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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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    8Ā·
    2 months ago

    what are you folks doing for/with bookmarking? Iā€™ve killed my usage of pinboard because I learned the dudeā€™s going off the deep end

    already found a couple of the link* flavoured open source things, but looking for some practical/lived feedback

    • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
      8Ā·
      2 months ago

      I honestly just use browser bookmarks. Thatā€™s always been enough for me. Firefox can sync them too, so that takes care of backups as well.

      For anything that needs special attention, I create a todo item with the link in org-mode.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        7Ā·
        2 months ago

        fair 'nuff

        I keep finding myself in a position of thinking ā€œbah imma have to write this myself, arenā€™t Iā€, because nothing Iā€™ve found as yet actually works the way I want things to work :|

    • mlen@awful.systemsEnglish
      7Ā·
      2 months ago

      Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        5Ā·
        2 months ago

        the sharing part of it is indeed the thing I give the fewest shits about tbh. things I care more about are software choices and longevity. so, for example, fuck anything js/php - by and large those tend to be unserious software thatā€™ll be a nightmare to run even now, and even worse in time

        I should probably do a bit of a sketchdown of the exact shape of my desires here, if for nothing else than giving direction to whatever I may have to write myself. a friend and I have been mutually grumping about this in chat for a while, because our wants are quite close but also just different enough to bounce ideas off each other

    • antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish
      7Ā·
      2 months ago

      About a year ago I exported my bookmarks from there and dropped them in a self-hosted instance of linkding (using the recipe that puts it on fly.io with backups to b2). It works like a charm.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        4Ā·
        2 months ago

        Yeah found that, unfortunately itā€™s js-ware so I refuse to put my data near it

        (thatā€™s very much a me thing, but a thing nonetheless)

        • antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish
          4Ā·
          2 months ago

          Hm, what do you mean by js-ware? That its front end uses JavaScript libraries? I guess, fair. Backend is python though (:

          As a stunt (when I was unhappy with the previous linkding frontend), a pal and I wrote https://github.com/lz-bookmarks/lz, which is basically just linkding without the useful api and frontend (which is rust+webassembly, lol). Has a decent cli though, and interlinking between bookmarks and other URLs.

          • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
            6Ā·
            2 months ago

            yeah I despise the entire modern js ecosystem, so anything that increases my risk of even having to think the letters n p m starts making my trigger finger itch (and in this case, thatā€™d happen if I wanted to do UI tweaks or whatever)

            of all the things I found so far linkding has appeared to be the least rabid. lz sounds like a neat experiment, will check it out :)