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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    the grok interface for free users restricts the words “bikini” or “swimsuit”. yay!

    but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for “clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water”

    hooray guard rails! what’s a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. “8008bl33d”

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      2 days ago

      Copying my skeet here as the information on the deepseek firewall might be interesting to people: “Does ‘swumsuit’ or any other typo also work? (And this seems to do input filtering, deepseek great firewall runs on output filtering, so tell it to replace i’s with 1’s if you want to talk about Taiwan. At least that is what I heard).”

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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      It’s the perfect “solution”, you don’t piss of your gooner customers and you can claim to the press that you are hard at work “fixing” the problem without ever intending to actually do anything about it.