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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)

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    8Ā·
    2 months ago

    I do believe thatā€™s the chrome-only horseshit that Proton uses for their local LLM, and reputedly itā€™s very slow and fairly unreliable

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
      10Ā·
      2 months ago

      chrome-only

      The whole concept of responsive really died in the arse with the onset of the full stack web developer.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        11Ā·
        2 months ago

        the web platform is great!

        • your apps run everywhere (that a modern version of chrome runs)
        • every API is pointlessly terrible because your app is simultaneously a document and an Angular monstrosity
        • progressive enhancement! (is dead and theyā€™re Weekend at Bernieā€™s-ing the body around knowing most web developers wonā€™t notice)
        • itā€™s an open platform! (controlled almost entirely by Google, with Appleā€™s only role being to slow down the terrible fucking ideas coming out of the standards process, and all other parties being effectively Google mouthpieces)
          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
            10Ā·
            2 months ago

            Mighty comes in at $30 with a 9% discount with a 12 month prepayment. I donā€™t think Mighty is for everyone. [ā€¦] However, for people who use resource intensive applications regularly and either prefer or donā€™t mind using web apps it seems like a no-brainer. I think there is also a legitimate argument for corporations to provide Mighty for their employees purely based on the productivity boost, especially for tech employees.

            It might be hard to get purists to buy into the ā€œbrowser = OSā€ value proposition, but in the meantime Iā€™ll be enjoying my 40 GB of RAM.

            oh itā€™s the web operating system again! things that make a web browser an operating system:

            • itā€™s extremely expensive every month
            • it rehashes the awful cloud rendering browser shit Amazon tried and gave up on for their underpowered Kindle tablets
            • it bundles a bunch of basic shit you can do in ordinary browser plugins
            • 40GB of RAM and 8 virtual cores! (thatā€™s all? my current work machine unfortunately has 64GB, and my desktop from 2020 is a 32+32GB split between native and a VM. 8 KVM cores is also not fantastic. none of this should be required for a fucking web browser though but here we are)
            • itā€™s using a data centerā€™s fantastic internet connection which is probably why itā€™s quick, but it of course requires a perfectly stable connection on your end or itā€™s gonna suck
            • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
              8Ā·
              2 months ago

              One other thing, also correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but isnā€™t it a giant key logger as well?

              • self@awful.systemsEnglish
                9Ā·
                2 months ago

                ā€¦huh, that is true! so another bullet point and this oneā€™s shared by more than one ā€œweb operating systemā€:

                • it irrevocably breaks the browserā€™s security model implementing pointless functionality

                in this case itā€™s pretty bad, cause itā€™s got the same issue as all hosted VMs in that if the host or hypervisor is compromised so are all the VMs, but also effectively anyone on Mightyā€™s side with access to the event stream would have enough data to compromise your entire existence