David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
- 466 Posts
- 1.07K Comments
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!English
8·5 days agoyeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
5·6 days agolooks pretty good to me, I’d be delighted to produce this sort of work and he’s doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
4·6 days agodo please continue!
(i mean, like i can talk)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
3·7 days agodid you read either link
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
3·8 days ago“yor mums a code smell”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
8·12 days agofuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts
sigh
I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
16·13 days agoI don’t actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
18·13 days agothe fashtech tells are smells.
like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit
lots of people write inner-platforms
lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal
but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
5·17 days agoAI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!
DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical way
AI SHILL: fuck off
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
7·17 days agoand a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
6·18 days agoa youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot’s left hand
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
8·18 days agoI’m apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
9·18 days agotake a drink for every 10,000 lies or exaggerations https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tech-skeptics-ai-video-startup-wants-to-change-hollywood
more than that and you’ll wipe out in 5 min
he’s very skeptical u kno
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
4·18 days agoI did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
3·18 days agoGiven this user’s declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
4·18 days agothis poster doesn’t seem to be improving. We wish them well in their posting career to any of the many other Lemmy discussion forums.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
41·19 days agoah minor correction, you’re on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
5·19 days agoWe hope they enjoy their Fediverse™ experience here at Awful
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
11·19 days agoYeah, that’s great, thanks.



















I’M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY’RE ALL FP4