sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing

why does the creative cloud installer need root? these are fundamentally apps that read and manipulate and write local files, and sometimes talk to the network. nothing about that requires privileged access. apple should come down on this practice.

it's pretty amazing conceptually that the "tesla" brand/word has not meaningfully changed in years, yet the actual practical implementation of what that word means (specifically, multiple insane gigafactories scaling production up 5-10x from before) is like apples to oranges

the fact that the richest person in the world also appears to be the person delivering the most productive and irreplaceable value in the world seems to me as an indicator that the system is working as it should

i wonder if people will look back at us spending person-centuries folding clothes manually the same way we look back at people spending person-centuries washing clothes by hand in the river

I bet the Ax chip in the new studio display uses the same update/iboot mechanism as all of the iphones and Mx macs, so software updates on it will leak your IP (and thus city-level location)+unique serial to apple, plus probably its pairing with your computer's serial.

lol studio displays aren't available for apple in-store pickup in my US metro until 4th of july

and they say apple never pre-announces products

does the "adaptive sync" support in macos 12.x speak g-sync or freesync?

violating sanctions is a victimless crime. the crime is the theft of taxes on trade within the country (to fund violence), or if you trade directly with the government of the evil country, and fund them.

doing business with someone (not in government) in a country subject to sanctions is morally just. so is teaching in a sanctioned country.

what happened to virgil griffith is absolutely shameful. he is in jail for teaching.

anyone with experiences with the asus rog strix xg438q 43" 4k 120hz display? it's like $900 and seems pretty good on paper, thinking about using it as the main/central of my 3 displays on my main/fastest battlestation, so quality is critical.

wondering if i should get a 43" 4k in the middle of my battlestation H instead of this 27" (the imac pro with integrated 27" 5k is going away, side displays are staying) or if that is too big?

i have a 32" 4k at my office now and i love it.

The USA will throw you in jail for speaking at conferences in countries they don't want you speaking in.

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2022/04/12/bizarre-the-fbis-takedown-of-an-eth-dev-who-went-to-north-korea

Land of the free, eh?

fix is here if anyone is interested

https://superuser.com/questions/1702899/gpg-periodically-loses-connection-to-yubikey-on-monterey

i'd really like to be able to install the creative cloud without root.

this might be the main thing that forces me off of LRC to something worse

current monterey 12.3.1 breaks the current gpg/scdaemon/whatever in nixpkgs with an "gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Operation not supported by device".

this sucks bad because this is the only way i can authenticate to anything via ssh.

never read burroughs. reading burroughs. why did nobody tell me sooner

find yourself a man who looks at you the way tesla wannabe cowboy ravers look at elon