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.)

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’d love to work on something like that. have you checked out any of soatok’s work on federated key infrastructure? I can dig up some links if you haven’t and it seems interesting; I understand soatok is developing it with the possibility that it could be an enabling technology for federated end-to-end encrypted email in mind.

    • khalid_salad@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I am very outside of my depth here, but would be happy to read about it. My initial thought for a solution would be to develop in parallel an email service that doesn’t do encryption, as well as a mail client that allows for end-to-end encryption. But, being outside of my depth, I have no idea if this is a totally laughable solution.

      Edit: should clarify that my thinking here is that users who just want an alternative to Gmail would have it, and people who wanted “email with encryption” could use the mail client (and potentially use it with a different provider). I don’t know if that is feasible (I am not aware of any such solution), but it also strikes me as more sustainable (logistically and financially). Hopefully I only flipped a bozo bit or two, here, and not a whole bozo nibble.