Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of Awful you’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 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.

  • David GerardMA
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    115 months ago

    “DevOps” is a word meaning “sysadmin who can still use the command line”

    • Mike Knell
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      95 months ago

      @dgerard @Soyweiser I thought we were SREs now. At least, the message for years was “Sysadmins are useless shit now because they aren’t software engineers and hell, they don’t even call themselves engineers”.

      • David GerardMA
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        95 months ago

        a euphemism treadmill of “keeping shit working”

        • Mike Knell
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          95 months ago

          @dgerard Sometimes I feel like a hospital doctor who’s worked in the clap clinic for decades and has had a series of name badges starting with “Venereal Disease” and passing through “Special Clinic” on the way to “Sexual Health Clinic”. Same thankless job, just different labels.

          • @rook
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            105 months ago

            Same basic lessons, too… “consider the risks of giving root privileges to people you just met”, etc.

          • David GerardMA
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            65 months ago

            I don’t feel like any great shakes as a sysadmin, then I encounter someone with the same job title who has clearly never used a command line before

    • @Soyweiser
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      85 months ago

      Wait there are people who cannot use the command line. No wait again, don’t answer that please.

      • David GerardMA
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        85 months ago

        There are “sysadmins” who have to be dragged kicking and screaming to using the command line.

        • @V0ldek
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          55 months ago

          …what… What would they use instead?

          • @selfA
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            75 months ago

            having seen the horror from a distance: VNC, a fuckton of clicking, occasionally mouse and keyboard macros, possibly a networked KVM (itself not a bad idea at all for emergency access to hardware too commodity or misdesigned to have a sensible serial console, but we’re talking day to day here), and a massive chip on their shoulder about being forced off their beloved Windows Server 2003 and onto Linux

            • @V0ldek
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              65 months ago

              How do they sysadmin a server that doesn’t have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?

              • @selfA
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                45 months ago

                how dare you deny them their bounty of GPUs for every server in the rack

            • David GerardMA
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              65 months ago

              I have had the actually quite heartwarming experience of us hiring on a serious NT BOFH (someone who knows precisely how to wave a hammer at NT to intimidate it) and he sees how Linux does stuff and is trepidatious but eventually delighted

              then there are others

              i’m at like the pointy-clicky stage with NT admin and sometimes it’s just not enough, cos it’s Babby’s First OS but with several layers of tentacles underneath