sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

what are some of the best places to buy used books that aren't amazon?

imagine being this disconnected

https://unbound.social/@insurgentem/107726703664061135

why aren't there nightlies of ungoogled-chromium?

You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There's a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You're a sucker for french poetry and rhinestones. You're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children.

this is totally insane.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/02/world/covid-test-vaccine-cases/global-virus-restrictions-us-states

interesting - apple software updates fail if you block all trustd internet access (which makes OCSP freshness checks fail)

the pandemic in the USA is pretty much the worst it's ever been. hospitals are more full than at any other point, more people are dying than at any other point.

throwing parties and gatherings right now is utterly irresponsible.

if you use protonmail, electronmail is a great gui client. it bundles the app stuff locally so it only talks to github (update check, disableable) and the api endpoint. you can tell it to only communicate with the api endpoint via tor, too, which is sweet.

well that certainly was a rabbithole

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/misc/HentaiAtHome/default.nix

useful list, but not all good decisions:

https://the-empire.systems/linux-macos-setup

gpg/yubikey on macos 12.x needs this fix:

https://nbari.com/post/gpg_selecting_card_failed_operation_not_supported_by_device/

around 70% of chips being made are >=40nm, not the 7-14nm latest and greatest tsmc hot shit

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/idc_chip_shortages/

https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm

When you update the OS on an M1 Mac, it transmits system unique identifiers to Apple's TSS server on gs.apple.com via plaintext HTTP (no TLS/SSL!) via an XML plist.

Verified today on a new M1 Max 16" rMBP upgrading to 12.2. I have pcaps.

what's the US LTE or 5G carrier that you can simply pay per GB used and not get throttled at x GB? i'm using fi but it throttles you and caps your bill after x GB, and i'd rather pay more and not be throttled to 128kbps (i downloaded apple OS updates on LTE today and destroyed my data cap)

it's sort of crazy, internet i regard today as very slow would have been mindblowingly fast for me when i first got broadband