sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk simply giving netflix $7 is way easier and more convenient than buying, configuring, and operating a "home media server".

12.x (monterey) includes apple's paid icloud addon Private Relay, which is their first-party privacy vpn thing. they are now financially incentivized to make non-apple VPN products and services work less well or not work at all.

@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk people who don't care about efficiency are people who have never helped build, design, or finance infrastructure for hundreds of millions of active users (and i'll put money on the fact that they never will, with that approach).

@raphael @doenietzomoeilijk depends on your use case tbh. i can't bittorrent on my watch.

yo @tedu it would be sweet if this changes one day

it would appear that openbsd's signify has the same issue. the arguments "pubkey" and "seckey" are actually pubkeyfile and seckeyfile, paths to the pubkey and seckey on disk, not the actual pubkey or seckey.

@doenietzomoeilijk centralized has always been better in practice so far. no decentralized system has ever made an OS that's useful to non-nerds, for example.

@doenietzomoeilijk cloudflare isn't a monopoly, monoculture, nor does it have monopolistic tendencies. same goes for signal.

with centralized services, we can still move if things start going dick-shaped.

i'm not sure either of these are good arguments.

what's the signing-only equivalent of FiloSottile's age? signify from openbsd seems like it's headed there but it doesn't seem to be widely used outside of openbsd-land.

there seems to be a growing anger in the internet underground toward good and non-malicious actors in the space like CloudFlare and Signal simply because they chose to build centralized systems, as if centralization is an inherently bad thing.

i wonder how many of those people so complaining also avail themselves of 12-36h amazon delivery.

centralization gives huge efficiency wins. decentralized is not always better.

this is getting close but is expensive:

https://www.amazon.com/PI-TOP-DIY-Raspberry-Internal-Integrated/dp/B08N6B8M1H

i would like an rpi 4 case that is:

a) metal
b) has an integrated oled and maybe some buttons
c) has a non-shitty fan
d) reproduces the GPIOs externally
e) (optional) has an 18650 UPS inside it

being immortal is probably terrible

https://twitter.com/PatrickGerard01/status/1031920228098355200

my smb service was running fine but inaccessible to the lan, and i dicked around with it for several hours before simply rebooting the box and now it's fine.

i thought this shit wasn't supposed to happen on lunix

@archillect@high.cat companero

big sur is the first macos release since i have been using macintoshes (which started at system 5 or 6 - i distinctly recall installing system 7 right after release) where i never actually put it on my main machine before the next version (monterey, out now) was released.

the keyboard on the new mbp is black (even between the keys) which fixes a pro/notpro branding oversight that has been persisting for a while

i just now noticed that you can get the m1 max in the 14" pro. that's pretty rad that a 14" laptop can be that powerful (although i bet it's battery murdah)

the m1max/pro soc feature i'm most excited about is four external displays hooked up to an MBP.