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hey while we’re here: can someone explain to me how what I’m ...

2026-10-30T10:22:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…7lhs
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hey while we’re here: can someone explain to me how what I’m doing is supposedly purity culture, whatever the fuck that means, but libreoffice doing a “and yet you use mastodon which uses LLMs for development” and graphene doing a “and yet you use iOS” isn’t purity culture?

like I get that this shit must hit hard if all you do all day is talk to a chatbot or a coworker you’re trying to blame for the shit work that came from your chatbot, but believe it or not I have interiority

I won’t ever host mastodon, and luckily I administrate a fedi server that doesn’t touch LLMs. the mastodon server software containing slop code is one damn good reason to not use it.

I am, believe it or not, actively trying to get off of iOS due to the AI horseshit, the surveillance “features”, and the corresponding sharp drop in quality. graphene going slop really fucked that one up.

my values are consistent, not that they really have to be. I can fucking hate something and still be forced to use it.

good riddance, get the fuck off my feed

2026-10-30T09:56:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…5kgp
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good riddance, get the fuck off my feed

I’m sorry for the confusion of ideas that led you to believe ...

2026-10-30T09:55:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…e8za
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I’m sorry for the confusion of ideas that led you to believe being anti-AI meant you could get away with being a centrist and excusing just a little bit of fuckery when your friends do it

most of us have more of a backbone than that, and I don’t think I could sit with myself if I allowed just a bit of bad shit when it mattered

and yes, if we’re doing deeper analysis than a tantrum, the php patch was bad and the response to the vulnerability was worse. it was amplified and exploited by Anthropic and a handful of other AI corporations. that’s a fact you can look up. you won’t though, because you’re popular and you’ve Had Enough. and because now you have an excuse to call yourself anti-AI and do fucking nothing.

if you take infosec seriously, do better than this if you take ...

2026-10-30T09:51:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…3luk
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if you take infosec seriously, do better than this

if you take programming seriously in general, do better than this

having standards isn’t purity. having standards is necessary in order to do engineering or security at all. we have to do better than this.

I do love being accused of doing purity culture as if purity were ...

2026-10-30T09:50:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…69h5
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I do love being accused of doing purity culture as if purity were worse than the known and documented damages of the thing we oppose. as if we were just looking for an excuse to attack people and we didn’t have a reason for any of it.

I do love the idea that we have to prove the other guys are lying, again because they’re in the popular crowd, when the thing they did is use the lying machine and lie about it. I love having to prove that when we’re in year 5? 6? of these dickheads using their horrid toys in the most damaging ways possible.

I do love having to field yet another tantrum in response to a factual situation. we weren’t nice about it, sure. if you want nice, go elsewhere. we won’t bullshit you to be nice, because what’s happening it’s important and it’s important you know what’s up without a filter. what’s happening is horrible.

I do legitimately love the sour grapes from the most blocked fuckers in existence because no you aren’t anti-AI, you’re just centrist trash.

mmhmm I do love when some popular dickhead decides we’ve Gone ...

2026-10-30T09:44:46Z

mmhmm

I do love when some popular dickhead decides we’ve Gone Too Far because we, checks notes, made an accurate behavioral prediction about a group of people they like

I do love the DARVO of opposing a known and well-documented cult and being accused of doing religion because I won’t admit that the cultists really did a good job this time (they didn’t)

I do love being accused yet again of lacking nuance by the people who have previously used the word “nuance” to shut down discussion, again and again, because what they wanted to do was flood the zone with nonsense

I do love when these motherfuckers hurriedly claim to be anti-AI while having done frankly none of the work. it’s always fucking exhausting reading “I’m anti-AI but” and realizing some popular asshole is about to use their platform to damage your cause because they disagree with you on a factual matter https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117519066993403700

https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/ > Using ...

2026-10-30T00:10:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…sezq
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https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

> Using the same zero-knowledge technology that enables Signal groups to work without revealing intimate metadata, backup archives are stored without a direct link to a specific backup payment or Signal user account.

the profile: “eco-socialist” the posts: exhaustingly ...

2026-10-29T23:54:05Z

the profile: “eco-socialist”

the posts: exhaustingly defending LLMs by any means necessary

LLMs are so unpopular that in the other thread, people are ...

2026-10-29T22:18:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…w9r6
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LLMs are so unpopular that in the other thread, people are actively discussing changing email providers again because tuta is now using them

and they’re right, because a privacy company that uses LLMs for anything doesn’t give a shit about your privacy

LLMs are so unpopular that most people in the world, when asked, say they hate them

LLMs are so unpopular that the employees who are forced to use them under threat of being fired still spoke out to 404 about how fucking awful using LLMs at Proton is

and you think they’re inevitable? how?

at what point did I come off as a centrist to you

2026-10-29T22:15:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…sefv
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at what point did I come off as a centrist to you

no no you don’t understand, a guy who was savoring at the idea ...

2026-10-29T22:14:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…ceez
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no no you don’t understand, a guy who was savoring at the idea of me capitulating insisted he’d already won, as he recorded record financial losses

imagine being so free of autonomy that you can’t imagine ...

2026-10-29T22:13:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ych
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imagine being so free of autonomy that you can’t imagine opposing the least inevitable technology ever conceived

“uhm we’ll never get rid of LLMs so you can’t possibly have ...

2026-10-29T22:11:16Z

“uhm we’ll never get rid of LLMs so you can’t possibly have a zero tolerance policy for them” consider fucking yourself

ah, not just me then

2026-10-29T21:18:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…hapv
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ah, not just me then

I want you to do something for me next time you’re in a thread ...

2026-10-29T18:57:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…z9qa
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I want you to do something for me

next time you’re in a thread about an organization being obviously corrupt, and it gets flooded with weird posts

look at the accounts. look at their profiles and their post history.

as you scroll through their posts, you may find that they only post in defense of the organization being criticized. they might boost random shit otherwise, or they might have generic bot-like replies to random popular threads. but always, their only detailed posts will be on one specific topic.

absorb what you’re seeing and then think of this quote:

> “So go on there with your personal account and comment to set the record straight,” he wrote. “Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.”

and evaluate how you feel about an organization paying for dark PR, or threatening their employees into doing it

I did love being accused of being paranoid when I pointed out ...

2026-10-29T18:48:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…s556
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I did love being accused of being paranoid when I pointed out this was happening, by the way

and like, the context for this is that someone was being ...

2026-10-29T18:47:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…gym7
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and like, the context for this is that someone was being threatened with being fired for not doing it

and I feel for the worker in this situation, I do

but also, the chances are very high that said worker, or another worker in the same situation, went on to spin up 1000+ accounts to make proton look better on reddit

there was probably a cash bonus in it for them if they used an LLM to troll critical threads

that’s what you should be reading into that quote

> “So go on there with your personal account and comment to ...

2026-10-29T18:44:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…mg8m
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> “So go on there with your personal account and comment to set the record straight,” he wrote. “Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.”

set the record straight by posting something other than the truth, right

they might have to loudly quit a second time and return to ...

2026-10-29T18:42:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…0gd8
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they might have to loudly quit a second time and return to exclusively posting to the Reddit community they control. you know, the one that andy yen tells his employees to infiltrate on their personal accounts. that reddit community.

popping some popcorn for when the proton PR account tries posting ...

2026-10-29T18:40:38Z

popping some popcorn for when the proton PR account tries posting a hilarious privacy meme on mastodon again

I did love the number of wounded privacy cosplayers in my replies ...

2026-10-29T18:31:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ja2h
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I did love the number of wounded privacy cosplayers in my replies embarrassing themselves after I called out this shit

“no it was the user’s fault for paying for an account, how would proton possibly protect them if they linked their payment data to their account”

the same way signal does, cause signal gives a shit about security

do you understand now how “this feature is secure because you ...

2026-10-29T18:29:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…8642
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do you understand now how “this feature is secure because you can trust proton” means the feature isn’t secure?

all of proton’s LLM shit sends your data to proton in plaintext. yes including lumo and yes including protonmail’s LLM bullshit, unless you run it locally which is reputedly even more horrible, and which proton misrepresents as equivalent in privacy to sending them your data

do you see the shell game being played now? the only thing protecting your data is a promise called a “no logs policy”, and they’ve broken that promise repeatedly already

to revisit something I shouted last time while blocking some ...

2026-10-29T18:26:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…qvta
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to revisit something I shouted last time while blocking some fucker:

how obviously compromised does a company need to get before you’ll stop defending it? do you give a shit about privacy, or are you just cosplaying?

so anyway, not to say I told you so but nah fuck that, listen ...

2026-10-29T18:16:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…g0w9
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so anyway, not to say I told you so but

nah fuck that, listen next time

we also fucking called it when we pointed out that their ...

2026-10-29T18:14:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…ytvk
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we also fucking called it when we pointed out that their responses on here read like chatbot slop! right before they quit mastodon the first time, before they came back with horrible memes and “hello fellow kids” responses

hey [@davidgerard](https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard ) ...

2026-10-29T18:13:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…6j78
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hey [@davidgerard](https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard ) remember when we caught Proton committing their CLAUDE.md and claude skills to proton’s codebase, then they covered it up in real time with forcepushes but the files remained in a bunch of forks? then proton denied using claude so of course their fans believed them instead of the evidence of their eyes? well of course:

> Initially, using AI was banned inside Proton, but the company has since approved AI for all sorts of use cases internally, including processing financial data, drafting customer-facing responses on Reddit and LinkedIn, and writing code […] Ninety percent of code at Proton in October was written by AI, the company’s CTO Bart Butler said in a meeting, according to audio 404 Media obtained. Much of that code is written with Anthropic’s Claude, multiple employees told 404 Media. And Yen tells employees in Slack chats to use Claude, too.

here’s a bit of their stance on security by the way! > In ...

2026-10-29T18:10:25Z

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here’s a bit of their stance on security by the way!

> In the “bullshit and loser thinking” conversation, another employee pushed Yen for specifics on ensuring that AI-generated code was free of security issues. “AI won’t magically solve our problems, because security is low in our prioritization at present,” the engineer said. Yen didn’t respond directly, and went on to insult one of the other employees in front of the entire channel. The employee “is saying his usual bs of we can do it but we will be even slower than we are today and I’m saying only losers think like that,” Yen wrote, adding that workers should prompt “better.”

> “People were surprised and somewhat cringed out, since the document clearly exaggerates what you can do with LLMs today and doesn't address any of the problems you get in return for giving up your code base to the AI Jesus (e.g. AI cannot really maintain a large code base over time).” Another called it “ethically bankrupt.”

> “Now we are left with two shitty choices. Deprioritize ...

2026-10-29T18:07:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…52j4
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> “Now we are left with two shitty choices. Deprioritize more important tasks for the business to re-encrypt old emails, or constantly get attacked online for not doing it. So maybe you can enlighten me on which of the two shitty choices we will take,” he wrote. “In the future there are two options. Either you guys are confident enough to not fuck this up, or you get my advice to make sure it is not fucked up,” he added. He then told a member of the team that made it to “go on Reddit.”
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> “So go on there with your personal account and comment to set the record straight,” he wrote. “Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.”

yeah, just go on Reddit with a non-company account and lie. ezpz

it’s fucking hilarious that all of this is about post-quantum encryption, a thing I care about not at all compared with, say, the company’s stance on fucking security

oh hey here’s how much fucko cares about Reddit > In a Slack ...

2026-10-29T18:04:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…kpxx
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oh hey here’s how much fucko cares about Reddit

> In a Slack channel dedicated to thanking people for their work, Yen jumped in. “Get it fixed,” he wrote, referring to Proton’s Reddit post announcing the feature. “Now Reddit is pissed and we look worse than Tuta,” he added, referring to a Proton competitor. When employees explained to Yen the nuances of the encryption and why that was not immediately possible, Yen wrote, “I find this whole thing stupid. You cannot announce this in this way.”

if you ever wondered why proton seems to have an army of shills on reddit, masto, lemmy, and wherever else Yen might be dimly aware of

yes they do have shills, read the fucking article

anyway good on [@Tutanota](https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota ) for making the pissboy piss himself

this isn’t an endorsement, I use Tuta but I don’t trust anybody in the space anymore

but also it’s really fucking funny how much tuta is in Yen’s head as he destroys his own company and reputation

let’s pull some motherfucking quotes > 404 Media spoke to ...

2026-10-29T18:01:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…t42j
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let’s pull some motherfucking quotes

> 404 Media spoke to eight current and one former Proton employees and reviewed Slack chats, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto written by the company’s CTO. Our reporting reveals a culture of fear inside Proton, where many employees are hesitant to even mildly critique Yen’s views or discuss engineering problems. Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
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> “The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media.

> Yen, a former CERN particle physicist, projects a measured approach in public, but internally he acts more like what one employee described as a “petulant child.”

hey so like over a year ago when I raised a bunch of bright red ...

2026-10-29T17:59:34Z

hey so like over a year ago when I raised a bunch of bright red flags over Proton’s direction, starting with the horribly insecure LLM features they pushed into Proton Mail and continuing with Yen’s support for Trump, the company doing a bitcoin wallet, their shitty chatbot, the straw poll community survey they did, the fucking obvious dark PR piece defending Yen that people kept linking, all the other weird shit around Proton on here and reddit and lemmy, the unnecessary vulnerabilities around Proton’s payment system that resulted in users getting compromised

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

did I not fucking tell you

are any of the little fuckers in my replies telling me I’m exaggerating going to post an apology now or?

are any of the infosec big boys who thought the vulnerabilities I posted about weren’t anything going to re-evaluate?

will any of the privacy cosplayers reflect on my posts and realize that all the things I pointed out about Proton weren’t minor gripes? no?

it’s really easy to be ceo: just figure out which projects your ...

2026-10-29T11:33:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…pffn
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it’s really easy to be ceo: just figure out which projects your predecessor shelved for being shit and rush those to market

if they’re still shit, just have what remains of your OS team crunch on some utterly use case brained functionality for the fucking thing, like playing a tiny onscreen piano keyboard while your wrists develop carpal tunnel or touching the screen of an emulated iPhone in a way the actual users of your app wouldn’t

oh no sorry, apparently it was very difficult to make the ...

2026-10-29T11:31:19Z

oh no sorry, apparently it was very difficult to make the touchscreen macbook, a device that apple has prototyped in various forms for over a decade, because it was very hard to make a multitouch version of AppKit, a thing that already exists for iOS

please ignore all of my past and future posts about how fucking lazy the touchscreen macbook is as a concept and implementation and how apple didn’t do it before because it’s a horribly flawed interface on every other laptop I have with a touchscreen (they’re really cheap used), and those have the ability to fold into janky tablet mode and use a stylus, two things the new macbook can’t do

I don’t intend to call out anyone on here with this, but it’s ...

2026-10-28T11:08:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…au0j
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I don’t intend to call out anyone on here with this, but it’s important to reflect:

- I was told that both the slop PHP patch and the slop kernel patchset were high quality code with very few telltale signs of slop
- both of them had a bunch of telltale signs of slop (and again I’m really not trying to call anyone out for this, please consider this a postmortem)
- both were rushed through with very little to no understanding of the problem they were solving
- both were highly publicized but solved little to nothing: the linux patchset was flawed and decreased performance outside of microbenchmarks, and the php patch fixed an issue that was hard-to-impossible to exploit in practice with a gigantic number of slop-looking changes when another fix (abort on OOM now and gradually patch exploitable cases) was available, but nobody considered it because nobody considered anything

just some things to consider going forward. you absolutely don’t gotta hand it to any of these people.

so php just admitted to doing the funniest thing ...

2026-10-28T10:51:41Z

so php just admitted to doing the funniest thing https://mastodon.social/@ne_/117518126502340764

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2026-10-27T18:27:41Z

emacs stands for extreme macintosh software

colors are back! none that you want though, and I hope you like ...

2026-10-27T14:05:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…pfh2
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colors are back! none that you want though, and I hope you like white borders around your display

the new imacs look icky that’s the take, they look icky

2026-10-27T14:02:54Z

the new imacs look icky

that’s the take, they look icky

I’m thinking about how to write some book-style documentation, ...

2026-10-27T13:22:43Z

I’m thinking about how to write some book-style documentation, and I’m considering writing LaTeX and using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeXML to convert it to HTML so the same source document can produce a nice webpage, or a PDF, or an epub, as needed

has anyone tried this workflow? how well does it work?

“all this meowth does is talk and make complex, ambitious ...

2026-10-27T03:58:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…rgqp
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“all this meowth does is talk and make complex, ambitious schemes for two substandard bisexuals. this is worthless, it doesn’t even fight right” is this a world with morality?

wait a fucking minute, is a pokemon speaking human speech not ...

2026-10-27T03:56:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…ph4q
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wait a fucking minute, is a pokemon speaking human speech not special in the pokemon world? cause they don’t act like it’s special

they seem more excited about pokemon who fight good and can only say their own names????

that’s fucked up

we are requesting $1.5 billion from Giovanni to capture that ...

2026-10-27T03:49:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…pru6
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we are requesting $1.5 billion from Giovanni to capture that pikachu

we have the only pokemon capable of non-psychic human speech but ...

2026-10-27T03:48:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…kkm5
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we have the only pokemon capable of non-psychic human speech but we’re fully invested in capturing that pikachu

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2026-10-27T03:48:01Z

we’ll be left behind unless we capture that pikachu

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2026-10-26T22:20:38Z

https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/ did you listen when I told you proton is a bunch of dickheads?

have you considered how big of an own goal it is to have a ...

2026-10-25T00:37:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…2v5j
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have you considered how big of an own goal it is to have a platform that can run ARM and x86_64 binaries very quickly, and instead of capitalizing on that you remove x86_64 emulation because it’s what Jobs did and slow everything down with a bunch of anti-features nobody wants, to the point where people believe in a mythical version of your company that’s anti-AI?

imagine if instead of doing what jobs did but worse, macOS grew the ability to run everything. cause that’s the reason why linux got popular amongst normal people: valve poured a shit-ton of money into wine’s hard compatibility work (alongside a bunch of other tricky infrastructure) and now linux can just run windows shit

imagine if macOS did something unexpected and became a fast universal platform. imagine if your expensive arm core could run x86_64 windows and linux shit alongside Mac shit

but nah, fuck success. remove features people want instead and replace them with things nobody wants

and here’s the thing right for a period of time, apple had a ...

2026-10-25T00:30:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…xtrm
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and here’s the thing right

for a period of time, apple had a group of customers who liked their products because they were a good value

capacitive touch hooked up to a good UI was worth the money

macOS was a pretty good unix hooked up to a good UI

macbook pros had their issues some years, but the power management was excellent

people have been calling apple a brand that people only bought to be fashionable for years, and it wasn’t accurate back then

unfortunately, I think apple agreed with those people. cause none of the above applies to apple devices anymore. there’s nothing particularly special about any ios device, and the UI is jankier than ever. they fired all their old unix pros. your MacBook Pro would have great battery life… if the OS and the AI shit you can’t turn off without third-party patches (for now) weren’t sucking cycles they don’t need to

apple always considered itself a fashion brand, and the people making it anything else have all been fired

capacitive multitouch was so influential that google instantly ...

2026-10-25T00:15:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…dwue
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capacitive multitouch was so influential that google instantly shit themselves internally and reworked android from a clone of blackberry’s hardware and software* into a clone of the original iphone’s hardware and software

if you can’t tell the difference between that and a gimmick to the point where you think anything about the iphone duo, which copied every part of its design from existing phones, you shouldn’t be doing tech journalism

* don’t reply guy to me that this isn’t accurate, I used prerelease android before the redesign

sometimes you shove your head so far up your ass you think ...

2026-10-25T00:04:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…3yh7
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sometimes you shove your head so far up your ass you think everyone loves pulling out a fucking stylus in order to navigate a WAP page

sometimes you shove your head so far up your ass you think a folding phone no different from any other unpopular folding phone is a revolution in design

do you remember when a bunch of out of touch tech journalists ...

2026-10-25T00:02:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…30hc
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do you remember when a bunch of out of touch tech journalists called the original iphone a gimmick because it didn’t have apps yet and they didn’t realize that stylus-free, reliable capacitive touch sensing and a phone UI that wasn’t shit were valuable things for most people?

anyway a lot of those journalists love the iphone duo

please find a use for your folding phone that makes you buy a ...

2026-10-24T23:59:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…3kej
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please find a use for your folding phone that makes you buy a second folding phone when this one dies

please find a use your friends will care about at all

your folding phone can be its own very fragile stand for when ...

2026-10-24T23:57:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…fpzn
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your folding phone can be its own very fragile stand for when you’re using it as an alarm clock but aren’t charging it. please clap

design is when you add a bunch of gimmicks to your ultra-premium ...

2026-10-24T23:57:05Z

design is when you add a bunch of gimmicks to your ultra-premium product and hope that any of them are useful to anyone anywhere

look at all the use case - your existing alarm clock, except if ...

2026-10-24T22:43:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…2te6
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look at all the use case

- your existing alarm clock, except if you knock it off your nightstand or pick it up wrong or it closes too hard on itself due to physics, your screen breaks
- another horrid app layout, I can’t even tell what this does. email split with apple news maybe? why does everything have a weird fucking wifi widget in the corner?
- fake laptop/dollar store portable DVD player

right but why ...

2026-10-24T22:38:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…pz9g
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right but why

you can iterate on this all you want and get the UI perfect (they ...

2026-10-24T22:36:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…63vx
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you can iterate on this all you want and get the UI perfect (they won’t, have you seen Apple’s UIs lately?) and it’ll still be a folding phone using existing folding phone tech

the problem with this thing isn’t that it isn’t ready. the ...

2026-10-24T22:35:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…gr7j
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the problem with this thing isn’t that it isn’t ready. the problem with this thing is it’s just a folding phone, a thing we already had. folding phones aren’t first-gen tech anymore, they just suck

> Apple’s innovative $1,999 folding phone is alluring for ...

2026-10-24T22:34:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…gkd0
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> Apple’s innovative $1,999 folding phone is alluring for plenty of reasons, but comes with the trade-offs of a first-generation product

I’m doing a Benoit Blanc “no! it’s just dumb!” at this because it would take a significant advancement in materials science and then the commercialization of that advancement to make this product any good

also wait is that linus tech tips and… one of his dickhead ...

2026-10-24T22:28:17Z

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also wait is that linus tech tips and… one of his dickhead friends possibly? in the photo widget?

jesus god, these things just came out didn’t they? I didn’t ...

2026-10-24T22:27:29Z

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jesus god, these things just came out didn’t they? I didn’t lose consciousness and they came out several months ago?

oh wow, another one with damage I’m literally just looking for ...

2026-10-24T22:21:53Z

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oh wow, another one with damage

I’m literally just looking for what the apps look like and getting these

holy fuck this one already has the exact screen damage all ...

2026-10-24T22:18:31Z

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holy fuck this one already has the exact screen damage all folding phones develop! it starts with a column and a blob of dead pixels then it starts flickering then sometimes you lose a big part of one screen

who in the fuck saw these interfaces and went “good. yes ...

2026-10-24T22:16:17Z

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who in the fuck saw these interfaces and went “good. yes that’s what I want to pay for” and then they paid apple for a phone that will break much faster than any other ios device ever produced

what in the claude code lovable figma is this shit

2026-10-24T22:15:00Z

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what in the claude code lovable figma is this shit

wait a fucking minute, in the second screenshot with the Wicker ...

2026-10-24T22:14:14Z

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wait a fucking minute, in the second screenshot with the Wicker Weaving… it isn’t a book, is it? you scroll the right pane while the left pane just sits there. look at the layout, that’s it

what in the christing fuck

look at how fucking horrible this is every time I see safari on ...

2026-10-24T22:12:26Z

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look at how fucking horrible this is

every time I see safari on this fucking thing I get angry and I don’t think I even need to tell you why

supposedly they shipped it with a busted UI they’re going to fix, which is a fucking wild thing for apple to do with the browser for their flagship/ultra premium model. surely nobody will want to browse the web on their large screen before it breaks

but also look at all the fucking space taken up by nothing in the other apps and the home screen. no I don’t mean whitespace although that’s horrible too. I mean shit that doesn’t fucking do anything at all. Weaving Workshops taking up half the fucking screen. who the fuck is that for? is that a book? why is the layout for it fucked then, in a product shot?

how in fuck are you meant to use any of this?

I don’t watch fucking apple keynotes anymore because why in ...

2026-10-24T22:03:29Z

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I don’t watch fucking apple keynotes anymore because why in fuck would I at this point, apple keynotes died when jobs was advertising F1 the movie with a cheeky nod to the failed self-driving car apple wasted billions of dollars on, and then the camera zoomed into apple HQ where some deadeyed fuck with a pained smile tried to tell me liquid glass was going to be good

anyway, I don’t watch apple keynotes so someone who did please tell me: do any of the apps for the iphone duo look like anything but a fake screenshot from a “2023 REAL apple leaks” youtube video?

apple could have made a device that didn’t have this problem, ...

2026-10-24T21:59:57Z

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apple could have made a device that didn’t have this problem, but they would have had to invent literally anything at all for it

the company that made touchscreens mostly ok (fuck styluses but also fuck touchscreen keyboards) couldn’t figure out any way to make a folding phone good. so they just made an ordinary, shitty folding phone. also incredibly expensive, and apple probably won’t let these go on discount even if the product line fails

and you know the fuck of it? it would have been, haha, innovative if they just did a multi-screen phone with no wraparound screen on the hinge. make it look sleek. make it fucking durable. maybe shock the market and give it some form of physical keyboard with real tactile feedback. get fucking crazy with it.

but no, what you wanted was clearly an even more fragile iphone that’s even more pointless

but of course way before then you have a screen that isn’t ...

2026-10-24T21:55:24Z

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but of course way before then you have a screen that isn’t pristine, starting at the fancy hinge

you have to notice every flaw in your new iphone duo starting maybe a week or 2 after you bought it, when your brain’s ability to ignore the damage is overwhelmed by the amount of damage

was it worth it?

are you enjoying your weird embarrassing not-tablet?

legitimately before @npub1eyn…w409 exposed me to information ...

2026-10-24T21:53:52Z

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legitimately before Stephen Farrugia (npub1eyn…w409) exposed me to information from the jerryrigevergthing iphone duo teardown, I was thinking to myself “is there anything at all apple did to make it materially better than an android folding phone”

and the answer to that is they factory installed one of those self-healing plastic screen protectors you can get off amazon. the ones that absorb a shit-ton of screen brightness and a bit of color. it doesn’t stop your fingernails from scratching the screen, it just makes them less visible.

until the obvious happens and the screen starts bulging at the hinge (this always happens with folding phones) and dirt gets in there and then eventually part of your screen has a failure

of course, you are the one who made me extremely aware that its ...

2026-10-24T21:46:31Z

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of course, you are the one who made me extremely aware that its magical build quality is a fucking factory screen protector and nothing else, these fucking things are going to look horrible like every other folding phone in a month. who in the fuck is this for

sitting here trying to choose between ranting about the folding ...

2026-10-24T21:41:35Z

sitting here trying to choose between ranting about the folding iphone and ranting about how, controversially, sometimes programming languages are bad

I’m getting 500s from archive.org, did them vibe coding a ...

2026-10-24T13:06:32Z

I’m getting 500s from archive.org, did them vibe coding a “fix” for the recent PHP exploits come back to bite them already?

no they aren’t

2026-10-22T12:56:56Z

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no they aren’t

I wonder if their statement that this was too complicated to be ...

2026-10-21T21:20:44Z

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I wonder if their statement that this was too complicated to be worth fixing when they found out about it in 2024(!) is perhaps also due to some shit a chatbot said

php may have done the funniest thing possible ...

2026-10-21T21:19:06Z

php may have done the funniest thing possible https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117480939434428934

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2026-10-21T14:38:34Z

no you don’t understand, php is a good language now

fosdem decidedly won’t help you organize and figure out ...

2026-10-21T12:26:46Z

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fosdem decidedly won’t help you organize and figure out solutions for the current biggest problem in FOSS, by design

fosdem won’t even let you talk about init systems other than systemd and maybe sysvinit, because doing so would inconvenience the assholes in control

you can’t talk about major social problems, and you can’t talk about the technical artifacts of those major social problems

what good is fosdem

fascists have been taking over open source projects for years, ...

2026-10-21T12:14:53Z

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fascists have been taking over open source projects for years, and torvalds going in on slop in the kernel with a “this isn’t a social warrior project” made them rally. it was a major victory for them. most of us have seen the fallout from that already, and it’s getting worse quickly.

and fosdem has bravely stood up and decided to be part of the problem

what good is fosdem

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2026-10-21T12:10:38Z

you know, it seems like fosdem sucks

the wonderful revolutionary technology that random people keep ...

2026-10-20T19:25:11Z

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the wonderful revolutionary technology that random people keep having to remind you about in the same way a coca-cola ad wants to remind you that coke owns christmas

I didn’t even have to check their posts to see they’re an AI ...

2026-10-20T19:22:52Z

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I didn’t even have to check their posts to see they’re an AI whackjob, “have your agent run 2 commands for you” isn’t something anyone else says

“or have your agent upgrade” yeah we’ve learned nothing ...

2026-10-20T19:16:50Z

“or have your agent upgrade” yeah we’ve learned nothing https://fosstodon.org/@anze3db/117474724435779931

huh, somehow I missed this while I was distracted with netbsd ...

2026-10-19T13:48:24Z

huh, somehow I missed this while I was distracted with netbsd (thank you Techokami (npub1xak…z9eu))

https://awful.systems/post/10050264/12946932

> Thanks for linking my toot, here’s another update since then: the same person that found the race condition also found that there was a performance regression on non-synthetic benchmarks. It went super fast on his little test but is complete dogshit when used in the real world! https://lwn.net/ml/all/atI0edrmeiRuRtNQ@thinkstation/

the remarkable kernel patch that remarkably convinced linus torvalds to go all-in on LLMs, remarkably running into all of the reasons why this was a horrible fucking idea

anyone with an ounce of familiarity with how LLMs function could’ve seen this coming, but not kernel boy. why wouldn’t you slop up a feature and all of its tests and its documentation and then just go on vacation so someone else can try to clean up your mess?

you don’t have to respond to this by returning to hacker news ...

2026-10-19T13:14:22Z

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you don’t have to respond to this by returning to hacker news by the way, because hacker news is a hate site

there’s uhhh better options than either? I help run one of the alternatives

regarding lobsters capitulating to the slopbros by deleting the ...

2026-10-19T13:12:54Z

regarding lobsters capitulating to the slopbros by deleting the vibecoding tag and a large number of AI-critical posts: lol

my guy, I used you on my Dreamcast back in 1999, and my ...

2026-10-19T01:48:05Z

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my guy, I used you on my Dreamcast back in 1999, and my SPARCstation, and my VAX a couple times

it’s not very good to assume the people you’re interacting with on mastodon, of all things, don’t know what netbsd is

I’m not trying to do purity culture, whatever the fuck that is, ...

2026-10-18T23:05:15Z

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I’m not trying to do purity culture, whatever the fuck that is, or some gotcha shit with these questions

I’d like to know how your bureaucratic rules around donations respond to the precise type of threat that has made many other projects very hostile places for marginalized contributors, as someone who has had to leave several projects after bad actors with money made them hostile

this clears up a lot, thank you netbsd’s hands are tied, by ...

2026-10-18T23:00:14Z

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this clears up a lot, thank you

netbsd’s hands are tied, by their own bureaucratic rules, into driving traffic to a fascist organization they didn’t vet

FUTO doesn’t really make a secret of who they are. they have consistently platformed fascists and bigots on their YouTube channel. their founder is affiliated with Curtis Yarvin, a name that’s infamous enough in 2026 that he needs no introduction. would a donation from Urbit prompt you to add their logo to your site? how about Truth Social? maybe Rumble, LBRY, or any of the other far-right disinformation networks that FUTO promotes?

maybe you think this is irrelevant. ok. if Omarchy offered a donation with “no strings attached”, given the context around DHH’s goals to make the hacker community hostile towards marginalized people and friendly to slop, do your bureaucratic rules state you must accept the donation and display their logo on your site?

“If you’d like to have a public debate about <some ...

2026-10-18T10:48:45Z

“If you’d like to have a public debate about <some unhinged shit I just made up>, I’m ready to go!”

do you know how much extra you have to pay for avgas in order to huff this much leaded gasoline in 2026

anyone wondering what’s bad about FUTO funding netbsd and ...

2026-10-17T13:18:55Z

anyone wondering what’s bad about FUTO funding netbsd and netbsd not turning down the money is welcome to explore FUTO’s YouTube channel, which platforms right-wing cranks and spreads disinformation, FUTO’s site, which is full of fascist dogwhistles and references to other fascist disinformation networks, and FUTO’s history in general

this is what I mean when I tell you switching to netbsd is a fragile solution

why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of ...

2026-10-16T20:02:17Z

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why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?

and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.

got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker ...

2026-10-16T20:00:27Z

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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker

tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry

it is currently day 0 of linus torvalds being unable to prove he ...

2026-10-16T19:52:09Z

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it is currently day 0 of linus torvalds being unable to prove he isn’t a fraud who stumbled into or plagiarized all the code he wrote

start the fucking counter, right next to the “days since AGI with no general intelligence found” counter

you won’t, you don’t have any brain left in your fucking ...

2026-10-16T19:50:12Z

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you won’t, you don’t have any brain left in your fucking head. we know what happens to mid little fucks who embrace the slop machines. people who actually completed their degrees researched it!

hey given that you like stochastic bullshit so much, how about ...

2026-10-16T19:49:19Z

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hey given that you like stochastic bullshit so much, how about this

all of linus torvalds’ success writing kernel code happened by chance. he is a fraud.

that’s exactly the same as using an LLM. prove me wrong, little fucker.

mail back your degree, fucker, we’ve proven beyond doubt you ...

2026-10-16T19:46:55Z

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mail back your degree, fucker, we’ve proven beyond doubt you never completed your compilers requirement. we’ll fix the mistake your registrar made when they granted it.

and hey, you know what? the linux kernel boy wants to pretend he ...

2026-10-16T19:45:52Z

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and hey, you know what? the linux kernel boy wants to pretend he can’t see a single difference between an LLM and a compiler or an editor?

sure thing, kernel boy

the fuck was that CS degree again for? did you have your little brother write your code and take credit for it or something?

and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds ...

2026-10-16T19:37:58Z

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and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.

that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.

torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager ...

2026-10-16T19:34:53Z

torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points

and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea

nobody operating in good faith thinks an LLM is like a compiler. this is an AI booster meme from early 2026. but torvalds has a captive audience, so his bad takes don’t need to be new. expect to see this crap parroted once again by the worst guys you know. https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451805824031590