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

New edition of AI Killed My Job, focusing on how AI’s fucked the copywriting industry.

Remember the flood of offensive Pixaresque slop that happened in 2023? We’re gonna see something similar thanks to this deal for sure.

But this is the military, so it’s not like details matter or lives are on the line if you’re out in the field and get a sheet of instructions that are completely detached from reality.

Its not like the damage to morale this will near-certainly cause will have some knock-on effects, either.

EDIT: “Soldier dissatisfaction” didn’t accurately describe what this plan will do - changed it to “damage to morale”.

Found a new and lengthy sneer on Bluesky, mocking the promptfondlers’ gullibility.

How can it be called open source when they cannot legally share the sources with you because they’re stolen?

Easy, the people calling it that believe exploiting people and stealing their work is okay

Heartbreaking news today.

In a major setback for right-to-repair, iFixit has jumped on the slop bandwagon, introducing an “AI repair helper” to their website that steals “the knowledge base of over 20 years of repair experts” (to quote their dogshit announcement on YouTube) and uses it to hallucinate “repair guides” and “step-by-step instructions” for its users.

Its the most obvious explanation for their behaviour I can think of.

Perhaps, this is hell.

We’re preparing your kid for the glorious AI future. That is, a life of getting nickel-and-dimed by corporate parasites feeding off public money.

And being utterly dependent on said corporate parasites thanks to the deskilling machine utterly destroying their critical thinking and general mental acuity at such a young age.

Doing a quick search, it hasn’t been posted here until now - thanks for dropping it.

In a similar vein, there’s a guide to recognising AI-extruded music on Newgrounds, written by two of the site’s Audio Moderators. This has been posted here before, but having every “slop tell guide” in one place is more convenient.

Kovid Goyal, the primary dev of ebook management tool Calibre, has spat in the face of its users by forcing AI “features” into it.