Want to wade into the snowy 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.
(December's finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
github produced their ~~annual insights into the state of open source and public software projects~~ barrel of marketing slop, and it's as self-congratulatory as unreadable and completely opaque.
tl;dr: AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI! Agents! AI...
Just one thing that caught my attention:
Only 72.6%? So why the heck are the other almost 30% of devs using it? For funsies? They don't say.
You'd think due to self selection effects most people who wouldn't find using Copilot effective wouldn't use it.
The only way that number makes sense to me is if people were force to use Copilot and... no, wait, that checks out.