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 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.

  • @froztbyteEnglish
    12•4 months ago

    you know what really fucking gets me about this thing? even “before” all of the security and DV etc arguments (and, really, they are all valid)

    consider the average consumer-human (present version of) windows desktop/laptop/workstation that has survived for more than a year or so without having been re-imaged. those are already often an unusable nightmare of built-up cruft in sticky corners

    and now there’s going to be something that’ll do constant capture and analysis every fucking moment it’s running?

    how the fuck is this not going to go wrong? imagine the first time that sqlite table shits the bed. a dodgy character format goes into it, or a bit of disk corruption hits, or a file locking (lololol) issue hits, or …

    I just … I just really can’t imagine any of this is going to go very well at all in the real world

    • @selfAEnglish
      8•4 months ago

      I’m calling it, when this bullshit gets deployed widely a bunch of absolute shitheads are going to dismiss Kevin’s post with “that was the prototype, they changed everything for the real version” and the only thing that’ll change is they’ll superficially encrypt the SQLite file

      • @froztbyteEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        I’d bet on just buggy implementation. my bet is based on the fact that I’ve seen (multiple) hisense TVs do another thing: a MDNS query + publish, with the record having a newline in the fucking record. like, tvname-{macstring}\n.local.

        to be clear: they both ask for and answers to that record. to their own request.

        there are some extremely hilariously terrible things in a lot of these yoloboxed android solutions