Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024 - eviltoast

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 here 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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
    Azure: you’re running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
    Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as “customer service” or “functions that don’t get deprecated in three years”
    Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
    OVH: wot is dis “uptime” ov which u speek
    Oracle: lol
    Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I guess there’s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.

      • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’ve been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and I’ve had no complaints. Not sure how well they’d scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          this is one part of the problem, yeah - pretty much all the VPS offerings are extremely painful cost-wise if you need chonky hosts

          rootservers (or things off the serverbidding market) are way better bang for buck (i.e. my all-the-things gremlin box is dual-4TB 64GB i7-something, at ~38eur/mo)

          I really, really hope they sort this shit out

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (it’s not just CloudFlareont!)

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Off the cuff I think (and would have to doublecheck) Akamai is probably bigger by a fair deal, they’re just not nearly as loud

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Azure is great and doesn’t require you to use Windows. I will not stand for such slander.

      Also I love how literally no one can remember that IBM also has a cloud.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Azure is great

        what kind of enterprise hell is your daily life, for you to enjoy such curses as azure? :D

        • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I hosted a single Linux VM on the free student’s subscription and didn’t hate it.

          AWS was a nightmare on the other hand. At least a VM on Azure is called an Azure VM and not Elastic Rubber Evolution 2: Blue Artemis Service.