BlueMonday1984
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
1·19 hours agoAlternate (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).
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
6·3 days agoPike’s blow-up has made it to the red site, and its brought promptfondlers out the woodwork.
(Skyview proxy, for anyone without a Bluesky account)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
51·5 days agoDefaults are pretty good - didn’t need to do much to feel comfortable.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
601·6 days agoyou_were_the_chosen_one.gifI 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.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
6·6 days agoGoogle’s lying machine lies about fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, leading to his concert being cancelled.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•CATGIRL Officially Banned For Cheating!!!English
12·7 days agoMain 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”.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
11·7 days agoStarting this Stubsack off, here’s Baldur Bjarnason lamenting how tech as a community has gone down the shitter.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
6·8 days ago10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
4·9 days agoThe 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.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
4·9 days agoIn 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.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
7·9 days agoTime Extension’s decided to wash their hands of ModRetro after seeing the news. Good call on their part.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
7·10 days agoFor more lighthearted gaming-related news, Capcom fired off a quick sneer, whilst (indirectly) promoting their their latest Mega Man game:

(alt text: “As a reminder for those entering the Mega Man: Dual Override Boss Design Art Contest, please remember the rules posted at bit.ly/MMDORobotMaster. Entrants must follow this account, and please leave the AI to the robots: generative AI is prohibited for this contest.”)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
8·10 days agoa version of [the ModRetro Chromatic] made with “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones”
Obvious moral issues aside, is that even an effective marketing point? Linking yourself to Anduril, whose name is synonymous with war crimes and dead civs, seems like an easy way to drive away customers.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025English
6·12 days agoLarian Studios founder/CEO Swen Vincke is posting through it on Twitter, after the studio’s use of plagiarism machines caused significant backlash (to the shock of everyone except Swen).
This is probably Pivot to AI material.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
6·17 days agoNew edition of AI Killed My Job, focusing on how AI’s fucked the copywriting industry.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
5·18 days agoRemember the flood of offensive Pixaresque slop that happened in 2023? We’re gonna see something similar thanks to this deal for sure.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbotEnglish
8·19 days agoBut this is the military, so it’s not like details matter or lives are on the line if you’re out in the field and get a sheet of instructions that are completely detached from reality.
Its not like the damage to morale this will near-certainly cause will have some knock-on effects, either.
EDIT: “Soldier dissatisfaction” didn’t accurately describe what this plan will do - changed it to “damage to morale”.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
10·19 days agoFound a new and lengthy sneer on Bluesky, mocking the promptfondlers’ gullibility.



Foz Meadows brings a lengthy and merciless sneer straight from the heart, aptly-titled “Against AI”