sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

holy fucke statping is great software.

I recently chatted with Bram Cohen (of Chia and formerly BitTorrent) and Adam Levine on the Hard Problems podcast, on the topic of ransomware. It's good (although a bit technical, if you're into that) and you can listen here:

https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/hard-problems-bram-cohen/ransomware-hard-problems

Direct download link:

https://rss.art19.com/episodes/90bcb8b5-c418-4c2a-b22a-dfd2f3523ad7.mp3

Discussion thread:

https://bbs.sneak.berlin/t/sneak-appearance-on-the-hard-problems-podcast/388

why did everyone turn dumber during the pandemic?

everyone piling on the reposts of the trump quote about people who died in wars being suckers and losers seem to be butthurt about it because the statement is gauche. they seem to have failed to notice that the statement is also true.

only losers pick up a gun and fly to far away lands to shoot at strangers. always remember that.

anyone wanna put bets on when the first major US wave of vaccine resistant covid hits and tears through the whole no-mask country like a serial killer who just broke out of prison?

my bet is october or november.

signal allowing remote conversation partners to use their cryptographic signing keys to instruct your device to delete media at their command (contrary to your wishes) is by definition a form of DRM.

https://www.amazon.com/Police-Shirt-Record-Everything-Activist/dp/B07C6KD7QP

where's the best place to buy a new, quality acoustic guitar online?

https://github.com/robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat is good

just bought 20tb of flash for under $1000

changing the mtu everywhere on a lan shouldn't be this hard

i feel like every "free palestine" needs to be suffixed with an implicit "; expel hamas"

while presently changing my interface mtus on all interfaces on my lan to 9000 due to my adoption of 10,000 megabit networking, i discovered that isc dhcpd supports a dhcp response option to specify an irc server to a client.

imagine a world where when you connect to a lan your irc client automatically connects to the local server specified in dhcp

a shortage of 10gbase-t ports in my lab meant i put a 2 port 10gbt card in one box and added both of the ports to a bridge in linux and daisy-chained my other box off of it.

moved both boxes upstairs this week. guess which box decided to die during the move? hint: it wasn't the leaf node.

i don't think that /etc/synthetic.conf works on catalina (and assumed not on big sur as a result) and i don't want an unencrypted volume on my machine. is it still possible to do the symlink thing for nix on macOS?

about to reformat/reinstall my catalina-running big mac and opt in to big surveillance. how do i install nix without the stupid fucking --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume hack?

how do i get more air conditioning in one room of my house than the others? do i have to go around and close all the vents in the other rooms an equal amount? i moved my servers in from the garage so they don't have to endure another 4 months of 40C+ and now my office is sweaty