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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Ok this might be a bit petty of me but, yes this HN comment right here officer.
A group pwns an entire TLD with a fair amount of creativity, and this person is like (paraphrasing) āif you think thatās bad news just wait until you hear AIs can find trivial XSS and SQL injections š±ā.
Aside: have I ever mentioned here that you should really stick with .com / .net / .org / certain country domains? Because this sort of stuff is exactly why. Awful.systems can get a pass since the domain name is just that good.
quoted because this is fucking gold and paraphrasing isnāt doing it:
e: youāll never guess what a bunch of DEI Steveās other posts are about
I wonder if he got standard ML and LLM confused. (I did hear there was some usage of LLM/ML to help with some documentation stuff I think on a riskybusiness podcast, but I would have to relisten for the details. It could also just have been promotional stuff, while they are not actually using it).
Poor DeiSteve, it always sucks when you have a decades old username which suddenly takes up political meaning.
ācreated: 51 days agoā
Oh no.
Standard ML the programming language or standard as in conventional and ML as in machine learning?
Machine learning.
E: Turns out the DEI guy might have been right btw. https://www.rapid7.com/about/press-releases/rapid7s-ai-engine-supercharges-security-operations-with-generative-ai/ if by generative AI they mean a LLM.
And from their blog: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/11/29/rapid7-takes-next-step-in-ai-innovation-with-new-ai-powered-threat-detections/ so there could be a chance the āI used to work thereā person didnāt know everything going on in Rapid7. āRapid7 Has Been an AI Innovator for Decadesā
a new source of anxiety has formed
in all seriousness, a backup domain name might not be the worst idea one day. I donāt think Lemmyās federation particularly likes being ripped out of one FQDN and migrated to another, but itās probably preferable to shutting down cause the owners of our TLD thoroughly shit the bed
awfulās probably okay, .systems is run by Donuts and theyāre one of the bigger operations around
pro-tip: do not learn things about how TLDs work (and I mean the bit beyond dns architecture), it is cursed knowledge you canāt unlearn
and with that warning delivered, yāall may freely run to hyperfocus on this, and realize too late itās a gateway drug
regarding backup domain: yeah always handy to have something, but nfi how to port it. APās identity design there really leaves something to be desired :/
(e: good lord I was out of it when I wrote this post)
the original post is fucking amazing
here in the future, nothing fucking works
.mobi? They became the admins of the file format? And they paid for it? Good luck with that. ;)
E: me after reading the article. Ow god nothing fucking works indeed, that is dire. I actually checked the date to see if this wasnāt some old post. Nope 9/11 2024. Buffer overflow + lapsed domains.
I liked this comment on the HN post:
Fuck it, weāre going back to bang paths. ficix!hetzner!awful!self please add support for this.
you have no idea how much Iāve been tempted to do UUCP