this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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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.)

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[–] lurker@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

Missed this when it was first going around

Leave it to fucking zuckco to figure out the worst way to make They Live happen

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

Never have so few been so unsatisfied to be so correct.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 7 points 10 hours ago

I feel like at this point I want to highlight the ones that took a clear stance against LLM code. On a chardet thread, people listed:

  • Gentoo
  • Servo
  • Loupe
  • Qemu
  • postmarketOS
  • GoTo Social
  • Zig
[–] BasiqueEvangelist@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

guess i'll have to write my own unifiedpush provider

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I’m still happy with Pushover. Hasn’t changed in a decade (and a half?! Been using that since 2012, damn), works really pretty well.

It’s not self-hosted but when there are push notification services on the path, nothing really is.

[–] anise@quokk.au 4 points 6 hours ago

there's also overpush, which is meant as a self-hostable drop-in replacement for pushover and does not use ai afaict.