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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.

(December’s finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    https://awful.systems/post/5776862/8966942 😭

    also this guy is a bit of a doofus, e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/853934, where he is a dick to someone reporting a bug, and https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027, where someone points out that you can execute anything as root because of a security issue, and he argues like a total shithead

    You mean that a program designed to let an unprivileged user
    mount/unmount/eject anything he wants has a security flaw because it allows
    him to mount/unmount/eject anything he wants? I’m shocked.

    Implement a system that allows an appilcation to mount/unmount/eject USB
    devices connected to the system securely, then make sure that system is
    universally adopted on every linux install in the universe. Once you’ve done that, feel free to
    re-open this ticket.

    i would not invite this person to my birthday