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jaschop

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • I was looking into a public sector job opening, running clouds for schools, and just found out that my state recently launched a chatbot for schools. But it's made in EU and safe and stuff! (It's an on-premise GPT-5)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • I suppose you can go for a Jolla, if you're willing to bet that SailfishOS will finally work. I'll let y'all know in a year or so.

  • Instander will stop working..

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  • FediLab is an explicitly general Fediverse app, though it's not designed for lemmy. There's also plenty of native cross-fedi support, as all activities are translated into ActivityPub events.

    Frankly I'd recommend a separate app for Lemmy-likes and Mastodon-likes. The difference between following communities and following accounts seems to result in a lot of jank, if crammed into one app.

  • A failrule to communicate

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  • Neurotypicals most likely (it's on page 2)

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    Biology Mistake

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  • Did this mf just casually whip out a lowercase omega for a shitpost?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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  • I'm gonna leave here my idea, that an essential aspect of why GenAI is bad is that it is designed to extrude media that fits common human communication channels. This makes it perfect to choke out human-to-human communication over those channels, preventing knowledge exchange and social connection.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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  • So, Copilot for VSCode apparently got hit with an 8.8 CVE in November for, well, doing Copilot stuff. (RCE if you clone a strange repo and promptfondle it.)

    Fixes were allegedly released on Nov 12th, but I can't find anything in the Changelog on what those changes were, and how they would prevent Copilot from doing, well, Copilot stuff. (Although I may not be ITSec-savvy enough to know where such information would be found.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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  • I scolled around the "ludwell institute" a bit for fun. Seems like a pretty professional opinion piece/social media content operation run by one person as far as I can tell. I read one article, where they lionized a jailed BitCoin Mixer developer. Another one seems to be hyped for Ethereum for some reason.

    Seems like pretty unreflected "I make money by having this opinion" stuff. They lead with reasonable stuff about using privacy-respecting settings or tools, but the ultimate solution seems to be becoming OpSec paranoid and using Tor and Crypto.

  • Debian rule

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  • Checks out.

    I am a dad who makes that sound and also use debian.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • I was looking into pepping up my CV and was poking around the 2024 CCC style guide when this abomination hit my retinas:

    Use the provided LUTs to tint your images in the predefined scheme. You can load them with your graphics software of choice. Ask your friendly AI overlord if you don’t know how.

    After being provided with such reproducible instructions, I was of course poking around blog posts for half an hour to finagle this thing. Adding insult to injury: poking around the LUT files shows they were made by Affinity Studio (a freeware pumped out by Canva) instead of the true scotsman's choice: the G'MIC command line tool! (In fairness, there doesn't seem to be a FOSS option with a usable GUI for this task. The G'MIC GIMP plugin is sort of okay, but it can't parse this particular file.)

  • Session Chat, decentralized messaging app, from Switzerland 🇨🇭

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  • Wow, the first project to have found a use case for cryptocurrency!

    Just kidding. This is trash. I don't care about fancy privacy features if the backend is tied to the Ethereum scam machine. Use Signal or Matrix.

  • Wero Tracker — European Payment Adoption Progress

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  • Okay, Wero does not have a web application at the moment. Valid criticism.

  • Wero Tracker — European Payment Adoption Progress

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  • I think it's great that you use privacy-enabling tech, and developing these is valuable in my eyes. But nothing about your setup screams "mass adoption" to me. I'll spare everyone the mobile OS adoption charts, and browser adoption isn't looking better.

    You just can't put out an on-par mobile service nowadays without an app in Play and Apple's store. I don't like it, but it is what it is.

  • Wero Tracker — European Payment Adoption Progress

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  • This is a non-argument, even though it made it onto Wikipedia. A mass-adopted Taler-based payment system would also require mobile support, which would be gatekept by Google/Apple.

    Breaking oligopolist control over the mobile ecosystem is a separate battle and applies to both Wero & Taler.

    That's not to say that Wero couldn't do more in this regard, e.g. publish to F-Droid.

  • brule

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  • bro, tits, or ass?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • I think I'm with Haunted's intuition in that I don't really buy code generation. (As in automatic code generation.) My understanding was you build a thing that takes some config and poops out code that does certain behaviour. But could you not build a thing instead, that does the behaviour directly?

    I know people who worked on a system like that, and maybe there's niches where it makes sense. Just seems like it was a SW architecture fad 20 years ago, and some systems are locked into that know. It doesn't seem like the pinnacle of engineering to me.

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • (Those are my 2 reference points, if I'm ignorant of some cool org let me know.)

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • The era of useful Silicon Valley Non-Profits seems to be fizzling out. I wonder how long Signal is going to hold out...

  • Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements

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  • Stewardship is under the Linux Foundation Europe, not FSF. Though it doesn't matter as much, since the Servo steering committee is independent.