sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

my 13" xps that cost under $4k has a much higher screen dpi than the $6500 16" m1max apple laptop i ordered today. :(

it's a shame apple's software division isn't anywhere near as good as apple's hardware division.

:(

perhaps the biggest surprise beyond the fact that the udm-pro comes with docker preinstalled (and uses it to run the whole unifi controller thing) is that it also has jq and iptraf-ng preinstalled too.

one of my favorite videos on youtube:

https://youtu.be/t85TVB2zsq0

never buying a laptop with less than 3840x2400 now that i have been so thoroughly spoiled by the screen in the 13" xps.

later today after sleep i have to figure out how to migrate my config from a cloud key g1 and usg to a udm-pro without re-adopting my devices because they are on the 18 foot tall ceiling and i can't reach the reset pinhole without a ladder i don't have

it would be cool if apple made an ios lite that does a tiny subset of the full functionality of ios, that is blistering fast on all devices.

privacy issues aside, iOS is getting worse. there are a lot of features for features' sake, and lots of bloat. some of it is amazing (eg continuity, for those that use icloud), and the new camera OCR, but most stuff added since ios7 isn't that great.

this just in: pigs still dumb

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/us/police-vaccine-mandate.html

evolution didn't make giraffes tall. it made giraffes a bell curve, normal distribution of various heights.

then for thousands of years, millions and millions of the unlucky short ones starved to death, emaciated ribs poking out, before they could reproduce. gradually the center of the bell curve shifted right.

1600/day are dying of covid in the usa, while vaccines that almost entirely prevent death are widely available for free.

it's the same for intelligence. it takes a long time.

in 2019 the us military once paid out $131 for killing the wrong person.

if you or i do it, we get a life sentence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/us/politics/kabul-drone-strike-victims-payment.html

drinking almondmilk keto shakes triggers three of the same symptoms as covid in me. antigen rapid test says no covid, though.

ios15 lets you disable AMBER alerts without disabling emergency/safety alerts. that's good.

you can also silence emergency/safety alerts in silent mode (normally they burst through and still make a sound even if your phone is silent).

glad to see these settings.

pairing airpods pro to a mac makes avconferenced make connections to some apple subdomain. blocking avconferenced from making any outbound connections does not seem to degrade functionality.

yes, analytics are off.

it's crazy that in one generation we went from most people's private communications in the usa not being monitored and logged by the government to very nearly 100% of people's private communications being monitored and logged by the government.

that's not enough though, so apple is putting in clientside scanning for the government, too.

sitting here tearing my hair out reviewing iam instance role json line by line by line and it turns out i had the item arn wrong the whole time

the terminal that ships with current linux on chromeos is also broken, hence needing cargo to compile alacritty