sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

you meet all kinds here on the fediverse:

https://anime.website/objects/b8b01da5-9ab7-4d96-a72a-4694e3d66770

Kinda entertaining watching the US state governors be shoved into a sort of shitty, compulsory footrace and watching some do well (ohio, maryland) and others trip and step on their scrotums (georgia, south carolina). MD gov just bought a half million test kits direct from SK, photo ops in front of a KAL jumbo, and now the president is butthurt. ha!

having swapped win/ctrl so that i can still thumb-shortcuts on comradeOS as I am used to from command-key days, i am now supremely annoyed that Apple usage has programmed me to use two different modifier keys for shortcuts over the years.

correspondingly i am now going to be a caps-as-control person from here on out and retrain myself

sometimes RMS says things that are really good, and sometimes RMS says things that are really bad. it's funny because he's so consistent with his rightness (on certain topics) or wrongness (on certain other topics).

on this one, he's correct:

https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html

https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Quickstart

i've read so much about him that even just reading the name Phineas Gage in text makes my abdominal muscles do the squick motion

CMV: every linux distro should ship with avahi and nss-mdns enabled (and maybe even autoipd) even in the minimal profile

slack and signal desktop apps both autoupdate.

there's literally no way to turn off this RCE.

looks like i might have to patch signal desktop. :(

suddenly having 250 square meters is a huge time liability now that i can't contract out vacuuming/mopping

i thought the whole point of firefox existing was for privacy's sake. it sends both third (pocket and google) and first (mozilla) telemetry out of the box, no consent, by default. at this point, why does it exist?

please stop saying “paranoid” when you mean “scared” or “anxious”. paranoia means something specific and distinct from “afraid”.

has Žižek stopped touching his face during the pandemic

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/georgia-elsewhere-south-governors-begin-lifting-coronavirus-restrictions-n1188391

mark my words: this won't end well.

The Apple TV pops up modal ads for Apple’s media subscription services OVER THE SCREENSAVER. I’ve purchased my last AppleTV.

annoying that twitter banned me for wondering aloud about contemporary american revolution, yet lets nazi shit like this stay up: https://twitter.com/WeWuzBoomers

could someone who understands petrochemical markets explain to me why oil prices swing so much? seems like it could be solved with storage; is building hugenormeous tanks just prohibitively expensive?

no fewer than five people so far have regurgitated the "omg oil prices are negative" current events news item they saw in unfunny unoriginal "hurdur where do i get my free oil" messages on social media, and it's only noon. it's not big and it's not clever.

we read the same news you do, unless you have something original to say, hush.

what is this world coming to? firefox is now spyware, connecting to a half-dozen mozilla hosts on startup, including location lookups, as well as pocket, and also sending telemetry without consent.

TIL that email senders can pay for sorting placement in the "social" and "promotions" tabs of gmail inbox:

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email