Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024 - eviltoast

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    So, all this tells me is that GPT5 is going to be scary good and I can’t wait.

    Amazing how much tech hype nowadays is ‘the next version will be great!’. Parts of this always have existed, and there is also the other part of tech hype ‘You don’t get it, this isn’t just tech, this allows you to be A Platform!’. Vast fields of new possibilities, always just out of reach. Fusion is 17.6 years away people!

    E: Related to that, also see how people always need to shift to the next big thing. The next codebase will fix your problems, no the next new AI system will be better, dump the old and learn the new thing. (Don’t forget to not notice you are not actually doing things, just learning new systems over and over).

    What do you mean “fixed” an entire repo? How were you prompting and what were you fixing?

    crickets