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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting 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.

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      I donā€™t really know if any chromium-based options are a real solution - thereā€™s so much code in there that a lot of times wonā€™t get caught (cf. brave etc for this very thing), and goog is actively working to push their own agenda and they have a lot more dev-hours than anyone else to churn shit out

      ladybird and servo seem like the most promising alternative paths right now, and ladybird less so because chuds -_-

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        Ladybird isnā€™t going anywhere. The web standards move too fast and theyā€™re not going to be able to catch up. I wish it was another way, but thereā€™s no way a couple of million $ is going to move the needle here when (probably) tens of billions have been poured into chromium/FF.

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            oof. Something tells me heā€™s a good guy and just knee-jerked that response without thinking about it. But then I realize it doesnā€™t matter because the kind of community you create doesnā€™t depend on who you are deep down but what you say publicly.

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      Update - Ended up jumping ship to Librewolf, since I just didnā€™t like the feel of Chromium.

      I was contemplating going back to Firefox, but then I accidentally wiped my entire profile whilst trying to transfer over my browser history and went ā€œfuck it, Iā€™m sticking with Libreā€.