I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
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froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026English
2·5 days agoI’d never really looked into the name before but I just now realized what the Korolev was likely named for
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026English
6·5 days agoyes, chainguard broke embargo, and within a few hours a reverse engineered PoC was kicking. I saw at least two implementations yesterday when assssing impending work
and I haven’t slept yet (although now aaaalmost done…)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Computers should be built with 'fast RAM' and 'slow RAM' as a kind of substitute for swap space!English
12·5 days agothere’s also the engineering-side faffery: now you’d need mixed memory controllers, mixed bus speeds, synchronisation issues, etc
simpler to just shove saltman et al in jail and recover world markets
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
6·11 days agowhat in the fuck
and I presume the answers default to
yes
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The Concerns Surrounding Project Meridian: Are Tech Billionaires Qualified to Shape Future Warfare?English
4·13 days agoBetteridge’s reigns supreme
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
11·13 days agoa nsfw to start wednesday, what if the billionaires all suddenly exploded
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
11·14 days agothis is the same company that has attempted other ways of addicting their employees, for “productivity”
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
3·14 days agoijlth: quantum
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
6·14 days agoI follow a couple (like, 2~3) of fiber arts people and that was about the impression I got too, it’s blown up with that much spill
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026English
12·15 days agofurthering my previous guessing that there’s likely only appetite for 2, maybe 3, of these ridiculous IPOs, a number of analyst notes have started kicking around and they’re getting progressively more realistic in their outlook. saw this one this morning
Red Flag #3: The IPO is Exit Liquidity, Not Growth Capital
To justify a $2 trillion valuation, our model shows that Anthropic would have to: • immediately improve NOPAT margin to 10% and sustain it for the next 10 years (compared to -175% reported operating margin in 2025), • grow revenue by 1000% in 2026 and 100% in 2027, and • grow revenue 56% compounded annually from 2028-2035.sounds ambitious. sure hope they don’t have any material risks and systematic exposures that make that harder!
In this scenario, Anthropic’s 1. revenue would reach $3.6 trillion (compared to $4.6 billion in 2025), which is 1.4x the combined TTM revenue of Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta (META), and Oracle (ORCL). 2. NOPAT would reach $358 billion in 2035, compared to the company’s -$8 billion reported operating loss in 2025. For reference, $358 billion is 2.0x NVIDIA’s $184 billion and 2.6x Apple’s $136 billion in TTM NOPAT.good thing the cost of inference is going down! sure, qwen3.8-27b is already stale and everyone needs to throw another couple hundred million at another training update, but the cost of inference! /s
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026English
9·19 days agopersonally I feel like all this shit is a continuation/outgrowth from the crypto “whitepaper” phenomenon: ~zero substantive engagement with the actual discipline in question, and “work product” (quotes intentional) equal to some claims with a “proof” thrown out as its defense
(it also continues to be part of a cultural and knowledge DDoS, which others have written better on)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox’s biggest priority: rounding cornersEnglish
3·24 days agothanks for confirming the third worst category of firefox fans
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th October 2026English
5·25 days agocool fun new totally fine AI use: extortion
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th October 2026English
5·27 days agohandy tip: all of skeeter is open, and you can bypass the login gate with eg skyview.social
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th October 2026English
2·27 days agoI don’t think you’re wrong on the latter bit - if these were any other shartups (or, at least, pre “AI” shartups), this would be read as a “runway extending move”. mild testament to just how much/completely the current crop of con has shifted the focus used in that world
imo all the “rahrah safety!” noises have been a figleaf to obscure that very inconvenient aspect
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation [in fearmarketing stunt]English
10·29 days agoI don’t understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work
because he’s actively doing works to change the world in specific (negative) ways. look into the history of gates-tied funding in nutrition programs, he’s got a bad-shit-for-humanity track record spanning well past a decade. has “just” had a better PR team than the clowns of vogue
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026English
3·30 days agothat poster the same person who was stanning shitty ideas in KDE, they’re a walking warning label
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026English
7·1 month agoI recall seeing bits of this (their racist treatment of black workers in the factories as well as the culture of keeping it going) kick around on twitter as far back as 2019 (iirc), so now I’m wondering - is it not widely known?












the s-1 that’s now public is also stunningly devoid of numbers. multiple inputs and areas that have literal empty-spaces gaps for numbers