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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zogwarg@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 for posting 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[-] noodle@aus.social 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@self @zogwarg
Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

Who isn't huffing this nonsense?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

from the last time this came up, Tuta is of the few that aren't, although there's not really anyone with feature match on some of proton's features afaik

[-] noodle@aus.social 5 points 3 months ago

@froztbyte
I forgot I'm using their VPN too, and they accept bitcoin (not a big deal, but useful). I was aware of Tuta and fastmail when I chose Proton.

For now I'll prioritize moving to a self managed domain to make swapping provider easier in future.

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

I agree; Tuta is the only real replacement, and they’ve promised (for what that’s worth) they don’t have any plans for AI features. I may migrate to Tuta myself, but I can’t truly recommend it — as always, I have to point out that Tuta is still a single point of failure like Proton, and one day I hope we’re able to design a federated, e2e encrypted replacement for email (that crucially isn’t gpg or anything like it — imagine teaching your grandma and your drug dealer (assuming they’re not the same person) to use that kind of thing)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

Its worse for me - I've got a metric shitload of emails on Proton. Thankfully, I'm not using them for anything particularly important.

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