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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

all software sucks, but WordPress particularly sucks

it started as blogging software, then overwhelmingly its users were business site designers, so that's who's paying Automattic

hence the shitty Gutenberg block editor

the substrate of blogging functionality hasn't actually been broken, but ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

so WP Dark Mode requires a bit of kludging and most themes are frankly slapdash, so it always requires kludging. I'm happy dark mode works as well as it does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

yeah, we use wpcli for the day job, it's just the thing for serious wordpress abuse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I just fixed (or at least kludged) Dark Mode too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

WP Dark Mode is annoyingly lacking in config options, I'll mess with CSS in a bit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

not a single fucker ever calls it anything other than twitter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Twitter had outsized impact because it's where the journalists hung out, and structurally it was much more everyone in the same place than FB/IG

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

because i am super clever i forgot to install WP SuperCache and the server was promptly hugged to death by 1000 mastodon instances hitting it simultaneously to render a card for it

Dark Mode is comprehensively broken, i'll dive in again to try to fix it in a bit - I suspect Blocksy Free is not quite all that as a theme. pity, it looks ok

 

"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"look surely not everything in America is explained by racism" "... OH COME ON NOW"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

i must point out that i've barely interacted with the guy, if at all, and had previously considered him on the saner end of the rationalists from his reasonably coherent twitter

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

don't forget the ones outraged they can't use the Daily Mail or the Sun as sources

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

literally started by a guy who was banned for trying to set up a business to write wikipedia articles, and the evils of JIMMY WAAAAAAAAALES!!! still fill his spleen

 

another obviously correct opinion from Lucidity

 

I followed these steps, but just so happened to check on my mason jar 3-4 days in and saw tiny carbonation bubbles rapidly rising throughout.

I thought that may just be part of the process but double checked with a Google search on day 7 (when there were no bubbles in the container at all).

Turns out I had just grew a botulism culture and garlic in olive oil specifically is a fairly common way to grow this bio-toxins.

Had I not checked on it 3-4 days in I'd have been none the wiser and would have Darwinned my entire family.

Prompt with care and never trust AI dear people...

 

WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

 

Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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.

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