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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
oh dear god
as usual this is probably going to be only the simplest shit, and I donāt even want to think of the secondary downstream impacts from just listening to this shit without thought will be
The secret is to have cultivated a codebase so utterly shit that even LLMs can make it better by just randomly making stuff up
At least they donāt get psychic damage from looking at the code
Marginally related, but I was just served a YouTube ad for chewing gum (yes, Iām too lazy to setup ad block).
āRespawn, by Razer. They didnāt have gaming gum at Pompeii, just saying.ā
I think I felt part of my frontal lobe die to that incomprehensible sales pitch, so you all must be exposed to it as well.
If I had to judge Razerās software quality based on what little I know about them, Iād probably raise my eyebrows because they ship some insane 600+ MiB driver with a significant memory impact with their mice and keyboards thatās needed to use basic features like DPI buttons and LED settings, when the alternative to that is a 900 kiB open source driver which provides essentially the same functionality.
And now their answer to optimization is to staple a chatbot onto their software? I think I pass.
Well the use of stuff like fuzzers has been a staple for a long time so ācompared to manual testingā is doing some work here.
Isnāt this what got crowdstrike in trouble?
not quite the same but I can see potential for a similar clusterfuck from this
also doesnāt really help how many goddamn games are running with rootkits, either