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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      wow, remember when a bunch of random posters came to that security thread to try and gaslight us into thinking the very similar attack described in @dgerard@awful.systemsā€™s blog post wasnā€™t a security vulnerability? and now itā€™s a Black Hat talk, aka ā€œyou fucked up and now the world knows about itā€

      ā€œItā€™s kind of funny in a way - if you have a bot thatā€™s useful, then itā€™s vulnerable. If itā€™s not vulnerable, itā€™s not useful,ā€ Bargury said.

      holy fuck thatā€™s damning. LLMs are so worthless on their own that they canā€™t do anything unless youā€™ve got everything hooked up to RAG, which is just a wide-open API with access to all your data.

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      what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow