sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

what do you name your external hard drives?

my workstations are named nostromo, cyberdyne, and meatfucker. i need distinct and useful names for my external attached storage

why am i still buying hard drives? we have hard drives at home

i have a few dozen floats in a python list. what is an elegant way to filter all the ones that are more than 1 standard deviation away from the median?

https://queer.party/@alexisvl/107762994614714659

so far 100% of the calls for violence i have personally seen on the fediverse have been from one single community of people.

new record: 39 days into the calendar year without getting tricked by a fart

it's bothersome to me that if i had already bought a house in japan like i want to, i would not be legally permitted to go to it right now

borders are such bullshit

i'm thinking about running a hidden wordpress install simply as a CMS backend that dumps out rss, and then writing a plugin that triggers a jekyll rebuild-and-deploy from the RSS feed on any update

i was thinking maybe a traditional analog pager with a small rpi-powered transmitter too lol

or maybe this https://www.oelmann-elektronik.com/products/LX7/LX7.html

perhaps a belt-mounted pager-alike with an 18650 in it

idea: a non-clock wearable that has a battery that lasts a long time, and receives haptic notifications only from a selfhosted web service. an android app that hooks into handset notifications and forwards only notifications from certain apps or certain priority/regex. sysadmin tools can also POST to the notification endpoint for paging/alerts.

i really want to receive *certain* notifications 24/7. i really don't want to carry my phone around the house all of the time, or be interrupted.

one of the most important people in techno:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/386598-Nilesh-Patel

remains one of my favorite dj sets ever, years and years later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_03oaD38w

https://jcs.org/amend

https://twitter.com/Mvais3/status/1015277530276868098

amazing to me that people don't see the obvious ones:

- we apply due process to people based primarily on economic status

- we routinely let people in custody of the state die from easily preventable diseases or get physically attacked/raped

- the police selectively enforce laws and prosecutors selectively prosecute people to push entirely undemocratic agendas

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1015276380416770048

the guy who invented the modern computing architecture we all use also was in favor of starting a nuclear war, dr strangelove style, with the ussr, because he thought they just plain needed killin:

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

now that he's dead it's not doxxing him.

happy birthday, dan kaminsky.

cultural appropriation doesn't hurt anyone, and resultantly isn't wrong or bad. it's an attempt to frame harmless behavior (that is, the normal and typical propagation of human culture) as an outrageous offense.

majority groups do plenty to fuck over minority groups. dressing or dancing or cooking or eating or cutting their hair similarly is not one of them.

if everything is outrageous, then nothing is.