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•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
7·1 day agothe way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
74·1 day agothis is like the guys on mastodon who mention libreoffice at every opportunity
do you honestly think anyone reading this post hasn’t heard of duckduckgo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going slopEnglish
13·5 days agotell me you didn’t read without saying you didn’t read
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-upEnglish
121·17 days agoif only there were links that answered the question
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
2·21 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
5·21 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·23 days agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·23 days agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·23 days agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
1·1 month agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
1·1 month 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
1·2 months 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
1·2 months 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
1·2 months 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
0·2 months 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

















fiiixed thank you