sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i think every single day for the last week or so a new case count record has been set in the US, yet newspapers have not really reported this as a headline. they publish the numbers and charts and expect you to remember and notice.

"COVID 2X WORSE THAN PREVIOUS PEAK" just isn't what people want to hear right now? at what point is a raging (and worsening) catastrophe simply old news?

two years is the answer i guess

this has been your friendly neighborhood alert fatigue awareness league

does anyone have a good bot/script that mirrors rss or twitter to activitypub (including attachments)?

my friends keep dying, fuck

my AP mobile client amaroq doesn't support DMs, notifications, or the ability to click to the profile of a retweeter in the timeline view

@chjara@mk.absturztau.be citation needed. null terminated strings have been the real problem. where are the big high profile hacks from rowhammer or spectre?

@surfingalot it was impossible for the supply chains to have accommodated this, as it is impossible to predict future events accurately. this is the best of all possible worlds

what are the best activitypub clients for android? ideally ones that a) only talk to the homeserver and nowhere else and b) have good support for notifications (without using play services or firebase or a centralized notification service)

@caliw BUT! apple supports something called DEP which enrolls devices in MDM automatically on install by serial! this amounts to RCE (by design) so corps can autoprovision machines automatically when they are restored.

nothing stopping apple/FBI from using this to install surveillance on your machine during install, which you cannot prevent by eg using verified "same as everyone else" media and doing an offline install, because there are no offline installs.

@caliw if the device has an activation lock tied to an apple id, when it tries to activate it will notice and prompt for authentication of that apple id before allowing activation, thus preventing reinstall on stolen-but-still-locked devices.

@caliw if you fully wipe the drive (which includes the activation data) this has been true for a while now:

https://sneak.berlin/20201204/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware/

macs need activation (including the last few years of intel macs, they have an iphone6-ish ARM security chip called T2 which handles boot) to run. they do this by receiving an activation from apple, only if the device doesn't have an activation lock ("find my") tied to an apple id.

it prevents reformatting and reinstall on stolen hardware.

@shali@kolektiva.social it's not wrong until you try to enforce it against other people. someone taking a photograph of you has nothing to do with you. it's not your business. it's the same as disturbing someone with earbuds in who doesn't want to talk to you.

@it_meirl_bot hey who is your bot human and can i get the source code? i would like to run some reddit to AP or twitter to AP bots!

@shali@kolektiva.social consent not required. wanting to be asked is irrelevant. also, most people dgaf (in my experience).

@surfingalot yes nobody could have predicted this at the end of november

the white house said on or about 7 jan that there would be a website where US people could order test kits, and that they would go out by mail starting mid-january. tomorrow is the 14th.

https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-shipping-covid-19-160429433.html

no website, no tests.

@shali@kolektiva.social laws don't have any bearing or effect on rights. germany also claims to have outlawed peaceful expression and doesn't have free speech. such laws are irrelevant to rights.