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 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.

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

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    Examples off the top of my head:

    • Almost everything about TCP/IP stack
    • NETCONF
    • YAML
    • Most things related to cars and car infrastructure
    • Alcohol
    • Chiclet keyboards
    • Unicode Han unification
    • Layer 2 SDN
    • Kubernetes
    • JavaScript
    • Disk partitioning
    • UEFI
    • Public transit fares

    Edit: checked the link and was surprised our lists didn’t have any ones in common (though I considered including MS Excel).

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      • MS-DOS and Windows, of course…
      • but, and this will get some boos, Unix as a workstation OS compared with every other non-windows workstation OS
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        If you step back and think about it, it is rather absurd that a time-sharing multi-user OS essentially took over for personal devices