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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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      @dgerard @Soyweiser I thought we were SREs now. At least, the message for years was ā€œSysadmins are useless shit now because they arenā€™t software engineers and hell, they donā€™t even call themselves engineersā€.

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          @dgerard Sometimes I feel like a hospital doctor whoā€™s worked in the clap clinic for decades and has had a series of name badges starting with ā€œVenereal Diseaseā€ and passing through ā€œSpecial Clinicā€ on the way to ā€œSexual Health Clinicā€. Same thankless job, just different labels.

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            Same basic lessons, tooā€¦ ā€œconsider the risks of giving root privileges to people you just metā€, etc.

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            I donā€™t feel like any great shakes as a sysadmin, then I encounter someone with the same job title who has clearly never used a command line before

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      Wait there are people who cannot use the command line. No wait again, donā€™t answer that please.

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            having seen the horror from a distance: VNC, a fuckton of clicking, occasionally mouse and keyboard macros, possibly a networked KVM (itself not a bad idea at all for emergency access to hardware too commodity or misdesigned to have a sensible serial console, but weā€™re talking day to day here), and a massive chip on their shoulder about being forced off their beloved Windows Server 2003 and onto Linux

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              How do they sysadmin a server that doesnā€™t have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?

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              I have had the actually quite heartwarming experience of us hiring on a serious NT BOFH (someone who knows precisely how to wave a hammer at NT to intimidate it) and he sees how Linux does stuff and is trepidatious but eventually delighted

              then there are others

              iā€™m at like the pointy-clicky stage with NT admin and sometimes itā€™s just not enough, cos itā€™s Babbyā€™s First OS but with several layers of tentacles underneath