sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

pretty sure Bezos read The Machine Stops and decided to build the machine

for reference the most expensive apple phone right now (1tb iphone 13 pro max unlocked) is $1600

and people say apple phones are expensive

the signal client is now panhandling. sweet.

wish this were open source so i could patch out the ads.

spacex just launched a turkish communications satellite into geostationary orbit yesterday from florida. this means the operators had to send the satellite to florida first to be launched; do non-US governments usually send minders/guards with their satellites to monitor them 24/7 from delivery to launch so NSA/CIA can't add firmware goodies?

this continues to slay me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373436

ITT: people who don't know how to do math

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rgyuh5/after_30_years_of_mortgage_payments_i_paid_it_off/

it's astounding the level of financial illiteracy in the USA

i hope to be enough of a baller one day that the nyt knows not to capitalize my nick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiyo_kangoku

https://web.archive.org/web/20060524095424/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT600162005?open&of=ENG-JPN

TIL japan has the death penalty and in 2015 80% of the public were not opposed to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan

Reminder: the E2E encryption in WhatsApp and iMessage is backdoored, and cannot be trusted:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/whatsapp-imessage-facebook-apple-fbi-privacy-1261816/

i like this a lot:

https://dynomight.net/plans/

i have a zip of a consulting client's post-compromise webroot in my google drive. google won't let me download a zip of the folder containing this zip because it contains a virus.

google drive locking me out of my client data. cool.

yt-dlp works for me whereas youtube-dl no longer does. i hate when i have to learn meta information about my tools