gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

It's been a while since I used Reddit. Is the thesis that subscribers to ChatGPT will be rounded up and killed? By whom? For what stated reason? It sounds like a weird inversion of victimhood, considering the number of GenAI user (even if they're just casual users) and the massive money and hype around GenAI by companies and way too many govs.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Thoughts / notes on Nostr? A local on a tech site is pushing it semi-hard, and I just remember it being mentioned in the same breath as Bluesky back in the day. It ticks a lot of techfash boxes - decentralized, "uncensorable", has Bitcoin's stupid Lightning protocol built in.

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

Nah it's real. As mentioned, they launched a limited metal ring model that was immensely popular. This is just them riding the wave.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

don't forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers

edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nuclear wonk Chery Rofer talks a bit about the plutonium fire sale to Saltman in this piece, after some faff about Putin trolling Trump into resuming nuclear testing:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Bungie made Marathon before Halo and it's basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many "integrated" species. It's a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.

OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pfor's leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and there's an eldrich horror living in a star too.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I have a webserver using Ubuntu. Are any of the popular LLM-poisoning solutions packaged for that?

I ran across this today and while I had fun mashing together the Sequences, Moby Dick and 1984, a pre-packaged solution would be even better.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Via a prev sneer, here's a Bloomberg post about call center workers being accused of being LLMs:

https://archive.is/K3N51

I used to work in a call-center adjacent industry and the amount of crap some employers used to make sure their workers sounded as much as robots as possible was astounding.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

nah same for me

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