sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

despite buying close to five figures of sony optical glass a week or two ago with no problems whatsoever, amazon decided to freeze my account today because i bought an XPS

i guess their ML is pretty smart; if you told me a year ago my amazon account would be used to buy a dell laptop i'd have assumed it compromised as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883754

this is so excellent

i think it's a pretty amazing achievement in terms of peace that the americans that are freaked out by the capitol riot are treating it as a full blown armed insurrection.

they have no idea what a battle is, what constitutes war, or what a real attack on a city or position entails.

their response is laughable, but ultimately it's a real achievement for humans that so many people are out of touch with actual battle, actual war, actual combat, that smashing windows and stealing laptops counts.

@koyu@koyu.space what's the address?

sort of a bummer that you can't use a different account for youtube on an android device without adding the account systemwide, and you can't log out of one of the systemwide accounts in the youtube app and use it logged-out without deleting the systemwide app from the whole device.

it's almost like google wants to know exactly what you're up to at all times

interesting that on android when you have systemwide location disabled, apps can still prompt you for location permission for that one specific app. (i assume clicking it doesn't give them a location, as systemwide location is off?)

setting up an android phone for the first time in a long while.

all four of:

- mullvad
- signal
- standard notes
- protonmail

had easily locatable/downloadable APKs, to avoid having to use a google account at all.

pretty amazing!

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com @sneak or maybe i'm not and i've just got a lot of valuable photo equipment. :D

(thank you)

@bound@weirder.earth psa don't fucking censor anything and let adults decide what they do or don't want to read using their own tools

@eee definitely a PII leak

be large and corporate, or google will warn your userbase that you're maybe a shady open source data-stealing, ski-mask wearing criminal.

If you put a Google Fi sim card in a freshly wiped android phone, it autocompletes the Google sign-in page. I am intensely curious if this is a sim card serial to PII disclosure bug like the one weev discovered all those years ago with ATT/iPad

iPadOS 14.3 claims that it now reports air quality via Maps and Siri for locations in "China mainland".

Part of Project Dragonfly, Google's CCP-compliant (censored) search product, they had to report air quality lies from government servers in Beijing.

Does anyone know if Apple is now doing this?

testing out pixelfed @ @sneak

@surfingalot i don't think that's a true statement. most of the web works just fine with noscript.

they told me that spending a lot of money on gear won't make me a better photographer, but this is a bathroom mirror selfie and i'm pretty sure they're all wrong

if you have advanced protection on, google will mangle all your emails, even via imap, to rewrite all URLs to the google redirector, breaking email signatures, breaking PGP crypto signatures, et c.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818024

if you want to back up your mail in its original form, you have to do it via data takeout/export.

also google: if you want to export your email unmodified, it takes months(!) because you have advanced protection on.

@VD15 the moment i saw him sitting there nonplussed in those fucking mittens i knew instantly it would be a meme

@surfingalot that was a policy directive, i think (EOs aren't law and can't be aimed at the public) and i read that implementation of all of his policy directives have been put on hold pending review by the new administration.