I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
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froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026English
0·1 day agoooh, where’s the (new?) spice? I’ve been under multiple rocks
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·2 days ago“I, personally, possess the choice on what irreversible impact to make on some other human being’s body without their input at all. Oh and also it’s supes totes fine to do, in general. To babies. Duh.” sure is a take
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·2 days ago8ball says “yes” but it had rendering difficulties, fontsize too big
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·5 days agoEdit: sorry I’ll behave now
promises promises… ;p
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·5 days agoP0 blocker: USAian memory management suffers from multiple holes and transactional consistency issues
Prior attempts haven’t worked, closing LOLBUG
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·5 days agoI’ve started seeing people make paperwork with explicit carve-outs for prompt use (merely referred to as “AI” with no explicit definition, so …. gonna be fun when the lawsuits start)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·5 days agoFuck, sorry :( internet hugs available if desired
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·6 days agothat sucks hard, I’m sorry. mine recently too, went from “looking a bit off” to “have to put 'em down” in less than a month. still hits me like a truck
hope it goes as well as possible for y’all
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
0·6 days agoI can’t comment on this better than bergstrom did, so link
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
0·9 days agoaiui they also really don’t like eyes on the modern slave labour they’re using to build it all
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
0·13 days agoaww those got turned off by the time I got to look :(
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
0·13 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 indicated….something very much else. and indeed it was because of
.that I found it
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
0·13 days agogood morning awful, I found you the first thing you’ll want to scream at today
palantir and others offering free addictions, all in the name of “productivity”
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
0·19 days agoah, a fellow 1937 poster that gets it
(I still don’t understand how people that post on/across the modern internet haven’t picked up the habit)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
0·19 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: sailor’s reference to “expert” here is no joke. the amount of wild and subtle UB (undefined behaviour) you get in the C family is extremely high-knowledge stuff. it’s the sort of stuff that has in recent years become fashionable to describe as “cursed”, 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 it’s 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.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
0·19 days agoso, ever watched Godzilla? and then did a twofer with a zombie movie? I think that’s essentially the plot here
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
0·20 days agoChlorofox (the oxidized version)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
0·20 days agowhile wikipedia-diving the other day I learned about Basilisk
so, y’know, 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