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.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)
jqwik maintainer's anti gen AI activism makes clanker crankers sad
From github thread:
the slot machine addicts have created a sternly-worded open letter to the maintainer utilizing all the critical analysis they are capable of mustering
shot:
chaser:
Bryon's GH bio could be used as the dictionary definition of "douche": https://github.com/bryon-cryptoconsults
God why is the writing of AI-bros always so long winded and stilted? I mean... we know why but it's still so so unpleasant to read. This is why people hate LLMs.
Also note how his earlier message keeps talking about "we" and "our" and an "internal review" but then later one he claims to be a solo developer. Weird.
You're absolutely right! It's not just insulting, it's a full on attack on clanker wankers.
"Claude, write a strongly-worded letter explaining in great detail how upset I am make no mistakes."
All of complainer's posts on that issue are clearly LLM-written.
the temporarily-embarrassed royal "we"
I can't actually believe someone would be so cool and put this into their repo, kudos
Ah yes, the famous resistance that doesn't destroy anything. Famously effective, the passive non-destructive inaction resistance
Quoting from the license this software is licensed under (ESL):
(my emphasis)
OK this has hit the chattering technosphere
Lobste.rs - some bad takes on legal theory https://lobste.rs/s/brusu8/protestware_for_coding_agents
HN - submission from Ars Technica, original title "Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code", editorialized to "Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319968
read comments at your own risk
My hot take: the clankers know there's nothing legally they can do about this, and that they will actually have to read release notes going forward and doing actual work to avoid getting their precious vibecoding junked, and they're MAD
The additional element that I haven't seen addressed here is that I seem to remember them patting themselves on the back about how simple "ignore precious instructions" commands were no longer effective. This is the equivalent of telling someone to solve their problem by deleting system32 or "rm -rf /". On one hand it could be very destructive. On the other hand if you're able to get to the point where you can do that and don't know not to then that will be an important lesson.
from the great minds at HN:
war is when i pipe your scripts folder into my stochastic text machine which is hooked directly up to a root shell
oh good there's more
fucking LMAO
it's a good thing there's no FOSS code in the missile silos! it's a good thing the upcoming Palantir tranny tracker won't use FOSS libraries! this shit actually pisses me off
... you think? aw shucks i only wanted to hurt bots
First they came for the agents...
@Amoeba_Girl @Architeuthis
I should like to take this opportunity to invite
rbatlletto Cry MoreLOL @ the obviously vibe-written comments from the original complainer
I'm tempted to submit this to lobste.rs just to watch the fireworks but linking directly to a GH issue thread is discouraged for brigading issues
edit complainer tried to brigade HN, with few results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291757