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.)
Can I delete the Chrome’s OptGuideOnDeviceModel safely? It’s taking up 4GB
. . .
I also founds mentions of bunch of various flags you can potentially disable to turn the whole feature off, e.g. chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model - but I’ve seen at least 5 other ones mentioned in several sources, with various people claiming for each that they don’t work . . .
Now Chrome can hog your VRAM too. Yay
Don’t worry if you only have 8GB and need the other half for anything, Chrome will probably relinquish it. This is very intelligent, as all the browser has to do is simply load another 4GB file from disk the next time you do anything.
Somehow, HPMoR could have been even worse.
I ruled no intelligence enhancement magic in HPMOR because otherwise it turns into Project Lawful.
Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of instant death potion (known to muggles as cyanide) and force fed it to Harry Potter. He was rewarded with accolades, wealth and fame and lived happily ever after.
Ron reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of potion that makes you talk like a conservative bullshit artist and said “Have you ever heard of Chesterton’s fence, Potter?” Harry, hearing a genetive case proper noun spoken as a part of two word noun phrase suddenly realized he was no longer talking to a strawman of a simpleton. “The burden of proof is in fact on you, the reformer, to first make a strong case for status quo to prove you understand why things are the way they are before you can even begin to challenge the state of things.” Harry was immediately convinced quidditch is good as is and voted Tory twice.
Harry takes a swig and immediately sees the truth: that he is the smartest specialest bestest boy in the universe. He spends the remaining 73 chapters celebrating and gloating about this fact while accomplishing nothing. So the story doesn’t meaningfully change at all.
Harry was immediately convinced quidditch is good as is
Fun fact: the Harry Potter fandom (when it still existed) turned Quidditch into an actual real-life sport back in 2003 (with the first game being played at HP fan-convention Nimbus 2003, fittingly enough).
The sport changed its name to Quadball in 2022, for Extremely Obvious Reasons.
So yes, there are people out there who thought it was good as is. (Mostly.)
Quadball is officially better than any sport that doesn’t let transgender people compete. There I said it.
Granted this is a particularly low bar nowadays.
@BlueMonday1984 @bitofhope fucking dweebs JFC
Heard it has a horrible injury rate, too
@o7___o7 I mean, good?
Paul Campos - The medium is the mob
Discusses the “reverse Flynn effect”, filter bubbles, and infopollution via GenAI
PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work
Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.
Wow highly recommend reading all his comments where he doubles down on how everyone else is in the wrong (for wanting maintainable code that isn’t a legal liability) while he is in the right (for being brave and bold enough to type prompts into an LLM to create code that he won’t stand behind).
It’s almost as if he went in there looking for a fight.
Lool, look at these two quotes next to eachother:
One caveat, though: even if I didn’t type the code myself, I own it — and it’s my responsibility now.
vs.
Beats me. AI decided to do so [write the copyright as someone else] and I didn’t question it.
Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”
The purpose of AI is theft, exhibit ∞
It’s not where I obtained this PR but how.
the inability to follow a through b through c here is….something
Whitehouse AI czar (rightfully) imo pointing out that it’s pretty shit behavior to shout fire in a movie theatre and instead of admitting fault just typing ¯_(ツ)_/¯ in chat
PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE TITLED OUR PREDICTION AI 2027 DIFFERENTLY???
The bailey: AI 2027 😱 The motte: ahem actually we had a footnote that said AI 2030, so we don’t need feel the need to retract/apologize/or slightly edit our fearmongering website.
Let this be an albatross around scoots neck forever lmaou.
Me in 2027 when the AI hasn’t turned me and the rest of ya’ll into corgis yet ;_;
(yes this actually happens in their most likely scenario forecast)
I think we all should be entitled to compensation for the mental anguish.
Mozilla continues to double down on AI, promising to “do for AI what we did for the web” in their latest (probably AI-extruded) blogpost.
In related news, I found a toot thread attributing the current shitfest (and AI’s popularity in general) to “a strong majority of even the actually well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech [getting] their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines”. Where the OP is finding those “well-intentioned, smart leaders”, I do not know.
Hijaking the Mozilla mention to point to https://tabstack.ai/ again, the upcoming Mozilla-branded scraper API for AIs that promises to “stealthily” (their words) bypass captchas. Cos I don’t think enough people have heard of it still.
Checked back in on Framework’s rotting corpse.
The company’s retired their official Discord server (in the Blade Runner sense), about a month after the mod team jumped ship over the company’s fash turn. There’s discussion on the Framework forums about it, too.
Its not the only social media platform they’ve abandoned - they left Bluesky and Mastodon to court fascists on Twitter a while ago.
All the fash stuff is incredibly bad, but I cannot get over this:
I personally found a lot of enjoyment in the Framework discord. The format of a discord server is a lot more useful for chatting and discussion within a community than something like a forum (which seems a little more siloed).
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. EITHER YOU ARE INSANE OR I AM.
Do I even want to know what a Subnautica or a Krafton is?
Okay, quick TL;DR:
Subnautica is a video game made by Unknown Worlds - their first game released in 2018, and the sequel’s been delayed to 2026 after some major development shakeups in July 2025 (namely, Unknown World CEO Ted Gill and co-founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire getting fired)
Krafton, who acquired Unknown Worlds in 2021, are currently being sued by Gill, Cleveland and McGuire. The company stands accused of screwing the three out of $250 mil in bonuses that a release into Early Access would’ve helped them earn.
People also really enjoy Subnautica, it is quite a beloved game.
Adam Mastroianni has the audacity to claim that people don’t seem to join phygs any more, gets clip art from Astral Codex Ten and hosts a vlog for Inkhaven guests https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
Literally every trend he brings up to showcase this cultural stagnation is some combination of aesthetic, nonexistent, or driven by income inequality and a loss of economic security.
An aging population too. Young people commit more violence, use more substances, and get into more accidents. The Boomers still have massive influence on culture even though its not cool to market to them.
My understand that the decline of tobacco use, alcohol use, sex, and pregnancy among youth in the USA are well-established (but how many young US people are sharing naughty texts or photos when before the smartphone they would be making out?)
And isn’t the trans and nonbinary stuff a norm that teh yoofs are enthusiastically breaking while people over 50 fret?
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Super forecasters update timeline by 150% their og forecast.
Fucking dumbasses
Dont worry guys, the alien spaceships from Niburu are taking a bit longer to arrive.
I snorted a bit of my drink
It’s a logarithmic plot to begin with and they still feel the need to make the curve exponential lol.
I’m sure they have a rigorous and objective metric for what coding tasks take how long at what success rate for humans.
will these guys ever get to rainbow-chart levels of galaxy brain or will just be content to fudge some numbers on regular visuals?
This is reminiscent of memestock/buttcoin charts where a new asymptomatic curve is dropped onto the same rather flat graph over and over again.
I look forward to the cultists continuing to update these graphs convinced they are seeing the future of the cosmos as fewer and fewer people pay attention to the fever dreams
As long as line go up then everything is going ok ☺️/s
Hey, I’ve revised my fanfiction, too.
…you know the first time you mentioned this I assumed it was just for the bit but now I’m both impressed and intimidated.
Step 1. Get a silly idea
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Develop the silly idea as seriously as possible for love of the craft
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Continue because it’s cheaper than therapy
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Push yourself to finish because by Gad 2020 needed a counterweight
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Invent a new fantasy setting and rewrite whole chunks because Neil Gaiman went and smegshake ducked himself
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Internet Comment Etiquette: “Fixing the AI Coke Ad” nsfw, happy friday
Saw a video talking about Google officially releasing “nano banana pro” which i regret to inform you is a real product and that the video was not a shitpost.
“Nano banana pro” sounds like a relic of tiki fashion that manages to be racist in a way we have mostly forgotten.
Corey Quinn wrote a spite-driven-dev cli for it - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_im-humbled-to-announce-that-after-launching-activity-7397400805458395137-73Ua
found this sneer-y blog post prompted by some linkedin lunatic posting his “agentic cockpit”
Article I found randomly because… I was trying to add the Psychology Today blog to uBlacklist so I stop seeing their articles lol
It lost me a little towards the end, but it’s heartwarming to imagine a world where tech fascists screaming about the Antichrist have a few* billion dollars less and actual charities have a few more.
*where few = [3, ∞)
I feel like “we’ll just build a world model” is on the same level as saying " we’ll just solve the P vs NP problem."
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How to draw an owl:
- draw some circles. (drawing of circles)
- draw the rest of the fucking owl. (very skillful and detailed drawing of an owl)
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