Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    I don’t know why, but it still amazes me how fast some people have went full crackhead with LLM’s:

    The original Kamalama
It's done the opposite for me. It's removed the play aspect of building software. It's even removed the play aspect of managing people who are building software. And the thought of being a professional code reviewer for the last 20 years of my career makes me want to leave the tech industry.
Dare Obasanjo
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The idea that humans will be reviewing this code in two years, let alone twenty, seems far fetched.

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      The piss filter on the bottom comics!

      Twitter and bluesky chatter have done so much damage to people’s understanding of uspol although I don’t know that cable news or talk radio were any better.

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      the books3 guy

      Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you’re not being too mean in the slightest.

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      That is pretty sad to see, but also, who refers to Claude as ā€œheā€? This is the second time I’m seeing this and it makes me skin crawl

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        Now that he killed children in cold blood Claude has been made a man. In fact, he is a 6’3" Anglo and my boyfriend.

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          Oh man, if genAI destroys the profession of toxic masculinity podcaster watch me turn booster on a dime

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            monkey’s paw curls and AI destroys the profession by creating infinite andrew tate and freshnfit clones so that more people than ever watch manosphere podcasts, but no actual humans can make a living from producing them.

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              If Tate loses his job, who’s to say if that’s good or bad

              (No but really it’s bad, very bad)

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            I don’t really call Alexa anything since I saw one like once in my life. But it’s very likely I’d default to ā€œsheā€ when talking, the thing even has a female voice.

            My point is that the corporation behind Claude would probably love you to say ā€œheā€, the same way Amazon would very much like you calling Alexa ā€œsheā€.

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      It’s so fucking pathetic, he can’t even hold onto the very narrow and weak stand (because he left open a lot of things with Anthropic’s ā€œtwo red linesā€) he took without trying to backpedal and grovel.

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    So the water usage of data centers/ai has long been controversial (either a huge issue/a non issue/distraction depending on who you ask) and the lack of real numbers around it made it hard to know more (but data center owners keeping it a secret made it sus). But now the stats of one google data center have been released due to legal pressure. 2-8 million gallons a day

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      Genuine questions borne of ignorance:

      When they say ā€œusingā€ water, is this water that has to be actively removed from the supply each day, or does this number just say how much water is circulating in the center? I’m assuming it doesn’t all disappear, or does a lot of it end up released as steam or piped away as contaminated water or something?

      The data center nearest to me uses sea-water, but I have no idea how much. And it doesn’t seem to put out steam or dump bad water back into the sea (not that I could tell if they were doing that).

      I totally understand the electricity resource issue for data centers but the water usage thing confuses me, because I assumed it would be for cooling and therefore mostly contained and recirculated. With the exception of predictable maintenance issues like leaks and waste from mineral scale or algae, I don’t understand why this water would need to disappear, or why they would need to use potable water from the outset.

      Admittedly my mental model is based on consumer CPU water-cooling setups at an imagined industrial scale. What am I missing?

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        the thing you’re missing is scale. what you’re describing is overgrown car radiator type scheme, and it works up to some couple MW if need be. when you have access to sea, or large river, you can just use that water as a coolant and dissipate some couple GW this way. this is the reason why so many nuclear powerplants are on seashore. because sea is generally very big [citation needed] temperature increase is slight and mostly harmless in usual cases

        inland, in absence of large river, the other way to provide cooling is by evaporation of water. one form is to take that oversized car radiator and spray water on it, water evaporates taking away some heat. this arrangement allows for no-added-water operation in low load conditions. in principle this means that lowest possible temperature is not air temperature, but instead it’s wet bulb temperature, which is always lower, and difference is greatest when air humidity is low. in practice this doesn’t allow to reach this lower temperature, but the other approach does. for bigger scale still, instead of using heat exchanger, water is dripped in a tower of some shape and air is moved in some way against it. small part of water evaporates, and the rest, now cooled down, is collected at the bottom. this is how these large cooling towers near coal or nuclear powerplants work, but so do smaller towers that rely on fans instead of chimney effect. extra water is always needed, and temperature closer to wet bulb temperature is achieved in all load conditions. rarely used alternative is to make an artificial lake, and allow for evaporation from water surface

        notice that if water is evaporated, it’ll leave whatever is dissolved in evaporator part, which means it has to demineralized at all times. in practice it means that some part of evaporated water is treated continuously by reverse osmosis, and the less saline input water is, the easier and more energy efficient it is to do it

        the thing with heat exchangers is, without water evaporation, that they have some constant thermal resistance. if you want to dissipate more heat, you need more of heat exchanger, or alternatively have to allow for higher temperature. the former means more metal needed, the latter means limits to other parts of coolant loop, or using heat pump to cool down silicon, while increasing temperature of coolant. both of these mean extra capex and/or energy use, but evaporating water is cheap, so it’s done instead. it doesn’t help that one of dc ratings is ratio of how much energy gets into dc to how much energy powers actual silicon. evaporating water does not add to energy use, so designs chasing this rating are likely to use that solution

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          Ok, now I understand, thanks for the crash course on dc cooling!

          I assumed scale was my issue but having only second-hand knowledge of coastal larger-scale cooling systems was the big part of my problem. Then I couldn’t understand why they were building them inland, especially with the mineralization issue when drawing from inland reservoirs. So I thought that might be a tax jurisdiction reason, plus comparative cost of metal or pump heat exchange setups, especially because Altman said they weren’t using evaporative cooling (not that he’s a trustworthy source).

          But this made it all click:

          both of these mean extra capex and/or energy use, but evaporating water is cheap, so it’s done instead. it doesn’t help that one of dc ratings is ratio of how much energy gets into dc to how much energy powers actual silicon.

          They were always optimizing for the cost, but I didn’t know about this regulation. Water usage is probably either absent from the regulations or a minimal contribution to it, so they’ve used it as the trade-off without adequate (if any) modeling for impact. They’ve probably since done a little of that and found it’s pretty catastrophic. A little extra reading indicates the 2-8 million gallons is the supply per day by the county, and not total (re)circulating water in the dc, which implies evaporative cooling and aligns with what you’re saying about it being the cheapest solution.

          Cool, everything is yet again awful, but at least it makes sense on some level. I have been educated, and I again thank you for your effort in that.

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            it’s not regulation, it’s a metric that looks nice to investors. but also lower energy use means lower cost

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        This is fresh water coming into the datacenter. A datacenter uses water for air conditioning; imagine spraying water on a screen door when wind is blowing through it and you’ll have a good intuitive idea of the dynamics. Most of the water is recaptured and used for several sprays before it evaporates away. To force wind through the screens, they use windcatchers, tall towers which induce wind inside the building.

        This is completely different from water-cooling gamer setups. It’s more like a weather system. Water usually needs to be added because the datacenter is located in a dry biome; air conditioning doesn’t thermodynamically work if the air is too dry. This is actually really delicate; too much water will cause clouds to form inside the building!

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          Ok that makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

          The data center nearest to me works a bit differently, I know they use sea-water for their HVAC because they share the pipes with other buildings using it for the same purpose, and I was lucky enough to get a tour of the system in one of those buildings a few years back. It’s multi-storey so perhaps I simply didn’t notice the windcatcher parts in the architecture.

          But that obviously means it’s also near the coast and therefore not the driest biome from the start. I don’t doubt it still impacts the ecosystem but at least it’s not draining the potable reserves at the same time. To me this begs the question of why they’re building these data centers so far inland.

          As a side note, it’s pretty amazing we still do the windcatcher setup. They’ve always been fascinating to me, but I can’t help but be amazed they’re still relevant even in the highest tech buildings.

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        I don’t know the answers to a lot of these questions, I assume they heat up the water, and dump it back into the rivers, which causes some disruption to the local ecosystem. Which is fine if you do it in small amounts, but it will disrupt things. (powerplants have the problem for example that some flora/fauna gets attracted to these more warmer waters, risking clogs and more. (so a datacenter does this twice, first via the powerplant generating power, and then to cool the datacenter).

        There is also the issue of contamination, while I assume they don’t put extra dirty things in the water, this is not a guarantee, nor will every municipality/gov just go with the assumption that it is clean, I assume that in some places this cooling water will need to be cleaned extra as industrial waste. Esp when there are some odd laws interacting. (I know some of those laws re waste and what counts as waste interact weirdly in .nl causing weird busywork during roadwork so they don’t run into extra costs by accidentally letting the waste count as a different class of waste).

        But yes, I think they do not recirculate, and just pump it round and dump it back into the river directly (so no evaporative cooling where the water goes into the air, which you had at some powerplants, the big towers), and I assume they don’t use lead pipes so the water isn’t very contaminated. But these sort of processes do put a strain on the water quality. (In .nl we have some problems with river water quality because our big rivers come from industrial areas of other countries, (Germany mainly)).

        I mostly posted it so that we now at least have some indication of the amounts we are talking about, as tech companies are very tight lipped about this. But as somebody who knows nothing, I do not know all the implications of it. I am however suspicious, due to a combination of natural paranoia, them being very mum about it, and me not trusting the big tech places.

        But yeah, if they use up 90% of the daily flow of a river and heat it up, that will absolutely not be good for the local ecosystem. And any industrial site downstream who also wanted to use the water for cooling now also in trouble.

        Bit like the same reason I posted about protonmail, more an FYI than a sneer (not a huge shock that eventually protonmail would reveal the data if forced by their gov, they always said they would do this, but it is an important thing to take into account if you worry about privacy).

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          Thanks for giving it a go, I mostly hoped there might be someone who had some experience in the area who could shed some light. But the numbers were certainly interesting. Then the pivot to AI post went up 30 mins after I posted and shed a little light on the while thing too.

          It would seem odd to put the heated water back instead of cooling it off and re-using, but I don’t have faith in any kind of sustainability designed or built into the system, so that would make sense for impact.

          If they’re being quiet about it, it means one or two things. Either they’re actually considering it proprietary new tech, but there would almost certainly be patents filed somewhere for that case, and/or they have something they’re not proud to announce. I have no idea what words would be used for a patent here, being an area well outside my expertise, but I’ve not heard any patents mentioned, so I’m going to assume it’s squarely the shame reason.

          The protonmail thing… I just assume nothing I do is private and keep all my services as decoupled as possible to make me more annoying to track down, should the situation arise that I become somehow not boring. One day I’ll set up something more private and annoying, but I have a long list of todos that never become todones…

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      I was trying to put this into perspective by comparing this to the flow rate of the Des Plaines river. At the high end, 8 million gallons a day is something like 12.4 cubic feet per second constantly. Currently the Des Plaines has a discharge rate of 86-87 cubic feet per second, so a bit above 14% of the Des Plaines per data center.

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      This is comparable to the amount of water used by cherry farmers near Google’s site in The Dalles, who (according to my napkin) use somewhere between 2-8x what Google uses. This isn’t that much water for the Columbia River though; on an average day, it has enough flow in less than a minute to provide for both the cherry farmers and Google all day. However, it would be a big problem for a smaller river. (Interestingly, while fresh water is essential for datacenters, Google originally desired that site because it was cheap land next to cheap hydroelectric power.)

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    The AI people are still infatuated with math. The Epoch AI staff, after being thoroughly embarrassed last year by the FrontierMath scandal, have now decided to make a new FrontierMath Open Problems benchmark, this time with problems that people might give a shit about!

    I decided to look at one of the easiest ā€œmoderately interestingā€ problems and noticed that GPT-5.2 Pro managed to solve a warm up version of the problem, i.e. a version that had been previously solved. Wow, these reasoning models sure are capable of math! So I was curious and looked at the reasoning trace and it turns out that … the model just found an obscure website with the right answer and downloaded it. Well, I guess you could say it has some impressive reasoning as it figures out how to download and parse the data, maybe.

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      I can’t see the ā€œreasoningā€ trace in the link. Do you need to be logged in?

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        I can see them by clicking on the ā€œReasoned for 6m 34sā€ box on my desktop browser (I know, great UI design) without needing to log in. This did not work on my phone. In any case, I can copy it here:

        Warning: very long slop

        Exploring Hadamard matrix construction for order 428

        For a Hadamard matrix of order 428, we need to confirm that it’s a multiple of 4, which it is (428 = 4 * 107). However, the challenge is that order 107 doesn’t work since it’s not a multiple of 4. A possible approach could involve using constructions like Williamson or Goethals-Seidel. Alternatively, I could try a Kronecker product of smaller matrices.

        Examining constructions for Hadamard matrix of order 428

        Since 107 ≔ 3 mod 4, Paley type I gives a Hadamard of order 108, but I need 428, not 432. That’s a little tricky. I wonder if there’s a known construction for order 4*107 using ā€œHadamard matrix of order 4qā€ or conference matrices. Could I adapt the generalized Paley approach for this?

        Exploring conference matrix construction for Hadamard order 428

        For q = 107, Paley construction doesn’t work since q ≔ 3 mod 4. But if I can create a conference matrix of order 214 (since 214 ≔ 2 mod 4), then a Hadamard matrix of order 428 would follow. Conference matrices require specific conditions, but this seems promising. Let’s focus on 214.

        Searching for explicit Hadamard matrix of order 428

        To generate a Hadamard matrix of order 428, it might be feasible since many such matrices exist up to large orders, but I need one explicitly with ±1 entries. A direct construction could involve methods like Goethals-Seidel, which uses circulant matrices to satisfy specific conditions. I’ll need to implement this method.

        Exploring construction methods and searching for Hadamard matrix 428

        For n=107, there might be a way to use Legendre sequences for Goethals-Seidel difference sets. I know there are constructions for order 4q where q is an odd prime power, but using approaches like Scarpis or Turyn may help too. I’ll search for an explicit Hadamard matrix of order 428 for a possible example or construction.

        Exploring accessible sources and construction options for Hadamard matrix

        It seems like there may be server timeouts, so I’ll need to try other sources like GitHub, arXiv, or design theory papers. We could construct the Hadamard matrix ourselves using known algorithms, but it’s heavy. If accessible, sequences from a Kharaghani paper could help, and SageMath might have relevant functions too.

        Identifying base sequences to build Hadamard matrix

        To create a Hadamard matrix of order 428, I think I can use base sequences of lengths 71 and 36, which combine to 107. I’ll look for Turyn-type sequences or T-sequences in accessible PDFs, potentially from open sources like arXiv. A useful file might be ā€œH_428,ā€ so I’ll search for it.

        Checking GitHub for Hadamard matrix at 428 order

        I found a GitHub project, ā€œanymatrix,ā€ which claims to have Hadamard matrices up to order 428. It might include the 428 matrix in MATLAB format. I’ll check the repository to see if it has the actual file with the matrix data. Let’s open it and explore!

        Opening GitHub repository for 428 Hadamard matrix

        The page at math.ntua.gr timed out before, but I might try downloading the file directly instead of opening it. Alternatively, I could explore the GitHub ā€œanymatrixā€ repository, which likely has Hadamard matrices up to order 428. I’ll open the repository’s root to check its structure and find the matrix file.

        Opening Hadamard folder

        I’ll go ahead and open the Hadamard folder at link ID 81. Time to check what’s inside and see if the matrix or relevant files are there!

        Trying GitHub raw content for Hadamard matrix

        It looks like extracting the files might have failed because of JS requirements, so I’m considering an alternative: accessing raw content directly from GitHub. I’ll search the repository for relevant files containing the 428 matrix — once I find out the exact file names, I can access them with no issue!

        Trying direct access to Hadamard file

        It seems the math.ntua listing might still be promising, with both text and zip formats for the Hadamard matrix. I’ll try opening the direct file URL instead of the page, hoping it’ll avoid the timeout issues. It’s worth retrying, as the timeout could have been temporary. Let’s try again!

        Trying alternative ways to access Hadamard matrix

        Since opening the math.ntua.gr server is

        Checking old Hadamard links

        The page seems to be from 2001, and it has a link to Neil Sloane’s library list, which might include the H428 matrix. However, the link for item 8 points to ā€œwww.research.att.com ,ā€ which could have moved. Let’s click and see if it’s still accessible.

        Trying alternative download for Hadamard matrix

        The ATT site removed the old page, and Sloane’s library now points to a page that times out. Another option might be using Anymatrix, but GitHub listings aren’t working. I’ll try accessing the IPM website directly to download the matrix — maybe the file’s URL works better with HTTP instead of HTTPS. Let’s give it a try.

        Searching for accessible Hadamard matrix

        The page redirects to HTTPS and times out, which might indicate blocking. Maybe the matrix is hosted elsewhere, like in a plain text or PDF format. I’ll search for terms like ā€œh428.txtā€ or ā€œhadamard428.txtā€ on cs.uleth.ca — there’s a mention of a PDF that could include it. Let’s give that a try.

        Opening ADTHM page for possible matrix

        I’ve found a listing on cs.uleth, and there’s a link on the ADTHM page that might lead to the matrix in text format. It could be what I’m looking for, so I’ll go ahead and open the ADTHM page to check it out. Let’s see if it includes the matrix!

        Accessing matrix text through link

        Awesome! I found a link labeled ā€œEntries as textā€ (ID: 26). This could be the matrix in the text format I’m looking for. I’ll go ahead and click the link to download it. Let’s see if this works!

        Parsing the XPM image to a matrix

        The H428.html contains XPM image data, not matrix entries. It seems to represent values with two colors, p and m, which likely stand for +1 and -1. I can map p to 1 and m to -1 (just to simplify things) and validate that the Hadamard property holds by checking H*H^T = 428I. I’ll fetch and parse the full content to confirm.

        Downloading H428.html

        Alright, I’ll use the container.download method to fetch the H428.html file. I previously opened the URL, so that should meet the requirement. Now, I’ll download the file directly to /mnt/data/H428.html and get the content I need. This should work smoothly and efficiently!

        Understanding limitations for container.download

        It seems the container.download method restricts us to file types other than text/html — likely just images or data. Since I can’t use click or fetch via Python, I’ll need to rely on web.run for the content. However, the 200-word limit means we can’t fully retrieve the 428 lines. I may need to process it in parts.

        Handling 200-line limits in tool response

        Since the tool response gets cut off around 200 words, I can’t present more than that in the final output. However, I can strategically open various line ranges and parse those internal portions to reconstruct the full matrix. This should allow me to gather all the necessary data without breaking the word limits.

        Handling file retrieval and parsing

        To retrieve the full content, I can call the tool multiple times from different lines, reconstructing the file. However, retrieving 428 lines in total means a heavy operation, spread across several calls. Given the content-type restrictions, I can process the data using Python, but I need to work with a local file.

        Figuring out how to retrieve and process data

        To get more lines, I can use a tool to fetch a longer response, but there’s still a limit to the tool’s output. Since the H428.html file is too large, I could check if there’s a plain text version like ā€œH428.txtā€ in the directory that can be downloaded. I’ll also look for any relevant comments in the HTML.

        Looking for matrix in different format

        The file starts with ā€œ/* XPM */,ā€ indicating it’s actually plain text despite being labeled as HTML. I could try adding a download parameter or using a raw link, but the content type restriction remains. Next, I’ll check if there’s a plain text version of the matrix, like ā€œH428.txtā€ in the directory.

        Considering ways to fetch and process the file

        There’s no plain text, but the XPM format might be parseable. I could gradually access the file using the web tool, then reconstruct it with Python. One option is fetching parts with web tool, accumulating in Python, and then processing. I could work around content type restrictions with query parameters for text/plain.

        Exploring options to access content

        The H428.html doesn’t seem like real HTML. Maybe I can access it through a ?download=1 query or H428.xpm? I might also try the enlarge image link (id 25). If it’s a GIF/PNG, I could download it and extract pixel values, though this might involve some image processing. I’ll check it out.

        Downloading and inspecting image

        The image is a PNG, so I can download it using the container. I’ll pull down H428_big.png and check the image’s pixel structure. It’s likely 856x856, possibly scaled at 2x, though the matrix should be 428x428. I’ll inspect the image further after downloading it.

        Opening image for inspection

        The file is small, just 5kb, which likely means it’s compressed and may be a 428x428 image with a palette. I’ll go ahead and open the image to inspect it using the container, and then I can analyze the pixels to understand how it’s structured further.

        Processing image for matrix conversion

        We have the image, so it’s time to use Python to read it and convert the pixel colors into matrix entries. First, I need to check the image’s pixel dimensions—more likely it will be 428x428 or a multiple of that. I’ll use Python with PIL to open the image and confirm

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    The HarfBuzz maintainer has drunk the slop-aid - Baldur has commented on it, warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences:

    Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn’t memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution. HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world’s user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.

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      luis villa, who as a lawyer really should have known better, being self-reportedly a friend of behdad and a confabulation/war machine promoter decided to come to rescue, calling the above (a) attack, and (b) slander.

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      I used to think that I could avoid using open source projects which embrace the slop machines, but new it keeps getting more and more adoption, including in good and beloved projects… at this point I think I’ll just have to accept and ignore it, or otherwise I’d have to play endless whack-a-mole with stuff all over my operating systems :(

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    in the past 24 hours I was fooled by 3 pieces of fake news in a row:

    • that Kurds from Iraq were crossing the border to fight in Iran
    • that Windows 12 would be AI-centred or require an AI chip to work (I helped spread this)
    • that Spain has capitulated and let the US use its ports for war (erroneously claimed by a WH official).

    I know that fake news can be made organically and have been since forever and I’m doing selection bias here but I can’t help but picture the misinformation engines firehosing bullshit constantly until some of it catches and spreads.

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      If you have to swim in raw sewage, you shouldn’t blame yourself when some poop gets in your mouth.

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      yeah it’s bad

      otoh awareness I think is spreading

      swedish public broadcasting has regular ā€œspot the fakeā€ pieces on their website

      I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to ā€œmatureā€ is a good idea before amplifying.

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      God this is so funny. He’s so evasive about why exactly it is bad to be associated with Epstein. I just asked mummy and she said no.

      ā€œI don’t think doing that would have made me complicit. But, you know, it would have been very embarrassing for me.ā€

      Aw don’t worry I have no morals. But people would have been mean to me again!

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        ok ngl I didn’t actually read the article at first (can you blame me) but since you pointed that out, FUCK. That’s so fucking pathetic. I was imagining a scenario where scott had met epstein IRL but had gotten ā€œjockā€ vibes from him and decided not to associate based on that.