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it’s something I actually quite enjoy about their writing style, though I also frequently choose to write Lisp

I was about to post this one! have an archive link

it’s fucking incredible how mask-off this techfash shit has gotten, and it’s absolutely no coincidence that the CEO of y combinator is doing this shit so loud while the orange site keeps platforming bigotry. the San Francisco these fuckheads want looks a lot like a real life counterpart to the worst bits of hacker news

when I get the chance I’m going to pull out some quotes to analyze later, because this article is very nice as an overview of techfash methods (though it’s the New Republic so of course they don’t go as far as to call a spade a spade)

it seriously took them 21 hours to come up with an excuse, and their excuse is it’s impossible to do the parts of html sanitization you can do with a basic regex and nothing else

fuckin ampersands man how the fuck do they work

oh my fuck I banned them before I even saw this

yeah we must be a fair bit older if we don’t buy their bullshit html sanitization ploy. no idea what web dev is here!

“a lot of sanitizers don’t process them properly” holy fuck

what in the fuck

no fuck off with this. holy fuck I hate that this is your reason to hassle one of my users

oh I got you covered! as soon as I get the chance I’ll draft a new urbit thread for this. I believe our last one covered Plunder which is indeed a trip from a Nix standpoint; I should dig that thread up to reference

holy shit fuck off

Bonus: Ye Gods, her interview with an Urbit developer is really, truly, amazingly awful: https://archive.is/5I7Td

how does it always come back to urbit?

The goal of my interview with you is to find out more about the technology behind Urbit, rather than focusing on its social scene like that annoying group of journalists desperate for their 15 minutes. So, let’s take some time to get to the core of Urbit’s technology.

I can only skim it for now, but it feels like this article deserves its own post. it looks like this was written as a reaction to the articles we’ve already seen that call out how fucking weird the fascists around urbit and the community/cult they’ve formed are; notably, the summary of urbit’s history here specifically elides any talk about the neoreactionary politics that led Yarvin to start urbit in the first place (references to which are themselves scattered across the system’s early specs)

oh cool, so they wandered into a sub they’ve never interacted with before, ignored all of its prior content and customs, didn’t even remotely try to address why one would be hostile towards racist posts on a site with a reputation for racism, and then immediately tone policed one of our admins?

I wish I could ban them twice

that’s understandable; it’s not for everyone. thanks for stopping by!

let’s not

as the esteemed poster who doesn’t seem to know fuck about what we do here pointed out, the orange site is hacker news

we’re a sister community to SneerClub and inherited a lot of its house posting style. part of our mission statement is to call out bigotry in the tech industry and to act as a pressure release valve for folks who are frustrated by it. unfortunately, hacker news has severe (and very well-documented) problems around amplifying and enabling race scientists, transphobes, various branches of neoreaction, and fascism. we derive enjoyment from sneering at and deconstructing garbage, sometimes in great detail.

generally, the only way to truly get what we’re doing here is to check out our archives and lurk; we have several months of posts on lemmy and several years in our former subreddits r/SneerClub and r/TechTakes. I recommend looking up our Urbit threads if you’d like a good sampler platter of our posting style and subject matter (and a good example of hacker news helping mainstream neoreaction)

if you are here to debate any of the above, take careful note of the sidebar