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TechTakes @awful.systems

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

  • Big brain: this ai stuff isn’t going away, maybe I should invest in defense contractors that’ll outfit the US’s invasion of Taiwan…

    Considering Recent Events™, anyone outfitting America's gonna be making plenty off a war in Venezuela before the year ends.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

  • Alternate (likely harebrained) idea: sell the fediverse as a national security thing, and try to get a defence contract out of it

    Reducing government/military reliance on tech corps would reduce the leverage they (and their CEOs) have over them, reducing the risk of, say, a repeat of that time Elon Musk fucked over Ukraine).

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    I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people's data and sell it to advertisers), and I'm pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.

  • Main thing I knew Karl for is losing a defamation lawsuit to vexatious litigant par excellence Billy Mitchell, after he falsely blamed Billy for driving speedrun YouTuber Apollo Legend to kill himself, refused to retract his claims despite a complete lack of evidence, then misrepresented the lawsuit as being over Billy's well-substantiated cheating allegations whilst raising money on GoFundMe.

    Jobst's past as a pick-up artist (plus some racist Discord posts from him) would resurface in the wake of his loss, which goes some way to explain why the anti-woke shit went "unnoticed".

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

  • The monorail salespeople at Checkmarx have (allegedly) discovered a new exploit for code extruders.

    The "attack", titled "Lies in the Loop", involves taking advantage of human-in-the-loop """safeguards""" to create fake dialogue prompts, thus tricking vibe-coders into running malicious code.

  • In the case of loitering munitions (also known as kamikaze drones, or suicide drones), you'd be correct - by design, they're intended to crash into their target before blowing them up. Some reportedly do have recovery options built-in, but that's only to avoid wasting them if they go unused.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025

    NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Master of Fine Arts in Software

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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    Zig migrates from GitHub to Codeberg

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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    Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

    NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Introducing the Forklift Certified License

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025