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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


computers were a mistake
Gentoo is firmly against AI contributions as well. NetBSD calls AI code ātaintedā, while FreeBSD hasnāt been as direct yet but isnāt accepting anything major.
QEMU, while not an OS, has rejected AI slop too. Curl also famously is against AI gen. So we have some hope in the systems world with these few major pieces of software.
Iām actually tempted to move to NetBSD on those grounds alone, though I did notice their āAIā policy is
and I really donāt like the energy of that fine print clause, but still, better than what Debian is going with, and I always had a soft spot for NetBSD anywayā¦
I generally read stuff like that netbsd policy as āplease ask one of our ancient, grumpy, busy and impatient grognards, who hate people in general and you in particular, to say nice things about your codeā.
I guess you can only draw useful conclusions if anyone actually clears that particular obstacle.
Linus: All those years of screaming at developers for subpar code quality and yet doesnāt use that energy for literal slop