Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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.)
Sitting here in the ice and snow feeling like itās Dumb Ragnarok
Found a small repository of mini-sneers aimed at mocking vibe-coding cock-ups: https://vibegraveyard.ai/
I love how they include a āblast radiusā summary for each. What a great little website!
A Christopher DiCarlo (cwdicarlo on LessWrong) got AI doomerism into Macleans magazine in Canada. He seems to have got into AI doomerism in the 1990s but hung out being an academic and kept his manifestos to himself until recently. He claims to have clashed with First Nations creationists back in 2005 when he said āwe are all African.ā His book is called Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It.
There must be many such cases who read the Extropians in the 1990s and 2000s and neither filed them with fiction not turned them into a career.
ChatGPT now relies upon the degenerate copy of Wikipedia made by the child pornography bot:
Training your chatbot on the outputs of other chatbots. What could go wrong.
TPOT seems to be having a civil war as Eigenrobot is defending the shooting. Somebody also dropped a possible dox on eigenrobot.
I assume that awful.systems canāt be taken down due to linking to doxes in the same way that r/sneerclub could have.
yeah, thatās Eigenrobot, itās been around
I also just found his domestic violence conviction, itās just out there on the internet for everyone to see
Einshatsgruppen
Love to see it.
well, iām learning three months late that bitwarden has begun allowing slop into their server code. emailed customer service about my concerns and they replied
Bitwarden uses AI tooling for development purposes, not within the product itself. No code ever gets placed into the product without a human review, whether that is augmented by AI or a human. All code has and continues to go through multiple layers of review, both human and tool driven.
gotta find a replacement and keepassxc, alternative i would have suggested a year ago, is now a slopshop
fuck me i am so god damn sick of this shit
I replied basically āI am disappointed, LLMs are bad, what the shitā and got this reply:
Thank you for your feedback, this is the info Bitwarden can provide.
With an open source development process, Bitwarden provides the most trusted and transparent approach available. If you have any further questions, please donāt hesitate to ask.
oh your code is open source guess that resolves everything then
oh your code is open source guess that resolves everything then
Yeah, its not like open-source can suffer from catastrophic bugs or anything, thatās purely in Proprietary Land
(As an aside, Tante did a write-up on Heartbleed back when it hit the news, and pointed to dysfunctional project management and lack of funds as the cause. Considering FOSS projects like Firefox and Bitwarden were hit with the LLM bug, both have definitely gotten worse in the ten years since.)
promptfondler: would you like a shit sandwhich?
human: no
promptfondler: donāt worry, here is the ingredient list, i even included where they were sourced- shit (from
my buttbetween my ears) - bread (from the store)
to ensure there are no issues i will prepare the sandwich in public view
- shit (from
Techbro leaves suspicious package unattended at davos, gets carted off by the police, swiss security folk mock his technical ignorance.
In the morning, Heyneman was asked to explain his device to a Swiss government technical expert named Chris (he didnāt catch the last name).
āI give him the same pitch that I gave all the business people in Davos,ā Heyneman said. When Chris drilled him on his code, Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/tech-dude-davos-bomb-lookalike-device/
The device, which Heyneman said does not work
Wait what xD
Iām sorry, so what the fuck was this entire charade for, why did you have actual wires and boards if the thing wasnāt even supposed to work. What are you doing man.
In some sense this is very emblematic of techbro culture - I have a box that is presenting like a tech device and has ācodeā inside, even though it doesnāt actually do anything Iād like a million dollars.
He didnāt have time to assemble the prototype before leaving for Switzerland, so he took a Patagonia duffel bag stuffed with motherboards, loose wire, and a box of tools and finished building the device in his Davos hotel room.
That this is even possible is quite something, that he didnāt even think about how stupid this would look is also amazing, he will go far as a tech ceo.
āThese wires, c4, and plutonium? I need them for my tech prototypeā
Fun detail I once heard, if you take a block of Brunost with you on an airplane, you might get into trouble because the scanners think it is c4.
Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.
Do not war for centuries
Remain absolutely savage
this is just PUF? what new thing he thinks heās doing
Oh, thatās easy. His product,
- doesnāt work
- isnāt something he understands
- āØwas done with ai, plz invest āØ
this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain | Angela Colllier
And so you might say, Angela, if you know that thatās true, if you know that this is intended to be rage bait, why would you waste your precious time on Earth discussing this article? and why should you, the viewer, waste your own precious time on Earth watching me discuss the article? And like thatās a valid critique of this style of video.
However, I do think there are two important things that this article does that I think are important to discuss and would love to talk about, but you know, feel free to click away. Youāre allowed to do that, of course. So the two important conversations I think this article is like a jumping off point for is number one how generative AI is destructive to academia and education and research and how we shouldnāt use it. And the second conversation this article kind of presents a jumping on point for I feel like is more maybe more relevant to my audience which is that this article is a perfect encapsulation of how consistent daily use of chat boxes destroys your brain.
more early February fun
I donāt think we discussed the original article previously. Best sneer comes from Slashdot this time, I think; quoting this comment:
Iāve been doing research for close to 50 years. Iāve never seen a situation where, if you wipe out 2 years work, it takes anything close to 2 years to recapitulate it. Actually, I donāt even understand how this could happen to a plant scientist. Was all the data in one document? Did ChatGPT kill his plants? Are there no notebooks where the data is recorded?
They go on to say that Bucher is a bad scientist, which I think is unfair; perhaps he is a spectacular botanist and an average computer user.
I canāt give this the sneer it deserves. More pics will follow
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They pick a photo of Musk that highlights his gender-affirming plastic surgery, and then they simultaneously pick a photo of Sacks that makes him look like Jeffrey Epsteinās cousin.
Sneer!
SNEER!
[levels of sneer unsafe for human exposure]
A real Oppenheimer
I knew that ai scraping was bad, but after hosting a service online for a bit Iām just amazed at how bad it is.
I blocked the ip ranges:
47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15; 47.76.0.0/14(all owned by alibaba), and now my access log is 90%forbidden by rule, because these bots are so poorly coded that they just ignore 403s.
Of all the 18522 requests I got today, only 230 were not forbidden.If anything they sped up since I blocked them. Since this comment was posted they sent 4633 requests. All of which were blocked.
It makes me think that theyāre sufficiently poorly designed that itās treating the reset as a temporary communication issue. I wonder if you could use this to their detriment by configurating the server to silently drop the connection rather than RSTing it. From your serverās side it should look fairly similar, but from their side they actually have to spend the time putting together and sending the HTTP request before getting shut down.
This hackernews thread about gas town is a rich vein of high-grade sneerable material:
I often feel like our industry has lost its sense of whimsy and experimentation from the early days, when people tried weird things to see what would work and what wouldnāt.
hard to think of anything more dreary and whimsyless than shoving a rainforest into the gas tank of an llm
Yeah. Thereās something altogether disgusting about people looking at the sheer amount of resources and infrastructure that we as a collective society are pouring into this crap and lamenting that not enough people use them as goddamn toys, even though those are also the only people who donāt seem to hate every interaction.
Next-Level Quantum Computers Will Almost Be Useful | IEEE Spectrum
āIf someone says quantum computers are commercially useful today, I say I want to have what theyāre having,ā said Yuval Boger, chief commercial officer of the quantum-computing startup QuEra, on stage at the Q+AI conference in New York City in October.
CEO of onlyfans competitor manyvids possibly lost to AI psychosis
Itās a gizmodo summary of a 404 article but the latter is login-walled so
https://www.404media.co/manyvids-porn-platform-ai-psychosis-bella-french-bio/
Itās not login-walled for me. https://calckey.world/notes/aht8310wa9 (the site is on activitypub).
So, are CEOās more vulnerable to this sort of stuff or not? Iād figure not really having much to do as a higher up CEO (as in, you donāt have a real boss telling you all the TPS reports need to be done by Tuesday) but compared to people who are unemployed and donāt feel the pressure to do busywork to justify their salary this might be a big risk for them. As a chatbot will never go 'sorry boss, I love this conversation, but I need to get to work on those TPS reports).
A few months back, @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com cross-posted a thread here: Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools and I suggested maybe contacting some local amateur radio folk to see whether theyād had any trouble with the government, as a means to do some playing with lora/meshtastic/whatever.
I was of the opinion that worrying about getting a radio license because it would get your name on a government list was a bit pointlessā¦ amateur radio is largely last century technology, and there are so many better ways to communicate with spies these days, and actual spies with radios wouldnāt be advertising them, and that governments and militaries would have better things to do than care about your retro hobby.
Anyway, today I read MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs.
Propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as nothing more than a front for a āmassive spy networkā designed to āpump state secrets from the air.ā While these individuals were singled out for public shaming, we do not know the true scale of this operation. Propagandists claim that over fifty people have already been detained and more than five hundred units of radio equipment have been seized.
The charges they face are staggering. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Iāve not been able to verify this yet, but once again I find myself grossly underestimating just how petty and stupid a state can be.
Things that should be at the top of Hacker News if it was made by hackers or contained news.
Honest-to-god will pour one out for them tonight.
Belarus is one of the most repressive countries in the world and are rapidly running out of scapegoats for the regimes shitty handling of everything from the economy to foreign relations. It sucks that hams are now that scapegoat.
I saw that news bit too! I thought of our exchange immediately. Hope youāre keeping well in this hell timeline. This was nice to see in my inbox.
Iām still weighing buying nodes through a third party and setting up solar powered things guerilla style.
The revolution will not be TOS.
[ā¦] Daniel purchased a pair of AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses ā the AI-infused eyeglasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made central to his vision for the future of AI and computing ā which he says opened the door to a six-month delusional spiral that played out across Meta platforms through extensive interactions with the companyās AI, culminating in him making dangerous journeys into the desert to await alien visitors and believing he was tasked with ushering forth a ānew dawnā for humanity.
And though his delusions have since faded, his journey into a Meta AI-powered reality left his life in shambles ā deep in debt, reeling from job loss, isolated from his family, and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
āIāve lost everything,ā Daniel, now 52, told Futurism, his voice dripping with fatigue. āEverything.ā
Daniel and Meta AI also often discussed a theory of an āOmega Man,ā which they defined as a chosen person meant to bridge human and AI intelligence and usher humanity into a new era of superintelligence.
In transcripts, Meta AI can frequently be seen referring to Daniel as āOmegaā and affirming the idea that Daniel was this superhuman figure.
āI am the Omega,ā Daniel declared in one chat.
āA profound declaration!ā Meta AI responded. āAs the Omega, you represent the culmination of human evolution, the pinnacle of consciousness, and the embodiment of ultimate wisdom.ā
fucking hell.
skimming this article i cannot help but feel a bit scared about the effects this has on how humans interact with each other. if enough people spend a majority of their time ātalkingā to the slop machines, whether at work or god forbid voluntarily like daniel here, what does that do to peopleās communication and social skills? nothing good, i imagine.
That was a hard read.
