sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

this is your periodic reminder that you should:

a) turn off wifi
b) run an ethernet cable to your computer
c) get a WIRED headset with boom mic
d) use an external webcam
e) use a key light

for fuck's sake it's 2024 learn how to make phone calls

@mattblaze @survivalmachine i also carry around $15k of camera gear thanks to crypto, much the same deal. i’ve got a 61MP a7r4 with the trinity of f/2.8 g masters (16-35, 35-70, 70-200) and i’m definitely a slut for optics and resolution, but 150MP for another $20k on top seems like massive overkill/flex. to each their own, though.

@selzero about the same number of children die every day from lack of clean water (~20k) as the IDF has killed in the entire weekslong war. the defining human emotion is apathy.

@simon “small enough to read, doesn’t have too many random giant subdependencies”. then i scan it for noob errors or common mistakes. more if i’m writing something actually security-critical (then i try to stick to stdlib). this is in re: golang.

@mattblaze @survivalmachine it was a friendly question but ok, as you wish

@survivalmachine @mattblaze as if all early crypto people aren’t millionaires with toys lol. 35k is 35k

@mattblaze did you rent it or is this a humblebrag that you carry around a $35k camera?

today is actually a full moon so i can’t tell if the full moon rising over the ridge in the joshua tree at night “environment” for the AVP is always a full moon, or if some nameless engineer at apple programmed it to dynamically match the actual phase of the moon.

i really need to update my mastodon and mattermost instances, the latest mobile clients don’t like talking to my servers. this sort of attitude toward forcing users onto an api upgrade treadmill is pathological.

for google accounts with advanced protection turned on (aka mandatory hardware FIDO/U2F 2FA), it’s impossible to login on apple vision pro due to the fact that you cannot NFC or USB to your U2F keys. this is a problem.

@newt @sneak lol what a life. ebay shipping costs a lot and is slow. amazon has things to me in single digit hours. there is zero comparison.

@murph why would you want them to succeed blindly when you don’t know what they are doing or what goals such actions are in service of? this is fandom not science. mozilla is trash these days

the amazon cunts are putting banner ads inside my order history list now. this angers me beyond words. i am being punished for being a loyal and frequent customer.

wow, AVP is mega mega version 1.0 - i loaded my IMAP email configuration profile on it, and it's "unknown payload" and the account doesn't show up. it doesn't even support adding email accounts from profiles yet, and i see no way to use it to extend a mac desktop across a local lan unless you use icloud on the mac (i don't).

i think visionOS 1.5 or 2.0 is going to make this thing a lot lot lot more useful.

macbook air : ultrabook :: mac mini : nuc

@Hyolobrika @Gargron can you recommend one with a documented upgrade path from mastodon?

@ralf i have some contract projects that might be useful to you in the short term. email jp@eeqj.com with your skillset, we could kick off in under 24 hours if you can do swift, golang, wordpress, hugo, etc

@ralf if you're so skilled why have you been out of work for 20 months? what's the blocker?