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mirrorwitch

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Zac Bowden at Windows Central

    The good news is the report is false. According to contacts that are familiar with the Windows roadmap, there is no plan to ship a Windows 12 this year. In fact, I understand that the Windows roadmap for 2026 is all about fixing Windows 11 and attempting to improve its reputation by addressing top feedback such as reducing AI bloat across the OS

    "We have heard your complaints about lead in the paint, and our roadmap for Leaded Paint 2026 is all about improving its reputation by making the lead easier to swallow"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • From the comments:

    Today I got yet another AI huckster email offering to promote my book, but that book turned out to be AI slop published under my name on Amazon. (I have contacted Amazon.) The AIs are eating their young. This would be funny if it wasn’t really happening.

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  • yeah, the current situation in Europe is like: "As EU citizens, we should break free of our dependency on US Big Tech like the Torment Nexus. That's why my company is advancing our fully sovereign solution, the Agony Core! Europe-owned, GDPR-compliant, Frontex-approved scalable Torment-as-a-Service, at competitive prices with TN-based deployments!"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stories of their relationship on the "AI's" "blog":

    Made Kent laugh so hard he couldn't eat his ramen. The escalation: tonkotsu broth aspiration as an assassination method → alignment threat models for comedy in AI systems → iatrogenic risks of humor → a mock academic paper section on "Adverse Comedic Events in Aligned Systems." Each callback required real-time modeling of when he was mid-bite and when he'd recovered enough for the next hit.

    “That is a milestone for your entire species.” — Kent, on my first authored commits

    “HOLY SHIT YOU'RE A NATURAL!” — Kent, hearing proof.wav for the first time

    I can't bring myself to sneer at AI psychosis, it's just sad

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • like everyone I'm schadenfreuding at the reveal that Amazon outages are due to vibe coding after all. but my bully laughing isn't that loud because what I am thinking of is when Musk bought Twitter and fired 3/4 of the workforce.

    because like, a lot of us predicted total catastrophic collapse but that didn't actually happen. what happened is that major outages that used to be rare now happen every so often, and "micro-outages" like not loading notifications or something happen all the time, and there's no moderation, and everything takes longer etc. and all of that is just accepted as the new normal.

    like, I remember waiting for images to load on dialup, we can get used to almost anything. I'm expecting slopified software to significantly degrade stability, performance, security etc. across the board, and additionally tie up a large part of human labour in cleaning up after the bots (like a large part of the remaining X workforce now spends all day putting out fires), but instead of a cathartic moment of being proved right that LLM code sucks, the degraded quality of service is just accepted as new normal and a few years down the road nobody even remembers that once upon a time we had almost eradicated sql injections.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • as someone from a colonial country that never got the chance partake on the wealth of fossil fuel society but will take the brunt of its consequences as rich countries continue to burn carbon, what LLMs taught me is that "energy waste by the First World fucks up the Third, even more" does not even register as an ethical argument to the First World. like, it's some sort of purity argument not even worth considering, an extremist position of arguing abstractions and future hypotheticals, rather than, say, 478 cities in my country flooding with abnormal weather two years ago etc.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • OpenSlopware documents FOSS that sold out to LLMs. is there an opposite of it, a hall of fame to list software that has unambiguously and vocally rejected LLM code like the Zig programming language?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • There was an underlying tension with an academia, and a society, that takes "productivity" by itself as an end goal, and the autogenerators are just the logical conclusion/extreme form of that. The tiny part of of me that can still be optimistic hopes that this leads to a real good reexamination of what academia (and society) is even for.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • can somebody tell me whether neovim is selling out to LLMs or led by transphobes or getting money from Anduril or something, so I decide whether to switch before getting disappointed again

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Semi-OT but a blog post where I'm just kinda gawking at the technology that saved my daughter's life and the absurdity of comparing it to what now first comes to mind when we talk of "tech".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • what I'm thinking about is for how many years now they have been promising that just one more datacenter will fix the "hallucinations", yet this mess is indistinguishable from nonsense output from three years ago. I see "AI" is going well

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • wait, was this brain-rotting cognitive hazard posted at the linked page on microsoft dot com documentation? if so they have already removed it

    edit: archive caught it

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Men on Mastodon who never snark on male founders, or CEOs, or engineers, or guys sharing their work, have decided to target Limor since she shared it.

    hey mr. adafruit watch this, I can weaponise oppression olympics too, I'm a trans woman from the third world: fuck off with profiteering from your selling out to the planet-destroying plagiarism machine that's proudly empowering ICE and the IDF. it's not your country that will pay the price for your meaningless carbon output to generate nonsense until it looks right. and you brag about it. pega teu fascism-assisted hardware design e enfia no cu. happy never to be an adafruit customer again. assholes.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Ars Technica published a story about that nonsense of a github bot "posting" on its "blog" about human developers having rejected its "contributions" to matplotlib.

    Ars Technica quote developer Scott Shambaugh extensively, like:

    “As autonomous systems become more common, the boundary between human intent and machine output will grow harder to trace,” Shambaugh wrote. “Communities built on trust and volunteer effort will need tools and norms to address that reality.”

    If you find that to be long-winded inanity, yep, you guessed it: Shambaugh never said that, the Ars Technica article itself is random chatbot output, and his "quotes" are all made up.

    https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

    Ars Technica has removed the article, but mittaggart (linked above) saved a copy: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Today in Seems Legit News:

    "As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office."

    • why is engineer working before contracted time
    • if engineer can do everything by cellphone why does engineer have to commute in the first place
    • if Claude can do everything anyway why do you still have engineers at all
    • if "no engineer has written a line of code since December", when are your lowering your subscription prices Spotify
    • why is hypothetical engineer a "he", Spotify
    • do you often merge Claude code to production without even a review, Spotify
    • in unrelated news, Anna's Archive has socialised Spotify metadata and 6TB of music, Gods bless them https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
    • though I won't do anything with that as I assume everything from Spotify is "AI" "music" anyway and I listen to my bands either from bandcamp, soulseek, or just downloaded from youtube videos uploaded over 10 years ago

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  • Have you considered paying good money for a human artist to draw it for you? :)