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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st November 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 5 days ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Well the youtube comments seem to like it but IMO that is a pretty awful ad since it didn't use the opportunity to highlight their product. It practically shows more reasons not to use firefox than to use it.

We hear that firefox is private in some unspecified way, and... that's about it. The rest of the ad is talking about how everyone left it in the first place, that it comes bundled with default-enabled AI stuff you don't want, and that the internet you might want to use it with no longer exists. Talk about a self own.

Why did they not talk about customizability? Compact mode? Adblock support? Colors and theming? Syncing? Anything at all???

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why did they not talk about customizability? Compact mode? Adblock support? Colors and theming? Syncing? Anything at all???

I'm still essentially operating on the conspiracy idea that the current management of moz (who are ex-fb/ex-goog/ex-marketroids) are all there to destroy it

[–] robjwells@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No need for conspiracy, just that both they and Mozilla institutionally think Mozilla needs to act like the rest of the industry. I imagine they don’t even consider that is precisely the opposite of what users want.

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Mitchell Baker: I need to be paid $7 million because that’s what I could be paid elsewhere

Then go elsewhere?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

Cargo culting, but the cargo is poop