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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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[-] JFranek@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Simon Willison writes a fawning blog post about the new "Claude skills" (which are basically files with additional instructions for specific tasks for the bot to use)

How does he decide to demonstrate these awesome new capabilities?

By making a completely trash, seizure inducing GIF...

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

He even admits it's garbage. How do you even get to the point that you think that's something you want to advertise? Even the big slop monger companies manage to cherry pick their demos.

Just felt like I got an aneurysm there.

(in unrelated things, first)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

So anybody else noticing regular outages here today or was it just me?

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[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago
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[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

noticed someone like "comments are lazy! never use them! write better code!"

A:

  • I'm paid for doing the job, I'm not paid to be not lazy.
  • comments are fucking useful
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[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Watched a debate between Emily M. Bender and Sébastien Bubeck


an OpenAI researcher


from March. As usual, Dr. Bender fucking rules. Bubeck struck me as an idiot and kind of an ass.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Guys, it's a problem that GenPop thinks "AI" is useless, because that means they will deny the inevitable coming existence of the Evil Robot God and make it harder to stop it

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W2dTrfTsGtFiwG5hM/origins-and-dangers-of-future-ai-capability-denial

The whole thing has to be read to be believed. But there are some fun nuggets:

  • saying that an evil robot god is coming is Rational. Doubting that is a conspiracy theory
  • slagging flat-earthers on LW is truly the pot calling the kettle black
  • "I can imagine a world where AI becomes extremely good at flipping burgers or driving cars well before it learns how to write software or detect cancer. In that case, I think it's a lot harder to deny its achievements. But in our world, a lot of AI's greatest achievements take context to understand, like protein folding or playing board games." - yeah sure buddy all the pro board game players are quaking in their boots
[-] rook@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

I can imagine a world where AI becomes extremely good at flipping burgers or driving cars well before it learns how to write software or […] protein folding or playing board games

That’s because despite Moravec’s paradox being noted down in the 80s (y’know, the last ai winter) there’s still a certain kind of asshole who thinks that flipping burgers is an easy task performed by stupid people but playing go is somehow the height of human intellect, despite 40+ years of evidence to the contrary.

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

Crypto Investor Proposes 450-Foot Statue of Greek God on Alcatraz Island is a story making the rounds in the press lately and aaaaaah I hate it. I'd say something more coherent than that but it's already given me quite a headache.

He has a personal website as well as a website for his stupid statue idea. Both of which are buggy / ugly -- apparently after saving $450 million for a dumb statue he has none left for good website coding.

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[-] erewok@fosstodon.org 7 points 11 months ago

@BlueMonday1984

Wow. What a statement:

"At the end of the day, Omarchy is a developer vanity project with marketing polish. A beautifully themed, slightly dangerous, over-engineered dotfile bomb."

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

why is aweful systemes broken today? does it depend on aws somehow?

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dont know the exact details, but there now is a fork from the popular doom engine gzDoom called, UZDoom, because the initial dev came out retirement out of nowhere and started to vibe code, causing all the others to quit.

More here https://zdoom.org/news#p80996

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

Level design, color palette, continuity, assets and physics by a bowl of salvia

[-] corbin@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Hey now, at least the bowl of salvia has a theme, predictable effects, immersive sensations, and the ability to make people feel emotions.

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