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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025
  • This article (regrettably substack) really explores all the nooks and crannies of cringe hiding in the musk chess post: https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells

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    our boy Moldy is back at Urbit (gosh! etc), as interviewed by an Urbit loving crypto bro. Anyway, they're gonna solve their funding problems by doing a shitcoin
  • Doesn't look like they did any coordinating (openly, at least), only 9 comments on NixOS, 4 in November when Srid went straight to themotte crying about being banned for CoC violation, and 5 on 5 May where they are baffled and unable to even understand criticism of JR/Anduril.

    Incidentally, the "woke invasion" page says the author got banned in November, so I guess Shivaraj is an alias of Srid.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
  • You're not just confident that asking chatGPT to explain it's inner workings works exactly like a --verbose flag, you're so sure that's what happening that it apparently does not occur to you to explain why you think the output is not just more plausible text prediction based on its training weights with no particular insight into the chatGPT black box.

    Is this confidence from an intimate knowledge of how LLMs work, or because the output you saw from doing this looks really really plausible? Try and give an explanation without projecting agency onto the LLM, as you did with "explain carefully why it rejects"

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
  • These videos are, of course, suspiciously cut to avoid showing all the times it completely fucked up, and still shows the engine completely fucking up.

    • "This door requires a blue key" stays on screen forever
    • the walls randomly get bullet damage for no reason
    • the imp teleports around, getting lost in the warehouse brown
    • the level geometry fucks up and morphs
    • it has no idea how to apply damage floors
    • enemies resurrect randomly because how do you train the model to know about arch-viles and/or Nightmare difficulty
    • finally: it seems like they cannot die because I bet it was trained on demos of successful runs of levels and not the player dying.

    The training data was definitely stolen from https://dsdarchive.com/, right?

    it’s interesting that the only real “hallucination” I can see in the video pops up when the player shoots an enemy, which results in some blurry feedback animations

    Well, good news for the author, it's time for him to replay doom because it's clearly been too long.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
  • The Cybertruck guy using nostr for image hosting is the kind of brand consistency you can expect from this crowd.

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    Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards
  • I might be one of the few who had the reverse revelation, learning about her terrible politics, and then marveling at the amazing technical accomplishments when I read further. Is that a new different way to have a terrible time online? Discovering that Racist Duck also made milkshakes.

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    What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • It seems like many still-active redditors have consulted Ass, My, et al (2024) to conclude any alternative to reddit were abject failures and not worth investigating

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024
  • the number of people on /r/sneerclub who seem utterly unaware of the new digs is tragic.

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    The EU’s AI Act enters into force. Good.
  • feed it into their spicy autocomplete engines which then flood the internet with AI sludge

    I'm getting a mental image of a wood chipper: a word chipper.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024
  • https://status.d420.de/ there's a few nitters post-rebirth, all of them probably using a fleet of real accounts and anti-bot protection instead of the guest accounts that first-age nitter used.

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    look, the enshittification isn't going to do *itself*
  • Mouse-of-Theseus. Mouseus.

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    look, the enshittification isn't going to do *itself*
  • I have been trying to navigate the current mouse market, I am hoping that these new fancy "good for 20 million clicks" switches that have migrated from mechanical keyboards over to mice mean that my next mouse will last for 20 years or so. Now to just find a way to differentiate between the 500,000 mice that are all at the €45 price point with the same form factor and specs.

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    taking a peek at a subreddit for lovers of ai art
  • Calls it a "hostile takeover" even though he literally explains why it wasn't a hostile takeover: Developers were way behind schedule and not making progress, Star Theory leadership tried to hold T2 hostage with the project and T2 called their bluff and cancelled the contract. They then offered developers to transfer to new studio. Some developers wanted a pay raise or didn't transfer for other reason.

    This seems like bad faith rules lawyering. The publisher didn't literally buy out the studio, they just withheld funding, made a new studio they owned and forced everyone over. They took over, it was hostile.

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    taking a peek at a subreddit for lovers of ai art
  • Trippy, their username counts, Trippy. They are posting their username to your sub. Even if you ignore (don't!) that usernames are links to their other Nazi posts, they are posting Nazi phrases, to your sub. "outside of the sub"? Trippy.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024
  • Can't blame this shit on the survey!

    I checked, crypto shit was not in any of the top 8 results (top 5 broken out, and they mentioned 3 more, which are surely #6 through #8).

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    Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
  • To think that when sneer club/techtakes migrated to lemmy, I was pretty sure we would not be getting a lot of incidental traffic to the communities. Just about as wrong as you can be.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024
  • Can't wait to find out that the Perseid meteor shower, which has inspired humanity for centuries, is actually just Von Neumann probes from a long-dead civilization that spam their equivalent of tea.xyz pull requests on any planet that has advanced to hosting source forges.

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