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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago
[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

death of another gateway drug to digital creativity

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[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

There is a thing in crypto called "ux/acc" which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn't being adopted

tweet reads: "Ethereum UX is still a sticking point, but we have amazing people coordinating around solving this problem (shout out to @0xcoconutt). Wallets are improving, bridges are improving, chain abstraction protocols are entering prod, and  cross-L2 UX is generally improving." qoute tweet reads: "it's time for ux/acc"

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

15 years to realize their UIs might be bad. How many years until they realize UI and system design (including protocols, backend, etc) are inextricably linked?

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

sometimes I'm trying to decide whether to pay for a bagel with credit or ethereum, and I go with credit because it's got nice bridges, chain abstraction protocols and cross-L2 UX

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

just about a month since we had the LLM security thread, and now there's some more hilaribad coming out at blackhat

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

wow, remember when a bunch of random posters came to that security thread to try and gaslight us into thinking the very similar attack described in @dgerard@awful.systems’s blog post wasn’t a security vulnerability? and now it’s a Black Hat talk, aka “you fucked up and now the world knows about it”

"It's kind of funny in a way - if you have a bot that's useful, then it's vulnerable. If it's not vulnerable, it's not useful," Bargury said.

holy fuck that’s damning. LLMs are so worthless on their own that they can’t do anything unless you’ve got everything hooked up to RAG, which is just a wide-open API with access to all your data.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

rootkits as a service

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Not a sneer, but an interesting article from WaPo (archive link) about the rise/return of "dumb tech", and its link to the backlash against smart tech

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago
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