David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Disney sues AI image generator MidjourneyEnglish4·6 days agoI just hope that all the horses will have a fun time
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Disney sues AI image generator MidjourneyEnglish6·7 days agooh yeah, “they’re making a bundle bootlegging our clearly in-copyright shit” is rather more clear cut
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwideEnglish8·7 days agohoni soit dude honi soit
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Meta announces money pit; Alexrandr tapped to leadEnglish10·8 days agoAI->Cocaine replacement, in which AI really is God’s way of telling you you have too much money
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwideEnglish10·8 days agooriginally old soviet/post-soviet saying but highly applicable here also
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t workEnglish17·10 days agoit was entirely to appease Wall Street and not in any way because they had a product, let alone one consumers would be interested in
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English2·12 days agospeaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it’s a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it’s made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!English3·12 days agodunno about mechanism, but as someone absolutely fried by ADHD i can tell you there’s no nap as sweet as the nap after your third coffee of the day.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!English7·12 days agomany ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English8·16 days agofly.io is closed source, of course he’s not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English7·16 days agothis is the one who pinged me to see if i could tell her about using Urbit a while back
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English13·16 days agoreddit sneerclub had some of those. I deleted the comments and banned the users with “sorry, we really aren’t equipped to help you”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish4·17 days agowhen I started work at Ericsson Australia in late 2000, they’d found out that a third of Australian employees had Nokias, lol. So they bought everyone an Ericsson with a company plan! My first mobile! I hated it so much.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish3·17 days agoI tried using a Nokia with Symbian around the time and browsing on it was just fuckin’ infuriating, so
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.English14·18 days agoHe did fuzzing but boiling more oceans to find a vuln he’d already found
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English4·18 days agoyou seem to have invented a definition of pseudoscience on the fly
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English1·18 days agonot sure Frontiers apologetics is it chief
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbotEnglish3·19 days agohire apparatchiks, poltroons and idiots. Simples!
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