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 youā€™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 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.

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

    • Mii@awful.systems
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      Posteo is from Germany and theyā€™re reasonably popular here. Their offer is quite different from Proton, though. If you want full E2E encryption you need to use GPG or S/MIME and handle that yourself (and obviously so does your recipient), so itā€™s not as batteries included as what Proton offered.

      I like their focus on green energy and sustainability though.

      Another option like that is mailbox.org. Theyā€™re presenting themselves as a bit more business-like.

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        2 months ago

        Posteo is from Germany

        Thatā€™s significantly less comforting than Protonā€™s Switzerland. Itā€™s in 14 Eyes after all.

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          Switzerland may not be in 14 Eyes, but itā€™s still got its own surveillance apparatus and Swiss companies are still required to respond to lawful requests from the Usual Agencies. Itā€™s also a signatory to various mutual aid treaties. So Iā€™m not sure how much difference this actually makes in practice beyond ā€œmarketingā€.