sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

Facebook has formalized its censorship committee: https://decrypt.co/28265/facebook-new-oversight-board-cover-for-censorship-critics

Some instance I've never heard of has an admin who has decided based on the fact that I wrote some free software (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/feta) that his server's 2290 users should not be able to follow me even if they want to (nor should I be able to follow or read them).

I wonder if he knows I have accounts on other instances

https://blog.freeradical.zone/suspended/

can we get reversible micro-sd next now that we have usb-c

This is the endgame of trying to use government force to threaten peaceful, productive people to keep them from making their own risk assessments: they simply walk out the door.

https://electrek.co/2020/05/09/tesla-move-california-to-texas-nevada-coronavirus-response/

totally irresponsible of the verge to recommend non e2e note taking apps that provide all of your private documents to the US government without a warrant via Microsoft and Apple spying for them:

https://www.theverge.com/this-is-my-next/2018/8/31/17630496/best-note-taking-app-google-keep-iawriter-school

pretty telling that apple does end to end encryption in icloud only for health and payment data and some other stuff like passwords, but does not do it for photos, notes, *device backups*, message history sync. apple and the FBI can read all of that stuff, just so you know.

rms esr gls jwz jgc dhh - is there anyone else in this list?

what's a video chatting software that supports 4k? google meet appears to default to 320p and if you dig in settings you can set it to 720p. i'd prefer 1080p or 2160p, is there one out there? assume i have enough bandwidth.

i wish apple just sold that 5k lg panel as a standalone display. the refurb 5k imacs are ~$1600 (in a good metal housing) and the LG standalone display (which is janky) with that panel in a *plastic* housing is $1300.

going to move away from the imac pro as primary computer, i think, and perhaps sell it. what's the best replacement hi-dpi 5120x2880 display, or should i drop the $$$ on the new apple 6016x3384 standalone display?

airplay 2 play/pause/next track latency to a stereo pair on perfect local wifi is over 2000ms

i learned recently that i only really listen to music if i'm alone

This has been a The Sunset Tree sort of month.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Cug9j2T7MHK4k8hUEGQ43

why don’t mouse cursors automatically disappear after 5-10s of inactivity?

should i buy a registered preban m4 lower?

original hardcovers of chomsky's Manufacturing Consent are $500-900 on amazon

what is the best static files web host?

tom scott just taught me the same thing patrick did, so that's two data points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZEZ5QuyzM

so that's it then: make a lot of stuff, keep making stuff, keep publishing stuff. keep on keepin' on.

heh the depths of the stupid aren't even surprising anymore: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/07/fox-news-anchor-tells-people-t.html

i wonder if they'll reduce the federal minimum wage to try to combat unemployment this year