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 here 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.
ah thank you for this one!
In the comments to a submission about a private company trying to design a new supersonic airliner(!) this gem appears
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793848 if you have showdead)
The rest of the comments range from the realistic (it’s hard to design an airliner, and the market for fast ones is not big) over the inevitable Elon-fluffing (SpaceX is just like an airliner, duh!) to the above insanity.
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
Courts to Elon suing to protect Twitter’s honour: fuck off (PDF). And fuck off a second time (PDF).
Guy who was previously featured here for championing the merits of dropping the n-word when meeting new (white) people in order to judge them worthy had an extensive twitter rant about how scott alexander may be an actual prophet, while quote-twitting another similarly afflicted person.
If you bother, which I barely did, this is what you’re in for:
Trace says Scott has given up his will to power. but it’s not a giveaway, it’s a trade: if you don’t seek power you retain the ability to seek unpolluted truth. here’s this tradeoff explained by Curtis Yarvin, another reluctant prophet, whom Scott has definitely read:
Man I do NOT fuck with TracingWoodgrains. I assume that most of the people who interact with Hannania - and his ilk of wordy r9k robots and reply guys - is a a crypto-reactionary. But I think Tracey just really really likes tweeting and culture war fence straddling? Somehow it’s still obnoxious.
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics.
An assessment of a writer’s skill, with no regards to prose. This is what happens when the only text you consume come from techie microbloggers
Fucking Hetzner:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112161019007879382
i am deeply disappointed and annoyed
also billing cycle is 1 April lolollllllll
also where does one find a webhost that’s any better? hetzner are great otherwise (a proper company, not a personal project), I used to strongly recommend them.
also they hate crypto
AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
Azure: you’re running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as “customer service” or “functions that don’t get deprecated in three years”
Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
OVH: wot is dis “uptime” ov which u speek
Oracle: lol
Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle
I guess there’s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.
Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (it’s not just CloudFlareont!)
I’ve been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and I’ve had no complaints. Not sure how well they’d scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.
Azure is great and doesn’t require you to use Windows. I will not stand for such slander.
Also I love how literally no one can remember that IBM also has a cloud.
Azure is great
what kind of enterprise hell is your daily life, for you to enjoy such curses as azure? :D
fuck sakes this is aggravatingly disappointing to see from them
I’d been a bit sour already because of the power and IP pricing pushes, but I know the former is bc putin. the latter fucking sucks, it’s aggressive and feels like trying to get additional revenue for nothing (although I haven’t compared RIPE pricing to see if this feeling bears out (and even then, fucking hello? fucking RIPE going on continual price ballooning is some other fucking shit too. but I digress…))
but what the fuck at this. I’ve had hetzner boxes with other people’s shitty php getting content injected and growing coinminers and shit, and none of that has ever had a response like “you need to get rid of that domain/customer”. it’s had the usual temp-IP-blackhole crap (which I get)
i really really hope Hetzner can get their shit together here because this is a fucking pain to even think about. I got shit to do ya know.
every BOFH thinks they could do their own AWS with gaffer tape and paperclips. i actually thought “oh i could just” and then had to whack myself on the head with a newspaper and say NO
i have not the time any more for Some Guy LLC and especially not for being Some Guy LLC, there is good reason to go with the inhuman corporate behemoth and it’s because i’m tiiiiired
you will always need your bofh skills in good order and a bugout bag of last night’s fresh backups to hand, but given that one can camp out on Inhuman Corporate Behemoth for years
there’s comp sci experiments and then there’s services, but services are work and if i wanted to work i’d get a job
@dgerard @froztbyte I always tell people that the reason so many systems nerds (I don’t use BOFH any more as that’s… not really an attitude I like identifying with, it hasn’t aged well) use Macs. It’s because once you get back from work, frankly, the LAST thing you want to do is system administration on your home machine and OS X is just *nix enough.
note that this instance is also on hetzner (cause I was also fairly happy with them til now, other than a bit of missing functionality), so suggestions of reasonably-priced alternatives that don’t suck and will let us run NixOS are appreciated
though I might need a bit of convincing if those alternatives take the form of “OVH doesn’t suck now” or “go ahead and put your human flesh near Larry Ellison”
Update: Hetzner gives a non-apology that does not address the actual systemic issue
holy fuck hetzner what in the fuck are you doing. please stop having the lowest tier of the abuse team try to trick the woem.men admin into accepting the shit non-apology legal drafted as a way to try and head off a lawsuit. nobody cares that your PR department got inconvenienced by the strong public response to this (in fact, it’s a good thing)
go and very publicly commit to making policy changes that’ll protect LGBTQ+ folks or fuck off. shit in a way that’ll be legally expensive and embarrassing if you don’t follow through or get off the fucking pot. having your low-level IT staff pretend you’re Some Guy LLC is a bad fucking look. we all know the guy whose only job is to send threatening emails and press the “close account” button doesn’t have any power to do anything of substance. why in fuck is that guy still in the woem.men admin’s inbox making demands?