sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

"highly classified"

"highly encrypted"

whenever anyone says these things, they are selling something. check your wallet and question everything they say.

i like how it's just assumed that gaming keyboard configuration tools are going to be a win32 .exe and that's what you're getting and you're going to like it.

it's really sad to see smart people i respect and admire both:

a) not understand that free and uncensorable payments are essential to a free society, just like free speech

and

b) shit on the people who are implementing same

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/wtf-signal-adds-cryptocurrency-support.html

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/

these people got my respect in the first place by actually shipping work and being right. now they're just old and repeating falsehoods which are obvious from reading the code.

first you complain about being surrounded by stupid people, then you complain about a pandemic that kills off millions of the weak and unvaccinated

pick one

so element:

a) phones home to the centralized dev servers (vector.im) immediately on every launch

b) tries to download new "packages" (code) to run from the centralized dev servers

and

c) doesn't let you log into more than one account at a time

no i will not be adopting this thank you

when wokeness goes too far:

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/retiring-lena-the-playboy-nude-used-by-the-tech-biz-to-calibrate-digital-tech.html

literally nobody sane or reasonable has any real issue with this. this is 100% performative nonsense, like renaming "primary" bedrooms.

i created a public signal group if any of y'all wanna chat:

https://signal.group/#CjQKIDpI9VLPfInZ7hjIO-p1hoWEx_QIWeW3bs2_NF7Slp1LEhDEgGmAvvmHzFRpiUggdn91

watch tests suddenly get cheap in the USA now

there's hope for police usefulness yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/health/heart-transplant-pig-bennett.html

it has a name:

https://xyproblem.info/

i have a new favorite thing on the internet

https://twitter.com/Thereisnocat_

spoilers are in the tweet replies and i heartily encourage you to seek them out. some are SO GOOD

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/coroners-apology-family-victoria-station-22679286

why do people feel that they should have the right to control the distribution of media (owned by other people) that depicts them?

if i take a photo of you, that's *my* photo, not yours, and you don't have any say in what i do with my photo. why would you?

arnold is one of the few actually decent human being politicians, even if i don't agree with his politics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/schwarzenegger-schmuck-mask-vaccines/619746/

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1475511420938764289

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnyas0Ib_o8

hax

could someone please explain to me why this exists

https://doc.dovecot.org/developer_manual/design/dict_protocol/#dovecot-dict-protocol

back to golang, back to

it's amazing that unix purists are so in love with their own broken busted traditions that we have to ship wrapper software (cronic, shush, cronwrap) just to work around three decade old bugs in cron:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/372115/disable-cron-emails-unless-there-are-errors

fucking unix people, man