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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

could you imagine what web development would be like in a world where browser standards, features, and sandboxes weren’t firmly in the grips of these marketing chucklefucks?

like, I’ve mentioned to coworkers “hey isn’t the browser sandbox kind of bullshit? there’s so many parts of it that don’t do anything for security, but they make things harder for developers and easier for advertisers” and I don’t think a single one knew what I was talking about, because web development as a field has been captured by ad agencies. shit, find me one web development reference that isn’t owned by an ad agency.

and now they’re secure enough in that control that they do this fully mask-off shit, confident they’ll get away with it, cause who’s gonna stop them? bets on Mozilla reversing course on blocking third-party cookies now that google’s gone in this direction

[–] self@awful.systems 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

oh wow there’s some literal “it’s not a nazi unless it’s an old dead German” shit in there, they’re that kind of fash debatebro

[–] self@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago

we can do better than block your shitty posts

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

you’re the type of reply guy who rattles off man page names when you’re out of your depth, and you’re reply guying about administrating email to people who professionally administrate email

I don’t expect you to have caught onto that last bit, mainly because you never fucking shut up long enough to catch onto anything at all

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you’ve never heard of a single example of anyone losing a domain due to legal maneuvering, trusting the wrong TLD (ie a bunch of lgbt folks losing their domains when the TLD’s administrating country decided not to give them service), or a plain ol registrar fuckup?

you’re far too inexperienced to be opining on self-hosting email, then

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

oh there’ll definitely be more

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also is his flirting with white supremacy new, or has he always been that fascist of a weirdo?

he’s always come off as deeply fascist to me, though it’s possible he’s gone even more mask-off with the white supremacy. I feel that roko’s personal style of saying the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard and claiming it’s brilliant has influenced the e/acc crowd a lot too, so maybe there’s some cross-pollination of ideas there.

“by 2100 we will probably have disassembled Earth long with the rest of the solar system, and climate change will seem very quaint.”

yes, roko, it’s pretty fucking obvious that climate change will seem quaint by 2100

if it doesn’t fucking kill us way before then. that’s what makes it a fucking threat, roko, did your big ol mediocre brain miss that?

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

as a tip for you next time, shut the fuck up when someone with experience tells you you’re giving shit advice

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

previously we were r/SneerClub and r/TechTakes on Reddit. we’ve also got a local archive of old r/SneerClub posts which I’m currently redesigning to fix the, ah, everything about its web design

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

the replies I can see in the archive are already a fucking disaster

roko spewed the most nonsensical, fash-coded disapproval you could imagine:

the map should reflect the territory, not the feelings

that’s right roko, uh, maps don’t care about your feelings?

oh god I clicked through to the rest of roko’s comments in that thread and it’s even worse, cw transphobia for anyone who peeks their head in

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

they have apparently promised they don’t plan on implementing anything AI-related which is good, though I’m honestly hoping for a system where our privacy isn’t entirely reliant on the promises of a single authority

and I’m not saying we should do our own federated e2e email service, but somebody should

…more realistically, I’ll probably switch to tuta when my proton account nears renewal, as I’m not a fan of how much pure unfiltered horseshit I’m seeing them output with the money I paid them

[–] self@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago

every time I started reading this I seriously got the most disorienting feeling that I was in the past, and my brain kept telling me “the time travel worked! you’ve got to warn them!”

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