sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

since 2016 (thanks to obama) in the US you cannot enforce civil liability against your staff for divulging *any* secret information (related to foreign/interstate commerce, as it's a federal law) to the police, even if there is no law being broken or underlying criminal activity. police suspicion is sufficient to render your NDA pointless.

it's getting to the point where keeping private information private is harder and harder, and will soon be illegal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56085369

i remember thinking $12 bitcoin was crazy high because it had been like a nickel not that long before. the runup to $200 freaked me out.

just as debian patches out spyware, they should be aggressively culling any package that isn't multithreaded. zipping a 5gb file should not peg one core of my 36 core machine and take 30x longer than it should. this is madness.

twitter's URL redirector now doesn't redirect without javascript.

super excited about go's new built-in file embedding in the stdlib.

"link me to your *public webpages* hosted on instagram/etc" is presently a crime in an interview in nevada:

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/77th2013/Bills/AB/AB181_EN.pdf

(i think this is utter bullshit.)

for a long while until recently i assumed google had a private fork of go where goroutines spawned on different machines in a cluster and channels worked across the network

note to self: always check and make sure the lens you've just put on for video hasn't had the side switch toggled to manual focus by accident whilst in your bag

dalio: "I suspect that Bitcoin’s biggest risk is being successful, because if it’s successful, the government will try to kill it and they have a lot of power to succeed."

I've been saying this for many years. He's 100% right.

The US military uses 30 terawatt-hours (TWh) of energy each year, which is more than the entirety of Ireland, and approximately twice that of Iceland.

Estimates put Bitcoin's energy usage at 60TWh per year, about that of Switzerland.

Do you think the US military or Bitcoin is a better use of energy?

i need to send email to 4000 people. how do i do that a) without ending up in spam and b) cheaply?

suggestions to use gnu mailman will result in my muting your account

i liked nextcloud until i started reading the php

ugh, wanted to run nextcloud to self-host some groupware stuff. i thought the whole point of this php turd was that it was self-contained? but here I see the web UI phoning home... why go to all that trouble to shoot yourself in the foot like that?

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship

substack is a trash platform run by trash people, but this article is spot on, despite greenwald’s general failings as a person

it's such a huge fuck you to a volunteer QA contributor who jumps through the hoops of creating an account on your bug tracker, verifying their email, and typing out a detailed bug report to autoclose it for idleness a year later with classic CADT bullshit boilerplate

banking in germany is such a pain in the dick