There’s also skyview.social, which I personally use since I am not interested in signing up.

Good for them. Not quite abandoning the project and deleting it, but its a good move from them nonetheless.

Got one last sneer to share before the year ends, courtesy of a defence contractor:

Foz Meadows brings a lengthy and merciless sneer straight from the heart, aptly-titled “Against AI”

Alternate (likely harebrained) idea: sell the fediverse as a national security thing, and try to get a defence contract out of it

Reducing government/military reliance on tech corps would reduce the leverage they (and their CEOs) have over them, reducing the risk of, say, a repeat of that time Elon Musk fucked over Ukraine).

Hey, look, I found someone who believes things can have feelings:

Pike’s blow-up has made it to the red site, and its brought promptfondlers out the woodwork.

(Skyview proxy, for anyone without a Bluesky account)

Defaults are pretty good - didn’t need to do much to feel comfortable.

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I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people’s data and sell it to advertisers), and I’m pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.

Google’s lying machine lies about fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, leading to his concert being cancelled.

Main thing I knew Karl for is losing a defamation lawsuit to vexatious litigant par excellence Billy Mitchell, after he falsely blamed Billy for driving speedrun YouTuber Apollo Legend to kill himself, refused to retract his claims despite a complete lack of evidence, then misrepresented the lawsuit as being over Billy’s well-substantiated cheating allegations whilst raising money on GoFundMe.

Jobst’s past as a pick-up artist (plus some racist Discord posts from him) would resurface in the wake of his loss, which goes some way to explain why the anti-woke shit went “unnoticed”.

Starting this Stubsack off, here’s Baldur Bjarnason lamenting how tech as a community has gone down the shitter.

10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

The monorail salespeople at Checkmarx have (allegedly) discovered a new exploit for code extruders.

The “attack”, titled “Lies in the Loop”, involves taking advantage of human-in-the-loop “”“safeguards”“” to create fake dialogue prompts, thus tricking vibe-coders into running malicious code.

In the case of loitering munitions (also known as kamikaze drones, or suicide drones), you’d be correct - by design, they’re intended to crash into their target before blowing them up. Some reportedly do have recovery options built-in, but that’s only to avoid wasting them if they go unused.

Time Extension’s decided to wash their hands of ModRetro after seeing the news. Good call on their part.

For more lighthearted gaming-related news, Capcom fired off a quick sneer, whilst (indirectly) promoting their their latest Mega Man game:

(alt text: “As a reminder for those entering the Mega Man: Dual Override Boss Design Art Contest, please remember the rules posted at bit.ly/MMDORobotMaster. Entrants must follow this account, and please leave the AI to the robots: generative AI is prohibited for this contest.”)

a version of [the ModRetro Chromatic] made with “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones”

Obvious moral issues aside, is that even an effective marketing point? Linking yourself to Anduril, whose name is synonymous with war crimes and dead civs, seems like an easy way to drive away customers.

Larian Studios founder/CEO Swen Vincke is posting through it on Twitter, after the studio’s use of plagiarism machines caused significant backlash (to the shock of everyone except Swen).

This is probably Pivot to AI material.

Rereading’s also got a blog up now