sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the DRM preventing them from using their onboard bluetooth hardware

i am violently angry at the sheer human accomplishment that the homepods are. the fact that they were discontinued is quite literally for those who know a national shame.

https://computecuter.com/

for balance, here's one where he says a lot of shit that isn't on schedule at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwLWfaAg-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDwzmJpI4io

holy shit this guy's ability to predict the future is uncanny

https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-porn/

"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ... Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone." —Steve Jobs, April 2010

well, i use a pixel now, so there's that

those pesky fiber-seeking machines even have underwater variants:

'Human activity' behind Svalbard cable disruption | The Independent Barents Observer
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2022/02/unknown-human-activity-behind-svalbard-cable-disruption

i forgot that bradfitz invented openid. i'm going to use that (openid v1) as my sso now i think

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

lol the rfjason craigslist experiment cost rfjason >$70k in a default judgement. he represented himself.

the person who represents himself has a fool for a client

i don't understand why unused imports and unused variables are errors in golang. do you? can you explain it to me?

you don't have to be a company to need monitoring on your website. your personal website should have monitoring/alerting on it, so you can see if your hosting provider catches fire, or your tls cert expires, or whatever. it's free, set it up.

several times in the last week i have gone to personal websites of prominent people to find their TLS broken (or not supported at all)

why doesn't ungoogled-unmozillaed-firefox exist? i'd use that.

why does mozilla have a special software license and not just use MIT or Apache or GPL? what about those aren't sufficient? what about the MPL is special/different?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/let-that-be-a-lesson-to-you-son-never-upgrade/

super lame that the protonmail app on android won't do any sort of interval-based mail checking if you don't have play services installed. it literally depends 100% on proprietary push notifications via google (of all people) to know about new email, it has no other mechanism whatsoever.

just have it auto-refresh once an hour or something, jeez