#bad-ideas — Public Fediverse posts
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One thing to remember, as well as how this can go wrong, is that they're already talking about "AEO" (Search Engine Optimisation for GenAI) and how they could start selling influence over the content that LLMs generate.
Adverts might affect what a human buys. But these chatbots will literally be purchasable by the highest bidder to push their product, whether it's the best option for you or not!
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
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One thing to remember, as well as how this can go wrong, is that they're already talking about "AEO" (Search Engine Optimisation for GenAI) and how they could start selling influence over the content that LLMs generate.
Adverts might affect what a human buys. But these chatbots will literally be purchasable by the highest bidder to push their product, whether it's the best option for you or not!
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
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Atlantic Writer’s Son Offers Bold Advice To Democrats: Pretend To Be A Sports Moron
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Atlantic Writer’s Son Offers Bold Advice To Democrats: Pretend To Be A Sports Moron
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TechCrunch: Google Search as you know it is over. “Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch ‘information agents’ to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.” Even if Google’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/techcrunch-google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ -
TechCrunch: Google Search as you know it is over. “Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch ‘information agents’ to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.” Even if Google’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/techcrunch-google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ -
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Uhh... yeah, no, let's not burn the formaldehyde and plastic, folks. #badideas
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Uhh... yeah, no, let's not burn the formaldehyde and plastic, folks. #badideas
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Nats To Fans: Hey Everybody, Look What Dumbasses Our Players Are!
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The Independent (Singapore): Esquire Singapore under fire for using AI to create ‘interview’ with Mackenyu. “Esquire Singapore has been the subject of recent backlash due to an ‘interview’ it conducted with the Japanese-American actor Mackenyu Maeda, who plays Roronoa Zoro in One Piece on Netflix. The problem is that it wasn’t an interview at all.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/the-independent-singapore-esquire-singapore-under-fire-for-using-ai-to-create-interview-with-mackenyu/ -
The Independent (Singapore): Esquire Singapore under fire for using AI to create ‘interview’ with Mackenyu. “Esquire Singapore has been the subject of recent backlash due to an ‘interview’ it conducted with the Japanese-American actor Mackenyu Maeda, who plays Roronoa Zoro in One Piece on Netflix. The problem is that it wasn’t an interview at all.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/05/the-independent-singapore-esquire-singapore-under-fire-for-using-ai-to-create-interview-with-mackenyu/ -
Why it's a bad idea to invade Iran, 2018 edition
via https://balloon-juice.com/2026/03/29/war-for-ukraine-day-1494-a-brief-sunday-night-update/
(and just a shout out for Balloon-Juice, keeping the blogging flag flying)
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Cam Skattebo Sorry For Saying CTE And Asthma Are Fake
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/cam-skattebo-sorry-for-saying-cte-and-asthma-are-fake
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It's weird that the Librarian wound up being the namshub. #snowcrash #badideas
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Axios: Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems. Yikes. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/axios-musks-xai-and-pentagon-reach-deal-to-use-grok-in-classified-systems/ -
Axios: Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems. Yikes. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/axios-musks-xai-and-pentagon-reach-deal-to-use-grok-in-classified-systems/ -
Worse idea time:
Could I plug a CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe into a external GPU enclosure, or just some thingy designed for a raspberry pi, and have a tiny inexpensive 2-port 25gb router? (likely only need 10g speed)
#Homelab #Mikrotik #BadIdeas -
Worse idea time:
Could I plug a CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe into a external GPU enclosure, or just some thingy designed for a raspberry pi, and have a tiny inexpensive 2-port 25gb router? (likely only need 10g speed)
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"You're gonna test this, right?"
AI slop comes to genetic coding.
I feel like this might be the right time to retreat to a cave in the woods and wait for the end to come for us all.
"New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’"
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"You're gonna test this, right?"
AI slop comes to genetic coding.
I feel like this might be the right time to retreat to a cave in the woods and wait for the end to come for us all.
"New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’"
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Probably not useful ideas that I have bouncing around that I still want to work on as leaning exercises and something to tinker with. I shouldn't look at either of these.... I have much more important and useful things to do, like fixing backups and getting my resume ready....
1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity
2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI -
Probably not useful ideas that I have bouncing around that I still want to work on as leaning exercises and something to tinker with. I shouldn't look at either of these.... I have much more important and useful things to do, like fixing backups and getting my resume ready....
1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity
2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI -
"Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"
Ahh, The "revenue replacement" schemes have started to manifest themselves.Since you're not getting new buyers, just extract more money from your captive customer base.
I'm sure that's going work out great. (Even though somebody probably got a big Christmas bonus for suggesting it.)
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"Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"
Ahh, The "revenue replacement" schemes have started to manifest themselves.Since you're not getting new buyers, just extract more money from your captive customer base.
I'm sure that's going work out great. (Even though somebody probably got a big Christmas bonus for suggesting it.)
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KSL: ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells. “The annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday. Among those getting the notorious ‘anti-awards’ for invasive, wasteful or fragile products were an eye-tracking AI ‘soulmate’ companion for combating loneliness, a musical lollipop and new AI features for Amazon’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/ksl-worst-in-show-ces-products-include-ai-refrigerators-ai-companions-and-ai-doorbells/ -
KSL: ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells. “The annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday. Among those getting the notorious ‘anti-awards’ for invasive, wasteful or fragile products were an eye-tracking AI ‘soulmate’ companion for combating loneliness, a musical lollipop and new AI features for Amazon’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/ksl-worst-in-show-ces-products-include-ai-refrigerators-ai-companions-and-ai-doorbells/ -
@firefoxwebdevs I suppose we can rest easy in knowing AI will be off by default and we’ll never be bombarded by notifications to turn it on, that it won’t have control over our browser preferences and settings, that it won’t be tricked by injection attacks from the pages we visit, and it will have no visibility whatsoever to the password managers (especially web ones).
#Firefox #rant #Humor #AI #security #Browser #NowICantSleep #CVE #facepalm #badideas #AISprinkledOnEverything #curl #wget #lynx
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@firefoxwebdevs I suppose we can rest easy in knowing AI will be off by default and we’ll never be bombarded by notifications to turn it on, that it won’t have control over our browser preferences and settings, that it won’t be tricked by injection attacks from the pages we visit, and it will have no visibility whatsoever to the password managers (especially web ones).
#Firefox #rant #Humor #AI #security #Browser #NowICantSleep #CVE #facepalm #badideas #AISprinkledOnEverything #curl #wget #lynx
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Gizmodo: xAI Answers the Question, ‘What if Product Placement was Significantly Worse?’. “The AI company owned by Elon Musk recently hosted a hackathon that invited people to build new features and functionality with the company’s AI models. One group of upstart engineers created Halftime, described as a tool that ‘Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so […]
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Gizmodo: xAI Answers the Question, ‘What if Product Placement was Significantly Worse?’. “The AI company owned by Elon Musk recently hosted a hackathon that invited people to build new features and functionality with the company’s AI models. One group of upstart engineers created Halftime, described as a tool that ‘Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you’re watching, so […]
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Bloom filters for search? 😂 Sure, if you enjoy building an index so efficient it doesn't scale! 🚀 A riveting tale from 2013, where you can learn how to handle a massive number of documents—just kidding, that's a terrible idea! 📚🔍
https://notpeerreviewed.com/blog/bloom-filters/ #BloomFilters #SearchIndexing #TechHumor #DocumentHandling #BadIdeas #HackerNews #ngated -
Bloom filters for search? 😂 Sure, if you enjoy building an index so efficient it doesn't scale! 🚀 A riveting tale from 2013, where you can learn how to handle a massive number of documents—just kidding, that's a terrible idea! 📚🔍
https://notpeerreviewed.com/blog/bloom-filters/ #BloomFilters #SearchIndexing #TechHumor #DocumentHandling #BadIdeas #HackerNews #ngated -
...and just as other cities across the country are ditching Flock & their "gunshot location technology", the press release comes out that a city local to us is adopting ShotSpotter. 😠
Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1bCDrD6Hw/
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...and just as other cities across the country are ditching Flock & their "gunshot location technology", the press release comes out that a city local to us is adopting ShotSpotter. 😠
Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1bCDrD6Hw/
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🚀 Another day, another self-important tech bro sermonizing about "saving the day" with the most cringeworthy hack imaginable. 🙄 Apparently, racking up technical debt is the new hero's journey. Spoiler: if it's labeled "best worst," maybe it's just... bad? 👏
https://jeffersonheard.ghost.io/the-best-worst-hack-that-saved-our-bacon/ #techbro #cringe #selfimportance #technicaldebt #badideas #herojourney #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Another day, another self-important tech bro sermonizing about "saving the day" with the most cringeworthy hack imaginable. 🙄 Apparently, racking up technical debt is the new hero's journey. Spoiler: if it's labeled "best worst," maybe it's just... bad? 👏
https://jeffersonheard.ghost.io/the-best-worst-hack-that-saved-our-bacon/ #techbro #cringe #selfimportance #technicaldebt #badideas #herojourney #HackerNews #ngated -
@PoliceStateUK : I commented on this effort before in https://todon.nl/@ErikvanStraten/115242968564739029.
In short:
1) The problem is lack of aid in parts of Gaza, not lack of aid waiting to enter the Strip.
2) Remote authentication is HARD: there are a lot of impersonators all over the world (looking for easy money).
3) Donating to individuals in Gaza increases inequality and local crime.
4) In addition: people may believe this to be a better initiative then donating to e.g. the Red Cross.
5) Israel may abuse this effort to claim that useful "aid" *does* reach Gazans.
It makes no sense to help a few Gazans while 2 million are starving (those without communication facilities having no chance at all).
If people REALLY want to do something useful: call upon your government to stop facilitating genocide by supporting Israel.
#BadIdeas #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #Starvation #InEquality #DropInTheOcean
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@PoliceStateUK : I commented on this effort before in https://todon.nl/@ErikvanStraten/115242968564739029.
In short:
1) The problem is lack of aid in parts of Gaza, not lack of aid waiting to enter the Strip.
2) Remote authentication is HARD: there are a lot of impersonators all over the world (looking for easy money).
3) Donating to individuals in Gaza increases inequality and local crime.
4) In addition: people may believe this to be a better initiative then donating to e.g. the Red Cross.
5) Israel may abuse this effort to claim that useful "aid" *does* reach Gazans.
It makes no sense to help a few Gazans while 2 million are starving (those without communication facilities having no chance at all).
If people REALLY want to do something useful: call upon your government to stop facilitating genocide by supporting Israel.
#BadIdeas #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #Starvation #InEquality #DropInTheOcean
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CW: Artificial text - On few occasion it's also funny. Meow
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It started with a magazine ad.
https://nazhamid.com/journal/different-think/ #Apple #design #BadIdeas
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It started with a magazine ad.
https://nazhamid.com/journal/different-think/ #Apple #design #BadIdeas
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Not only does hot-desking make workers feel under-valued and disrespected, but it also reduces productivity. Every morning, at a new desk, I have to reset the positions of my various windows. And sometimes the mouse has a different sensitivity and I have to fix that, too.
Like the one I've got today. I've got the mouse tracking speed maxed out, and it still feels sluggish. WTF?
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Not only does hot-desking make workers feel under-valued and disrespected, but it also reduces productivity. Every morning, at a new desk, I have to reset the positions of my various windows. And sometimes the mouse has a different sensitivity and I have to fix that, too.
Like the one I've got today. I've got the mouse tracking speed maxed out, and it still feels sluggish. WTF?
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Friendgineers: The internet is a great place for learning. It's also a place where you can find some REALLY bad ideas. It takes critical thinking to know if any particular idea is good or bad, IN YOUR SITUATION. Somethings though, are just bad ideas.
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False ideas
False ideas which gain currency can easily be recognized by the loud fanfare with which they are accompanied. Real truth does not need any other embellishments.
~ Leo Tolstoyslip:4a1001.
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In the history of bad ideas…
This entry is part 34 of 36 in the series 10,000 Reps ProjectToday I passed 6,000.
So it turns out it is just barely possible to pull this 10k thing out of the hole.
Friday, instead of 50 reps of things, I kept plugging away and got to 120. (140 bar precisions as I had 20 to catch up from a wet bars rain-out on Wednesday.)
So today (after doing my usual short run and QM workout in the AM) I did two separate 80 reps workouts to get me 160 reps for the day. 160 reps is doable. I’m totally standing on a 1″ resistance band for the pull-ups though.
Screw it… I’m going to make a run for the finish! I’ll even add more resistance bands for the pull-ups if I have to. (Whatever it takes to avoid injury and keep good form.) I want to be done with this before my trips coming up in August!
So with that in mind, I set about juggling numbers in my workbook. There’s a hole coming up when I’ll be in Boston for 5 days at an event; No way I’m going to get any of my structured workouts in. So I marked that in the book. Then, back-figuring… There’s no way I can train every day; I must have rest days. The math leads me to the surreal goal of doing literally 200 reps every Monday, Wednesday, Friday AND Saturday from now to the 365th day on July 20th.
I have a rest day tomorrow (Sunday) and then Monday I tackle a 200-reps day. I’ll [attempt to] do two, 100 rep workouts. I’ll do one in the morning and one in the evening. Counting Monday, there are exactly 20, 200-rep-workout days remaining. (The very last workout is actually less that 200.)
In the history of bad ideas, this has to be up there…
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#10000RepsProject #BadIdeas #Fitness
