Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 5 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

previously

presently:

(you can turn it off but in typical fashion: sneaky new setting, default-on, way to make it turn off is hidden in settings instead of a direct “no fuck this” button. same shit twitter and fb pulled for years)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in "No, do not use my data" for months

discord feedback: "Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team."

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client.

wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again? is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments?

I ask, having instantly closed the nitro ads discord regularly pushes to my client cause the feature list looks roundly annoying and irrelevant to how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium, DMs, and an annual game of Quake)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again?

Remember when people used to smugly say 'unless you pay for it, you are the product' turns out you always are the product!

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments

and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)

irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but I've been "okay" with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didn't have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.

like I would've likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.

how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium

yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming around...

also, slack, ~1h ago:

Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted

Your workspace, , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.

the ouroboros must be hungry.

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