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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.

    • Mike Knell@blat.at
      8·
      3 days ago

      @dgerard @Soyweiser I thought we were SREs now. At least, the message for years was “Sysadmins are useless shit now because they aren’t software engineers and hell, they don’t even call themselves engineers”.

        • Mike Knell@blat.at
          8·
          3 days ago

          @dgerard Sometimes I feel like a hospital doctor who’s worked in the clap clinic for decades and has had a series of name badges starting with “Venereal Disease” and passing through “Special Clinic” on the way to “Sexual Health Clinic”. Same thankless job, just different labels.

          • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
            7·
            3 days ago

            Same basic lessons, too… “consider the risks of giving root privileges to people you just met”, etc.

          • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            I don’t feel like any great shakes as a sysadmin, then I encounter someone with the same job title who has clearly never used a command line before

          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
            6·
            3 days ago

            having seen the horror from a distance: VNC, a fuckton of clicking, occasionally mouse and keyboard macros, possibly a networked KVM (itself not a bad idea at all for emergency access to hardware too commodity or misdesigned to have a sensible serial console, but we’re talking day to day here), and a massive chip on their shoulder about being forced off their beloved Windows Server 2003 and onto Linux

            • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              How do they sysadmin a server that doesn’t have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?

            • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
              5·
              3 days ago

              I have had the actually quite heartwarming experience of us hiring on a serious NT BOFH (someone who knows precisely how to wave a hammer at NT to intimidate it) and he sees how Linux does stuff and is trepidatious but eventually delighted

              then there are others

              i’m at like the pointy-clicky stage with NT admin and sometimes it’s just not enough, cos it’s Babby’s First OS but with several layers of tentacles underneath