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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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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.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New post from Iris Meredith: Tech's empiricism problem

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 6 days ago

OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (7 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

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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.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the books3 guy

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

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The HarfBuzz maintainer has drunk the slop-aid - Baldur has commented on it, warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences:

Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn't memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution. HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world's user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Recently discovered Donald Knuth got oneshot by Claude recently (indirectly, through fedi) - feeling the itch to write about tech's vulnerability to LLMs because of it.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The purpose of AI is theft, part infinity: chardet steals LGPL code for profit using Claude

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

John Scalzi's shitcanned any book club plans for the foreseeable future, and AI spammers are the reason why.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th 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.)

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Pyrite64 - N64 Engine & Editor [Release] (www.youtube.com)
 

Fun fact: there's a dedicated game engine for Nintendo 64 homebrew now. This is only its first release, but its looking pretty promising.

The engine's available on GitHub, if you wanna tinker with it.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
217 comments fedilink
 

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. If you're wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)

(EDIT: Changed "29th February" to "1st March" - its not a leap year)

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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot [Phoronix] (www.phoronix.com)
 

GitHub's having another major departure - Linux distro Gentoo is starting its migration to Codeberg, with code theft from Microsoft's Copilot as a major reason why.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 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.)

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Pavel Samsonov: You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)
 

(This essay is based off of Iris Meredith’s "Becoming an AI-proof software engineer" - recommend reading that first.)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
224 comments fedilink
 

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. A lot of people didn't survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my account's cake day, too, so that's cool.)

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Iris Meredith: Becoming an AI-proof software engineer (deadsimpletech.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 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. What a year, huh?)

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