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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • I saw that! fortunately once iocaine is configured it seems to just work, but it's also very much software that kicks and screams the entire way there. in my case the problem wasn't even nginx-related, I just typoed the config section for the request handler and it silently defaulted to the mode where it returns garbage for every incoming request.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • nope, you’ve been getting caught in the fallout from us not having this yet. the scrapers have been so intense they’ve been crashing the instance repeatedly.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • things are happening

    I'm still kicking the tires but if this works then there might be a bit of downtime soon to make sure scrapers see more of this

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • oh wow you’re just like this all the time huh

    no wonder you came in here to scream for a disgusting chicken sandwich incorrect one of my posters about their use of a common English phrase and post yet more LLM apologia barely disguised as critique

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • yeah nah we don’t need this centrist AI booster crap here but thanks anyway

    But from all sides really, also wild to just claim they don’t know what a zero day is and that’s just made up.

    some motherfuckers really see a security vendor claim a zero day can’t be exploited at scale for a local application, ignoring gigantic classes of vulnerability enabled by misconfiguration, combined exploits, or malware, and go “woof, maybe it’s true! they do make my favorite password manager after all, who are you to say they’re wrong” as a bunch of Russians walk off with their bank info

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • you like 80% of the claptrap keepassxc posts? no wonder you came into this kfc asking for a double down. we haven’t even served those since, like, the mid-2010s

    the project’s sudden commitment to code review excellence is the exact same shit every other project pulls when there’s justified backlash in response to a policy that allows, and therefore encourages, slop code. that keepassxc keeps officially posting through it, defending code-oriented LLMs as “generally accurate”, and fucking up and showing that they don’t understand their own threat model, is the double down. I don’t particularly give a fuck that they’ve remained remarkably consistent in their policy of accepting garbage into their codebase, or that their blog’s response to the backlash has been, golly gosh, so measured! if this is how their team conceptualizes risks to a piece of software whose breach would constitute a catastrophic event.

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • “blackjack”? kfcs don’t allow gambling, what the fuck are you on about

    And it might be debatable whether that’s a risky game.

    debate the merits of slop code in a password manager elsewhere, thx

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • it’s only a double down if it’s a kfc sandwich where the bread is replaced by chicken. i see no chicken sandwich here, alleged posters, unlike in fuck ai where it’s chicken sandwiches all day

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • itt some fucker thinks slop code in a security-critical project is justifiable

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • froztbyte’s criticism crossed the line by a bit for a couple of admins who weighed in, and they’ve been warned to ease up. reporting a post like that isn’t bannable; we’ve got more context for a report like that than we do for some rando doing a drive-by report for a tone rule that doesn’t exist, for example.

    blue misused the report system in a way that wasn’t accidental or incidental, and we felt the best course of action was a cooling off period. given that they’re welcome back in less than 4 days, I’d prefer to leave it at that.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • the public modlog, linked from the instance sidebar:

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

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  • Your claim sounds reasonable to me,

    quiz show “wrong” buzzer, poster disappears down a trapdoor

  • 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