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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • The "we'll save some bucks by removing physical knobs and pose this as futuristic by making some vital functions only accessible via multiple levels of menus on a touchscreen" thing is the worst and should be banned.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • Technically superman is a more correct translation for that word (similarly to how superscript is the thing beyond the script)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • All roads lead down from the local maximum

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

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  • It's a treasure trove of hilariously bad takes.

    There's nothing intrinsically valuable about art requiring a lot of work to be produced. It's better that we can do it with a prompt now in 5 seconds

    Now I need some eye bleach. I can't tell anymore if they are trolling or their brains are fully rotten.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • Digressing: The irony is that it's a language with one of the best standard libraries out there. Wanna run a http reverse proxy with TLS cross compiled for a different os? No problem!

    Many times I used it only because of that despite it being a worse language.

  • WhatsApp status and channels now showing ads: Here's how to hide and manage them

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  • It's easy, just more to Signal

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • What do you mean by decline? Years ago I've been involved in a local ruby community in Poland and even back then his takes were considered unhinged.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • Huh, what happened? Would you mind linking some more details?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • Depends on how they are used. They are extremely useful when they add context that is otherwise not present in the code, but way too often I see people simply restating what the code does in the comment. That's not very useful and can become confusing if the code later gets updated without updating the associated comment.

  • How does it make you feel when people use LLMs like search engines and then hand you extruded text as though it is factual? Have you seen IRL or just on boards?

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  • Tell them to use yahoo for the second opinion

  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • And it's shit

  • PoC Exploit Released for Critical OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)

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  • Yet still exploiting it on 64-bit systems is impractical

  • Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing ads

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  • ublock is cheaper and actually works

  • Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

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  • And nothing of value was lost

  • DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs

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  • That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

  • DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs

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  • Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

  • DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs

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  • Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too