froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 hours ago

as I’ve said elsewhere, lol

schneier should just stop posting

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

yeah, that's about where I land usually too

I guess the thing is that I know how much "shithead with a column" has become possible so I don't really, off the cuff, know how journo most journos are

(I shall leave aside for the moment the entire tirade this makes me want to go on)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

the merit seems to be stored in the balls

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

side observation: I’m constantly finding myself being both 2051 and 1053 about this sorta thing

it feels like table stakes that anyone writing about this shit these days knows, and yet…

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

that article is rather a few interesting curveballs

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

"reportedly", a german word meaning "this author couldn't be arsed to go looking"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago

low effort post: it's a bit hot for namecheap in arizona

I giggle grimace at how the post says all that without even once addressing the moonwalking bear

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

til amodei's married, and his wife is among the top advisors. she also has a rather stunning set of choices, including seeking money for a porn site (with what in summary appears to be a sensible goal) from epstein after his conviction

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

you made me look

But I feel that as time moves on, the level of future shock will subside

fuck of a thing to “just” shrug all the criticism off simply as future shock

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he’s met with yud, presumably there’s some others too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

this is impressively atrocious

also, I archive-mirrored it, incase you don't want to give the youtube link clicks

(e: still busy uploading but should be there in 2min or so)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you know, I've been thinking thoughts along this line (starting from my earlier comments on awful of the creeping loss of the open internet to gated communities) progressing along the current arc of "with teeth" stuff necessary in today's infosphere, and this is a hugely helpful perspective!

it's pretty weird seeing a coming time when the old mostly open-and-connected-widely internet is ... not. even now it's already on us quite a bit (geoblocks, countries doing specific shutdowns, whole areas being handled with less trust, etc). it all follows cultural lines, of course, and I often wonder whether that will see some kind of directed effort to change (for the better) after some of the coming dark years

 

as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

 

stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting

 

seen via this

might be a cool thing some here may enjoy contributing to

 

Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting

 

I forgot to post it here earlier but it's revision weekend!

 

in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

 

Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

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