sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the protonmail bridge software phones home to quad9 and google DoH services silently and without obtaining consent or offering a preference to opt out.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/25a8c1962b7f860ae7645366dce85289fc10e113/pkg/pmapi/proxy.go#L42-L45

please tell me more people to follow on the fediverse. i don't have enough content in my feeds.

someone appears to be tampering with gitlab.com TLS streams, getting TLS read errors ("decryption failes or bad record mac" in ssl3_get_record when using wget).

just had my first experience accidentally downloading an aarch64 .app on my intel mac. oops.

also apparently the librewolf people don't know about fat binaries

if dadrock is bad, i don't wanna be good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI

elon was right, pronouns suck

http://pronoun.is/xey/xem/xyr

what the fuck is with software automatically resizing my images to be shit? signal does this, mastodon does this (either serverside or in the ios client), everything does this. i spend ten grand a year on cameras and software makes their output look like a fucking potato despite me and everyone i communicate with being on gigabit or 5g. i hate this timeline

the apple studio display (which of course has an Ax chip in it and standard iOS-style secure boot/update with personalized-to-serial updates) cannot be purchased in-person with cash if you want the VESA mount. you need to provide payment card info (identity) to get the serialized device. even our monitors are trackable now.

signal-ios ten years in still hasn’t figured out how to not block the ui thread. yay for releasing half baked buggy shit without basic qa

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.

the usa’s ban on polygamy is an anti-mormon thing and is actually unconstitutional in my view

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.