sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the culture war is insufferable, and leaks out into so many things. i'm so glad for the mute button.

should i sell my a7s3 and buy an fx3 instead? afaict it's the same sensor and cpu/ISP, similar menu systems, et c, and roughly the same price.

which ak47 should i buy?

i've never had a sony-branded lens (other than the 35mm f/2 also-zeiss-branded prime on my RX1r) that i've loved. i *loved* the canon 50mm f/1.4 and the 50mm f/1.8 plastic wonder (which, to my surprise, is now like $150 instead of the $80 it used to be).

this extension automatically fastforwards over youtube intros and sponsor chunks.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en

i love it. big love to ajay ramachandran (https://ajay.app/) for making it.

$2000 for the sony 50mm f/1.2 g master prime that came out is a far cry from the $80 canon 50mm f/1.8 plastic wonder i used to rock as default for photos, or even the $350 for the canon 50mm f/1.4 that i upgraded to, or the $1200 (iirc) the canon 50mm f/1.2L that i lusted after.

would be cool to go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_Modelo

where's the best place to get tshirts screenprinted in very small (1-5) quantities? must have pre-ban AA 2001 or post-ban LAA 20001 stock.

the fact that american puritanical bullshit culture still results in canonical versions of rap songs having obvious censorship in oftentimes each verse, and songs being produced in two versions simultaneously, the artistically superior one and the "watered down for public display" version, is a blight upon art and the industry

it remains an epic tragedy that in the wake of the release of "808s and heartbreak" no one in techno released a response album called "909s and ecstasy".

that time that a daft punk album came with a whole anime

kind of interesting that google's huge money contract with the copyright cartels made youtube subsume not only track-based things like napster/spotify/etc, but also mix-based things like mixcloud/soundcloud/etc.

an essay on the relative thematic accomplishments of harder better faster stronger versus shades of jae

there are songs that remind me of people with whom i never listened to the song, simply because the song makes me feel the way the person did.

grpc gotchas: https://www.evanjones.ca/grpc-is-tricky.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-twitter-block/russia-plans-twitter-block-in-one-month-if-it-fails-to-delete-banned-content-tass-idUSKBN2B81KV

i think sites like vox and msnbc are far more responsible for america's impending civil war than facebook.

why do we tolerate laptops and cars with a giant fucking billboard for the manufacturer smack in the middle of the front of it? that shit is so ugly and tacky. at least pixelbooks got this right.

so it won't even flash without loading the kext (to send some commands over usb, something that absolutely does not require kexts) and now it's flashing and it's been going for 15 minutes and it's barely a third done. what a shitshow