sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

netlimiter 4 pro is a reasonable lulu/little snitch substitute on windows. you have to go in and change the blocker policy to 'ask' for it to do the popups though, it took me a few minutes to figure it out.

ha! if you uninstall all of the microsoft store crap from win10, and use powershell to install the WSL ubuntu20.04 .appx bundle, the windows licensing manager service will attempt to connect to microsoft when you launch it. if you block the connection, it won't run.

lol this instance is blocked on mspsocial.net for being "kiwifarms adjacent"

https://mspsocial.net/about/more

what does that even mean?

why am i getting a bunch of annoying and useless reply guys from kiwifarms today? did they link me or something?

of course npm keeps its cache under .npm instead of .cache

the fact that win10 actually refuses to let you shut off the computer *right now* without installing the updates first is perhaps one of the most user-hostile and consent-violating things i've ever seen in software. instead i hard power off, potentially corrupting the filesystem. fuck yourself, microsoft, and i hope i never learn the names of the devs who implemented this malware.

i wish to hire a contract sysadmin to help me deploy and maintain my infrastructure. part time, project-to-project.

if you are experienced with unix, only use key based ssh/mosh auth, like documenting things, are fluent with git, and are okay using a separate dedicated machine i provide, please inquire to sneak@sneak.berlin with your cv/relevant experience and rates.

we have a standard network discovery (beacon packets) for wifi, why not for wired lans?

i really really really wish we had something standard like CDP for the whole industry, so that an ethernet card can tell me what the name and port number and vlan of the managed switch its connected to is. the fact that we can send a gigabyte per second through the port (yes i have a 10gbit lan don't @ me) but don't know which fucking port it's plugged in to without crawling on the floor and tracing cables is.... insane

can i just give a shoutout to VLC for asking on first launch if it's okay to connect to the network to check for updates, and if it's okay to connect to the network to download media metadata? this is polite, consensual, awesome software.

google is really stepping up AMP. so many of the results i click on are served from the google domain now. it's fucking disgusting. is there a browser for android i can use to rewrite these to the real URL?

i'm glad more people are starting to wise up to what an asshole Eich is.

There's a damn good reason that he got BTFO of Mozilla.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269890055822118912

why isn't there a chrome extension that lets me follow people on my own server when i click the follow button on a remote instance without that stupid redirect dialog that asks me to dox my account-to-IP mapping to the remote instance?

despite buying close to five figures of sony optical glass a week or two ago with no problems whatsoever, amazon decided to freeze my account today because i bought an XPS

i guess their ML is pretty smart; if you told me a year ago my amazon account would be used to buy a dell laptop i'd have assumed it compromised as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883754

this is so excellent

i think it's a pretty amazing achievement in terms of peace that the americans that are freaked out by the capitol riot are treating it as a full blown armed insurrection.

they have no idea what a battle is, what constitutes war, or what a real attack on a city or position entails.

their response is laughable, but ultimately it's a real achievement for humans that so many people are out of touch with actual battle, actual war, actual combat, that smashing windows and stealing laptops counts.