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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 10 months ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

Fucking Hetzner:

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112161019007879382

i am deeply disappointed and annoyed

also billing cycle is 1 April lolollllllll

also where does one find a webhost that's any better? hetzner are great otherwise (a proper company, not a personal project), I used to strongly recommend them.

also they hate crypto

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

fuck sakes this is aggravatingly disappointing to see from them

I'd been a bit sour already because of the power and IP pricing pushes, but I know the former is bc putin. the latter fucking sucks, it's aggressive and feels like trying to get additional revenue for nothing (although I haven't compared RIPE pricing to see if this feeling bears out (and even then, fucking hello? fucking RIPE going on continual price ballooning is some other fucking shit too. but I digress...))

but what the fuck at this. I've had hetzner boxes with other people's shitty php getting content injected and growing coinminers and shit, and none of that has ever had a response like "you need to get rid of that domain/customer". it's had the usual temp-IP-blackhole crap (which I get)

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

note that this instance is also on hetzner (cause I was also fairly happy with them til now, other than a bit of missing functionality), so suggestions of reasonably-priced alternatives that don’t suck and will let us run NixOS are appreciated

though I might need a bit of convincing if those alternatives take the form of “OVH doesn’t suck now” or “go ahead and put your human flesh near Larry Ellison”

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