Iām @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
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froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026English
7Ā·20 hours agoooh, whereās the (new?) spice? Iāve been under multiple rocks
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
6Ā·2 days agoāI, personally, possess the choice on what irreversible impact to make on some other human beingās body without their input at all. Oh and also itās supes totes fine to do, in general. To babies. Duh.ā sure is a take
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
9Ā·2 days ago8ball says āyesā but it had rendering difficulties, fontsize too big
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
2Ā·4 days agoEdit: sorry Iāll behave now
promises promises⦠;p
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
4Ā·4 days agoP0 blocker: USAian memory management suffers from multiple holes and transactional consistency issues
Prior attempts havenāt worked, closing LOLBUG
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
5Ā·5 days agoIāve started seeing people make paperwork with explicit carve-outs for prompt use (merely referred to as āAIā with no explicit definition, so ā¦. gonna be fun when the lawsuits start)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
6Ā·5 days agoFuck, sorry :( internet hugs available if desired
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
4Ā·6 days agothat sucks hard, Iām sorry. mine recently too, went from ālooking a bit offā to āhave to put 'em downā in less than a month. still hits me like a truck
hope it goes as well as possible for yāall
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
12Ā·6 days agoI canāt comment on this better than bergstrom did, so link
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
5Ā·9 days agoaiui they also really donāt like eyes on the modern slave labour theyāre using to build it all
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
6Ā·13 days agoaww those got turned off by the time I got to look :(
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
7Ā·13 days agoa couple weeks back I had a many-rounds support ticket with a network vendor, querying exactly the details of their regex implementation. docs all said PCRE, actual usage attempt indicatedā¦.something very much else. and indeed it was because of
.that I found it
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
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9Ā·13 days agogood morning awful, I found you the first thing youāll want to scream at today
palantir and others offering free addictions, all in the name of āproductivityā
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
3Ā·19 days agoah, a fellow 1937 poster that gets it
(I still donāt understand how people that post on/across the modern internet havenāt picked up the habit)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
5Ā·19 days agoIn my experience even simple LLM changes are wrong somewhere around half the time. Often in disturbingly subtle ways that take an expert to spot.
I just want to add: sailorās reference to āexpertā here is no joke. the amount of wild and subtle UB (undefined behaviour) you get in the C family is extremely high-knowledge stuff. itās the sort of stuff that has in recent years become fashionable to describe as ācursedā, and often with good reason
LLMs being bad at precision and detail is as perfect an antithesis in that picture as I am capable of conceiving. so any thought of a project like this that pairs LLMs (or, more broadly, any of the current generative family of nonsense) as a dependency in itās implementation is just damn wild to me
(and just incase: this post is not an opportunity to quibble about PLT and about what be or become possible.)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
6Ā·19 days agoso, ever watched Godzilla? and then did a twofer with a zombie movie? I think thatās essentially the plot here
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
8Ā·19 days agoChlorofox (the oxidized version)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
7Ā·19 days agowhile wikipedia-diving the other day I learned about Basilisk
so, yāknow, why not this too








I mean, at the rate the chucklefucks are going, a number of these things are actual security exploits
that it happens/works for a completely unhinged reason is almost a separate evaluation dimension in scoring