sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

I just got a notification that "Chrome's Terms of Service are changing". What the fuck? The license is the terms of service for a piece of software. You don't get to change it once it's on my computer.

"wait who the fuck wrote this jankass code?"

reading japanese wikipedia articles about WW2 bombings run through google translate next to the english wikipedia articles is enlightening, and the US is friendly with japan. I wonder what the en/zh story split is in the respective countries' media.

i pay extra every month for unlimited data on one of my residential connections; i am surprised to see the terrible duopolist crediting me for it this month unprompted.

if the death star were owned by the US federal government, talking about blowing it up would get you banned by twitter

The NYTimes paywall disablement for the pandemic coverage does not work if you have cookies disabled; the paywall remains in place.

sounds like my friends and friends-of-friends are now firmly into two categories: those who are taking isolation seriously and are not leaving the house *at all* and those who are just "distancing" or "limiting contact" and trying to carry on their lives (aka some of the 5 million USAians who will get infected in the next week and show up in the charts in 2-3 weeks)

I have a feeling that we are going to see dozens or hundreds of supply chains slowly disintegrating over the next 90-180 days.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/from-spain-to-germany-farmers-warn-of-fresh-food-shortages

Expect shortages.

it's impossible for me to create a discord account without doxing myself, apparently. it's such a bummer, there are communities that have chosen it that i participate in and now can't.

the lack of linux client support and the lack of "to which keys am i encrypting this message, actually" key transparency for imessage are pushing me toward all-signal, all-the-time. i am officially deprecating imessage, which i have used continuously and primarily since it was launched in 2011.

medium.com seems to throw you into an infinite redirect loop if you have cookies turned off.

i saw something about toki pona in a website or repo from @cadey and then there was an Atlantic article on HN less than a week later, and now i am in the channel on freenode. think i might learn it

Why don't more service client softwares (e.g. Riot, ChatSecure) for iOS support connecting via Tor?

Why is the US population being slowly and steadily aligned against China in the media and government communications?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYy_g8NzmI

update: no flour.

I now have a dutch oven, yeast, and salt, but no flour.

https://s.sneak.berlin/web/statuses/103889433293292943

watching ULA launch a military comsat for the US on a ~$110M Atlas V.

Falcon 9s cost ~$50M, presumably mostly due to the fact that they don't completely waste the first stage every time.

it's starting to look like the only investment i made in 2019 that i will be able to resell at a profit this year is my halloween plague doctor mask

Is there a plugin for jekyll to reproduce my toots on my jekyll static site?