JFranek

joined 1 year ago
[–] JFranek@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This. Masayoshi son is selling furniture to YOLO more money into OpenAI.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have no opinion, but I have to note that I keep reading "KeepAssXC ..."

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pivot to bio-computing

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.

https://youtu.be/Y28JQzS6TlE

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like a hobby project of someone who has very particular views about computers.

I'm not sure what kind of neural network are they planning to run on a custom FPGA based GPU with 4GB RAM shared with CPU

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

"How dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?"

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you use your business to "do business" it's nice to have good catering.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Simon Willison writes a fawning blog post about the new "Claude skills" (which are basically files with additional instructions for specific tasks for the bot to use)

How does he decide to demonstrate these awesome new capabilities?

By making a completely trash, seizure inducing GIF...

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

He even admits it's garbage. How do you even get to the point that you think that's something you want to advertise? Even the big slop monger companies manage to cherry pick their demos.

Just felt like I got an aneurysm there.

(in unrelated things, first)

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slack CEO responded there that it was all a "billing mistake" and that they'll do better in the future and people are having none of it.

A rare orange site W, surprisingly heartwarming.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

I call it: "scientific" racism. To me that gets the point across the best.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

I wondered if this should be called a shitpost or an effortpost, then I wondered what would something that is both be called and I came up with "constipationpost".

So, great constipationpost?

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