sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

it used to be that a macos would continue to work right if you blocked configuration.apple.com (apple's remote feature flags api, as far as i can tell). now if you block that, you won't even see the current software updates available on m1.

@Hyolobrika@berserker.town @iBender70 @mysk that mediaanalysisd, a process for scanning local files, is phoning home to apple APIs via the internet without consent or authorization, when iCloud and Photos.app are not in use at all, and no reasonable person would expect API connections being made to Apple.

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@Cdespinosa why is it doing it for images that aren't under Apple's purview? this happened in finder spacebar preview (quicklook). it's not in photos.app or preview.app - all the OS has been asked to do is display the image onscreen.

@gruber @kbarker @timbray @briankrebs @mmasnick @Edent

what do you think happens to those on-device checks then?

checking on-device without a subsequent API call is nonsensical.

@reactorcontrol @rdela @joeo10

1) other people claim differently

2) those would be on a cdn that apple uses to distribute files, not on api.smoot.apple.com. hoakley has suggested on eclecticlight that it's part of visual lookup.

all consumer electronics should support zigbee for pushing any/all buttons/selectors on them. all monitors should expose each input selector as a zigbee button, brightness up/down, etc.

@eris i say it because people who say "poly" are gross and i don't want to be lumped in with them

https://youtu.be/om5cqQ6Ztgs

raspberry headphones

https://hometechhacker.com/my-9-favorite-home-assistant-automations/

@iBender70 @mysk he claimed that i said macos sends info about local photos to apple. i never made that claim. read my article carefully.

so despite home assistant suggesting that you can install it using a docker container, one of the main value-adds, "addons", does not work unless you install their custom distro on bare metal or in a VM. cool. ugh.

now macOS is asking me for an apple id login to "Update Apple ID Settings", because "Some account services will not be available until you sign in again."

I never signed in. I don't use an Apple ID. What account services does it think I want?

@abdulocracy it still phones home to github to do an update check by default :(

the home assistant web interface phones home for all sorts of crap back to the mothership

shoutout to traefik which defaults phone-home to false and requires opt-in consent to enable its bundled surveillance.