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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025 (awful.systems)
submitted 3 weeks ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

A second trashfire has hit the Ruby language - RubyGems was hit with a hostile takeover from Ruby Central, seemingly to squash an attempt at putting together an official governance policy.

Between that and DHH's fascist screed, its not been a good week for Ruby.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wonder if, esp considering the DHH situations this is sort of a nazi bar style takeover. Where the people who don't want to make a fuss let in the nice but iffy people who then go mask off, and let the rest in. (The thing the far right accused the left of doing, in a bit of projections). But I know nothing about the politics of anybody involved, could also just be a regular hostile takeover.

(Doesn't feel like one just looking at the rubycentral bsky account for a second though. They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks (also a link to an email article of them, which just feels weird)).

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks

We at least got to see a well-aimed sneer in response:

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Another sneer on the subject: https://bsky.app/profile/tef.bsky.social/post/3lz7fdou4uk2y

"In case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"

rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

Followup by somebody else:

"I posted here about him driving at Le Mans in 2024, and several people told me that he’s disliked and mocked as much in the motorsport community as he is in the tech community."

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

"rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

Got a pretty fitting post just up the thread:

anyway it turns out i spoke too soon: enough people have already stepped down to the point where dhh is now paying to keep the lights on

so the answer is "the only people left are paid to be there, everyone else walked away"

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

"Two friends short of a podcast" is the single most powerful burn I've seen in quite some time.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

ruby's had this problem for ~2 decades now. like, the "rockstar dev" archetype literally became big directly because of ruby's popularity and perception at the time

I haven't been active in/near the ruby space for a number of years now so I can't speak to the modern details well at all, but I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that the various branches of it haven't really learned how to deal. I will say that I have seen some improvement over that period, but... yeah

[-] nfultz@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ruby’s had this problem for ~2 decades now. like, the “rockstar dev” archetype literally became big directly because of ruby’s popularity and perception at the time

I had to look it up, the ~~~Rails Conf~~~ Golden Gate Ruby Conf code like a porn star thing was 2009, I didn't hallucinate it. DHH has deleted those tweets.

I feel old now.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

code like a porn star thin

The what thing now??

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