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NVidia’s announced an AI filter for PC gaming, calling it “AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games” and hyping the ever-loving shit out of it.

The results are, unsurprisingly, complete garbage, and its already getting ripped apart by the gaming press.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games

NVIDIA DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials to bridge the gap between rendering and reality.

NVIDIA

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

https://awful.systems/post/7612992

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. 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 so 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

New post from Iris Meredith: Tech’s empiricism problem
Tech's empiricism problem | deadSimpleTech

The tech industry has extreme difficulty integrating information that doesn't have its source in an overtly rationalist process. In practice, this means that we tend to think that if you can't give a logical chain of deductions that proves that something is the case, your information is worthless. The issue with this is that day-to-day, in the tech world and outside of it, the vast bulk of the information we use to make decisions isn't this kind of information.

deadSimpleTech
New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.
"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off

AI Killed My Job: Educators.

Blood in the Machine

OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:

Joanna Holman (@[email protected])

I find it sort of fascinating that TED talks (both the official conference and the semi official TedX events) are still a thing. While they’ve been going since the 80s the current format feels very rooted in early 2010s optimism about tech and the world in a way that feels out of step with the current mood to me

Aus.Social
Starting this Stubsack off, I’ve found another FOSS project that hit the digital krokodil - ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI
ntfy web

ntfy lets you send push notifications via scripts from any computer or phone. Made with ❤ by Philipp C. Heckel, Apache License 2.0, source at https://heckel.io/ntfy.

ntfy web

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

https://awful.systems/post/7536143

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. 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 so 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

the books3 guy

Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you’re not being too mean in the slightest.

A second LLM shitshow has hit vim - this time, its the lead maintainer losing his marbles:

If you wanna see the disaster for yourself, the entire thread’s still on GitHub as of this writing.

Andrew Radev (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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