Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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 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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • rookEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    It’s probably a coincidence, but there have been a whole bunch of minor regression bugs in recent point releases of rsync, and also there are a whole bunch of commits from “tridge and claude”.

    • mirrorwitchEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      slop code in rsync timeline Ψ(･ω･ )Ψ

    • corbinEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Well, that might be the first package that I have to locally pin to a pre-slop commit. Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve never bothered to implement rsync myself even though the algorithm is documented; maybe this will be the push I need.

      • Anisette [any/all]English
        5·
        2 months ago

        I think the openbsd reimplementation is as of yet untouched at least, so that is an option

    • BlueMonday1984OPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      rsync

      Huh, haven’t heard of that before, lemme go check its Wikipedia page and-

      rsync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers

      Okay this sounds very fucking bad

      • David GerardMAEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        that EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD FUCKING USES

        it’s one of the tiny bricks way down the xkcd diagram

        • BlueMonday1984OPEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          At this rate, Adobe Flash is gonna come back into relevance by being one of the few things not slopified into uselessness

          (it almost certainly won’t, but I find it oddly hard to rule out the possibility)