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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    an exciting new startup promises to be ā€œairbnb for gpusā€! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259

    bonus: the company is ā€œpivotingā€ 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 ā€˜trans furriesā€™, or better analyse classmatesā€™ stolen chats. I can vividly remember we were by no means disclosing private info back in ā€˜94 only to see a world of influencers in 2024 sharing their very personal guts for profits.

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      christ and of course itā€™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

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      Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ā€˜trans furriesā€™

      excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU

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      ā€œNewā€. The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably werenā€™t the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.

      Also I guarantee these people havenā€™t thought about, or donā€™t really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It ainā€™t trivial thatā€™s for sure, Iā€™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.

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

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      Thereā€™s something soā€¦ crypto broā€¦ about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. ā€œHey! That was my payday!ā€