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@awful.systemsthe only worthwhile use of LLMs: endlessly prompting the L Ron Hubbard chatbot with Battlefield Earth reviews as a form of acausal torture
the people who originated this bullshit have a 177-page ebook full of exactly the kinds of essays you’d expect from TESCREAL propaganda
it’s like a software fidget toy. also I found out how to make the mistake that makes a backup take 5 hours instead of 1.5 minutes (fortunately locally, not on our deployment)
the ability of Mozilla’s executives and PMs to ignore public outcry is incredible, but not exactly unexpected from a thoroughly corrupt non-profit
so mozilla decided to take the piss while begging for $10 donations:
We know $10 USD may not seem like enough to reclaim the internet and take on irresponsible tech companies. But the truth is that as you read this email, hundreds of Mozilla supporters worldwide are making donations. And when each one of us contributes what we can, all those donations add up fast.
With the rise of AI and continued threats to online privacy, the stakes of our movement have never been higher. And supporters like you are the reason why Mozilla is in a strong position to take on these challenges and transform the future of the internet.
the rise of AI you say! wow that sounds awful, it’s so good Mozilla isn’t very recently notorious for pushing that exact thing on their users without their consent alongside other privacy-violating changes. what a responsible tech company!
I still need to listen to this (I got way too into making backups of various systems, as one does) but severed heads has been such a big part of my FLAC rotation ever since you first mentioned them
“I’m the most spontaneous wildcat in the fucking world,” he said. “You tell me let’s go, I’m there.”
Ayala agreed to an interview, but only if he would be paid. WIRED declined.
I keep imagining how hard Wired’s journalist must have been laughing when the guy with the personality of a particularly bland teenage try-hard demanded to be paid to promote his shitty pump and dump to Wired’s readers
One creator promised to pour milk over his supposed mother’s breasts, but only once his coin reached a $300,000 valuation.
fucking what? who is this even for?
we need to bring back storage with distinctive noises! it’s why I’m keeping the floppy drive in my Amiga even though all its data is probably coming from its accelerator’s SD card
I semi-recently set up a load of enterprise hard drives in my office and the sound they make on access makes me weirdly nostalgic — the drives are overbuilt so the internals are heavier than normal, and they’re nitrogen-filled, so they clunk and buzz a lot louder than most modern hard drives. and weirdly enough, they were a lot louder for their first 24 hours of runtime (maybe something to do with the nitrogen shifting around inside during shipping?) which made them sound exactly like early 90s hard drives
see we were supposed to fall all over ourselves and debate this random stranger’s awful points. we weren’t supposed to respond to their disappointment with “good, fuck off” because then they can’t turn the whole thread into garbage
Awful.systems may contain malware or other harmful content.
oof, this one stings
also now I’m paranoid the shitheads who operate the various clouds will make the mistake of using the LLM as a malware detector without realizing it’s probably just matching the token for the TLD