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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    an exciting new startup promises to be “airbnb for gpus”! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259

    bonus: the company is “pivoting” from drone delivery

    bonus bonus: boomer in the comments going on a nonsequiter rant about trans furries

    Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’, or better analyse classmates’ stolen chats. I can vividly remember we were by no means disclosing private info back in ‘94 only to see a world of influencers in 2024 sharing their very personal guts for profits.

    • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’

      excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      christ and of course it’s a YC company. they really should print that on the office entrance wall or something

      YC: Where Monopolied Rentware Is The Only Business Model We Know

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      “New”. The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably weren’t the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.

      Also I guarantee these people haven’t thought about, or don’t really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It ain’t trivial that’s for sure, I’d never connect my GPU to the internet with any program that has thought about this less than web browsers have (WebGL / WebGPU) for that reason alone.

      • sinedpick@awful.systemsEnglish
        12·
        6 months ago

        So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if it’s one of the startup employees) responds “Let’s just use homomorphic encryption!” then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.

    • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      There’s something so… crypto bro… about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. “Hey! That was my payday!”