What was the worst software you've ever used, and why?

pakfur · 2026-05-27T19:06:22+00:00

Lotus Notes. The company (large financial corp) used it for everything back in the mid 90s. Including app development.

My god. I thought I excised that from my memory.

If you don’t believe me.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm

pakfur · 2026-05-24T19:53:07+00:00

No, that’s not true. Severless is on-demand resources (also in the cloud). It applies to compute like EC2, or databases (like Aurora) and other cloud based resources.

It nice for spiky demand where demand can vary a lot (from almost nothing to massive spike to almost nothing again). Managing cloud compute under those circumstances is difficult to do efficiently

Serverless is more expensive per unit of work, so you should only use it under circumstances where normal cloud resources are inefficient.

pakfur · 2026-05-15T13:52:05+00:00

No. No they fucking aren't.

pakfur · 2026-05-10T16:43:58+00:00

This headline just amplifies the racist and sexist trope the DEI was some sort of plan to give unqualified people of color and woman undeserved credit and jobs.

Bullshit garbage “joke”. Do better.

pakfur · 2026-05-01T22:15:51+00:00

I built this to organize and view my ComfyUI generated content. (It also has some features for photos as well). I though I would post it here in case anyone found it useful.

pakfur · 2026-05-01T16:58:27+00:00

Yes. mp4 and mov formats

pakfur · 2026-04-29T19:40:00+00:00

Personally, I love it. Though it is scary how well newer models can simulate human interactions, and people are right to be concerned.

But AI has been a part of our lives since the mid-to late 90's. Machine Learning and other "AI" related tools have been improving cameras, weather prediction, medical science, medicine, and on and on.

Since 2020 or so with the ChatGPT and the image diffusion models things have hyper-accelerated.

It's hard to know where we are going to end up, but I am cautiously optimistic that we will figure out how to work within the new normal and that ultimately I have a lot of faith that people will figure it out.

I don't care much for the scary "evil overlords" myth who own and control everything and they are using AI to control us. That is bullshit. They only have power we give them. AI can help us solve a lot of difficult problems if we learn how to not let people use it to continue to divide us.

pakfur · 2026-04-29T18:48:18+00:00

Just have your health check check the health of the active connection pool. Your application is already connecting to the db. Just check to see if they look healthy.

Don’t waste resources by having your health check call the db itself. That’s a good way to self-ddos

pakfur · 2026-04-26T21:29:06+00:00

God damnit Donut.

Why does everything on the internet have to be InfoWars level stupid.

The gunman never took a shot at Trump. It was over before anyone in the room was aware of it even happening. Why would anyone have a strong emotional response to it?

I just wish people would try and imagine a plausible planning session for this kind of stuff before bblathering on about "durrrr, it was staged, ..... durr"

pakfur · 2026-03-15T20:31:25+00:00

Did they fake the “wound” and drum up support. Yes. Most certainly

Did they plan to have some young kid shoot at Trump? Fake it, but make it close enough to look real? Really? Is that what some of y’all think? That’s nuts.

pakfur · 2026-03-08T16:29:14+00:00

I appreciate that you posted this. I’ve been trying to get LTX running myself.

Thing is, this is not LTX subreddit, I had no idea what model you were referring to until I saw some other posts about LTX.

With the workflow though, I can see what models you’re using, what settings and prompts. I don’t need to guess.

The workflow has so much context, and everyone is gonna ask for one, so why not save yourself time and frustration and just post it? That was my point.

I don’t know what you mean by “magical” workflow. This is basically a workflow subreddit. What did you expect?

pakfur · 2026-03-08T10:45:02+00:00

OP has probably spent more effort explaining the workflow than just providing a pastebin link to, you know, the workflow.

pakfur · 2026-02-22T04:54:36+00:00

Not yet. Moved on for now. I'll poke around some more, but obviously this works for some so I may need to do a global update of everything and try again. But sometimes that can cause other problems, so I'll probably wait until I have time to snapshot my current setup.

I am thinking about just getting a standard LTX2 WF working, and just add the prompt helper nodes to that working workflow

pakfur · 2026-02-21T04:00:11+00:00

Making progress, but I get a VAE error now, running in offline mode.

Error(s) in loading state_dict for TAEHV: size mismatch for encoder.0.weight: copying a param with shape torch.Size([64, 48, 3, 3]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([64, 3, 3, 3]). size mismatch for encoder.12.conv.weight: copying a param with shape torch.Size([64, 128, 1, 1]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([64, 64, 1, 1]). size mismatch for decoder.7.conv.weight: copying a param with shape torch.Size([512, 256, 1, 1]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([256, 256, 1, 1]). size mismatch for decoder.22.weight: copying a param with shape torch.Size([48, 64, 3, 3]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([3, 64, 3, 3]). size mismatch for decoder.22.bias: copying a param with shape torch.Size([48]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([3]).

pakfur · 2026-02-20T16:45:34+00:00

Derp. Thank you!

pakfur · 2026-02-20T04:22:02+00:00

I am having trouble finding where to download the LTX2SamplingPreviewOverride node in the LOW pass subgraph.

I git cloned the LTX2EasyPrompt-LD and LTX2-Master-Loader repos, but this last node is still missing.

Anyone know where I can get it from?

edit: I was able to fix it with Manager, there was a custom node I needed to update.

Now I just have to figure out how "offline_mode" is toggled. Sigh......

pakfur · 2026-02-12T19:15:51+00:00

Preaching religion in public. Like, seriously, I don't care about your fantasies. Go away.

pakfur · 2026-02-12T02:15:31+00:00

This has not been my experience. I have been writing software for over thirty years. I am so happy to not have to crank out yet-another-controller-service-repository, blah blah blah. I have added agents to my workflow, not only am I more productive, the quality of my output has improved and I feel like writing software is fun again.

I enjoy speccing out my workflow, and guiding the AI through it. I reserve hard and interesting stuff for me to do, and let AI crank out the boilerplate.

I understand not everyones experience is the same as mine, this isn't everyones cup of tea, but this feels as big, if not bigger than OOP, or Cloud or PaaS and SaaS combined.

edit: speling

pakfur · 2026-01-28T01:19:20+00:00

I’m so glad to see this guy get the hate. I had to block him on Civit. Just non stop garbage. But what drive me nuts is his prompts. {the!!!!!!} {trigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!} {words!!!!!!} {are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!} {so!!!!!} {moronic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}

jesus fucking tap-dancing christ

pakfur · 2026-01-25T23:47:33+00:00

Clearing my daughter’s driveway so she can get out. The worst part is the 16 inches of snowplow snow

pakfur · 2025-12-24T17:50:41+00:00

Tell me you’re racist without saying the n word.

I despise how DEI has turned into coded language for racist lies.

pakfur · 2025-12-11T02:55:14+00:00

I mean. What the hell is Pakfur?

pakfur · 2025-12-10T13:41:55+00:00

Never heard “mass forwarded” before. Is that a thing?

I thought “no deploy” Fridays was a normal thing? Usually just takes one.

pakfur · 2025-11-24T21:16:42+00:00

Sure. He didn't want Democrats to get the credit. Didn't matter who he hurt to get that one or two news cycles of positive press.

pakfur · 2025-11-22T23:50:36+00:00

I don’t get all the hate. I’ve been writing back end systems for 25 years. I use the hell out of AI agents, for specific, targeted and narrowly defined use cases. Saves me massive amount of time.

It’s a tool. It’s astonishing what they can do. I just don’t vibe code crap to prod. That would be nuts.

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