Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025 - eviltoast

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.)

  • self@awful.systems
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    13 days ago

    define a meta-format for specifying the variables, default values, allowed values, etc., for an arbitrary[0] programā€™s config file, and create a program that reads a meta-format file and presents a GUI for editing the config.

    Iā€™d kinda love this even if Iā€™m editing config files in a text editor. emacs could use this with a major-mode or LSP to provide suggestions, validity checking, various rendered versions of the config, and guarantee interoperability with graphical tools (so that changes you make in an editor donā€™t get trampled by the UI, and vice versa)

    • khalid_salad@awful.systems
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      13 days ago

      I need an excuse to learn Rust and have wanted to do a ā€œparse, donā€™t validate / make invalid states unrepresentableā€ project for a while. I will definitely share it if I get anything done.