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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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      the Determinate Nix move was such an obvious next step I was convinced they had already done it; I guess they can let the mask fall off now that theyā€™ve consolidated their control over the community. as was pointed out on mastodon, Determinate Systems previously promised this wasnā€™t their goal, which goes to show how much a promise from a fascist is worth.

      fortunately it seems like Lix has a NixOS fork on the horizon? I only know about it because the ā€œjust fork it or shut upā€ assholes are now complaining that a forkā€™s happening (which they seem to only know about by obsessively monitoring Lixā€™s git forge ā€” I donā€™t think thereā€™s been an announcement yet)

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          I hope so too! I like their approach so far, and a NixOS fork by the same folks seems like something Iā€™d switch to as soon as I reasonably could

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            in other news, holy fuck nix

            notably, this weirdo seems to have only started the podcast that looks like the only thing theyā€™re supposedly known for a couple months before the Nix open letter, and I really donā€™t recognize them from the Nix community otherwise. they also appear to be using their podcast to interview Steering Committee candidates, which seems like a real obvious way to influence the selection process given the kinds of questions they seem to be asking.