this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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a community for posting cool tech news you don’t want to sneer at

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Currently in its very early stages, but it'll be a useful resource to identify slopified garbage and get it out of your life.

Credit to Kat Marchin for starting this.

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[–] rook@awful.systems 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

As an update, the original author received sufficient negative feedback and abuse that they’ve closed the repo and decided to give open source and social media a bit of a rest for the foreseeable future. Hopefully the projects they’ve created and been working on will live on, but it is quite a loss to the community either way.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

The initiative is splendid and someone should "fork" it using the archived version

Especially for Rust having a curated list of slop-tainted libraries would be useful to have a cargo-deny-style check forbidding them from the dependency chain.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

That sucks, Kat is an awesome engineer. 😠

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

I missed this, thanks for the update! Am drunk from a wedding (not mine)