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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

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    @self @zogwarg
    Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

    Who isnā€™t huffing this nonsense?

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      from the last time this came up, Tuta is of the few that arenā€™t, although thereā€™s not really anyone with feature match on some of protonā€™s features afaik

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        I agree; Tuta is the only real replacement, and theyā€™ve promised (for what thatā€™s worth) they donā€™t have any plans for AI features. I may migrate to Tuta myself, but I canā€™t truly recommend it ā€” as always, I have to point out that Tuta is still a single point of failure like Proton, and one day I hope weā€™re able to design a federated, e2e encrypted replacement for email (that crucially isnā€™t gpg or anything like it ā€” imagine teaching your grandma and your drug dealer (assuming theyā€™re not the same person) to use that kind of thing)

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        @froztbyte
        I forgot Iā€™m using their VPN too, and they accept bitcoin (not a big deal, but useful). I was aware of Tuta and fastmail when I chose Proton.

        For now Iā€™ll prioritize moving to a self managed domain to make swapping provider easier in future.

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      Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

      Its worse for me - Iā€™ve got a metric shitload of emails on Proton. Thankfully, Iā€™m not using them for anything particularly important.