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antifuchs

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

    I will not talk with a chatbotI do not want it while I shop

    I do not want it on Windows X-boxI do not want it in Firefox

    I do not want it in my houseI do not want it on my mouseI do not want it here or thereI do not want it anywhere.

    I do not want AI and SpamI do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but it’s not easy if you don’t already have money and connections.

    If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Yeah, one is tempted to search for a historical throughline here, an axis if you will

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • It’s only real fascism if the dev runs around the streets of Rome carrying a bundle of sticks, come on.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • So they made an AI restaurant! It has a manifesto!

    It’s… a printer for QR codes. That a guy who is reallly not equipped for sticking QR codes to bowls has to peel and stick onto bowls. And then they get filled by hilariously imprecise cereal dispensers.

    They’re building an empire, yall.

    (Via Jonty)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • Oh my god, The Guardian with the sneer:

    Take a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman’s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person’s appeal. Please come home, Sheila – we’re all worried sick and we just want you back.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • They sell adapters so you can attach dewalt batteries to your computronium fantasy.

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Good to know that she still has space on her war crime scorecard

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The question on getting paid might give credence to the rumors that they’re running out of money and won’t make it (user-growth wise) as an ad platform. Which, lol and also lmao.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Yup, exactly. The chatbot, no matter how helpful, exists in a context of dark patterned web design, incredibly bad resource usage and theft. Its purpose is to make the customer’s question go away, so not even the fanatics are interested.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Been tangentially involved in a discussion about how much LLMs have improved in the past year (I don’t care), but now that same space has a discussion of how annoying the stupid pop-up chat boxes are on websites. Don’t know what the problem is, they’ve gotten so much better in the past year?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Oh lol, I thought his name sounded familiar and yup, he was a concern troll in a Hackerspace I was in, some 12 years ago.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • These are great recs. You can definitely find good sci-fi out of America as long as you pick from authors that aren’t white, straight or cis. Marginalized people have a really good sense of the world (no doubt because they need it to survive)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I mean, of course they are. Perfect culture fit, both projects.