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The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Article is basically this but all the food is made of glass fibres and sawdust

The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Ah, the highest form of art appreciation: badly designed surveys.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC

they haven’t released autoplag sexbots yet

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Filing this away in my “Mao was right, let’s ‘abolish’ the landlords” folder

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Strap in and start blasting the Depeche Mode.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pokemon Go To The War Crimes

reminder that bitcoin wealth is about 100 times more centralized than US dollars in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Absolutely no one could have predicted this

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Eeps: 90%. I have found something to disagree with:

Everybody loves Puerto Rican music (please get on this, you’re missing out)

I cannot stand reggaeton, so this is a no from me.

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

note: rust is mentioned 41 times by name in the article

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Elon is constructing a texas compound to trap, err, I mean, house his ex wives and children (www.nytimes.com)
 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

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Should a man be allowed to sell his soul on the blockchain? (Podcast ep dated 23rd February 2022) (maximumfun.org)
 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

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Playing [Texas’s] energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin (www.economist.com)
 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

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Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage (www.euronews.com)
 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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Occasionally my username appears incorrect (awful.systems)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

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The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill (www.buzzsprout.com)
 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

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“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.” (medium.com)
 

The video game in question:

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An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI. (www.forbes.com)
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"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill (www.buzzsprout.com)
 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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Guy who “would convince employees to take shots of pricey Don Julio tequila, work 20-hour days [and] attend 2am meetings” wants to own WeWork again (www.theguardian.com)
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