Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 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.

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    iterm2 update, moving the shit out of the core application (like it probably should’ve been in the first place):

    3.5.1
    
    This release adds some safety valves to eliminate
    the risk of private information leaving the
    terminal via the AI endpoints. While an API key
    and explicit user action were always needed to use
    AI features, some users asked for an impenetrable
    firewall for safety and regulatory purposes.
    
    To that end, there are three relevant changes:
    
    1. Code that communicates with AI providers such
    as OpenAI has been moved into a plugin that you
    must install separately. Enterprise system admins
    can block bundle id com.googlecode.iterm2.iTermAI
    to prevent it from being installed in the first
    place.
    
    See here for details:
    https://iterm2.com/ai-plugin.html
    
    2. In addition, you must manually enable AI
    features in Settings. Doing so requires admin
    access.
    
    3. Enterprise administrators who wish to disable
    iTerm2's AI access may set the user default
    GenerativeAIAllowed to False in their MDM systems.
    

    still never received a reply email from the author to my mail. wonder what they think/have learned of this experience tho

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      I’m afraid their character has been exposed

      I uninstalled when they announced it but this week’s news says it’s time to uninstall macos too

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        For the moment, I’m choosing to believe the following: 1) that itermdev was operating under hyped-engineer mode and choosing cluelessly as a result (and I sorely hope they learned something through this), 2) that Apple is too selfish to go hard on openai (because it means less money for them)

        #2 I’m a smidge more certain about

        But both of them are deeply “ugh, fuck” kinda feelings for me.