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 you’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 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
It's starting to feel like I need to download a snapshot of Wikipedia now before it gets worse.
low background steel, maybe?
Here's their page of instructions, written as usual by the children who really liked programming the family VCR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/
It's... suboptimal, but it's about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).
It's updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.
I second kiwix. It's dead easy for managing and making copies of wiki images.