[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago

and it wasn't even my goal to do that! couple of replies across hours, trying to see if this guy is capable of ... irunno, unassing their head(?) and engaging with the criticisms

then the subtlest thing set them off and shit went mask off so fast

but hey, at least this way we now just know and don't have to guess. so much easier

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

I’d ask you to prove your work but fortunately you’ve already left through the window

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

listen here you little shit, we have a USER STUDY that proves that those who don’t even think of “serving staff” are the most virtuous humans. no you can’t see the data why would you even ask that

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

for those who hadn’t seen before, FWD is an account that showed up on the fedi not too long ago (3~4mo?), and has been acting as a Mouthpiece (and semi consent manufacturing outlet)

across a number of “polls” (with forced answer paths) they’ve had their replies absolutely blasted, and across literally hundreds of replies they’ve dodged the point so hard they might have invented a new sports class

earlier today I attempted to (quite lightly) check with them if they understand why their responses aren’t all-liked. it didn’t take much of long for them to go off the rails

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that one in which the person behind/running @FirefoxWebDevs drops the mask so fast it looks like a magic trick: gallery link

thread by @self, toots by myself and others. the poster managed to keep their civility for quite a while until I dared(tm) to highlight their lack of a reply outside of UK 5pm, at which point they immediately ramped up

(and based on some screenshots I’ve been sent, he’s also been doing the classic tail-darvo moping elsewhere)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

zirp years go brrrrr

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

indeed

apache and nagios were top of the heap for years, and yet

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

thankfully temporarily free

god I can’t wait for the subsidies to end

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

We can turn it into a horror-themed exhibit park. And sell vip tickets for using some of the more particular roams as rage rooms, just smash all that nonsense up

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Spacex, walking the path of something solved literally 4 decades ago: blows up many rockets

Yeah, super successful. As a grift of course, because that’s what it is

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago

once again, the facade of the "whoops, bad company" falls to the ground the moment she needs her hands to fill the pompoms instead of hold up the venetian mask

transcripta quote tweet by @XiWellWisher, reads: "So what's the deal with this ghastly woman again? She's a sort of silicon valley Ghislaine Maxwell?"

the quoted tweet by aella reads: "There's apparently a pro-billionaire protest in SF on the 7th. I might go to this to support! Anybody else going?"

also, real weird account name on that account, wonder if it's a sock

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

been giving it a whirl for a few weeks now and greatly enjoying it. one or two minor snags I still need to solve (such as back-kill-word not working in search, just haven't looked into it yet) but otherwise fairly pleased

and I no longer have to see the stupid iterm2 update nag every damn day

config.keys and hot reload are nice

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ethical Ai alliance, clause 0 (ethicalaialliance.org)

stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting

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seen via this

might be a cool thing some here may enjoy contributing to

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London permacomputing club (london.permacomputing.net)

Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting

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revisiiiioooooon! (2025.revision-party.net)

I forgot to post it here earlier but it's revision weekend!

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in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

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some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:

but buyers are warned that purchases will “require approval”

aww, the poor babies. even with literal nazis in the whitehouse they still feel uncomfortable to spout their weird shit

hopefully if this thing happens at all, someone documents the everliving hell out of every attendee

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems

some months ago I mentioned I couldn’t see comments in safari but could in fx (on ios). figured it out now: the 1Blocker “disable comments” filter sweepingly includes lemmy comment field types, but for some reason only on safari and not fx (despite apple forcing engine as they do)

the fix: add awful.systems as an allowed domain inside 1Blocker config

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the precision and clarity are astounding

by the time the hilbert curves got there my mouth was hanging open, and it still gets better

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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.

Last week's thread

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

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'cuz I definitely do

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“stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”

yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..

one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on

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I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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