sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

anti-blockchain zealot bingo:

a square with "carbon footprint"

a square with "deflationary spiral"

a square with "misunderstands xkcd 2030 as anti-all-blockchain-applications"

murdering children in your protective care deemed legal in the usa: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/cedric-lofton-kansas-custody-death.html

His name is Robert Paulson.

wow the documentation for fabric (python ssh admin tool) is terrible

it bothers me disproportionately when people tell lies about me. i'm fine if you share negative opinions about me or whatever, that's your business, but it really grinds my gears when people spread factually incorrect statements about me

hey @leah and @rixx - https://github.com/chaossocial/about/blob/master/blocked_instances.md says that this instance is blocked due to "privacy violation" which I think is false. please advise.

imagine being proud of this first bullet point, on stage

i got a music box, so naturally now i have to write software to convert midi to g-code for a laser cutter.

this typeface has a lot of glyphs that most typefaces don't.

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

keep getting rate-limited by my own masto because docker's userspace l3 proxy obscures source IP in http requests because docker is dumb and mastodon has no knob(!) for disabling rate limiting.

wikipedia VPN IP blocks should not apply to you if you're logged in

the crypto wars are back.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/

i didn't know this. did you?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5751

facebook outrage mobs lynch a few dozen people because people claim the site isn't sufficiently censored. meanwhile, computer-aided disease research prevents millions of deaths. woke twitterati declare computers the cause of the world's downfall!

it's trendy to hate computers, hate software, hate the internet, and think they're making our world worse.

this is a stupid, stupid, naive, fad-chasing take. our world is better than it has ever been, and computers are largely responsible.

the same people who are telling me that software-based voting systems are entirely untrustworthy are in the group saying that the last election's results (conducted via software voting) are accurate and trustworthy and free of fraud.

wow:

https://mccarthygarberlaw.com/a-comprehensive-legal-guide-to-web-scraping-in-the-us/