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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

Pull a Rabbit AI and use Playwright to operate an Emacs instance running Eliza. Say that buying more infrastructure will yield better results. Pocket the money that was for supposed infrastructure investment. Profit!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

My Jesus wanted characters for drawing borders and playing card suits, which is why He handed down to us Code Page 437. Using the upper 128 characters for things like vowels with funny marks on them is catholic heresy (nuts to Latin 1, down with Unicode).

Techbro develops AI-powered sex toy to “save the world” in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

snicker floppy dick drive

Fast food, one of the most relentlessly Taylorised processes in all of labour, is going "AI" apparently. Looks like Taco Bell/Pizza Hut's CTO got promptfondled in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, "major journey" is corporate-hack-speak for a complex process / workflow. At some point in the last few years someone decided to call them that. Basically this guy is saying, "I went to business school to learn how to use pretty words to fuck over labor while also gutting value from anything I touch."