Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026

8 days ago by BlueMonday1984 to c/techtakes

(The spooks shall soon be upon us.) 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 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.)

Want to wade into the sandy, spooky 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 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. The spooks are well underway.)

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BlueMonday1984 9 points 3 days ago path: 0 26246464, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 16
EFreethought 9 points 2 days ago

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

Now it seems like a lot of meetups are all about AI, and if the topic is not AI, someone brings it up: Can AI do this, did you use AI, etc, etc.

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rhamph 10 points 2 days ago

Years ago I thought, I like writing hobby software but I don’t think I would enjoy it as a career. And so, I do not work (at least directly) in software development.

If only I knew the armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot I was dodging there.

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stevenaleach 4 points 2 days ago

@rhamph @EFreethought For me it was 2005. I was a self-taught occasional programmer and had been running Linux (and occasionally BSD) for a decade by then. And then I found myself as a computer science major in a program that was all Windows focused and E-Commerce focused, and I decided that the computer revolution was over - reduced to appliances and web stores, there was just nothing interesting or new or worthwhile to be created there. I "dropped out" a couple years in.

Twenty-one years later, I'm a part time dishwasher commuting by bicycle and generally have no regrets.

Oh, and I've not purchased or used *any* commercial non-open-source software of any kind since I dropped out... (I had to pay for a Linux copy of Maple for a class once).

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lispi314 0 points 2 days ago

@rhamph @EFreethought I don't think I would enjoy much of anything done for work under capitalism.

Practically everything has to compromise for profitability and exploitation.

That is no way to live or build a society.

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CGM -2 points a day ago

@rhamph @EFreethought I’m glad I retired from professional software development just before LLMs came on the scene. Now I program the old-fashioned way as a hobby.
However I recently was sent an ai-generated report of bugs and vulnerabilities in one of my projects and I have to admit that it is genuinely useful.

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Architeuthis 6 points a day ago

I have to admit that it is genuinely useful.

Cool testimonial bro.

If that was all GenAI was being (aggressively and incessantly) pushed as you probably wouldn't be seeing terms like cognitive surrender and technofeudalism being thrown around as often, and this lemmy instance would still mainly be about dunking on SFBA quasireligious get-smart-quick scams.

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self 3 points a day ago

the fuck was the point of this post

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