sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

Mail.app is the only thing really keeping me on macOS. I won't use mutt and there are, to my knowledge, zero good (non-phone-home) good GUI mail clients for linux.

I'm happy to be corrected on this point, if you have knowledge.

on the upside, you can make a .mobileconfig that disables most of the apple cloud service shit for macOS, like music/icloud/appstore/etc. here's one:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/pub/src/branch/master/sneak/disable-apple-apps.mobileconfig

you can't configure IMAP email on macOS mail any longer without it phoning home to apple when you do so. i haven't inspected the traffic or binaries that do so, but if you want to configure imap email manually (or import a profile that does so) while blocking all communication to apple/icloud servers, macOS Mail.app won't work.

(edit: it works when installing via a profile, but only after some timeout/delay.)

don't trust projects that tout decentralization and then tell you to join their discord or telegram group.

there are no good quick docs on how to build signal desktop on mac. this is disappointing

pip3 install --user yubikey-manager
ykman config mode FIDO+CCID

this will disable the proprietary yubico OTP strings forever

well we're officially at the point now where i am making a private fork of the signal desktop client. what the fuck

signal is now doing single-view images (like snapchat) in addition to expiring messages, and letting remote users delete messages from my device. this is a form of DRM and now i have to maintain a patched signal client. sweet.

remember when computers were embedded machines and the interface latencies were below the boundaries of meaningful human perception?

remember how that all got fucked over the last few decades?

there are some (not all, but some) operations on the new rMBP that feel that electronic lightspeed instantaneous. i'm not sure if it's the 120hz display or the stupid fast cpu or specific macOS optimizations, but there is a man-machine tight feedback loop of the kind long gone. it's spooky.

one of the best videos on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri56NqLCv84

They're not kidding. The battery life on the MacbookPro18,2 is astounding.

only like 4 years after the homepods could be a stereo pair and 3 years after itunes got the ability to stream to them as a stereo pair and iphones got the ability to stream to them as a stereo pair, the macOS finally gets the ability to use them as a stereo pair