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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

MDN has fucking ads now????

(also, image uploads are back, weird how pict-rs sometimes just shits the bed)

image descriptiona fucking “ads by Mozilla” banner at the top of mdn web docs advertising mongodb’s LLM of all fucking things

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

After this post I went back and read all the fallout from when they added and subsequently "paused" AI Explain and it was as entertaining as I remember (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

xD oh what a delight, the one thing missing from the complete gobshite of a "database" that Mongo is was an AI to mangle your queries

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

that tracks

it's one of their best places to start boiling the frog

[-] self@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

mdn’s only job is to be better than w3schools but here comes Mozilla removing the value from another one of their own projects

also not pictured: there was a fucking side banner ad I didn’t feel like screenshotting too, of course

[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

holy fuck I just realized the diabolical part of this horseshit:

I only know about the mdn ads cause my development browser doesn’t have an adblocker as a matter of practice (which I’m very quickly considering revising)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

that, but also I meant specifically that it allows them to "build confidence" inside the company

"look, we've been running ads on mdn for weeks now, and no-one's complained! obvies we can put it on $xyz other places now too!" with a heavy subtext of "why are you being the one that's obstructing this?"

I possess no insider information whatsoever and I'll fairly confidently state that I think it's a fucking strategic choice. guess we get to wait 6~12mo to see how cassandra that statement is

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

Computer understanders, click this link for some psychic damage! :D (aside: I tried to upload this as an image but it didn't work)

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

Coiners are terminally brain poisoned by financialization of everything. HTTP represented by three payment processors (and I don't even know if paying with Google or Apple pay involves HTTP but whatever).

Yet the money protocol is Bitcoin, apparently.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 days ago
[-] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

Ah, so Google Search runs on UDP, interesting, that must be why it's so unreliable now.

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

HTTP: famous for doing Google pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, and nothing else. no other use has been found for http

(also, FTP! as indicated by these apps that famously don’t use or support it!)

Well obviously they can't be the money protocol, whatever that even means. Surely something like FIX would be the closest thing to an actual protocol for money, as opposed to a system.

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[-] self@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

huh, pict-rs has been acting up a lot lately. I’m gonna give the whole node a quick reboot later and see if that fixes things

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

my pants are an anti-embarrassment protocol

The fact that DNS is "Domain Name Protocol" rather than the actual acronym (Domain Name System) is baffling and maddening.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

Looks like LW/Lightcone managed to convince enough people to give then $2M, which will totally not be used to settle sexual assault lawsuits in the future.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

It will instead be used to purchase another castle in which to perform SA

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

Don't confuse the Conference Castle with the (Non)Consent Castle!

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

Welp, time to start the thread with fresh Awful for everyone to regret:

r/phenotypes

[-] flowerysong@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Many of these threads are made in good faith and out of curiousity, but often times the comments become filled with hatred, ignorance, and trolling.

You don't say.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Really? Right in the front of the clean new thread?

image descriptionExtremely simplistic drawing of a somewhat sad looking person. Drawn by the artist 'flork of crows'[sic]. Reference to the 'Really? Right In Front Of My X?' meme

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going "oh, yeah, uh.... actually, no, fuck that shit. we'll do it ourselves" in response to broadcom's attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

With risk of falling into the 'classify people into two binary groups' thing which I have often criticized the Rationalist for. Move over jock vs nerd. There is Jock vs Creep.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

Free SFnal short story idea, came to me literally in a dream:

Dude is living his best life, beatiful house, beatiful wife, gets a job doing computer stuff "improving the world". But his big fancy work computer is wasting a lot of space so he reformats it/installs Nix, and suddenly everythings gone, all grey wireframe, no way out. Turns out he was given root to his own simulation and there's no backup.

Feels I should have read this somehwere but haven't read short SF in ages so...

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

Did my regular check in of a q-pilled family member’s facebook page. Zuckerberg’s new fash turn is not being received well as he is being read as the worm that he is. i.e. they are still mad about the anti-vax fact checking.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

I am sorry you have this family member.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

It's ok, it's not your fault!

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