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Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

About as many as a bittorrent client, i.e. a rounding error.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 1 week ago

We're anti Meta getting away with crimes that decent people of the society get fucked for.

Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago

P2P vs FTP or whatever is not the point. Subtitling the article "Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training." (emphasis mine) is misleading as it implies they were seeding the files with the intention or purpose to make them available to children.

Also, I find it disingenuous to pretend like seeding a torrent originally published by someone else is the same thing as publishing the file on an FTP site yourself, even if there's legal precedent for treating it that way. Even if the bytes of the file are flowing out from your computer, that doesn't mean you're the one who made the file available, "to minors" or otherwise.

Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea, it's not good of Ars to report the shameless "think of the kids" spin uncritically.

Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oh, right. I forgot the obligatory comment.

@dgerard why did you make the header image so sexy again?

Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 1 week ago

They called the idea nutty, even seedy, but the Copilot mascot turned out to be a seminal piece of marketing that spawned generations to follow. This was a huge release that left a lot of the more conservative viewers clutching their pearl necklaces. Cream of the crop. Busting once and for all the myth that Microsoft isn't a fertile place for breeding marketing innovation. Coming out of nowhere, a climactic moment in the 2025 AI summer. Truly a moment to refract on during the upcoming period. All the money they've splooged on AI is finally coming to fruition and not just blown off and swallowed. The success will surely rub off on the AI industry as a hole or at least jack up Microsoft shares with vigorous excitement. And other semen jokes.

Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Please tell the multi-trillion dollar company I'm sorry I made fun of their AI slop mascot. Just because it's a milky white blob of fluid doesn't mean it looks like a blob of another kind of milky white liquid.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just because it's true, that doesn't mean it's not rude. Now I might condone being rude on ACX but I'm also not claiming to have reached enlightenment.

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Large language models can do something very very small language models have done since forever. (news.ycombinator.com)
 

I don’t feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it’s a mildly interesting variation on a ~~Markov chain~~ LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That’s coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.

Embarrassed myself by accidentally posting this to some other instance somehow. Stupid janky Lemmy offering communities I've never even looked at right in the posting interface.

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A large language model can do something very very small language models have done for ages (news.ycombinator.com)
 

I don't feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it's a mildly interesting variation on a ~~Markov chain~~ LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That's coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.

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TempleOS (templeos.org)
 

Today marks five years since the death of TempleOS developer Terry A. Davis. Rest in peace.

Despite some impractical quirks and limitations, this strange machine, something of a cross between DOS and Oberon, remains in our hearts and computers. Who am I to criticize God for his OS design?

Let's pay our respects to a man who achieved inspiring things despite his severe illness and remember how his life was cut short in no small part by internet bullies and a capitalist system that failed him.

I hope this doesn't need to be said but I don't want to see anyone emulating Terry's bigotry and slur usage nor making fun of his schizophrenia in these comments. Thanks in advance.

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Cocktail Recipe: The Firewall (awful.systems)
 

Someone probably named this before me but not my problem.

  • 4 cℓ gin (or to taste)
  • Top up with Club-Mate
  • Garnish with juniper berries (optional)

Recommended for taking the edge off of the usual subjects of sneer —whether Orange or LessSo— inclusive-or you like a gin and tonic with a caffeinated German hacker twist. I came up with the name after a workday of removing rules for decommissioned servers from SRX boxen.

I wanted to share what I'm having for tonight's catharsis session. I think it's NotAwful; please share your findings if you like ethanol. It's not karma farming if the site doesn't record your total internet points.

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Lisp on Atari 2600 (forums.atariage.com)
 

Since there seem to be some fellow^1^ Lisp weirdoes around here, thought I might take the chance to submit the inaugural post of NotAwfulTech. Also I figured this is cute. Hope it's not offtopic.

^1^ I'm just a noob though, barely managed to implement my first Lisp today.

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