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.

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      Oops, Iā€™ve been trying to avoid calling it ā€œclownstrikeā€, and didnā€™t quite manage to fix that initial syllable.

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        Completely agree, thatā€™s why I nit, since ā€œCloudStrikeā€ sounds like an actual name for an actual product and I will not have that stand!

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          AWS probably has pre-filled patent documents ready for CloudStrike, just waiting on some acquihire or popular open source thing they can product-leech

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      Itā€™s a really weird name for a product. A crowd strike sounds like a terrorist tactic, not something that brings ā€œsecurityā€ to mind.

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        Tom Clancyā€™s CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction Iā€™d accidentally buy from the thrift store

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        thereā€™s a whole strain of extreme terribleness in the wider infosec industry ito naming and references, itā€™s so goddamn bad

        the most recently visible form of this is post-heartbleed how lots of researchers/groups now fall over themselves to give vuln publications Branding (logo, catchy name, etc), but also all kinds of other things that they constantly mix some terminology soup up

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      People are so trained to shout at Cloudflare for protecting the neo-nazi sites that this is every understandable.

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      Simpsons cartoon, Marge shouts ā€˜Cloudflare, no!ā€™ to her left. Bart, with the Cloudflare logo on his head walks in from the right, ā€˜What?ā€™. Marge apologizes to Bart, ā€˜Sorry force of habitā€™. Marge shouts ā€˜Crowdstrike, no!ā€™.