David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the graveEnglish7·13 hours agoapparently came toward him shouting “I’M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS”
hence the family stressing what a good Christian he was
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English15·22 hours agohttps://xcancel.com/GuiveAssadi/status/1920232405324955825
Steven Pinker: I’ve been part of some not so successful attempts to come up with secular humanist substitutes for religion.
Interviewer: What is the worst one you’ve been involved in?
Steven Pinker: Probably the rationalist solstice in Berkeley, which included hymns to the benefits of global supply chains. I mean, I actually completely endorse the lyrics of the song, but there’s something a bit cringe about the performance.
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVJjmabaas which nobody should watch, obviously
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish4·22 hours agoyeah looks like I’m thankfully wrong!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish3·22 hours agoreheated gaming moments
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish8·22 hours agomost, Sony still has them
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English7·1 day agodoes anyone know who the company who did the AI video was? This reeks of PR.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish13·2 days agoit’s the button for more RGB
saw a microphone with RGB and i’m like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you’re on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish5·2 days agooh really? I thought MS had demanded boot locking for the ARM laptops.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•A report by IBM explains part of the hype around GenAI:English7·2 days agoThe poster has been assigned the complete works of Umberto Eco and escorted to the egress.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish5·2 days agothis post has been deleted as a prion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish9·2 days agoNow it’s up to the Linux desktop environments for determining what to do if the new Copilot key is pressed.
launch ELIZA obv
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish14·2 days agoquite annoyed that the Snapdragon laptops are bootlocked cos they’d make great Linux boxes
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish6·2 days agolist them, as far as I can tell NPUs are shitty cut-down GPUs with a few functions much slower
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish14·2 days agoOpenAI admitted that with o1! they included graphs directly showing gains taking exponential effort
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English6·2 days agoremembering fucking stupid flamewars on comp.editors over vi variants, and then there’s Sven Guckes (vim) and Thomas Dickey (nvi) having a lovely discussion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careEnglish12·2 days agoQuarterly Driven Development
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English4·4 days agocurrent thesis is A Guy Instead in the Philippines, dressing up wireframes
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English13·4 days agoLeopard nibbles at venture founders’ faces in a new way - OpenAI researcher can’t get green card
(will they reconsider their wholehearted support for trump tho? also no)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English14·4 days agobecause if they try to ban accessibility they will get in trouble
good to see the quality posts from dbzero are back tho