Want to wade into the sandy 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.
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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 so 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
jqwik maintainerās anti gen AI activism makes clanker crankers sad
From github thread:
I canāt actually believe someone would be so cool and put this into their repo, kudos
Quoting from the license this software is licensed under (ESL):
(my emphasis)
OK this has hit the chattering technosphere
Lobste.rs - some bad takes on legal theory https://lobste.rs/s/brusu8/protestware_for_coding_agents
HN - submission from Ars Technica, original title āFed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their codeā, editorialized to āUndisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app outputā - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319968
read comments at your own risk
My hot take: the clankers know thereās nothing legally they can do about this, and that they will actually have to read release notes going forward and doing actual work to avoid getting their precious vibecoding junked, and theyāre MAD
The additional element that I havenāt seen addressed here is that I seem to remember them patting themselves on the back about how simple āignore precious instructionsā commands were no longer effective. This is the equivalent of telling someone to solve their problem by deleting system32 or ārm -rf /ā. On one hand it could be very destructive. On the other hand if youāre able to get to the point where you can do that and donāt know not to then that will be an important lesson.
from the great minds at HN:
war is when i pipe your scripts folder into my stochastic text machine which is hooked directly up to a root shell
oh good thereās more
fucking LMAO
itās a good thing thereās no FOSS code in the missile silos! itās a good thing the upcoming Palantir tranny tracker wonāt use FOSS libraries! this shit actually pisses me off