sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

does anyone have a cryptocurrency specialist tax consultant that knows all about 1031 and such that they love that doesn't keep all your PII and tax data unencrypted in cloud and 3P services?

i have a great cpa/tax lawyer, but cryptocurrency and defi gets real hairy, real fast, and i need a specialist to augment them.

i'm making a personal promise to myself right now: i'm never typing an apple id email address or apple id password on a mac ever again.

you have to do it on iOS, because without identifying yourself to apple you can't even install free apps on your tablet or phone. i have throwaway, disposable email address apple IDs for that purpose there, which of course serve as permanent unique tracking identifiers. i'm not doing it on the mac, ever.

oh the irony: ungoogled-chromium for macos is built using github actions (which means it's built by microsoft, on microsoft servers).

the builds are, of course, not reproducible.

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/macos/85.0.4183.121-1.2

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/

why is this so difficult

wireguard for macOS only has download links on their webpage that link to the apple Mac App Store, which can only be used with an apple ID, even for free apps.

wireguard, please provide direct download links to the wireguard macOS gui application that don't involve doxxing oneself to apple.

used the new m1 air for a whole poop, a chrome install, and some tooting (the activitypub kind), maybe 20 mins or so?

and it's still at 100% battery

what sorcery is this

yo @containsliquid@mstdn.io did you ever find a solution to your webhook question?

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8890

that link that @rinsuki posted in the thread is dead

i would like each toot i make on my mastodon instance to trigger a webhook. is there an easy way to do this within mastodon, or a complete/ready-to-use app that will poll my mastodon api and make the outbound HTTP requests on changes?

also, anyone know of the same for RSS?

oh, at least activity monitor shows the architecture of the running processes. interesting that apple lists the architectures as "Intel" or "Apple".

intel didn't invent the x86_64 ISA (also known as amd64), and apple didn't invent the ARM ISA.

when and how did the term "architecture" come to mean "processor manufacturer"?

is there any normie/supported gui way of finding out if an app is a fat binary or not? having to run "file" on everything is going to get annoying

I triggered the rosetta install by duplicating terminal.app and doing a get info on the new one and checking "open using rosetta" per the instructions here:

https://www.notion.so/Run-x86-Apps-including-homebrew-in-the-Terminal-on-Apple-Silicon-8350b43d97de4ce690f283277e958602

one critical bug: after duplicating terminal, both icons had exactly the same name, no "Terminal (1)" or "Terminal copy": just two identical "Terminal" programs. Def a security issue there...

If you try to run x64 apps in cli without rosetta installed you will get:

(sekey is from github, x64 bin):

user@MacBook-Air ~ % file $(which sekey)
/Applications/SeKey.app/Contents/MacOS/sekey: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

user@MacBook-Air ~ % arch -arch x86_64 $(which sekey)
arch: posix_spawnp: /Applications/SeKey.app/Contents/MacOS/sekey: Bad CPU type in executable

after install:

user@MacBook-Air ~ % arch -arch x86_64 $(which sekey)
user@MacBook-Air ~ %

figured it out: rosetta is not installed by default unless you need it (for a gui app). even `arch -arch x86_64 <appname>` doesn't work until you try to run a gui x64 app and get the rosetta install prompt.

the built-in macOS terminal now instead of defaulting to eyeball-searing black-on-white like a 1995 xterm now seems to respect the overall system light mode/dark mode preference and launches in white-on-black (at least with dark mode on. haven't and won't be testing with light mode.)

now for the good stuff:

the m1 is insanely fast, and as predicted, the keyboard/screen are unparalleled and flawless. even *with* huge marks off for the fact that the OS actively fights you on privacy and it's a huge pain in the ass to mitigate, the m1 macbook air is the best laptop ever made, and i don't say that lightly.

apple has stopped selling the last intel retina good-keyboard macbook air (the one immediately before the m1 air released this month), and that's really the only contender.

I microblog here on activitypub. I macroblog on my website, using git+jekyll. I wish there were simple ways to midblog, a paragraph or two here or there.

i fight every day to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. when you generalize, handwave, or otherwise try to signal boost (without boosting only the signal and excluding the noise), you *harm* the efforts of myself and others to improve SNR.

publish *accurately* or do not publish.