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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.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    4Ā·
    8 months ago

    oh wow, thatā€™s a good point I hadnā€™t considered. I looked around and thereā€™s no open source releases or disclosures associated with rabbit at all (unsurprisingly, they donā€™t even admit the thing runs on AOSP in any material I can find). interestingly, a DuckDuckGo search for a rabbit r1 source disclosure digs up a deleted backend source leak from an account named rabbitscam before anything else (mod note: for obvious reasons, nobody should link the archived contents of that source leak, even though they seem fucking hilarious)

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        7Ā·
        8 months ago

        thatā€™s a pretty big hint as to how someone got the APK ā€” they most likely just dumped the device, and I look forward to an analysis of the contents of the full ROM dump.

        most of the orange site thread is absolute garbage, but their CTO posted this incoherent crap on discord (of course itā€™s discord):

        If someone spends enough time with the login minions they can extract these code. But these code are locked down and are sanitized. LAM lives elsewhere. This is someone looking at the rabbit hole not understanding how it works. And tries to be smart.

        whatā€™s fucking wild is a lot of the orange site posters just take this indecipherable bullshit as fact? like a bunch of the thread just starts criticizing the leak because thereā€™s no LLM model in it but like, thatā€™s the fucking point? according to the leakā€™s README, the LAM is just a thin and ridiculously insecure way to hook GPT up to a tiny selection of third-party services without even using a proper API. itā€™s mostly just a ridiculously fragile test automation that wonā€™t scale, triggered by GPT (or, letā€™s go stupider, itā€™s probably actually activated by a fuzzy match on the transcript of the userā€™s voice input). so many orange site posters are trying to talk past the fucking point of the leak, and for fucking what? an overpriced ugly orange cell phone that isnā€™t actually useful for anything.

        and not to talk past the elephant in the room myself: you can extract the fucking node backend source from rabbitā€™s login ā€œminionsā€ (services?) if you just spend enough time with them? what in the fuck?