sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@paoloredaelli i like gold

it's crazy how good apple's spin doctors are. it's art and i'm truly in awe.

the art of objectively not lying while causing false information to be conveyed to your readers due to their tendency to conflate details with which they are unfamiliar is really beautiful if you think about it.

you say truthful thing x, your audience hears and remembers lie y.

@sarvasana am i what? running macOS?

@apanthropist@mastodon.social @dhh

the opt out doesn't help the 99.9% of users that use defaults, and encrypting the data means *apple* still gets the telemetry and the CIA has to go ask them for it instead of getting it off the wire.

they also used some super misleading language in their update, trying to confuse people into thinking it's encrypted today by conflating gatekeeper (ocsp) with app notarization.

i updated the page this morning:

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/#updates

dhh says a lot of good stuff on the matter here.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1328337941769367552

Apple spin doctors in full effect today:

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/mac/apple-responds-to-macos-privacy-concerns-explains-why-apps-were-slow-to-launch/

"This OCSP request does not include the Apple ID of the user, or reveal a device or app being launched."

the precise set of apps you open uniquely identifies you and your machine.

the id of the app's developer *is* sent, which, because 99% of developers publish only one app, it absolutely reveals which app is being launched.

it's amazing what people will believe if they're reassured by an authority figure.

@icedquinn nixos or big sur?

@blueberry @Cambria doesn’t matter, new OS apis it has to use on big sur keep it from blocking OS level traffic.

rms cold emailed me today to ask me point blank why i am still running macOS.

uhhhhhh

@infosechandbook@chaos.social

don’t jump to conclusions. i wrote the article, and i know exactly how and why ocsp works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097033

it’s telemetry, regardless of whether they meant it to be or not.

i’m so sad i have to abandon ios soon. the current ipad os warns you about autoupdates during the oobe but it doesn’t let you turn them off. you have to finish the oobe and then go 3 clicks deep into settings to disable the RCE.

https://youtu.be/R9f7WD0gKPo

@ohaisammich @ScottMortimer

i like beautiful hardware, regardless of what terrible ideologies have affected the software. the macbook airs are iconic, and that keyboard is the best ever put in a laptop, and with a retina screen? i'm sure it's a strong contender for best laptop ever made, and i wouldn't be surprised if someone gets linux running on it eventually.

@ohaisammich @ScottMortimer i don't run beta OSes outside of VMs generally, and i don't upgrade main production systems (incl workstations) until i've had a chance to at least do a cursory inspection of new software. my intel macs probably won't get big sur until at least after my m1 air arrives and i can poke at it.

@ohaisammich @ScottMortimer i'm not resident in some ecosystem, i have 20 computers that run 4-6 OSes, including every architecture macintosh ever made

i asked for the time and got it but then afterward alexa talked back to me with some advertising so i ripped her housing out of the wall and spiked her into the ground as hard as i could, which sadly did not shatter or splinter in any way and was not as satisfying as i had hoped