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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)

    • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      Earlier today, the Internet Archive suffered a DDoS attack, which has now been claimed by the BlackMeta hacktivist group, who says they will be conducting additional attacks.

      Hacktivist group? The fuck can you claim to be an activist for if your target is the Internet Archive?

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
        13·
        8 days ago

        Training my militia of revolutionary freedom fighters to attack homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and children’s playgrounds.

        • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
          8·
          7 days ago

          conservative who supports homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and children’s playgrounds for accelerationist reasons

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          7·
          7 days ago

          The average orange site hacktivist libertarian. They are just mad about the hypocrisy you see.

          (This post was sponsored by the hn guy who was mad at the tech guy who stopped doing startups as he had not given back all the money. Btw the actual communications of sn_blackmeta seem quite weird, talking about the global zionists the devil and having a certain ‘im 16 and this is deep and edgy quality’. For ex see this).

          • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
            10·
            7 days ago

            Maybe one day self-righteous computer crackers will get over the V for Vendetta, apocalypse cult, latin chanting, hooded robes, “we are anonymoos we are a legionella we do not frogger” aesthetic and I can stop cringing about it.

            Fucking goofy ahh KKK shit.

    • hrrrngh@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.

      Also, I can’t remember but didn’t Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I don’t think it was ever deleted, but that’s the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but there’s content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.

      Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like it’d take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I don’t know but I’m hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if it’s not 3-2-1. I’m only mildly paranoid about it lol.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours

        frankly, the entire design of IA is more than a bit fucking stupid for the purpose it serves. “oh hey here’s the whole IA, right in this building over here” is just galaxybrained derpery

        physical goods I can understand central-point (or some centralisation) in archive management, but ffs we’re multiple decades into knowing how to build things differently

        (stance contextualisation: while I’m glad that the IA exists, I’m not an unreserved stan of it. there are a couple other notable concerns with it, alongside the thing I just mentioned)