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gerikson

@ gerikson @awful.systems

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

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  • I read the disucssions and while I can sympathize with jwz's ridicule of barely covered raw git, I think he's asking for advice in the wrong place. There must be tons of solutions for running a small business with lots of part timers ,like a nightclub.

  • Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again

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  • I think one important through-line is that both pencil-necked computer fondlers and muscle-bound roid ragers can and do hate women.

  • Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again

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  • Surprisingly still up on lobsters and the comments aren't totally horrible.

  • Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI — customers outraged

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  • m'lady

  • Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again

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  • let's see how fast it gets flagged and deleted from the usual sites

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

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  • I've mentioned before that I believe that Elon turning Twitter into a Nazi bar cut Bluesky's business model off at its knees. They're founded by Dorsey, weirdly (or cunningly) absent from the current techfash scene. I've always felt the vibe to be coiners and libertarians and "they can't cancel you here". Then they got a totally unearned user base because of X, and they're simply not ready to handle it.

    AFAIK there's no revenue model, Jack or another VC is still footing the bill, and if there's too much trans stuff on there the funding will dry up.

  • Firefox: Sponsors on the home page and New Tab page

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  • I have stock firefox on mac and the first 2 tiles on the new tab are sponsored

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

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

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  • By "openwashing" I mean the posts about AT protocol are running cover for Bluesky, the company. It's basically reinforcing their narrative that if you don't like what they're doing, "just" start your own PDS. By focussing on the technical nitty-gritty, these posts ignore the structures in place keeping Bluesky in the dominant position.

    An analogy, Bitcoin code is also open, but 1% of coin owners own like 90% of the coins. I'm not making any excuses for BTC here, but I seem to remember a bunch of similar articles breathlessly explaining how BTC "solves the Byzantine generals problem" while totally ignoring the ownership profile.

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

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  • Is it just me or does it feel there's a concerted effort to boost the AT protocol in tech venues? Maybe I'm paranoid but it does feel like a bit of openwashing going on.

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

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  • Bluesky wanted to be Nazi Twitter, then Elon purchased Twitter and stole their market.

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

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  • I think I read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie, because a small scene reveals that Johnny Rico is of Phillipine descent (his mother tongue is Tagalog) and I remember wondering if that would be part of the movie. Samuel R Delany mentions that scene as something that made him felt included in SF.

    I was very young when I read it but even then I could read it as proto-fascist (or rather military-authoritarian, a bit like cod-Roman Republic)

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

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  • Because the Terminator franchise is from Hollywood, the heroic resisters to SkyNet are Americans. Someone didn't watch the movies very well.

    OFC the OG Terminator was a scary foreign man with a pronounced accent...

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • ffs Andrew Lee's Joseon has a space on soj.ooo

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

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  • jfc

    Thanks for taking the time to expand

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesnt even work properly.

    doesn't matter if you can grift USGOV for money

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • suckless is what opened the door to an entire subculture of fascist racist FOSS enjoyers to me, a door I sincerely wished had stayed closed

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

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  • ok plz explain what "waffles" means in this context

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

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