sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

be large and corporate, or google will warn your userbase that you're maybe a shady open source data-stealing, ski-mask wearing criminal.

If you put a Google Fi sim card in a freshly wiped android phone, it autocompletes the Google sign-in page. I am intensely curious if this is a sim card serial to PII disclosure bug like the one weev discovered all those years ago with ATT/iPad

iPadOS 14.3 claims that it now reports air quality via Maps and Siri for locations in "China mainland".

Part of Project Dragonfly, Google's CCP-compliant (censored) search product, they had to report air quality lies from government servers in Beijing.

Does anyone know if Apple is now doing this?

testing out pixelfed @ @sneak

@surfingalot i don't think that's a true statement. most of the web works just fine with noscript.

they told me that spending a lot of money on gear won't make me a better photographer, but this is a bathroom mirror selfie and i'm pretty sure they're all wrong

if you have advanced protection on, google will mangle all your emails, even via imap, to rewrite all URLs to the google redirector, breaking email signatures, breaking PGP crypto signatures, et c.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818024

if you want to back up your mail in its original form, you have to do it via data takeout/export.

also google: if you want to export your email unmodified, it takes months(!) because you have advanced protection on.

@VD15 the moment i saw him sitting there nonplussed in those fucking mittens i knew instantly it would be a meme

@surfingalot that was a policy directive, i think (EOs aren't law and can't be aimed at the public) and i read that implementation of all of his policy directives have been put on hold pending review by the new administration.

sometimes i think about the fact that people routinely browse the web without noscript, uBlock Origin, and Cookie Autodelete, and get the chills.

he's rolling back all of the previous administration's policies except the one where they stopped publishing how many civilians they kill with drones

not a single iota of the fact that america remains a dying empire is affected in any way whatsoever by the fact that the figurehead for the corporate ownership of the USA has changed, nor will the death throes of said empire in its twilight be any less destructive, violent, or severe.

@mikael you're right! i didn't realize they had a macOS version; this is the one i use on windows and it's good.

afaict there are no good torrent clients for macos

i was going back through old photos, organizing my files (breaking out original photography vs saved internet memes, one of which needs to be categorized by month and year, and the other just by year) and it's startling how much better 2019 was than recent life memory

@timokoesters because you have no alternative; people don't use decentralized services especially considering that the UX on ios sucks as ios push notifications for an app must all come from a centralized location.

given that constraint, this is the best centralized service possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV6A74qLiec

@Synclair in what universe is a dude in a bearskin with antlers storming the US capitol a *bad* thing?!

the population of catalina is 4096 people, according to wikipedia