this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
2 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1425 readers
220 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I only visit twitter when I run out of lemmy and mastodon and I'm still not sleepy enough but can't be arsed to read a book.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

seemingly yet more chatgpt jailbreaks just by providing input that barrierbreaks some n times, and then readily provides details

y'know, if I were the one making safety nets for these systems, I'd make them return such kind of results (or other typical honeypot type behaviour). and it's possible that that's what oai did. but it seems extremely unlikely that that's what they did, because it goes again the bayfucker gottagofast philosophy (and, frankly, against the level of competence I've seen displayed in the genml space overall)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

previously

presently:

(you can turn it off but in typical fashion: sneaky new setting, default-on, way to make it turn off is hidden in settings instead of a direct “no fuck this” button. same shit twitter and fb pulled for years)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in "No, do not use my data" for months

discord feedback: "Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team."

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client.

wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again? is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments?

I ask, having instantly closed the nitro ads discord regularly pushes to my client cause the feature list looks roundly annoying and irrelevant to how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium, DMs, and an annual game of Quake)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again?

Remember when people used to smugly say 'unless you pay for it, you are the product' turns out you always are the product!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

we have internal confirmation that the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it. the api keys continue to be valid as of writing.

but of course. rabbit’s done pretending they give a fuck now that their shit flopped (not that they gave much of a fuck to begin with)

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@self @gerikson I imagine their user will be very upset

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805689140639408277

rabbit has revoked the keys!

breaking every R1 still in service

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

breaking every R1 still in service

Total losses estimated at $7.13

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

fucking amazing. like, I shouldn’t be surprised they deployed a bunch of embedded devices without a sensible way to rotate keys OTA, but it’s always fun to watch a circus act

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

and here I am building up a fucking pile of infra in advance of deployment of boards for exactly this reason

it's almost like, irunno, maybe you could say I've thought this through! only maybe tho. I'm not backed by decamillions+ vc dollaridoos, so who can tell whether I know what I'm doing, amirite

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

remember that Rabbit pivoted to this from NFTs

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

that's what makes it even better - from the "self-custody of keys!!!! your own credentials! v v v v v importants!" world, these dipshits still had no clue

just truly awe-inspiringly terrible

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

thought it was bad enough when the hackers got into my rabbithole, now this

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

lol holy shit

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Before: searching in Internet Explorer "how to install Chrome"

Now:

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›