sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

I wonder if these shelter-in-place orders are actually constitutional. Imagine if they banned news websites during the pandemic? Freedom of assembly is literally the next breath in 1A...

Google is probably not censoring their results in Japan. That said, look at the reputational damage done by (the now supposedly cancelled) Project Dragonfly:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-google/google-japan-defends-impartiality-of-search-results-amid-lockdown-rumors-idUSKBN21I1NU

Let's not overlook that there are people in jail in the US who are asking for medical care and not getting it:

"Others said that correction officers who are assigned to taking people to clinics have ignored their requests for medical attention."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/coronavirus-rikers-nyc-jail.html

John "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here" Gruber

deleted my paypal account once and for all; so tired of their shit. no idea how i will buy shit on discogs now, but i will figure something out.

paypal won’t let you set a password longer than 20 chars.

i wonder how many fewer USians would have died during this pandemic had it not happened in an election year

the death threats i've received for writing open source software are the lights that mark the way:

https://social.art-software.fr/@Electron/103473006033711468

considering the death threats i got based on publishing only the half-done nonworking source code for my activitypub spider, i am really excited to see what happens when i operate a global firehose reassembler fulltext search tootspider service with full source code available for anyone to easily replicate my results

I just got a notification that "Chrome's Terms of Service are changing". What the fuck? The license is the terms of service for a piece of software. You don't get to change it once it's on my computer.

"wait who the fuck wrote this jankass code?"

reading japanese wikipedia articles about WW2 bombings run through google translate next to the english wikipedia articles is enlightening, and the US is friendly with japan. I wonder what the en/zh story split is in the respective countries' media.

i pay extra every month for unlimited data on one of my residential connections; i am surprised to see the terrible duopolist crediting me for it this month unprompted.

if the death star were owned by the US federal government, talking about blowing it up would get you banned by twitter

The NYTimes paywall disablement for the pandemic coverage does not work if you have cookies disabled; the paywall remains in place.

sounds like my friends and friends-of-friends are now firmly into two categories: those who are taking isolation seriously and are not leaving the house *at all* and those who are just "distancing" or "limiting contact" and trying to carry on their lives (aka some of the 5 million USAians who will get infected in the next week and show up in the charts in 2-3 weeks)

I have a feeling that we are going to see dozens or hundreds of supply chains slowly disintegrating over the next 90-180 days.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/from-spain-to-germany-farmers-warn-of-fresh-food-shortages

Expect shortages.

it's impossible for me to create a discord account without doxing myself, apparently. it's such a bummer, there are communities that have chosen it that i participate in and now can't.

the lack of linux client support and the lack of "to which keys am i encrypting this message, actually" key transparency for imessage are pushing me toward all-signal, all-the-time. i am officially deprecating imessage, which i have used continuously and primarily since it was launched in 2011.

medium.com seems to throw you into an infinite redirect loop if you have cookies turned off.