Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems (awful.systems)

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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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[-] flaviat@awful.systems 24 points 2 weeks ago

rsyslog goes "AI first", for what reason? no one knows.

Opening ipython greeted me with this: "Tip: IPython 9.0+ has hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions."

I wish open source projects would stop doing this.

[-] nightsky@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

rsyslog goes “AI first”

what

Thanks for the "from now on stay away from this forever" warning. Reading that blog post is almost surreal ("how AI is shaping the future of logging"), I have to remind myself it's a syslog daemon.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

I would've stan'd syslog-ng but they've also been pulling some fuckery with docs again lately that's making me anxious, so I'm very :|||||

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago

Potential hot take: AI is gonna kill open source

Between sucking up a lot of funding that would otherwise go to FOSS projects, DDOSing FOSS infrastructure through mass scraping, and undermining FOSS licenses through mass code theft, the bubble has done plenty of damage to the FOSS movement - damage I'm not sure it can recover from.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago

that and deluge of fake bug reports

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

The deluge of fake bug reports is definitely something I should have noted as well, since that directly damages FOSS' capacity to find and fix bugs.

Baldur Bjanason has predicted that FOSS is at risk of being hit by "a vicious cycle leading to collapse", and security is a major part of his hypothesised cycle:

Declining surplus and burnout leads to maintainers increasingly stepping back from their projects.

Many of these projects either bitrot serious bugs or get taken over by malicious actors who are highly motivated because they can’t relay on pervasive memory bugs anymore for exploits.

OSS increasingly gets a reputation (deserved or not) for being unsafe and unreliable.

That decline in users leads to even more maintainers stepping back.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago

yeah but have you considered how much it's worth that gramma can vibecode a todo app in seconds now???

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don't know if LLMs will kill OSS, but they sure are a kick-in-the-dick

[-] yellowcake@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

I remember popping into IRC or a mailing list to ask subsystem questions to learn from the sources themselves how something works (or should work). Depending who what and where definitely had differing experiences but overall I felt like there was typically a helpful person on the other side. Nowadays I fear the slop will make people a lot less willing to help when they are overwhelmed with AI generated garbage patches or mails losing some of the rose-tinted charm of open source.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

It's extremely annoying everywhere. GitHub's updates were about AI for so fucking long that I stopped reading them, which means I now miss actually useful stuff until someone informs me of it months later.

For example, did you know GitHub Actions now has really good free ARM runners? It's amazing! I love it! Shame GitHub only bother's to tell me about their revolutionary features of "please spam me with useless PRs" and... make a pong game? What? Why would I want this?

[-] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

ugh, why would i want a summary of a pull request? the whole point of reviewing a pull request is checking the details to make sure it's not missing something important or doing something wrong.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

thescream.tiff

[-] aio@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

the announcement post is obviously LLM-generated as well

[-] funbreaker@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favorite static site generator, Marmite, is now making Special Accomodations for AI bros by making a context file? The dev is also making all of his PRs with Claude.

Anyone have any recommendations for replacements?

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Vegemite?

I'll get my coat.

[-] flaviat@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know static site generators, but I took a look at your site and the text doesn't render! The font file appears to not be good. Also sorry for having to move to another software.

[-] funbreaker@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I'm working on it! Hopefully it'll be legible sometime this week.

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