sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i bulk followed like a thousand fedi people whose accounts i found in the "following" lists of other users who seemed cool. this is how i used twitter, i would add like a zillion people, then unfollow anyone later if i saw things i didn't like in my TL.

apparently mentally unstable people are extra common here; i got a lot of hate mail for even causing *follow requests*. imagine asking for consent being inappropriate.

all sorts of image classification shit phones home to Apple in macOS even if you don't use their photos app or icloud. it's insane how much nonconsensual, non-obvious network activity there is when using photos on a mac.

note that i do not use icloud, do not use photos.app, and have all icloud/itunes domains blocked. for some reason mediaanalysisd is still phoning home to apple. "privacy is a human right" my shiny metal ass.

so glad that apple writes documentation for the processes that come with macosX

oh hey cool waiting on starting a task while i wait for a single threaded gnu autoconf configure to complete on a $15k supercomputer. this is a reasonable and effective use of time, gnu, and i love and support your choices

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.