BurgersMcSlopshot

joined 2 years ago

Finally a "fuck everyone involved here" that I can get excited about.

more as someone who has recently installed Debian onto a laptop last month. Honestly last time I used Xubuntu was on a candy G4 tower around 2007.

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The main issue I have had with Debian+XFCE is that a high DPI display will not display the login dialog at the same DPI settings as the desktop environment, which is pretty annoying. Everything else so far has just kind of worked.

Agentic Ripz is my new jam band.

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

looks up, shrugs Everybody involved here kind of sucks, best of luck to all of them. looks back down

"It's only monarchy if it's got a Habsburg jaw, otherwise it's just sparkling tyranny."

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't a more perfect humanity a Bond villain trope?

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This NPR article opens with a banger of a line:

In the past few months, AI models have gone from producing hallucinations to becoming effective at finding security flaws in software, according to developers who maintain widely used cyber infrastructure.

The things still fucking hallucinate, it's not a feature that's separable from the model.

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Work wants to add that new whiz-bang agentic AI into a scheduling service that I have been tasked with building, but in the dumbest way possible kind of similar to the Jet's text-a-pizza-order thing that worked like shit. I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.

Q: what do you call a tool that works 90% of the time? A: broken

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Reader's Digest cover for April/May 2026 with the statement of Making friends with AI and an absolutely cursed picture of a women in a blue dress and her presumed AI companion

Friend texted me this one. Reader's Digest of course was AI slop before AI took off.

:surprised-pikachu:

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