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.

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

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    15Ā·
    3 days ago

    the worst Nix project has finally been announced: behold crypto NixOS

    Iā€™m starting a paradigm shifting, open and new human / computer interface system that is global, multi device and privacy focused.

    [ā€¦]

    DISCLAIMER: You are not my exit liquidity, I have the best performing long term spot crypto portfolio in the world - Iā€™m a early adopter with 100% hit rate on geniuses. So, I donā€™t have to work, Iā€™m not building this to become rich. I want to build something paradigm changing - truly mind-blowing, because now we have the tech and Iā€™m annoyed how computer work. It is a lot of work, but it will reward us all.

    my ā€œthis isnā€™t a grift and Iā€™m not a grifterā€ disclaimer is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer. but speaking of prompting, what goes with crypto?

    ChatGPT-1o thinks, after some reinforced asking, that the MC of such a coin can reach 300-1000M; I think it could easily go higher - it solves so fundamental problems in a much more elegant way. In my opinion, it will be the same step as the command line to the windowed systems was. Or dump phone to smart phone. It will just span devices and span users while keeping the data under control and of companies.

    of course. after some reinforced asking, gpt told me youā€™re all haters if you donā€™t think Iā€™m as important as Xerox PARC!

    thereā€™s lots more in the OP to sneer at, but hereā€™s the worst part of the thread:

    Mod note: Iā€™m glad to see doubt and scepticism about crypto-based claims. However, that point has now been made; please avoid any further posts in that vein to avoid a pile-on dunkfest, and leave the thread for any potential on-topic discussion.

    thanks for nothing as usual NixOS discourse!

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