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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.)

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    It turns out we didn’t need that list of AI-corrupted open source projects after all…

    At this rate it’s actually going to be easier to make a list of projects that don’t have AI…

    Systemd and libuv now on the slop hype train

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      32 minutes ago

      Systemd

      Jesus.

      I’ve been advocating for a hall of fame of projects that explicitly reject LLMs; ctrl+f “Gentoo” on this very comment thread for the few examples I heard about.

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      1 hour ago

      Eh, straight pip with venv and pip-tools for support worked fine anyway.

      As for systemd… time to look at the BSDs? Was Debian among the anti-slop projects? Would be nice if they took an interest in preventing the slopification of one of their core system.

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        1 hour ago

        Different UV! Libuv is the event loop/scheduler that powers node.js. could be a funky new way to compromise a whole bunch of nose applications