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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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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

can't wait to see what fresh horrors this shit unleases

[-] mii@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Fuck. The higher ups at my workplace are currently utterly Claude-brained to the point it makes you think they’re getting their salaries from Anthropic. I am like 80% sure this shit will be on my table when I’m back from vacation in two weeks.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

sorry for the jumpscare while you’re on holiday :)

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

ugh cybersecurity is already a fucking nightmare i should have braced myself

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wouldn't you just love some snakeoil sauce on your snakeoil sandwich? imagine how good it'll go with that snakeoil cocktail we've given you, on the house!

(which, ofc, is a limited-size cocktail. only 30ml! enough to get a feel for our snakeoil! but also it's only 10ml/day. license levels. you understand, I'm sure.)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Considering the quality of your average LLM, and the quality of the promptfondlers who use them, I expect this will result in a lot of serious security vulnerabilities and broken projects.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Considering how bad these things are at math, see below, and how important math is for cryptography, see any textbook on it, this will be !!fun!!.

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