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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

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

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 day ago (3 children)

Skyview.social mirror so everyone can see - he's locked out everyone who's not signed in.

Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

You might think using a hallucination machine was risking their lives already.

They are being issued a handgun which goes off on its own (which killed an airman in 2025), so that tracks.

The army's shiny new service rifle from SIG Sauer (in a shiny new caliber that nobody else in NATO uses) also got slammed by Army troops and gun nerds alike for a variety of reasons, so its not just AI that the brass is being braindead on.

(Meanwhile, the USMC told SIG to fuck off and stuck with their M27 IARs, which had served them well since 2011.)

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 1 day ago

the one about arena shooters dying off

That extruded piece of audiovisual garbage has been bugging me massively for a couple hours now, so I'm gonna make a quick recommendation:

If you're looking for a non-dogshit video about the arena shooter's implosion, boomer shooter YouTuber Skeleblood made a pretty solid one a couple years ago.

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 1 day ago (2 children)

Stumbled across a YouTube slop-farm calling itself The Interactive Archive recently, and the whole thing is just plain shameless:

AI slop banner, AI slop thumbnails, AI slop avatar, its all slop from top to fucking bottom.

Its getting pitiful views, too - the highest-viewed video on the damn thing (as of this writing) is the one about arena shooters dying off, sitting at just under 400 views:

Putting that into context, a random screen recording I uploaded hit nearly 700 through sheer luck.

US Used Chatbot for War Planning in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

TBF, fighter jets should have been unmanned drones

On the one hand, an autonomous fighter jet would be immune to G-LOC, letting them perform maneuvers that would incapacitate/kill a human pilot. On the other hand, air-to-air combat is a complex affair, and the enemy will be probing for any weaknesses in your drones' programming to exploit.

Autonomous bombers seem easier to pull off - bombing missions are (relatively) straightforward compared to air-to-air combat.

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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.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

I personally wouldn't count on it - if nothing else, losing Internet access would be crippling in modern day life.

I'm not gonna completely rule it out, though - CNN wrote on Instax making a comeback and the BBC reported a general spike in retro tech sales last year.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Jonathan Hogg gives his two cents on gen-AI, pointing to high barriers to entry causing vibe-coding to explode:

We seem to have largely stopped innovating on trying to lower barriers to programming in favour of creating endless new frameworks and libraries for a vanishingly small number of near-identical languages. It is the mid-2020s and people are wringing their hands over Rust as if it was some inexplicable new thing rather than a C-derivative that incorporates decades old type theory. You know what I consider to be genuinely ground-breaking programming tools? VisiCalc, HyperCard and Scratch.

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

(Adding my two cents, Adobe Flash filled the same role as HyperCard in the '00s, providing the public an easy(ish) way to get into programming, and providing an outlet for many an aspirating animator and gamedev.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

Good to know, David.

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

throwing chatbots into the military

Not the first time the US gov's pulled that shit, and it sure as hell won't be the last.

File this shit next to the SIG M18 and the XM7 in its list of grade-A blunders.

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

The promptfondlers did it, they made a computer which doesn't do what you tell it to do

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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 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days 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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The problem is culture - Iris on tech's LLM obsession (deadsimpletech.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 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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