sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the smear campaign aimed at warren ellis makes me really sad.

https://www.somanyofus.com/testimonials#willowbl00-2008-2018

these people are insane

you're insane if you have location services turned on in your phone:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

it upsets me how good i am getting at shell scripting

found it:

https://gist.github.com/izderadicka/6991711f3524cac2e668#file-megaback-sh-L79

is there a unix command like split that will checksum each individual chunk as it is split out? i'm trying to avoid doing a split and a shasum afterward.

"coming soon".. written in 2009

every time i'm reading some post on rms' website and i'm thinking to myself "hmm this is a reasonable position" i get to the part where he uses his own made-up gender neutral personal pronouns which nobody else anywhere has adopted and i recall that this seemingly reasonable article came out of the mind of a completely unreasonable person and i have to change the channel and go render something with nonfree javascript to get rid of the gross feeling

https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html

rms himself writes (in (3)) about why the AGPL is nonfree.

if reading this doesn't make you angry at software people, i don't know what will

https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

it's like this because *they designed it like this*.

there should be a single command in debian/ubuntu/etc to rebuild your kernel using the patchset from upstream and anything in like /etc/kernelpatches.d/ applied. there isn't.

however i installed this version of ungoogled-chromium (flatpak? snap? appimage? whatever overengineered-flavor-of-the-day-that-doesn't-actually-fix-the-problem?) has terrible tearing when playing back fullscreen video on a normal/recent ubuntu with a normal/recent nvidia video card. everything else on the system works fine. this is fine

what's a good ready-to-deploy headless cms that works with jekyll? ideally it can clone a repo and run "jekyll build" and some custom ssh/scp/rsync/whatever command to publish on edit.

i'm thinking of writing one because i don't know of a good option.

what's the cheapest mobile provider in germany? i'm getting fucked over by o2.

it's amazing to me how many emails i get from startups that assume that by dropping their name i have any idea who they are or what they do or why they exist.

just because i have a login on your site doesn't mean i remember or care who you are. you have to reintroduce yourself in the first paragraph.

redbubble's unsubscribe-from-spamming-me-because-i-bought-a-thing-one-time landing page plays a gif of a unicorn's horn breaking off when you choose the "unsubscribe from all" option.

fuck you, redbubble.

when did newsweek turn right-wing partisan?

https://www.newsweek.com/mainstream-media-attacking-joe-rogan-instead-admitting-its-own-failures-opinion-1674670