Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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.
we’re looking for a sneerious name for a collaborative design/programming community for non-dickheads, like hacker news but not shit. thread your suggestions here!
I’m feeling uncreative but it’s a shame giggle academy is taken
“painter news” could be a nice jab at PG’s “Hackers & Painters”
we don’t want to mislead the actual painters
I would gladly take any number of actual painters over some of the programmers I’ve had to deal with contributing to open source projects
Oh are you looking for an open source contributor? I heard about this great helpful guy, Jia, he’s looking for a new project this week. Heard had some really novel ways of really seeing into your product…
oh I’ve heard of that dev - apparently they really like to focus on areas with wide impact! just the sort of dev you want in your team!
has very helpful friends too
speaking of networks, I saw this yesterday and it sure gave me some feelings
“bikeshed painters club” comes to mind, but probably also too long
ooh i like “bikeshed painting” or variants
“bikeshed systems” maybe? nicely memorable (and matches pattern of current tld) too
“Cathedral Central”
hibste.rs
The Margaret Hamilton Society
Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that’s calling NASA Hamilton a witch.
Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.
the more I think about it, the more I like this one too
(“runk” and “GNU/Scrotum” are right out)
runk sounds it would be the name of a rust variant of troff
Nah it’s masturbation in Swedish.
More specifically, “en runk” is analogous to “a wank”, but it’s not idiomatic.
wanking = “att runka”
I wanked = “jag runkade”
I had a wank = “jag tog en runk”, non-idiomatic. You’d say “jag runkade”. If you want to use a noun, “jag drog en tralla”.
fascinating, thanks for mentioning :)
so 100% in the tradition of the area of software that thought a good name for its photoshop clone would be “gimp”
GNU/Scrotum is a great name for a lemmy fork, but Richard’s copyright lawyers would probably sue me and the settlement terms would involve him eating his foot skin on my couch and leeching off of my wifi from his 2004 laptop for 12-24 months
You can deflect him with an inexpensive cleric spell (somatic components: broccoli and a copy of Microsoft Windows).
he’ll probably draw a significant amount of power from the fact that some of the walls in my house contain GNU utilities running on small Linux systems
I heard if you make minor modifications to those but then don’t publish source (along with branding them and dropping license files) then he can take 20d6 psychic damage
Ah, but you just dealt a small amount of damage by saying “Linux”.
Richard’s 2004 laptop runs FreeDOS but he find/replaced all instances of “FreeDOS” in the code to “GNU/Hurd”
spider plants are canonical
Name suggestion: Spider Plant Greenhouse
I do like this one
was pretty surprising when the sensible people took over at OSI and FSF got worse and worse
Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?
Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.
Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It’d be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. “KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!”
The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on “Building 20” that conveys a “but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture” kind of message.
Now I hope all the dumb MIT subculture jokes actually exist on student forums, where they belong. Because I can’t stop thinking of them now that you’ve got me started.
* Stata because none of our angles will be right angles.
* Course Six Sigma
* Infinite Sneeridor
Oh god I have to stop before I get to all the “Beaver” jokes.
I originally wanted “freeasinbothpieces”, which sums up the idea precisely, but five words is a bit much even with camel case
That could be the hostname for the forge instance(s)
Or the backups
Six Double Oh Eww
“Demolishing 20”
Einstürzende Zwanzig
“MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey
e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with
So, Harvey Mudd?