sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i only learned recently the sheer number of instances that have blocked this, my single user instance, and 90% of them based on rumor/speculation/because other instances said it was bad.

federated systems are unreliable.

if we are fedi friends, make sure you add me on signal, my number's on my website.

signal should extend groupchats to allow you to publish an e2e encrypted, expiring feed of photos/videos to a selected set of friends/contacts. being e2e it would have to remain chronological and not be sorted algorithmically.

basically, Signal Stories would be the ultimate "add stories to the product like snapchat did" win, because it would be the one good social network.

if a personal computer is a bicycle for your mind, then what is a smartphone?

who would have thought i'd have to youtube-dl an item on the internet archive and it wouldn't just have a download link? what's this "stream only" bullshit?

i have long maintained that both uncritical extremes of hyperpolarization on any topic are fools that got duped

i feel like jwz hasn't received enough credit throughout all of this for pointing out (IN THE 1990S!!!!) that cooperation with rms is impossible.

watching both sides of the rms war be so thoroughly and vigorously wrong in the internet simultaneously has me mentally exhausted and i think i will go absorb radiation from the star today instead. i wish y'all would read what he said and what you are saying

my most controversial opinion is that there should be no sequence of bytes, whatsoever, that it is a criminal act to store or transmit.

are there any matrix clients that i can use that don't immediately phone home on startup? every one i have tried thus far connects to a bunch of hosts that aren't my homeserver.

you're not wrong, rms, you're just an asshole.

this is sad news. aside from the loss of human rights, it's a bummer to watch the US slide further down the hill away from being a place where the rule of law is respected. if an explicit constitutional carve-out isn't enough to preserve a right, nothing is. we've seen it happen to 4A and we are watching it happen to 2A and 1A.

https://reason.com/2021/03/24/the-9th-circuit-says-the-right-to-bear-arms-does-not-extend-beyond-your-doorstep/

reminder: eating at a restaurant or getting takeout is still unethical unless you can be reasonably certain everyone working in the kitchen (close quarters) has had the option to have been vaccinated if they so desire. otherwise you are creating incentives for the business to pressure them into risking their lives for a paycheck.