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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    years ago on a trip to nyc, I popped in at the aws loft. they had a sort of sign-in thing where you had to provide email address, where ofc I provided a catchall (because I figured it was a slurper). why do I tell this mini tale? oh, you know, just sorta got reminded of it:

    Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:22:05 +0000
    From: Amazon Web Services <aws-marketing-email-replies@amazon.com>
    To: <snip>
    Subject: Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?
    

    (e: once again lost the lemmy formatting war)

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      Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

      Hell yeah!

      Iā€™m gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.

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        thereā€™s no way you did that without consulting copilot or at least ChatGPT. thank you sam altman for finally enabling me to capitalize whole words in my editor!

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          ā€¦this just made me wonder what quotient of all these promptfondlers and promptfans are people whoā€™ve just never really been able to express emotion (for whatever reason (there are many possible causes, this ainā€™t a judgement about that)), whoā€™ve found the promptsā€™ effusive supportive ā€œyes, andā€-ness to be the first bit of permission they ever got to express

          and now my brain hurts because that thought is cursed as fuck

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          yes, i actually never learned how to capitalize properly, they told me to use capslock and shift, but that makes all the letters come out small still. thanks chatgpt.

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            my IDE, notepad.exe, didnā€™t support capitalizing words until they added copilot to it. so therefore qed editors couldnā€™t do that without LLMs. computer science is so easy!

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              For a moment I misread your post and had to check notepadplusplus for AI integration. Donā€™t scare me like that

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                fortunately, notepad++ hasnā€™t (yet) enshittified. itā€™s fucking weird we canā€™t say the same about the original though

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                  Iā€™d argue that you cannot say basic notepad has enshittified, as it always was quite shit. That is why 9 out of 10 dentists recommend notepad++

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                    thereā€™s a difference between ā€œbarebonesā€[0] and this shit

                    [0] - I will grant you that notepad used to be abysmal about handling unicode in the before time, but itā€™s been less-fucked since at least XP or so iirc