sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i wonder how fast disney would sue you if you founded 21st century pictures, inc

discord: gamers

youtube: content creators

twitter: politicos and technorati

fediverse: panhandling furries

twitch is run by the same people who run datacenters for the CIA to store their drone and torture data.

if you have an account there, delete it. don't stream there, and don't view streams there.

i didn't know substack was a YC company. it always bums me out to see portfolio companies of investors i like or respect doing things that are... questionable.

it's hard to explain to people born after circuit-switching went away how unreliable all of this packet-switched bullshit is.

literally nothing any tech monopolist unlimited-money giant has ever built has been as remotely reliable as the US analog telephone network was in the 70s.

darktable is still garbage, ugh. nice to know they've made approximately zero progress in the ten years since i last checked in on the project.

the world is so stratified into mindless apple apologists and mindless apple bashers that if you say anything positive about apple you get lumped in to the first group and if you say anything negative you get lumped into the second, and if you do both then people send you confused messages asking "but I thought you were an $X guy?!!"

of course lightroom classic isn't being recompiled for ARM the way the cloud-based lightroom spyware is

apparently i collect midcentury teapots now

quick poll: is it reasonable to text someone in the middle of the night slash is it reasonable to get annoyed with someone for waking you up with a text?

i'm of the belief that it's your job to set your phone to silent (or put it away) when you're sleeping. am i incorrect?

apple is censoring the covid-themed display hack from xscreensaver in the ios app store:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/12/xscreensaver-5-45/

i think "progress over perfection" may become my new motto.