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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • uggh, I dragged my feet too much on giving our instance more disk and the database fell over

    it seems to have recovered alright, but please check if there's any weirdness or missing posts around the time when it went down

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • thank you! I feel terrible I haven’t been posting as much here as life’s been finding a way to consistently disrupt my writing and admining time, but mastodon’s format is pretty good for turning disrupted, high-anxiety writing into threads

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • they can! the repository itself is all CC0 public domain, so everything taken from it will adopt the license of whichever project it ends up in.

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • I’m filing a bug for myself to clarify in the README.md that the provided poisoning instructions likely aren’t very effective, and that this is partially on purpose. LLM companies are known to filter out (via either regex or sometimes zero weighting) instructions that are known to trip up their chatbots, and they seem to do it very quickly. there’s even posts on our instance for simple logic puzzles that the chatbot screwed up, that quickly got updated with a response for that specific phrasing of the question.

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • I’ve considered writing up some Claude “skills” to redefine the most common repo commands to echo a string to the terminal and exit instead

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • I’ll take a bug to rephrase the section as “conforming tools shouldn’t process AAA-NO-SLOP.md files in any special way” if that helps make it clearer why the file can have any name and contents

    if in spite all of the marketing claims to the contrary an LLM can’t understand a request to not slopify a repository but a human can, that sounds like a bug for anthropic’s bug tracker to me

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • ooh good idea! maybe a couple mentions of spirals too, for flavor

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • thank you!

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • possibly! I figured capital-A was most likely to sort first across the wide variety of code forges and operating systems so I went with that, but better names are possible

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • conforming tools should ignore it, and that’ll work just fine if it’s renamed

    I don’t think there’ll ever be a conforming LLM because LLMs are built on systemic consent violation, but the slop machines can use their magic mind powers or whatever bullshit I’m expected to swallow this week to find the correct file

    I recommend the renamed file gets a mention in the project docs so humans can find it, and a good name is also very obvious and more or less self-documenting. I’ve seen some projects use .noai which I like too, but unfortunately that’s very likely to get lost in a directory listing, and locally ls won’t display it at all without -a.

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • I started from a vague memory of something that used to screw up LLMs (the grandma trick) and wrote whatever sounded fun from there

    there’s absolutely no guarantees it’ll do anything to an LLM as spending money on tokens to test it felt gross, but it’s a hopefully memorable starting point for people to grow on

    in the very worst case it gives the humans reading the repo a laugh (always worth it), fills a bit of the context window of visiting LLMs with nonsense, gives visiting slop coders absolutely nothing to work with, and acts like a canary (if you’re viewing a diff that changes these files and you weren’t expecting changes, someone using an LLM slipped up)

  • AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

  • correct

    also the AAA represents the screaming that happens every time I see slop

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    AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs

    codeberg.org /awful-systems/AAA-NO-SLOP.md

  • @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

  • it’s amazing how once the LLM cooks these guys they all start spewing the same crap

    version 3.5 is going to “raise the bar enormously with regards to rsync security”

    did rsync previously have a particularly flawed security model? it sounds like it had a couple of CVEs that this asshole decided to slop out fixes for, alongside breaking a bunch of parts of rsync. maybe somebody showed him mythos (which is fucking terrible at finding vulnerabilities when it’s not backed by a bunch of invisible labor doing the actual work or just finding bugs that originated by letting Claude or some other LLM loose on the codebase) and that pushed him over the edge?

  • Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged

  • did you mistake this for a fucking tiktok video?

  • Google is replacing search results with only the AI

  • I have anti-recommendations:

    • kagi is a piece of shit run by a bigot who loves AI and anyone paying for it because they hate AI is embarrassing themselves. their fans will probably find and raid this thread because suppressing critique about the awful search engine you pay for monthly is a normal thing to do.
    • ecosia is a piece of shit doing extremely obvious greenwashing, and none of their claims about their LLM somehow magically being green pass muster. I don’t think ecosia has rabid fans, it’s pretty much for the kind of asshole who wants to feel good about the damage they’re doing to the planet.

    best of luck with the recommendations

  • Somehow, I've been chosen to speak at my company's internal meeting on whether or not AI integration has actually been useful to us. I want feedback on my thoughts + inputs from you people too.

  • it’s utterly normal to come back 2 months after shitting up a bunch of lemmy threads with terrible fucking posts to have a weird tantrum over the downvotes you got

    anyway thanks for coming back for your ban you fucking weirdo

  • I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.

  • I’m glad you’re able to join us. what you went through — both the acts themselves as well as the Rationalists defending each other and ostracizing you afterwards — breaks my heart. I have just a couple of questions for now:

    • are you ok with links to your previous writing on this topic being posted in this thread? this isn’t to establish proof (it’s already abundantly clear that you’re telling the truth, and we know the Rationalists have a history with both committing and systematically excusing SA), it’s just to provide further detail to anyone who wants it.
    • is there anything our community can do to help make it easier to discuss what happened?

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

  • k

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

  • believe it or not we’ve read the posts and context in question and come to the conclusion that the use of LLMs for summarizing posts and confirming a moderation decision still obviously fucking sucks and obviously represents algorithmic bias in a way we don’t want on any instance we federate with

    I know you kids won’t read this but uhhh if you come at us with an attack on our ability to read, all that’s going to happen is I’m going to tell you to fuck yourself before I ban you

  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    instance changelog: iocaine, metrics, and the treat

  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    iocaine better metrics and eventually a treat

    scheduled downtime: November 12 at 8 AM GMT

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

    awful.systems /post/6153095
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    now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

    mas.to /@zzt/115272477801664683
  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    instance changelog

    Lemmy 0.19.12, NixOS 25.05, Postgres 16

    codeberg.org /awful-systems/awful-systems
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    testing

    we made it to lemmy 0.19.12 but federation feels off

  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    lemmy upgrade finally

    scheduled downtime: August 25 at 7 AM GMT

  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    instance changelog

    pict-rs 0.5, NixOS 24.11, 100GB more storage

  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    image cache & storage upgrades

    scheduled downtime: January 24 at 8 AM GMT

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    an introduction to gibberish.awful.systems

    gibberish.awful.systems /self/a-guide-to-this-gibberish
  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    update: email, backups, and writefreely

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers

    izzys.casa /2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something

    fromjason.xyz /p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
  • important instance shit @awful.systems
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    infra: email notifications might be a bit spotty

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    the Humane AI Pin is fucked

    www.theverge.com /2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Nvidia caught ingesting as much of YouTube as possible

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/08/05/nvidia-caught-ingesting-as-much-of-youtube-as-possible/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    404media: Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI

    www.404media.co /nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-model-cosmos-project/
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    Andreessen Horowitz and the uwuness of little technofascism

    a16z.com /the-little-tech-agenda/
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    Lix: a Nix evaluator fork focused on correctness and doing right by its community

    lix.systems