sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

I've been actively using my laptop unplugged for an hour and it's at 97% battery.

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

@codewiz are we gonna ignore "colossus: the forbin project"?

@Hyolobrika @Sarosa i would need another disk to answer that, lol

@laurahelmuth @tarahaelle why do we care about anyone born in those years?

@nando161@theblower.au who ever said capitalism expects limitless growth? this is a fallacy

if you have sda, sdb, sdc, ..., sdz, the next is sdaa. finally i have a box with more than 26 hard drives

@mekkaokereke yes the problem is definitely that we don't have enough white guilt

@danymat i have not memorized the syntax of any programming language except perhaps c (which i learned when i was 13-ish). every time i write a new structure method in go or a list comprehension in python or destructure an array in javascript i have to go look at existing code to do so. i also can't ever remember if a for loop's second arg finish check is == or >=. i code by looking at existing code constantly because i simply cannot memorize syntax unless i am using it daily.

it is ridiculously astounding what chatgpt can do. if you told me such a thing existed and i hadn't actually seen/used it myself, i wouldn't believe you.

it's insane, chatgpt now functions as a stand-in for my working memory of syntax and 3p library api shape, and i'm a 10x (or at least a 5-7x) programmer again.

TIL the mac mini now has a 10G ethernet option (as a configurable option, not standard, and is only a $100 upgrade).

apple seems to be penny-pinching now

In case you're also into my favorite turn-based tabletop strategy game, I'll be playing NLHE poker on stream on Max Pain Monday live from Hustler Casino in LA about five hours from now (17:00 Pacific, 20:00 Eastern, 02:00 Berlin). The live stream should run for about 4 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMmO6N8OqQM

https://www.youtube.com/@HustlerCasinoLive

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looks like someone is crossposting my toots without authorization to nostr.

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@danymat this has been true since iphone 1

macOS 14.4.0 will phone-home to apple's data collector (xp.apple.com) even with analytics off when doing an update. new behavior however is that it will also do this when only "download updates" (but not install them) automatically is enabled.

it also contacts gs.apple.com to get the signed boot ticket (and transmit your ECID) at download time, which happens background/automatically even if you've told it not to install updates automatically.

they're already out with the propaganda

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-vision-pro/unauthorized-modification-of-visionos-dev58c4a41bf/visionos

@danymat i use my public phone number

starship IFT-3 launch in 25 minutes - stream is up at https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3

372k viewers so far

i am now @sneak.07 on signal

@selzero @Tooden you are correct that you don't understand the point i am trying to make. PS: the s is not capitalized