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FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
2·vor 3 MonatenI believe in about:config it’s mostly under
browser.ml.browser.ml.chat.enabled => False, browser.ml.enable => False and extensions.ml.enabled => FalseI think are the minimum changes?
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
9·vor 3 MonatenTo what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.
Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust
I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but it’s still rather depressing.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
6·vor 3 MonatenTrump likes AI and they like Trump too much to dislike something he likes.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
7·vor 4 MonatenAs long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.
I’d write something here, but there’s nothing funnier I can say.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile storyEnglish
32·vor 6 MonatenRemoving the profit motive of gambling is exactly prohibition, what???
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
14·vor 6 MonatenPolymarket when faced with the oracle problem: “What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?”
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026English
9·vor 7 MonatenA worldview where one’s worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026English
10·vor 7 Monatenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
7·vor 7 MonatenThe real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they’ve finally burnt out all the good will.
We’ve been begging people for 17 years to understand that reality matters.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
1·vor 9 MonatenCrosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/
Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. “Valentine just got nerfed for me.” What???
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English
1·vor 1 JahrThe truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.
My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.
FredFig@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
0·vor 2 JahrenThe conspiracy theorist who lives in my brain wants to say its intentional to make us more open to blatant cheating as something that’s just a “cost of doing business.” (I swear I saw this phrase a half dozen times in the orange site thread about this)
The earnest part of me tells me no, these guys are just clowns, but I dunno, they can’t all be this dumb right?

Part of the deal you took when you got the billion trillion dollars is that we get to make fun of you for being a sellout, why are they trying to renegotiate now?