froztbyte, froztbyte@awful.systems

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may they enjoy their introduction(s) to tomato milkshake ducks and shiver in fear nightly at the memory of feeling unpopular


I’ve seen a handful of security people claim different kinds of yields with some of this shit. I haven’t gone to read up in depth but I wouldn’t be too surprised a lot of them run around with unstated assumptions/provisos in their thonkposts (this shit is expensive (for research volume) and only some people can afford the science experiments)

Got a list of a couple of names I’m keeping an eye on as the first tokenprice-pocalypse (that needs a better word) takes place


it continues to be amazing to me that this is the “high impact” area they’re going with: even if their analysis systems are better (and frankly I still don’t buy this wholesale, there’s a whole rest of the owl being handwaved[0]), bug-elimination is by definition diminishing returns so you can only fanfare like this the first time

[0] - having fucking gigantic budgets to throw at running a parse of every single repo and every test condition/simulation you wish to certainly does help a hell of a lot, even moreso when you can shell out to a half-dozen second stage review corps…


the “margin” is load bearing; formula here is operating income divided by revenue



[2] fuck trying to find the double acute accent or w/e it’s called over the o

in afrikaans: “deelteken”

in english: I literally can never remember it, but I remember “umlaut”


I’ve seen the pattern be used as an enterprise pricing dodge before: rather than sign the whole org up at $$$, everyone signs up themselves at $ (and maybe get to claim or somesuch)

another reading could be that someone in leadership/security went “holy shit this exposure is terrible” and put forth a policy including “no personal” and the poor little promptfondler is left ashen-faced upon reading that the policy instruction actually thought of the first obvious workaround


that made me smile good and proper, ty for the lol

I love the orangeposters in there, some of them sure are thonkers


or sunset super-voting shares within seven years

weird number to pick given they might not last that long if felon and friends aren’t removed earlier on..


“You should assume that you’re being manipulated until they have better systems in place,” says Lily Ray, founder of the search engine optimisation (SEO) and AI search consultancy Algorythmic. “We’re moving towards this ’one true answer’ world.

from here

on the one hand I’m all “save me from marketroids”, on the other all “oh so we’ve solved philosophy?”

dear god what a fucking sentence to be saying as a description of the moment. and I’d fucking bet they’re talking to their customers in the same terms/language




Ms. A reported extensive experience working with active appearance models (AAMs) and large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots—in school and as a practicing medical professional, with a firm understanding of how such technologies work. Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.”

from here. what follows just gets more screech-inducing


I recall seeing someone elsewhere on the fedi trying to drum up a point like that a few weeks ago, their complaint was something like “I’ve been chased out of neurodivergent spaces for not being enough into LLMs”

No idea if their claim was true; I can definitely see the possibility of some ND neurotypes slanting more favourable, but nfi on the values

Not sure I buy the ground for that argument anyway tho. Lotta people used to smoke and society slapped all manner of regulation on that


and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice


and, frankly, given the “what makes you think there even is a repo?” type answers, I’d have some Ops Maturity questions there too

(nvm even the code itself (which apparently is something in the ballpark of heisenberg dynamics))


I was trying to figure out how to make that post earlier

(I know that range has been studied a bit but I’m not up to the latest on how much, and I ain’t gonna go post out my ass)


I kept asking for the code, and their response was all manner of telling



the two things can go together, and not removing said mod means that if they do not learn they can still do plenty enough damage elsewhere later on

and I say this out of the position of having fucked up in a mod role before


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the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers.. 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress


for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32..48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4..8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit


It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing


I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision



151 thousand views

one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.

brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself


also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account

did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh


‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing



casey newton, well-known fawning stan of promptfarmers, has now started on some mildly revisionist wording

you could’ve been engaging with this point for 2+ years casey! why *now you spineless shit? goose-goose-meme.jpg


yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul

it’s deeply fucking frustrating



I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D

(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there’s so much fucking humanity out there with y’all!)


I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they’re typeA when they’re typeB

but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|


he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this

there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it’s always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we’re not talking about power plants we’re talking about them

it’s exhausting


someone linked me a screenshot of the “claude helped me figure out I’m trans” post (from there) and whew, that one’s a real ride



awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)

it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are


I signed up for ACM last year, just hit my expiry (like, today), and truly don’t know if I want to renew

it’s been an extreme avenue of generative hype, constantly pushing talks, books, etc. I have no idea how they square it with the ethical pledge


what a name choice

just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible