sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the bottom of the new 16" macbook pro feels cheap, i thought it might have been plastic even, but it is just really thin and has space behind it so it feels plasticky. i miss the rigid unibody slab already.

what a strange, inverted world.

it used to be we bought expensive, underpowered hardware to be able to use this revolutionary thing called the macOS.

now, we get affordable, insanely world-leading hardware... and the worst part is the bullshit toy spyware known as the macOS. i donate money every month to a project that will get some crapware free software OS running on it simply because even that garbage will be better than what comes on it.

if you press the f8 key on a new m1 pro mac, it will phone home to apple and transmit your unchangeable hardware serial number. fwiw it says on the screen that it is doing this after you press f8.

it feels really weird for a new iphone to be out and not have one. i have had every single one up until now.

rittenhouse is a moron who should have stayed home, but based on the videos i saw, in those moments he did nothing wrong. only fools grab a gun and go looking for a fight, however.

my residential ISP blocks inbound port 80 now, but they didn't when i first signed up. certbot has a directory with 400,000 files in it now because it's been trying and failing to renew for six months.

27 years of needing the v4 ip and neither ifconfig nor iproute2 can give a single command that will give it bare, still gotta force people to pipe to sed and awk and other bullshit (and of course iproute2 has to put /mask on the end so you need two awks).

nyc jailers are mass murderers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/nyregion/jails-rikers-oversight-correction.html

yaml contains such a tremendous number of footguns it isn't even funny

you can't get the ethereum signer or bitcoin signer "app" on to a ledger nano s without downloading it into the device first with ledger's spyware desktop app.

this thing is useless out of the box if you're unwilling to run spyware on your computer.

mycrypto, jaxx, exodus - all of these phone home to the developers immediately on launch. why are there no privacy-focused ethereum wallets?