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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 31 minutes ago

I know full well you're being sarcastic, but my answer is an emphatic "NO". I feel like I'm gonna need a lobotomy to get this hypothetical out my head now.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

New Ed Zitron, giving exact numbers for how much money Cursor and Anthropic have lit on fire and continuing to shed light on the AI industry's ability to incinerate revenue.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

To lightly paraphrase Yahtzee Croshaw:

Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant hype-mongering cockbags.

This is the second time this rancid idea has been put forward, and its just as morally bankrupt as the first.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

How do you even get to the point that you think that’s something you want to advertise?

Man's spent several years and shitloads of cash destroying his public image (and probably his brain) via slop bots, I suspect he's getting desperate to prove his LLM booster turn wasn't a career-ruining blunder

(He's also probably lost the ability to tell good work from bad work as well - that's a universal quality among slop advocates, as Gerard has pointed out on multiple occasions)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t think there’s literally any non-shitty tech left with Framework turning fash.

Doing some digging, it seems GNOME's still non-shitty - they've reportedly refused sponsorship money from Framework, to the whining of multiple people online (post is in Russian).

Doesn't change the fact that Framework's dealt a big blow to right-for-repair by doing this, but its something.

EDIT: Just gonna add in something I gotta get off my chest:

Even from a "ruthless capitalist" perspective, Framework's fash turn is pretty baffling to me. They positioned themselves as beacons of right-to-repair, as good guys in tech trying to "fix consumer electronics, one category at a time" - their shit was overtly political from the fucking start. People weren't buying them to get the fastest laptops, or to get the best value for money, they bought them because they believed in their stated mission. Anyone with business sense would've known shilling a fascist's personal Linux "distro" would've presented a severe risk to Framework's brand.

Exactly how Nirav got blindsided by this shit, I genuinely don't understand. Considering his response to the backlash involved "aPoLiTiCaL" "bIg TeNt" blather and publicly farming compassion from Twitter fash, its probably because he's an outright fascist himself and assumed everyone else around him shared his utterly rancid views.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

"Don't rely on random oracles and spirits when running a military campaign, you fool, you moron." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War (paraphrased)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Words of wisdom from Baldur Bjarnason (mostly repeated from his Basecamp post-mortem):

We know we’re reaching the late stages of a bubble when we start to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to, we’re a silent majority you see”, but the truth is that what you believe in private doesn’t matter. All that matter is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did

Considering a recent example where AI called someone a terrorist for opposing genocide, its something that definitely bears repeating.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago

Found a quality sneer in the wild, taking aim at vibe-coded "websites"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

I tried to come up with some kind of fucked-up joke to take the edge off, but I can't think up anything good. What the actual fuck.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
88 comments fedilink
 

In case you haven't heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about "[creating] a big tent" for open source".

If you've got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should've been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Introducing the Forklift Certified License (aria.dog)
 

A well-done mockery of the state of open-source, with a solid parody license as a bonus.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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The melancholy of history rhyming - Baldur Bjarnason on the fallout of AI (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
 

New blog entry from Baldur, comparing the Icelandic banking bubble and its fallout to the current AI bubble and its ongoing effects.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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You no longer need JavaScript: a showcase of CSS's power (lyra.horse)
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We should rethink how we teach people to code (deadsimpletech.com)
 

Another excellent piece from Iris Meredith - strongly recommend reading if you want an idea of how to un-fuck software as a field.

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