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 23rd August 2026English
5Ā·14 hours agoI propose: āautorowlingā
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
6Ā·18 hours agoAnthropic also said that in testing, auto mode proved safer than manual review ā in a study with 1,053 paid testers, auto mode caught 89% of harmful actions, while human review only caught 13.6%. (Perhaps thatās because āmanual review can become habitual: users approve 97% of permission prompts in Claude Code.ā)
having just yesterday had the displeasure of reading a PR (just shy of 2000 lines) made by Fable 5 (which the promptfondler felt it was most necessary to be specific about), a definite real other problem is simply the literal fucking overwhelm resulting from the slop tsunami
also āharmfulā actions sure is doing a lot of legwork there
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
2Ā·3 days agoit started out container-flavoured easier APIs and then grew a bit from there, still relatively liked for its ease of dynamic shittery. seconding @dgerardās position on apache httpd as ssl terminator. itās also got some other cases where itās just a worse performer and/or a nuisance to deal with (in comparison)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
7Ā·8 days agoIām also interested in answers to this; I donāt really follow youtube types in general (and even less other of the pop names) so I didnāt even know this name until it showed up here this week
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9Ā·8 days agoIt was called fucking Pearl AI? god these people suck so fucking bad
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
2Ā·8 days agosaw it here, and adriannaās got an idea on possible likely chain
I saw some speculation (from some people in the region) that shillrinavan wasnāt satisfactorily greasing palms, but I donāt know whether hard info is out yet
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6Ā·8 days agohttps://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network built on Ethereum.
didnāt even read further
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
4Ā·8 days agoidle pondering: anyone seen much more happening to shillrinavanās network school after they fucked it in malaysia and decided theyāll move to kazakhstan?
(also, if you hadnāt seen, yes: thatās a thing)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6Ā·9 days agoyup. and I bet in a couple of weeks/months there will be some pearl clutching as the āagentā once again replies something like this once that āmemoryā blows past its context window
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
5Ā·9 days agoWeekendās are for the chatbot running the bill so high the account owner can throw a fit on twitter and demand to speak to the manager
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
13Ā·9 days agoI love the little ā???ā, itās so telling. also the implicit presumption under āyou donāt have weekendsā
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
18Ā·9 days agothe watermark is a perversion of writing?
he should try going for the olympic team with all those mental gymnastics
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
4Ā·12 days agoside branch: it appears schmidt has a type
and now Iām remembering when jart (justine tunney) suggested that he should be appointed as CEO King of the US
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7Ā·12 days agoas Iāve said elsewhere, lol
schneier should just stop posting
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
5Ā·12 days agoyeah, thatās about where I land usually too
I guess the thing is that I know how much āshithead with a columnā has become possible so I donāt really, off the cuff, know how journo most journos are
(I shall leave aside for the moment the entire tirade this makes me want to go on)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
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6Ā·12 days agothe merit seems to be stored in the balls



Iād seen that link and didnāt even go looking, but wow this is way worse that I wouldāve expected
itās been a while since I last looked (I usually just deploy whatever network I need) but iirc even the typical desktop config distributions of qemu-kvm are a macvtap or link+nat setup
I wonder if this person even thought to run a nessus/openvas/whatever scan against the same machine
also, quite seriously, what fucking clowning is this to have this be some āI slapped together a test on my desktopā rather than having a lab bench? is it too hard and costly for trail of bits employees to afford a 1u they can pxeboot for experiments? wild
(e: adding)
other typical modes are bridged (e.g. having various vlans available as bridges and then managing vm exposure to vlan by interface attachment), direct interface assignment (hw offload to the guest)
passt is also commonly used for podman, and itās moooostly userspace[0] IP and no real good l2 options
(Iām only half joking. itās stunning how badly container-management software and tooling all suck)