sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i hope that the way in which i'm wrong here is not "oh well the incumbents started a world war"

been thinking about this a lot and i've concluded that the US election this year doesn't matter as much as everyone seems to think it does. the bulk of the damage from the virus will be wrought already by november, and the entire US economy is proper fucked for the next >8 years anyway no matter who gets elected, so it's a moot point really

i thought the new cheapy mbair was supposed to be $1099 now instead of $999, but it's $999 on apple.com when i just looked. (historically it was their best-selling laptop at $999, i was surprised they changed the price point)

interesting that the chinese imprisonment/abuse of an ethnic minority into camps (1.5M out of 1.393B, 0.1%) is held up as this huge, heinous human rights abuse (and it is) and yet the american practice of imprisoning ethnic minorities (usually without trial) is more than 20 times more widespread (2306/100k, 2.3%).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dGAZTj8xA

now that efi supports booting from files on plain ol fat partitions on a gpt-formatted device with no mbr magic required, i am going to turn this 512gb usb stick into the ultimate multiboot utility tool with like 10 different live partitions

the fix is "export LSCOLORS=ExGxBxDxCxEgEdxbxgxcxd" for reference

whatever colorscheme oh-my-zsh installed uses the same color for directories as i'm used to for symlinks and now my whole world is upside down

zfs tab completion isnt so fast on a directory of 50k items

contemplating the loss of almost all of my develop settings for the last 10 years if i migrate from lightroom classic to darktable

i'm really annoyed that mastodon shows me things that are in my local database, then stops showing them when people on other instances take actions (e.g. block, delete). that should never happen. i'm going to have to implement activitypub myself, i think. :(

i wish lightroom's fs management worked more like beets.

super bummed that zfs's licensing kept macOS from getting any data-checksummed filesystems. intellectual property laws are a plague upon the earth.

one of the best things about browsing twitter logged out now that i've been suspended is that all the famous people (like paulg and pmarca) that have blocked me are now readable again

i think i would be more okay with my neighbor playing music loud enough to hear it in my office if their taste in music weren't terrible

why is there no decent modern file transfer over http protocol? webdav is lame and naive POSTing of one-file-one-request is lame and unresumable

Andrew Cuomo is a charismatic guy, strangely enough, despite not fitting the usual stereotype of a charismatic person. Until this crisis I'd never watched him speak very much, now I've seen him a lot and I'm surprised.

linux is so mainstream and macs are so common that linux doesn't have an in-kernel driver for the *keyboard* in the ultralight macbook8,1 released five years ago: https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=MacBook8,1

https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver#readme

why isn't there a nonprofit that simply makes sure that common linux distros work on each mac apple releases?!