Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)
article in large part about our friends
https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/
some of the people involved with kernel are pretty unhappy about this and claim the piece is in bad faith/factually wrong (see the replies to https://bsky.app/profile/kellypendergrast.bsky.social/post/3ma55xfq7d22y )
Reminder Tivy was the guy behind Phalanx (back in his polyamory microblogging days)~
Made all the funnier by the fact that probably my favorite Hacker News thread of all time is on Tivy's article about how he abandoned his job to "court" his wife:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830743
If even the orange site is willing to roast you this hard, I guess your only response has to be pulling up stakes to go live in a neofascist social bubble instead.
He worked in fuel cells (hence the palladium name) and I think he got a bunch of stock option shit. Also “court” lol.
Shit like Palladium is going to be absolutely hilarious to dig up in the back of a used bookstore 20 years from now
That link can't be viewed without a bluesky account, btw.
skill issue
it's the actual cite, you've been led to the water, come the fuck on it's not even a paywall
I didn't make the comment because I struggled bypassing it, but because calling out this UI dark pattern bullshit feels topical here and I wasn't sure if OP was aware it was in place.
Judging from votes, other people found the skyview link novel/useful, so it was constructive!
here you go https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fkellypendergrast.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3ma55xfq7d22y
Thanks.
I love the fact that this "decentralized billionaire-proof open network" needs a nitter clone.
i'll cut the coiners some slack on this one because requiring a login to view is an account level privacy option. i don't know what the option is supposed to accomplish. but that's what it is
It might help to know that Paul Frazee, one of the BlueSky developers, doesn't understand capability theory or how hackers approach a computer. They believe that anything hidden by the porcelain/high-level UI is hidden for good. This was a problem on their Beaker project, too; they thought that a page was deleted if it didn't show up in the browser. They fundamentally aren't prepared for the fact that their AT protocol doesn't have a way to destroy or hide data and is embedded into a network that treats censorship as reparable damage.
maybe it's a good thing that it's so fucking hard/expensive to selfhost bsky
you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
if bsky is supposed to be federated, then it does nothing, but as it is today with 99%+ of users on main instance, it only works as a recruitment tool for bsky