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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
A nonprofit that serves teenagers complains about getting mugged by Salesforce. dang dons his shining armor and dashes forth to save the uwu smol bean megacorp from the peasant mob.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887
Iām a bit split on this one
on the one hand, the post as first posted had a lot of āvictimisedā language (āomg slack is extorting usā) and frankly that felt like bait - esp as many, many volunteer-type orgs that have had similar slack setups have been taking a hammer for months now (as I posted before, a local ZA tech setup was one, and more recently that big k8s one too). thereās enough precedent here that expecting slack to have behaved otherwise (even āhonourablyā) seems to me to have been almost foolish
on the other, slack 100% only took action once this did hit hype and enough eyeballs, and only reacted since it was an embarrassment
butā¦yeah. slack hasnāt been a good option for public use for literally years now :|
It sucks how much time in tech is spend on 'sorry this tool we recommend before suddenly is no longer free, or removed some options (either totally or into the paywall part) so now we will have to look for something else.
Seen it happen to simple csv editors for example.
Slack CEO responded there that it was all a ābilling mistakeā and that theyāll do better in the future and people are having none of it.
A rare orange site W, surprisingly heartwarming.
I really donāt buy the ābilling mistakeā line - theyāve been doing the same thing to many other community-org slacks. Iāve seen with my own eyes the mail that was sent to the ZA tech slack