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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

Too bad land lines have gone out of fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQYp8zN40g

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey, remember the thing that you said would happen?

https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lujqik6nnc2z

Edit: whoops, looks like we posted at about the same time!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I second kiwix. It's dead easy for managing and making copies of wiki images.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Me, a unique genius, when I navigate to chatgpt dot com to awaken my best friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5jROs3A6F8

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

That Jorge guy is a real piece of shit

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Weird Al impersonator sprinkling Pentium 3's over the corpses as a calling card

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol holy shit

Thank you for your service!

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Intentionally being on Broadway at 1-4 PM on a Sunday is a whole vibe, and that's before considering whatever the fuck this is.

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Democratizing graphic design, Nashville style

Description: genAI artifact depicting guitarist Slash as a cat. This cursed critter is advertising a public appearance by a twitter poster. The event is titled "TURDSTOCK 2025". Also, the cat doesn't appear to be polydactyl, which seems like a missed opportunity tbh.

So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers down in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers down in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Those comments are appalling. good god

Maybe its because I'm descended from hillbilly dirt farmers and so I had an unusually grounded upbringing, but I'm floored that so many educated people can be so lost in cloud cuckoo land.

It feels unreal, or maybe like an out-of-control prank. The sort of thing that drives a man to develop a curly mustache and paint melty clocks.

Part of me still refuses to believe that they're serious.

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago

I heard him say "quantum" and immediately came here looking for fresh-baked sneers

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north (www.reuters.com)
 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence (firstmonday.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

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Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters (web.archive.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
2 comments fedilink
 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital (sfstandard.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets (gizmodo.com)
 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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A Story in Two Pictures, Or Solidity? Why Worry! (wandering.shop)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)

Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:

I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi

"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect

Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:

tldr; got $40k drained just now

i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.

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