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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I almost wanna use some reverse psychology to try and make him stop.

    'hey im from sneerclub and we are loving this please dont stop this strike'

    (I mean he clearly mentally prepped against arguments and even force (and billionaires), but not someone just making fun of him. Of course he prob doesn't know about any of these places and hasn't build us up to Boogeyman status, but imagine it worked)

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  • NoEstuans interius

    Ira vehementi.

    Estuans interius

    Ira vehementi.

    Sephiroth!

    E: Have a snickers you turn into a real Sephiroth when you are hungry.

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  • Slightly related to the 'it is an op' thing, did you look at the history of the wikipedia page for clanker? There were 3 edits to the page before 1 June 2025.

  • Introducing the Forklift Certified License

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  • The User may not use this Work for prejudiced or bigoted purposes, including but not limited to: ... Belgium denialism

    Weird typo there, for the Dutch French border.

    (I mean this as a joke btw, Belgians are super nice in my exp).

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  • It sucks how much time in tech is spend on 'sorry this tool we recommend before suddenly is no longer free, or removed some options (either totally or into the paywall part) so now we will have to look for something else.

    Seen it happen to simple csv editors for example.

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  • Check the guys profile. He took some random remark from Gwern indicating what looks to me like human interest, as some sort of commandment.

    My first instinct was to dismiss him as an oddball—until a friend told me I was dealing with a legend of rationality. I have to admit: I nearly shit myself. His comment got more likes than the post I’d spent years working on.

    Someone with, what, a 152 IQ wanted my accounts of surviving bureaucratic military hell? And I’m the same guy who applies scientific rigor to Pokémon analysis

    (The text is bolded etc in various places which I didn't reproduce)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Another sneer on the subject: https://bsky.app/profile/tef.bsky.social/post/3lz7fdou4uk2y

    "In case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"

    rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

    Followup by somebody else:

    "I posted here about him driving at Le Mans in 2024, and several people told me that he’s disliked and mocked as much in the motorsport community as he is in the tech community."

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Yeah, I figured I would need some web automation script for that, I have looked into them in the past, but never gotten far with it before something else was more important. Still silly that is needed and will hit the servers harder than an API would. Just strange priorities.

    When I looked at 'your interests' in the past it was so incredibly wrong I resisted the urge to update it because I though 'sure if that is what you think is important to me fine'. Gotta make sure the basilisk can't simulate you ;).

    Ratelimits would be the big worry, heard people reached those by just deleting tweets by hand. And the whole like system is broken anyway. If you remove enough of them by hand you get in the situation where tweets show in your list but they do not look like they were liked by that account. (I always had the suspicion the whole likes system, which people got mad over a lot is badly implemented anyway, and that explains the weirdness people saw, a thing this story seems to confirm).

    I also heard blocklists put a high strain on the twitter so not going to look into removing that. (Not sure I can even find the list anymore anyway or at least a complete list, mine always stopped after 100 accounts or so, while I block a few more than that).

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  • Wonder if, esp considering the DHH situations this is sort of a nazi bar style takeover. Where the people who don't want to make a fuss let in the nice but iffy people who then go mask off, and let the rest in. (The thing the far right accused the left of doing, in a bit of projections). But I know nothing about the politics of anybody involved, could also just be a regular hostile takeover.

    (Doesn't feel like one just looking at the rubycentral bsky account for a second though. They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks (also a link to an email article of them, which just feels weird)).

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  • I just don't want to be used and surveilled. Still need to get this shirt

    Haha Standplaats moves fast.

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  • Doing my screaming into the void offtopic thing, but the Dutch parliament, consisting of the the liberal VVD all the far right (PVV, FVP, JA21) and half the extreme christian (but not far) right (SGP the reformed/protestants (*)) , and the conspiratorial partially far right farmers party (BBB) accepted a motion (also important to note that these are not that meaningful, nothing has changed legally) by the far right to declare antifa a terrorist organization.

    Congrats to everybody here now being terrorists in the eyes of the Dutch gov. Ah the joys of living in an American colony.

    *: Even less relevant to this sub, but perhaps interesting, did you know we have a so called bible belt in the Netherlands? See this wiki page and look at the voting results graph. (while there is no direct graph our second very christian party (The CU who often also votes with them (but didn't this time because they are not that extreme) also generally gets their votes from this area. What makes this downright weird is that these voters are basically from our rural areas, but on the line that historically splits between protestantism and catholicism. But all these votes are more from the protestant side. Some sociologists prob could/can have written some interesting papers on that. So it can't just be explained by pillarisation. Hope you enjoyed my random scream into the void which I tried to make somewhat interesting by talking about parts of our weird political situation.

    (Bonus detail, the prot/cath split line is also the line of 'do they celebrate carnival really enthusiastically or not, for which the rule is, if you want a real party go to Maastricht (sorry link in Dutch), as it combines several styles of carnaval with its own thing (there are also some small dressup particularities, but as I don't know them specifically. Great fun if it is your thing (or so I have been told)). Anyway the further south the better (we have different names for the carnaval styles even, 'Bourgondisch carnaval' vs 'Rijnlands carnaval' for example))

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  • That reminds me I still need to wipe my reddit an twitter archives. Wonder if wiping it all in one go would cause more trouble for them, or if deleting it slowly (or overwriting with random words in the case of reddit) causes more changes in the datasets and messes with them more like that.

  • Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say

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  • Weird story perhaps. Bit I also once created a sort of 'rate your fellow students' system as a joke. (It was more a 'had done interesting things' point system). Only it was created because we were trying to convince someone we had this at a gathering, and I tosses together some nicknames (obv I wasn't going to use real names) and points randomly. And the moment I noticed that people outside of the direct people involved (still members of the same social circle) took it too seriously and came up to me to tell me private things to increase their score, I changed the code to just return 'ha, this was all just a joke created to convince X we had done it'. Not my proudest moment, but this is how I'd think people should behave if it is just a joke and if the 'its a prank' isnt just an excuse.

    This also caused me to become quit the anti 'rate/record your fellow students/social circle' systems btw. It is annoying how often the idea returns, and how much you have to argue this is a dumb idea.

    So in short, if it is just a prank, why is it still up when it is hurting people.

  • Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

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  • Hiring your own 'satanists' to protest your own event is quite embarrassing tbh. (Is that a The Misfits cosplayer? Somebody has not kept up with Danzig latest escapades (he sold a black sun t-shirt apparently)).

  • Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

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  • Also nazis, famous for not having very big grandiose ideas.

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  • Could be, not sure the science fiction authors thought this much about it. (Or if the thing I was musing about is even real and not just a coincidence that I read a few works in which it is a thing). Certainly seems likely that this sort of science is where the idea came from.

    Moravec's Paradox

    Had totally forgotten the name of that (Being better at remembering random meme stuff but not names of concepts like this, or a lot of names in general is a curse, also a source of imposter syndrome). But I recall having read the wikipedia page of that before. (Moravec also was the guy who thought of bush robots, wonder if that idea survived the more recent developments of nanotechnology.

    Rodney brooks wiki page on AI was amusing

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  • Thanks! I should have looked up the whole quote, but I just made a quick reply I knew I had worded it badly and I had it wrong, but just didn't do anything about it. My bad.

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  • Ow yeah the way it used in this story also made sense but not in a computer science way. Just felt a bit how Gibson famously had never used a modem before he wrote his cyberpunk series.