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•Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!English3·1 day agodunno about mechanism, but as someone absolutely fried by ADHD i can tell you there’s no nap as sweet as the nap after your third coffee of the day.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!English5·1 day agomany ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English7·5 days agofly.io is closed source, of course he’s not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English7·5 days agothis is the one who pinged me to see if i could tell her about using Urbit a while back
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English13·5 days agoreddit sneerclub had some of those. I deleted the comments and banned the users with “sorry, we really aren’t equipped to help you”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish4·6 days agowhen I started work at Ericsson Australia in late 2000, they’d found out that a third of Australian employees had Nokias, lol. So they bought everyone an Ericsson with a company plan! My first mobile! I hated it so much.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish3·6 days agoI tried using a Nokia with Symbian around the time and browsing on it was just fuckin’ infuriating, so
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.English13·7 days agoHe did fuzzing but boiling more oceans to find a vuln he’d already found
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English4·7 days agoyou seem to have invented a definition of pseudoscience on the fly
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English1·7 days agonot sure Frontiers apologetics is it chief
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbotEnglish3·8 days agohire apparatchiks, poltroons and idiots. Simples!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English5·10 days agocurrently reading https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17570
this is PsiQuantum, who are hot prospects to build an actually-quantum computer
no, they have not yet factored 35
but they are seriously planning qubits on a wafer and they think they can make a chip with 1m noisy qubits
anyone know more about this? does that preprint (from last year) pass sniff tests?
(my interest is journalistic, and also the first of these companies to factor 35 gets all the VC money ever)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish7·10 days agoi really don’t care, you fuckin weirdo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish5·10 days agonotice how Take Two didn’t rate the wild response, and neither of the companies in the Aftermath article were EA or Ubisoft
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish9·10 days agoreminded of the guy who said i could get rid of my problems with SPF/DMARC/DKIM by just not accepting mail from Gmail
this was his advice for a business with ordinary customers btw
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish6·10 days agolook Star Citizen will own
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish11·10 days agolol people fuckin hate DLSS
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish24·10 days agoyeah the use case for LLMs is amusing novelty. That’s why LLMs peaked with GPT-2, it was just the right amount of broken.
speaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it’s a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it’s made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.