sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

https://davidlat.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-is-going-down

wow they really fucked up the notifications in ios lately. i can have an empty notification center and have an unread sms.

supporting freedom of expression (which definitionally means supporting expression of things you vehemently disagree with, or are factually incorrect, misinformation, "dangerous", etc) seems to be unpopular now. that's disappointing and sad.

"ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"

updating macOS to ventura (13.x) from monterey (12.x) still requires plaintext port 80 ocsp connections to ocsp.digicert.com before the updater will notice a new version available. apple promised that would stop more than a year ago

if you wrote a very very good non-foss replacement for Disk Utility.app i bet apple would buy it eventually

i hope he unfucks twitter so i can go back

i just opened a plist in vim and it tried to make an http request to apple.com to fetch the PropertyList-1.0.dtd (via xmllint). ugh.

transwomen outnumber ciswomen in hardcore software engineering fields by what appears to be close to an order of magnitude. why do you think that is?

between july and august 2022, cox silently changed my "unlimited data" package to a "1280GB monthly data plan" at the same price. no notification.

i hope i live to see the last meat human die

https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/journalist-james-gordon-meek-missing-since-fbi-seized-classified-docs-in-home-raid-report/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannonball-run-cross-country-racing

ponzu sauce is the best sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQp0uOBC_M

step 1: buy iphone for cash, masked
step 2: create new apple id with burner number, burner email, name and street address of target. use crypto-paid anon vpn
step 3: turn on icloud
step 4: load a bunch of publicly available cp into the camera roll
step 5: wipe prints and dna, hook it up to a car battery for a week or so of power, and leave it on the back corner of their property with location services on

oisd just blocked github.com, cool

the fact that this is needed is sort of a testament to how badly there needs to be a coordinated overhaul of the linux kernel networking situation wrt vms and containers

https://passt.top/passt/about/#pasta-pack-a-subtle-tap-abstraction

it's not news to anyone who works in this industry, but be advised that mint mobile CSRs will read out the whole email address on file on the account to anyone who knows the first name and phone number.