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Re:Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling lo... by DonHopkins on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:03PM (#45706934)
Eeeeh, two out of ten... Boring, derivative, and juvenile; you're just a sad drab light weight whiney troll. You can't hold a candle to the colorful iconoclastic brilliance of Netochka Nezvanova's performance art.

Her artfully crafted non-existence is baked into her name, her avant-garde software engineering is brilliant and groundbreaking, and she even has a Wikipedia page, a Salon.com article, and numerous ArtsyFartsy LitCrit analyses written about her legendary trolling.

You could do better by taking some advice from Melania Trump, gold-digging meme-coin-rug-pull-endorsing transactional trophy wife of the biglyest troll in the universe: "Be Best".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Best

>Be Best is a public-awareness campaign first promoted by First Lady Melania Trump. It began in 2018 and continued until 2021. Its initial focuses included youth well-being and combating cyberbullying; the initiative's scope was expanded to include combating revenge porn during her second tenure as first lady.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352276

>Bravo! If you enjoyed that anti-Max performance art trolling, but thought it wasn't spectacularly hyperbolic and sociopathic enough, I recommend looking up some of the classic flames on the nettime mailing list by Netochka Nezvanova aka "NN" aka "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp"! [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova_(author)

>Netochka Nezvanova is the pseudonym used by the author(s) of nato.0+55+3d, a real-time, modular, video and multi-media processing environment. Alternate aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". The name itself is adopted from the main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's unfinished novel Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and translates as "nameless nobody." [...]

https://www.salon.com/2002/03/01/netochka/

>The most feared woman on the Internet: Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?

>For someone who does not exist — at least the way you or I do — Netochka Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She’s a gifted computer programmer and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer. [...]

https://anthology.rhizome.org/m9ndfukc-0-99

>Netochka Nezvanova was a massively influential online entity at the turn of the millennium. An evolution of various internet monikers, among them m2zk!n3nkunzt, inte.ger, and antiorp, Nezvanova has collectively been credited for writing a number of early real-time audiovisual and graphics applications. She was also a prolific and divisive presence on email lists, employing trolling as a form of propaganda and as a tool for creative disruption—though, at times, users adopting the moniker also engaged in harassment and other destructive behaviors. [...]

>"I have not been thrown off a mailing list. I have been illegally transformed into a yellow flower. A young girl one day found me, and with half closed eyes whispered: Perfection, Today you've peered in my direction." —Netochka Nezvanova, m9ndfukc.0+99, 1999.

>As hacker or net prankster, Nezvanova was incredibly intentional in her actions. As a software writer, she was both an abstractionist and a progenitor. [...]

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