David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
1·15 days agowhat were the other two?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
1·22 days agopsst you can see it on an Invidious instance that’s set to a US backend
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
1·22 days agoit really does
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
1·22 days agoif you’re in the US and have too much time on your hands, the comments on this one need attention, cos PBS leave comments on then just don’t moderate them.
please do stop by in “new comments” mode and upvote the good top-level comments, downvote the bad, and report the racists and straight up Nazis.
the upvotes/downvotes determine the default “Top comments” view, and it takes multiple reports for any given racist
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
0·1 month agoneovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Disney sues AI image generator MidjourneyEnglish
182·1 year agoauthor here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
141·1 year agoBaldur Bjarnason (who hates AI slop) has posited precisely this:
My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
112·1 year agoI asked Github Copilot and it added
import wreakto .NET, so we’ll get back to you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you!English
3·2 years agothat being the specific model when we started it! “web3 is going great but it’s AI”
molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverseEnglish
6·2 years agoNostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’English
3·2 years agoNo Novel November






















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