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there is a key on all modern macintoshes that opens the music app, which, upon opening, transmits your unchangeable hardware serial number to apple over the network.

there's a literal hardware phone-home button.

the on-device dictation stuff in macos 12.x and ios 15.x doesn't actually *always* run on-device. it only does on-device if the off-device one is slow or unavailable. it's actually no privacy guarantee at all unless you're doing your dictation inside of a faraday cage.

12.x (monterey) includes apple's paid icloud addon Private Relay, which is their first-party privacy vpn thing. they are now financially incentivized to make non-apple VPN products and services work less well or not work at all.

yo @tedu it would be sweet if this changes one day

it would appear that openbsd's signify has the same issue. the arguments "pubkey" and "seckey" are actually pubkeyfile and seckeyfile, paths to the pubkey and seckey on disk, not the actual pubkey or seckey.

what's the signing-only equivalent of FiloSottile's age? signify from openbsd seems like it's headed there but it doesn't seem to be widely used outside of openbsd-land.

there seems to be a growing anger in the internet underground toward good and non-malicious actors in the space like CloudFlare and Signal simply because they chose to build centralized systems, as if centralization is an inherently bad thing.

i wonder how many of those people so complaining also avail themselves of 12-36h amazon delivery.

centralization gives huge efficiency wins. decentralized is not always better.

this is getting close but is expensive:

https://www.amazon.com/PI-TOP-DIY-Raspberry-Internal-Integrated/dp/B08N6B8M1H

i would like an rpi 4 case that is:

a) metal
b) has an integrated oled and maybe some buttons
c) has a non-shitty fan
d) reproduces the GPIOs externally
e) (optional) has an 18650 UPS inside it

being immortal is probably terrible

https://twitter.com/PatrickGerard01/status/1031920228098355200

my smb service was running fine but inaccessible to the lan, and i dicked around with it for several hours before simply rebooting the box and now it's fine.

i thought this shit wasn't supposed to happen on lunix

big sur is the first macos release since i have been using macintoshes (which started at system 5 or 6 - i distinctly recall installing system 7 right after release) where i never actually put it on my main machine before the next version (monterey, out now) was released.

the keyboard on the new mbp is black (even between the keys) which fixes a pro/notpro branding oversight that has been persisting for a while

i just now noticed that you can get the m1 max in the 14" pro. that's pretty rad that a 14" laptop can be that powerful (although i bet it's battery murdah)

the m1max/pro soc feature i'm most excited about is four external displays hooked up to an MBP.

i am very curious to see how much the new 16" MBP alu case does or does not suck. just 2-3 more weeks.

what's your favorite weird movie that makes you feel feelings that you don't have words to name?

bonus points if those feelings are the point and the movie subordinates plot resolution or narrative structure to those feels

there's a thing that Villeneuve does that i love: he tells a story with plain bare spaces. the vertical entry tube in arrival. the heptapods' salon. the lawn on which the heptapods' ship is parked. the designer's room in blade runner. the archive library in blade runner. gurney's sparring studio in dune.

this is one of my favorite things done by Kosinski, too (the sky apartment in oblivion, the dude's apartment in tron2).

tools can be both free software and proprietary at the same time: the github CLI is one such example. VS code is another. these work primarily (or only) with closed, proprietary service platforms.