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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Starting this Stubsack off, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI's Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.

They've already bombed commercial data centres before, so I'm inclined to believe this isn't an empty threat.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 (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 so 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 5th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

On the one hand, Yud's vision of AI doomsday is specifically "AI turns sentient/superintelligent and kills us all because reasons", not "Humanity wipes itself out because they trusted lying machines".

On the other hand, the absence of sentience/superintelligence hasn't stopped AI from causing untold damage anyways, as the past two to three years can attest.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

That, and plenty of FOSS software's been infected with AI-extruded "code". And plenty of software engineers got one-tapped by the slop bots.

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James Lambert - How I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 (www.youtube.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th April 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the ~~snowy~~ 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 so 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 29th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DeviantArt decided to make an "AI-powered" "video creator" (roughly a day before Sora got shitcanned), because its not like dA can make things worse by doubling-down on that shit. Special highlight goes to the opening of that announcement, which asks:

What if your art could (quite literally) move?

Have these people ever heard of animation

(h/t @krakelwok on Bluesky)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

NVidia's announced an AI filter for PC gaming, calling it "AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games" and hyping the ever-loving shit out of it.

The results are, unsurprisingly, complete garbage, and its already getting ripped apart by the gaming press.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

New post from Iris Meredith: Tech's empiricism problem

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 4 weeks ago

OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Starting this Stubsack off, I've found another FOSS project that hit the digital krokodil - ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the books3 guy

Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you're not being too mean in the slightest.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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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Pyrite64 - N64 Engine & Editor [Release] (www.youtube.com)
 

Fun fact: there's a dedicated game engine for Nintendo 64 homebrew now. This is only its first release, but its looking pretty promising.

The engine's available on GitHub, if you wanna tinker with it.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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. If you're wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)

(EDIT: Changed "29th February" to "1st March" - its not a leap year)

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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot [Phoronix] (www.phoronix.com)
 

GitHub's having another major departure - Linux distro Gentoo is starting its migration to Codeberg, with code theft from Microsoft's Copilot as a major reason why.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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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