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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.

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

what are you folks doing for/with bookmarking? I've killed my usage of pinboard because I learned the dude's going off the deep end

already found a couple of the link* flavoured open source things, but looking for some practical/lived feedback

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

About a year ago I exported my bookmarks from there and dropped them in a self-hosted instance of linkding (using the recipe that puts it on fly.io with backups to b2). It works like a charm.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah found that, unfortunately it’s js-ware so I refuse to put my data near it

(that’s very much a me thing, but a thing nonetheless)

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Hm, what do you mean by js-ware? That its front end uses JavaScript libraries? I guess, fair. Backend is python though (:

As a stunt (when I was unhappy with the previous linkding frontend), a pal and I wrote https://github.com/lz-bookmarks/lz, which is basically just linkding without the useful api and frontend (which is rust+webassembly, lol). Has a decent cli though, and interlinking between bookmarks and other URLs.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah I despise the entire modern js ecosystem, so anything that increases my risk of even having to think the letters n p m starts making my trigger finger itch (and in this case, that’d happen if I wanted to do UI tweaks or whatever)

of all the things I found so far linkding has appeared to be the least rabid. lz sounds like a neat experiment, will check it out :)

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