sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@purlupar it's straightforward to monitor the traffic that leaves a mac. apple can't "just phone home" because apple can't arbitrarily modify the code in macOS remotely (if automatic updates are disabled).

@surfingalot for reference, once installed, i use little snitch to block all adobe communication for the creative suite, and i only run it on one computer.

@surfingalot i don't want cloud software. i also don't use closed source networked crypto. (the only closed source crypto i regularly use and rely on is filevault, and the ciphertext doesn't leave the device.)

i didn't know substack was a YC company. it always bums me out to see portfolio companies of investors i like or respect doing things that are... questionable.

@nanko i don't think she's gonna text me back anyway :/

it's hard to explain to people born after circuit-switching went away how unreliable all of this packet-switched bullshit is.

literally nothing any tech monopolist unlimited-money giant has ever built has been as remotely reliable as the US analog telephone network was in the 70s.

darktable is still garbage, ugh. nice to know they've made approximately zero progress in the ten years since i last checked in on the project.

@mauro there are no cult technologies except apple and general "free software/plaintext formats" people, as far as i can tell.

the world is so stratified into mindless apple apologists and mindless apple bashers that if you say anything positive about apple you get lumped in to the first group and if you say anything negative you get lumped into the second, and if you do both then people send you confused messages asking "but I thought you were an $X guy?!!"

of course lightroom classic isn't being recompiled for ARM the way the cloud-based lightroom spyware is

@gray @arh@floss.social kinda dreading having to upgrade my imac pro and 16" intel rmbp tbh

@purlupar also i am not "a security person" or "a computer person" or "a mac person" or "a windows person" or "a linux person" or any other stupid label you think will adequately permit you to predict my behavior

@purlupar did you just assume my values?

i want performance *and* security. this is why i run an m1 mac behind a hardware firewall that blocks DNS lookups for *.apple.com and *.icloud.com and others, and blackholes 17./8.

apparently i collect midcentury teapots now

quick poll: is it reasonable to text someone in the middle of the night slash is it reasonable to get annoyed with someone for waking you up with a text?

i'm of the belief that it's your job to set your phone to silent (or put it away) when you're sleeping. am i incorrect?

@gray @arh@floss.social can confirm catalina+intel shows "Processor Name". I don't have any big sur/intel here as yet to determine if they renamed it to "Chip" across the board.

@purlupar also, the m1 air is the best laptop available for purchase on earth today, and anyone who can't see that simply isn't aware of the state of the art