sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

amazon is total shit in germany :(

coming to berlin is like going back in time

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/memory-long-COVID

one day i'll commit this to memory. today is not that day

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

no one's ever won the main event with aces, but in 2001 dewey tomko did in fact *lose* it with aces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker#Main_Event

in the last year there has been a sudden rash of drink spikings and even needle spikings in berlin clubs and everyone has up "take care of each other" signs about looking out for one another... but they dont mention maybe not forcing everyone in the hot confined dancefloor space to smoke your cigarettes with you during a respiratory pandemic.

my consultancy, eeqj, has the website eeqj.com. the http site was broken and not serving redirects correctly for a minute, but it's in the HSTS preload list, which means any modern browser will force https (which was working fine).

two different *security industry professionals* contacted me to tell me my site was down. i don't even have a convenient way of *testing* the non-https site.

what fucking browsers are you people using anyway

@mewmew i think perhaps blob.blob.cat has an issue

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-woman-enduring-effects-of-long-covid-begins-process-for-medically-assisted-death-1.5976944

https://thenetworkstate.com/if-the-news-is-fake-imagine-history

python3 openssl bindings' build has been broken in nixpkgs on darwin (macOS) for a long while (multiple days) and it's a dependency to like, everything. ugh.

is ELK still the best method for doing selfhosted log ingest/search/index/parse? what's state of the art? is there a single container setup i can use for a relatively low volume of logs?

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

> The FBI describes the Oath Keepers as a "paramilitary organization" and a "large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights."[16]

uhhh sorry to break it to you, FBI...