Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024 (awful.systems)

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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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[-] PMMeYourJerkyRecipes@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

Scott Aaronson: "Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter"

Posting here rather than in a separate thread because I'm probably the only one who rememembers him from the old /r/sneerclub days, but he's an endlessly fascinating figure to me - his ability to view literally every possible scenario through the lens of "poor innocent little smol-bean Scott just wants to discuss things rationally, but is persecuted by his ontologically evil foes and their self-righteous dupes" - doesn't matter if it's feminists objecting to his older incel-y posts, Sneer Club dunking on him, cops arresting him for stealing from an airport store or leftists not being fans of the genocide he supports... He must always be the victim. His enemies must always be unreasonable and motivated by hatred of him, specifically.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

And now, maybe, I can at last go back to happier topics, like how to prevent the destruction of the world by AI.

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[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

Okay, but apart from YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, Google Keep and Nest, what have the Romans ever done for us?

[-] self@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

I haven’t been bitten by Google killing an app or service since Google Reader, because I never again trusted them. I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users, but I honestly don’t even remember the last time I added a new Google app or service to the set of tools I rely upon.

yeah he sure as fuck won’t be bitten by trusting anything Google made after Reader, like say their thermostats that are embedded into his house (which he says don’t count because ???)

also:

YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Chrome

when your Google-free life includes all of their major products plus shit you can absolutely do without like Keep and Nest

also also, because I keep fucking looking at it and getting mad:

I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users

imagine being this fucking shitty about having bought an iPhone and being above the age of 13

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

I have a couple of Android devices and even with Android added to my list of Google products, I'm pretty sure I use fewer than Gruber.

[-] self@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

it’s very inconvenient but I’ve managed to mostly de-google my couple of Android devices where practical — and there is a noticeable performance benefit to running without google play services, using Firefox, and installing simpler open source odroid apps instead of ad-filled play store ones, at least for the older tablets I recycle into purpose-specific computing devices

gruber, meanwhile, goes out of his way to replace safari with chrome on his Apple devices and then brags about being google-free on his blog

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

So, a lesswrong suggests gathering "The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject," where "tacit knowledge" is defined as "knowledge that can't properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction". The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under "Finance" are Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill of GameStop fame... and Martin Shkreli.

The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it can't be explained in written words.

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[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

http://lesswrongxxx.com/

oh god what is this

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Surely an April Fools' thing?

Still, if it's just a parody someone seems to have gone above and beyond in generating content for it.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 8 months ago

well, it is april, and they are fools

so there's that I guess

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

a parody in the we mean it sense

/ratanon/ escapes containment

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

you may be right:

   Registrar URL: http://squarespace.domains
   Updated Date: 2024-04-01T06:39:18Z
   Creation Date: 2024-01-14T00:27:20Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2025-01-14T00:27:20Z
   Registrar: Squarespace Domains LLC

but even then, the choices of content are .. telling

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

"HaremCom 2024"

sweet baby basilisk

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

with good coverage in all the major categories: sub, masochist, and victim

......

...................

these people truly are the worst

(e: I want to be very clear here: this isn't meant to be kinkshaming, but as a particular highlight of their specific focuses being of a really particular slant)

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago

i checked and you're allowed to kinkshame rationalists

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

and victim

just spotted the bit Aella wrote

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

Kara Jorgensen on bsky:

I feel like 90% of these weird-ass tech start-ups are just cults for cis het dudes who think emotions are logic.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

afab boyfriend on Bluesky:

ME READING WARHAMMER 40K BOOKS IN 2018: this setting is so fucking dumb. No way a society would let their entire technological infrastructure be controlled by a handful of fanatics that have convinced themselves that computer code is literally God

ME NOW: Ah,

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

Esperanto-pushing F-droid forum poster goes ballistic when maintainer explains the language can't be added:

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/skandala-sinteno-de-projekt-estro-hans-christoph-steiner-skandaliczne-zachowanie-administratora-projektu-hans-christoph-steiner-scandal-behave-of-admin-hans-christoph-steiner/3771/3?ref=404media.co

Why you simple don’t start learning Esperanto? Why should the whole world learn your stupid and illogical* language? Is F-Droid project international or only for english people?

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/scandal-behavior-of-hans-christoph-steiner-again/4723?ref=404media.co

(via this 404 media post)

I honestly did not know there were axe-crazy Esperanto fans online.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

this ape is a message
we considered ourselves to be a powerful yacht club
this ape is not an ape of honor
no highly esteemed juice is slurped here

-- more falafel please, SA

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[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

we’re looking for a sneerious name for a collaborative design/programming community for non-dickheads, like hacker news but not shit. thread your suggestions here!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

The Margaret Hamilton Society

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on "Building 20" that conveys a "but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture" kind of message.

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

“MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey

e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with

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[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

I'm feeling uncreative but it's a shame giggle academy is taken

"painter news" could be a nice jab at PG's "Hackers & Painters"

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[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago

I finally launched that collaborative software community. welcome to FreeAssembly

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

with advent of HapsburgGPT inevitable, what's the next overhyped dumb thing cryptobros turned promptfondlers will turn to?

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