Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024

And now, maybe, I can at last go back to happier topics, like how to prevent the destruction of the world by AI.

What's he referring to when he says he's most famous for something about confronting radical feminists with his personal issues?

Okay, but apart from YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, Google Keep and Nest, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I haven’t been bitten by Google killing an app or service since Google Reader, because I never again trusted them. I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users, but I honestly don’t even remember the last time I added a new Google app or service to the set of tools I rely upon.

yeah he sure as fuck won’t be bitten by trusting anything Google made after Reader, like say their thermostats that are embedded into his house (which he says don’t count because ???)

also:

YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Chrome

when your Google-free life includes all of their major products plus shit you can absolutely do without like Keep and Nest

also also, because I keep fucking looking at it and getting mad:

I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users

imagine being this fucking shitty about having bought an iPhone and being above the age of 13

While I love a good Gruber-sneer, he does qualify each existing choice extensively. I don't find the post as hypocritical as the edited extract would imply.

His gratuitous dumping on Android users is sneer-worthy though.

That's the markdown guy, right? Goddamn what's with these nerdbros who got popular of one thing and then becoming insufferable, if not actively reactionary shits?

lol. the only google services i use are search , youtube, gmail (in the isolated browser containers), and the android phone. seems the apple licker is not degoogled at all.

the only google service i use is institutional gmail. i got myself a pixel, but it's degoogled. he's not even trying

Shkreli is probably good for teaching you how to use Excel at 90wpm?

Surely an April Fools' thing?

Still, if it's just a parody someone seems to have gone above and beyond in generating content for it.

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"HaremCom 2024"

sweet baby basilisk

At least in 40k they actually have godlike beings and observable magic. This is the bad place!

The Margaret Hamilton Society

The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on "Building 20" that conveys a "but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture" kind of message.

I'm feeling uncreative but it's a shame giggle academy is taken

"painter news" could be a nice jab at PG's "Hackers & Painters"

hibste.rs

("runk" and "GNU/Scrotum" are right out)

I honestly did not know there were axe-crazy Esperanto fans online.

Oh, there are always those.

These kind of speakers can be found also offline. It's funny they are the result on one hand of the fondness to our little language and the reactions towards it by speakers of other languages. Esperanto gets a shitload of bad reputation and the resistance to it then creates such personalities.

In some sense they rightfully act like they act.

Funny that this thread re-appeared during the xz "scandal". I had a little bit of fun regarding it, when it initially appeared in the f-droid forum.

that 404 media link is gonna be so handy to keep in my back pocket for when the worst people I know in open source inevitably start pushing back against the idea that the toxic ecosystems they created are a gigantic source of problems

@dgerard this ape is a message, and part of a blockchain of messages

boy oh boy the IEEE has fallen pretty fucking far hasn’t it

Internet of Everything (IoE)

The IoE is more general than IoT and has the purpose to seamlessly connect in an intelligent way people, processes, data and things [27]. It is expected that the IoE will re- invent business processes and business models. First, processes are optimized and automatized thanks to digital technology. Second, due to the usage of digital technology, new business models in different industries become possible. For instance, Nike is now also entering the market of healthcare via the introduction of its smart cloths and shoes.

the IoE is defined as the internet of things but more so. fucking brilliant. I can’t wait to use digital technology in my industry. also I can’t wait for Nike to deny my insurance claim because my shoes decided I was too active to be sick.

The role of the blockchain in this domain will mainly be to make the decision process of the machine learning methods more understandable and coherent as all the underlying elements on which the decisions are made can be traced back.

something tells me the only reason this piece of shit was published was to reputation wash uncited claims like this one. this one specifically is a horseshit claim we’ve seen before, earlier in the generative AI hype cycle — it’s the nonsensical idea that a blockchain could somehow be used to add a verification and attribution layer to an LLM’s training data set

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): UAVs or drones will also present an important part in 6G as high-data-rate wireless connectivity will be required. Here, blockchain can play a major role to contribute to the protection of the security and privacy of the drones and the thereby collected information [32]. Li et al. [33] also illustrate the significance of 5G in UAV context. IBM has even filed a blockchain patent to address drone fleet security.

There are several blockchain based application for drones. First of all, the blockchain technology can help to arrange identity management. Next, also air traffic management can be arranged in a secure, accurate and efficient way. Finally, insurance companies can use the stored records in case of events or disputes.

there’s a bunch of points in this document where the writing goes from the style of a confused undergrad assistant to what’s almost definitely an LLM fabricating shit. fucking behold: the blockchain will somehow secure the communication link with your UAV and authenticate it with air traffic control (what? also, these are things that existing cryptosystems are good at that blockchains specifically are fucking worthless for) and it’ll also help with your… drone insurance…?

all of this is almost certainly an LLM generating bullshit that sounds drone-related

finally, they didn’t even finish the conclusion paragraph:

An exponential growth of demand anticipated for the 6G telecommunication in the information era, by 2030. The role of blockchain to eliminate limitations foreseen with the future massive demands and the the contribution to escalate the service values in telecommunication identified in the paper. The future research directions also presented in the paper.

what do these words mean? is this what research is now?

I smell bullshit written by spicy autocomplete, or at the very least it has LLM drivel pasted into it in various places.

In Europe, GDPR directives are important drivers which will become more stringent in the coming years. Better decentralization will enable higher security especially in terms of availability for this critical domain.

Lol what? The EPRS has quite unambiguously stated that there are multiple points of tension between blockchain tech and the GDPR, and that "decentralization == security" is a false assumption for various reasons. There's also the elephant in the room that every person maintains the right to all copies of their data at all times (mainly articles 16 and 17 GDPR), which is a problem if it exists in an uneditable distributed ledger.

The conclusion of that study was, and I quote, "that it is not possible to assess the compatibility between 'the blockchain' and EU data protection law", and the only reason why it even might be compatible is mainly because of "the uncertain definition of 'erasure' in Article 17 GDPR". But even then they only admit that there could by hypothetical beneficial use cases but fail to find any with current blockchain tech.

Source: Blockchain and the General Data Protection

I hate 'edge' in its new form as pseudotechnical marketing guff. Frex, "AI-driven MCU market surge sparks innovation in global and Chinese firms for edge AI"

Jesus Christ, this guy read A Modest Proposal and took it as fucking inspiration.

Why is it always eugenics and euthanasia with these chucklefucks? The idea of exterminating large amounts of humans seems to tickle something in some people’s brains.

Never heard of the dude, but despite writing a 6 part series entitled "Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time" has has not gotten the new party line from Dear Leader that the most pressing issue is the catastrophic lack of (white) babies rather than too many people.

OTOH porque no los dos? Force women in the "first world" to have kids, euthanize all the brown people.

edit people killed at or around 60 is a minor plot point in the pretty terrible Asimov novel Pebble in the Sky, where it is not seen as a Good Thing.

they've been trying quantum but as awesome as quantum computing will be when it arrives, it'll be a bit obvious that in 2024, these expensive lab toys can't quite factor numbers so high as 35

I don't understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs.

(my emphasis)

that's your problem right there bud

I took psychic damage reading some of those replies (that's 3 of them)

hopefully the OP there can find more places to find experience and feedback from than r/ssc, though

I've just been staring off into space for the last half-hour trying to process this. This is legitimately a nightmare scenario. The ML and automation systems here are being used in conjunction with human policy decisions to turn a military intelligence function into an accountability sink. This is how you square the circle and turn a self-defense force into an agent of ethnic cleansing without needing to change the low-level organization to effect that goal. Everybody gets to maintain plausible deniability just enough that they can answer any uncomfortable questions and justify their actions to themselves, and by the time anyone starts to really question or investigate those justifications the job is largely done. I don't know that I could construct a clearer example of how this technology can be used to the worst possible effect.

note: this is not sneer-worthy because it's hague-worthy

could hallucinate all the time.

oh sweet summer child...

I'm honestly okay with this one. This is a good AI project.

YapGPT is just an API into yud's inner monologue isn't it

No actually a system which hallucinates some of the time is actually worse than all of the time. People will simply not use the latter.