Skip Navigation

bitofhope

@ bitofhope @awful.systems

Posts
3
Comments
81
Joined
3 yr. ago

Bistable multivibratorNon-state actorTabs for AI indentation, spaces for AI alignment410,757,864,530 DEAD COMPUTERS

  • New Omarchy damage control just dropped

    Jump

  • Nothing. You should only look out for things when you notice a need that is not fulfilled by what you're currently running.

  • America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

    Jump

  • What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.

  • America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

    Jump

  • We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here's my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

    Jump

  • I try to leep my bullshit detector well-maintained; I see some AI crap being forced and think: "Well that's some bullshit!"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • I'm not sleeping on the job, I'm solving problems by lucid dreaming.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

    Jump

  • True, those aren't my cup of tea either.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • Come on, give Greta a chance, she's deserved it.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

    Jump

  • I'm not a fan of the rainbow keyboard but at least it can be turned off.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • bongrip Manjaro is a psyop to make Arch look less competently maintained than it really is

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

    Jump

  • To answer the question, the most unintuitive part of that is YAML.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

    Jump

  • Critical support for comrade DeVault in his struggle against western imperialism?

    The real problem with leftist infighting is that if you call a different type of leftist a mean word, some ignorant liberal is going to call you the same word. And then a reactionary will call a liberal that.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

    Jump

  • Nice, the language itself also looks pretty cool, which you love to see.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • open source people, are you ok?

    No.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • Another, a little more snide name I came up with while writing that: "free drinks tomorrow" tech, after a popular sign seen on the walls of bars around the world.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • I'd describe it as parasitic disruption. The scam analogies are on point and fine for rhetorical purposes, but they imply a degree of intentionality which is not necessary for some tech to be parasitic.

    Say you invent a new type of electical power line that's more durable and power efficient than the existing type. The materials are also ten times more expensive than for the same length of normal power line and the only factory making this type of power line can only make enough to fill the needs of a few small customers with special needs. Meanwhile local government in Eriador is planning the electrification of the Shire community when the well-meaning councilor Brandybuck mentions this new type of power line he read about in a magazine. Perhaps the council should wait and see how that develops before committing to building power lines that might be obsolete the moment they're put up.

    Neither you nor the councilor are deliberately using your invention as a tool to stall electrification of the Shire, but the same effect happens anyway.

    You point about property B is a pretty good one. My hunch is that tech follies like these are related to economic bubbles and share similarities with them. I'll postulate that most parasitic disruptions go hand in hand with economic bubbles, but not necessarily all of them.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • Is there a general term for the type of experimental or vaporware tech whose main function is creating FUD and FOMO which slows down the adoption and development of more mature conventional solutions? In the case of public transit these are collectively known as gadgetbahns. Examples from other fields include SMRs, direct air carbon capture, various embrace-extend-extinguish schemes in the software world, extraterrestrial colonies and a host of consumer IoT gadgets.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

    Jump

  • I'm not really concerned about it. The overlap between people who give a shit about AT and people who don't already use some kind of ActivityPub platform is microscopic. I'm happy to let Bluesky shoot itself in the foot by adopting the number one main thing people complain about Mastodon, namely the existence of multiple instances and having to choose from among them.

    AIUI the AT protocol is in fact a bona fide open protocol with a Free (MIT/Apache-2.0) reference implementation available. If this is openwashing, I welcome this new style of openwashing where you actually publish open source software instead of just implying your proprietary software is not really proprietary.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

    Jump

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

    Jump

  • Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.