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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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      3Ā·
      2 days ago

      I keep wanting to give zed a serious go (even just to try it out because it looks interesting) but thereā€™s some design decisions that are raisedeyebrow.gif and feel like a very telling thing about the mindset of the devs

      fresh install:

      • at start, it immediately attempts to start making connections to github copilot and a couple of other network sources. no user prompt, no indication that itā€™s going to be doing this, no indication that it is doing it
      • figuring out how to turn said undesired features off was not documented and just by the by semi answered elsewhere (also: I applied those settings and it still did a bunch of shit, so I had to pull the repo and scratch through it myselfā€¦)

      while Iā€™m certainly from the older guard of crotchety, I still think itā€™s fucking reasonable to ask the user before your software goes off and does shit. you donā€™t even have to overload them with requests, you can make it granular with a customize button. this shit has been solved in fucking windows application installers since the goddamn 00s

      christ Iā€™m gonna stay angry at the last decade for a long time