sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

hmm the latest pop OS installer phones home on startup.

There is no way to install macOS 12.x Monterey (released yesterday) without an internet connection. If you have an offline M1 mac and you hook up a USB with the full 13GB installer .app on it (created with the ./createinstallmedia tool from it), even when you specify --downloadassets, it cannot be used to upgrade an airgapped machine.

There's now no way for me to know precisely what OS is running on my computer. And I just gave these pigfuckers $6.6k for a new one. :(

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a28718/why-men-love-war/

sometimes i wish that the antivaxxer lies about the government going door to door to collect and gas or otherwise malign the resisters would come true. covid only knocks about 1/1000 of the infected off.

12.0.1 installer available on ipfs:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeigywkmmfwocn647m4y2ba67zlbe3ndfy77j6mmgv5apjbg255boly

here are the hashes for macos monterey 12.0.1 installer that i'm seeing over here:

nostromo:/Volumes/Install macOS Monterey$ shasum ./BaseSystem/BaseSystem.dmg ./Install\ macOS\ Monterey.app/Contents/SharedSupport/SharedSupport.dmg
785e60e566d54e5657a5b0c70daa3ee227052e4e ./BaseSystem/BaseSystem.dmg
c33afa5bffc65afbc104e63f9542a20d1179b297 ./Install macOS Monterey.app/Contents/SharedSupport/SharedSupport.dmg

matrix/element is crap. there, i said it.

please stop telling me to use it. it sucks.

i didn't even get my automatic mac provisioning scripts repo updated for 11.x and now 12.0.1 is out.

nostromo:~/tmp/12.0.1$ shasum "./Install macOS Monterey.app/Contents/SharedSupport/SharedSupport.dmg"
c33afa5bffc65afbc104e63f9542a20d1179b297 ./Install macOS Monterey.app/Contents/SharedSupport/SharedSupport.dmg

On the 30th of April 2021, Apple committed to encrypting their OCSP revocation checks and providing an opt-out so that your mac doesn't phone home on every app launch.

Tick tock, motherfuckers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

We're now a new major version beyond and unencrypted OCSP is still (I assume) a thing. (Downloading os12 now, will confirm.)

reminder: the hardware pipeline is 2-3 years long. apple had these new systems on and beyond the drawing board for the entire time you were screaming about the touchbar.

there is a product manager inside of apple that is in charge of memoji.

i think they may have also been an extra in mike judge's idiocracy

there is a key on all modern macintoshes that opens the music app, which, upon opening, transmits your unchangeable hardware serial number to apple over the network.

there's a literal hardware phone-home button.

the on-device dictation stuff in macos 12.x and ios 15.x doesn't actually *always* run on-device. it only does on-device if the off-device one is slow or unavailable. it's actually no privacy guarantee at all unless you're doing your dictation inside of a faraday cage.

12.x (monterey) includes apple's paid icloud addon Private Relay, which is their first-party privacy vpn thing. they are now financially incentivized to make non-apple VPN products and services work less well or not work at all.

yo @tedu it would be sweet if this changes one day

it would appear that openbsd's signify has the same issue. the arguments "pubkey" and "seckey" are actually pubkeyfile and seckeyfile, paths to the pubkey and seckey on disk, not the actual pubkey or seckey.

what's the signing-only equivalent of FiloSottile's age? signify from openbsd seems like it's headed there but it doesn't seem to be widely used outside of openbsd-land.

there seems to be a growing anger in the internet underground toward good and non-malicious actors in the space like CloudFlare and Signal simply because they chose to build centralized systems, as if centralization is an inherently bad thing.

i wonder how many of those people so complaining also avail themselves of 12-36h amazon delivery.

centralization gives huge efficiency wins. decentralized is not always better.

this is getting close but is expensive:

https://www.amazon.com/PI-TOP-DIY-Raspberry-Internal-Integrated/dp/B08N6B8M1H