every single repo and every test condition/simulation you wish to certainly does help a hell of a lot, even moreso when you can shell out to a half-dozen second stage review corps…

  • OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO

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  • the “margin” is load bearing; formula here is operating income divided by revenue

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • oh that one, right!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • [2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e it’s called over the o

    in afrikaans: "deelteken"

    in english: I literally can never remember it, but I remember "umlaut"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • I've seen the pattern be used as an enterprise pricing dodge before: rather than sign the whole org up at $$$, everyone signs up themselves at $ (and maybe get to claim or somesuch)

    another reading could be that someone in leadership/security went "holy shit this exposure is terrible" and put forth a policy including "no personal" and the poor little promptfondler is left ashen-faced upon reading that the policy instruction actually thought of the first obvious workaround

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • that made me smile good and proper, ty for the lol

    I love the orangeposters in there, some of them sure are thonkers

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • or sunset super-voting shares within seven years

    weird number to pick given they might not last that long if felon and friends aren't removed earlier on..

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • "You should assume that you're being manipulated until they have better systems in place," says Lily Ray, founder of the search engine optimisation (SEO) and AI search consultancy Algorythmic. "We're moving towards this 'one true answer' world.

    from here

    on the one hand I'm all "save me from marketroids", on the other all "oh so we've solved philosophy?"

    dear god what a fucking sentence to be saying as a description of the moment. and I'd fucking bet they're talking to their customers in the same terms/language

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • yup, that paper really went places

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • damned shame they couldn't both lose

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • Ms. A reported extensive experience working with active appearance models (AAMs) and large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots—in school and as a practicing medical professional, with a firm understanding of how such technologies work. Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.”

    from here. what follows just gets more screech-inducing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • I recall seeing someone elsewhere on the fedi trying to drum up a point like that a few weeks ago, their complaint was something like “I’ve been chased out of neurodivergent spaces for not being enough into LLMs”

    No idea if their claim was true; I can definitely see the possibility of some ND neurotypes slanting more favourable, but nfi on the values

    Not sure I buy the ground for that argument anyway tho. Lotta people used to smoke and society slapped all manner of regulation on that

  • I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.

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  • ie the eventual safety team reach out included one of their ppl asking me to tell them what investigation vibecamp did, and i found out that they don't tell 'junior members' of the safety team about past things

    yikes

    that feels/across as an intentional way to set that team up for future failure (and, at a guess, sets up a plausible excuse to yeet participants when they fuck up, combined with making things disappear)

  • I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.

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  • random memory time!

    I recall one of the people from the original rave generation here (ZA) once telling me about them taking GHB in combination with something else (I forget what), with a positively-framed comment of “it makes you feel like your eyes are aflame” — never understood the appeal, especially for that. so much so I’ve never even wanted to look the compound up on psychonautwiki

    the rest of your remarks wrt goings on over in the bay area echo impressions I’ve gotten from things. kinda surprised to hear ket is that big - any idea how recent it is? I wonder whether it came about following from the findings around ket as a positive treatment for depression?

  • I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.

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  • Seconding the core sentiment here

    Those that have gone through abuse and hurt already have a lot on their plate, and having to handhold others through it is a lot of work - try to be mindful of what you might be asking from another

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • sorry blake 🥺

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • the two things can go together, and not removing said mod means that if they do not learn they can still do plenty enough damage elsewhere later on

    and I say this out of the position of having fucked up in a mod role before

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • seriously this just looks more and more embarassing the more you post about it

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    froztbyte @awful.systems

    demoscene: area 5150

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    a barometer of deception?

    twitter.com /gokulr/status/1701397204509077547
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    zucc v2 - possibly worse

    www.404media.co /smashorpassai-ai-generated-women/
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    restic

    restic.net
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    google's continued history-rewriting on personal assets

    mastodon.social /@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space/110969122527134509
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    say cheese

    www.msn.com /en-us/money/companies/microchips-in-the-parmigiano-and-other-ways-europeans-are-fighting-fake-food/ar-AA1fn7ct