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  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • Pay no attention to ChatGPT, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke.

    yeah ok

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • lightly used thinkpads are the classic choice for this — IT departments buy high spec ones then dump them for cheap a few years later in surplus sales or on eBay, and there are usually repair manuals and spare parts readily available. usually you can type the specific model and generation into a search and get a wiki page or at least a couple blog posts reporting how well they’re supported under linux, and Lenovo seems to intentionally do very well on compatibility since Linux compatibility is a nice checkbox for an enterprise laptop to have. just be careful you don’t get bamboozled into buying any of Lenovo’s consumer laptops, since they tend to be a fair bit cheaper and don’t have the same compatibility guarantees, repairability, or ample spare parts availability.

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

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  • you know, I shouldn't be surprised by the extremely toxic lead developer to prompt enthusiast pipeline, but... slopcode in gzDoom of all things? fucking why?

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

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  • uggggh yep sorry, I meant to deploy some changes that would mitigate this a couple nights ago but had a bunch of things crop up. I’ll do my best to work it in tonight!

    some specifics for the changes to expect:

    • iocaine finally
    • some better nginx settings to kill likely scraper connections faster

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

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  • today in I fucking called it fedora aka mostly red hat has decided to allow slop code in a way that violates even their utterly mid stated principles around the tech

    if you’re downstream from any fedora packages (and I don’t know the scope of this policy so it might be safe to consider anything owned by red hat in general to be tainted — yes I realize most of us are downstream from a bunch of red hat shit) it might be time to evaluate an alternative if available

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

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  • of course the organization I know primarily for platforming fascists and astroturfing on YouTube was secretly an even worse grift and somehow tied in with Yarvin, why wouldn’t it be

    given that Rossmann’s at the head of this thing too, I’m starting to regret not taking GrapheneOS (who, notably, were also a target for this grift) seriously when they said Rossmann’s involved in a bunch of terrible shit. the right to repair deserves a better figurehead.

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • sometimes crime pizza is fucking fantastic! they just let somebody’s grandpa cook and consider more expensive ingredients an investment in their cover. same idea as Capone’s soup kitchens but much easier to hide money with

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

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  • well there you have it

    bitter winter adult it is

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

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  • nah sorry about that, the scrapers took the opportunity to knock us offline again so I did a little bit of impromptu maintenance to make us more rugged against the same type of failure in the future

    the next work I do around this will be significantly more planned because it’ll be iocaine

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • I mean, search has always been built on some kind of LLM. That’s how you convert a query into a list of page-results.

    no it fucking hasn’t. the stemming and page ranking algorithms used in traditional search have absolutely nothing to do with LLMs.

    shit, neither stemming nor PageRank as originally defined even have a machine learning component. here’s postgres’ full text search suite, which literally converts a textual query into a list of results (sans page ranking, which is out of scope for a database) in a manner suitable for a production search engine, utterly without any machine learning or other stochastic crap.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • what an unpleasant asshat

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • if you post a thread about intolerable dickheads, the most intolerable dickheads on Lemmy will post some shit like “intolerable dickhead checking in, how fucking dare you”

    it’s like catnip for the Reddit-brained, and by catnip I mean meth

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • like moths to a flame

    So long as you keep your bullshit detector well-maintained, check the sources—and actually use an AI that cites it’s sources—I see nothing wrong with them. The tech is still in its infancy; it’ll improve with time.

    fuck off asshat

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

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  • fresh openwashed proprietary license hell just (well as of 2 years ago, but I’m sneering at it now) dropped:

    Harmful free-riding is the sort of free-riding that leads to the free-rider problem

    […]

    Examples of such goods are public roads or public libraries or services or other goods of a communal nature. Free riders are a problem for common pool resources because they may overuse it by not paying for the good (either directly through fees or tolls or indirectly through taxes).

    from the fucking asshats who made Sentry proprietary under the BUSL but wanted an even more nonsensical license:

    Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the Business Source License (BSL or BUSL)

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

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  • hyprland is not fascist. Ladybird being fascist is IMO very debatable. But on the whole, the idea of having your OS itself tell you not to use software for political reason is not going to work in our favor and, if done in an hyperbolic way like this, it will make the left look really dumb

    this charlie kirk saga is teaching me that the left-wing community is roughly just as bad as the right-wing one when it comes to fact-checking and not providing convenient but uncertain possibilities as correct

    it’s really weird how this asshole needs us to believe fascists aren’t fascist and keeps going out of his way to talk about how dumb the left is, isn’t it.

    for anyone wondering what the rest of the toxicity in the Wayland ecosystem that isn’t hyprland looks like, it’s dickheads like this controlling every conversation and technical decision. if you dig into the accounts this dickhead interacts with, you’ll see plenty of KDE and GNOME profiles clapping along to this shit. Wayland isn’t the way it is by accident.

  • Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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  • fsck

    cringe

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

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  • Tangara is an open source project made by a fediverse hardware hacker with contributions from other fediverse personalities. it’s reputedly pretty good, though all the reviews I’ve seen are from other fediverse posters so it may be worth looking at some independent reviews to confirm it’s not just homegrown optimism.

    at the risk of going open source reply guy and making a recommendation you can’t follow up on, I’ve had a lot of success with Jellyfin as a media library/local streaming host and the beta version of Jellyfin as an app that lets me stream FLACs on my local network and seamlessly download them onto my phone. a VPN or a Jellyfin library on a VPS can let you stream your stuff almost anywhere in much higher quality than Spotify.

    I don’t own a Tangara though I do want one, and I’m fairly sure they don’t support the Jellyfin API yet, but if you end up missing a more Spotify-style listening experience then it might be worth inquiring if there’s any Jellyfin client projects in progress.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • I collected some mastodon links so you know roughly what to look for:

    • here’s a game developer unable to do window positioning, multi-monitor, display type detection, hi-DPI… in portable ways on Wayland. window positioning in particular bites game developers hard, and is still unfixed for, gonna be honest, horseshit security reasons.
    • this entire thread is kind of an excellent summary
    • screen recording on Wayland sucks, and what’s interesting about that thread is the smug person replying gets it (to my memory) wrong, portals for screen recording are a hack
    • in fact here’s the post where Ariadne told me I was wrong about portals; it’s also a good starting point if you want to see what protocol discussions look like
    • here’s one of the jwz threads out of many

    in conclusion: how dare I. don’t I know these are just poor, mostly corporate-backed volunteers

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  • this is exactly how I look

    yes I transform into a car

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

    mas.to /@zzt/115272477801664683
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    the Amaranth hardware description language

    amaranth-lang.org
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    Integrated Tech Solutions, by Aesop Rock

    aesoprock.bandcamp.com /album/integrated-tech-solutions
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    A Tour of Nix: an interactive tutorial for the Nix language in your browser

    nixcloud.io /tour/
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    the suckless.org devs seem to like posting Nazi dogwhistles

    oldbytes.space /@mos_8502/110976282525925946
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    Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly

    meow.social /@crumbcake/110945263876918871
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    Urbit 2.0 just dropped

    archive.ph /e4jIl
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    won’t anyone think of corporate hacker culture

    news.ycombinator.com /item