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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota here 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.

  • bitofhope@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    I guess thereā€™s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 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

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 months ago

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