BlueMonday1984

This is one of the best articles I've read all year, and I never want to read it again. Holy shit.

Found a quality sneer in the wild, taking aim at vibe-coded "websites"

A US Army general just bragged about using ChatGPT as an accountability sink - the same ChatGPT that caused plenty of students to fuck up a basic question:

I tried to come up with some kind of fucked-up joke to take the edge off, but I can't think up anything good. What the actual fuck.

Quality sneer in the wild:

Nothing just announced they're enshittifying their phones with AI

But can we do a zero click attack? Can we make Copilot Chat give us the user’s private data if they even look at the pull request page? Yes, we can!

In a YouTube commenter's own words:

“As part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”

There's this magical thing called "commissioning a porn artist" Sammy Boy. I recommend trying it out for once - it gets you an objectively better result than throwing money into a planet-destroying slop machine, and its much cheaper too. You've done nothing but attack the human soul for the past three fucking years, you might as well give an infinitesimal amount of your undeserved billions to one of the millions of artists whose livelihoods you've been murdering.

(Seriously, I feel fucking insulted by this.)

Reddit was still doing NFTs?

I would like to congratulate the SV-brained OP for prompting sneers from his fellow orange site members, whether that be a fellow hackernews calling it "everything wrong with the current flavor of Ai in a single post/product", or someone openly tearing this shit apart:

You turned talking to Santa into a subscription service.

You are part of the problem. You are part of the thing everyone hates about technology in 2025.

This is a bad product.

Examples of such goods are public roads or public libraries or services or other goods of a communal nature.

This is literally railing against the concept of altruism, kill this license with hammers (and sickles)

To provide some good news for this week, the Fediverse is reporting a spike in users (thanks to David Gerard for finding this):

Whilst accurate fedi stats are pretty difficult to get, I'm inclined to believe the influx is genuine - after the CEO Meltdown on Bluesky, its clear people are jumping ship.