Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
apparently those qualcomm NPUs (the “AI assist” chips in the copilot(?) laptops) aren’t very good
Thus leading to this sneer on HN. I’m quoting it in entirety; click through for Poe’s Law responses.
gonna have to ship this person a 20d100 kit. maybe custom woodgrain? show some thought, y’know
wtf are NPUs anyway? some specialised vector maths thing?
hang on I have another.
NPU? More like, N-Pee-eeeww!!
inference-tasks focused coprocessor
cope rocessor
non processing units
The what in the what now?
What a terrible day to tech.
Have you seen the sticker with ‘Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration’
(yes this post is a creative attempt at generating alt text for my image).