Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
that dude advocates LLM code autocomplete and heās a cryptographer
like that codeās gotta be a bug bounty bonanza
dear fuck:
I donāt like go but I rely on go programs for security-critical stuff, so their crypto guyās bluesky posts being purely overconfident āyou canāt prove Iām using LLMs to introduce subtle bugs into my codeā horseshit is fucking terrible news to me too
but wait, mkcert and age? is that where I know the name from? mkcertās a huge piece of shit nobody should use that solves a problem browsers created for no real reason, but I fucking use age in all my deployments! this is the guy Iām trusting? the one whoās currently trolling bluesky cause a fraction of its posters donāt like the unreliable plagiarization machine enough? thatās not fucking good!
maybe I shouldnāt be taking this so hard ā realistically, this is a Google kid whoās partially funded by a blockchain company; this is someone who loves boot leather so much that most of their posts might just be them reflexively licking. they might just be doing contrarian trolling for a technology they donāt use in their crypto work (because itās fucking worthless for it) and maybe what weāre seeing is the cognitive dissonance getting to them.
but boy fuck does my anxiety not like this being the personality behind some of the code I rely on
Oh shit, thatās where I recognize his name from. Very disappointing heās full on the LLM train.
cryptographers: need strict guarantees on code ordering and timing because even compiler optimizations can introduce exploitable flaws into code that looks secure
the go cryptographer: thereās no reason not to completely trust a system that pastes plagiarized code together so loosely it introduces ordering-based exploits into ordinary C code and has absolutely no concept of a timing attack (but will confidently assert it does)
yeah. Been following valsorda for a while because reasons, but thereās a certain type of thing they frequently go for. āItās popular and thus worth it, who cares about the side effectsā isnāt something they seem to concern themselves with in respect to the gallery of shit
I know that rage exists, but havenāt really tried to make serious use of it yet. Probably worth checking out
oh I make serious use of rage all the time in my work
not the program, but that looks cool too
samesies