sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

i'm beginning to think that the only way to run a real community with anything resembling low-latency interaction is to bite the bullet and get an Apple developer account so that a non-bigtech server can send notifications to the computers people actually use these days.

sort of a bummer that you can't run a social network without apple's permission.

johnny mnemonic just pointed out that people need to remember that facebook didn't invent the metaverse:

https://youtu.be/0OK80eljWrs?t=560

(whole interview is pretty good)

there is a sound card company called Mark Of The Unicorn, or MOTU.

isn't the mark of the unicorn just a big sucking chest wound, though? it's not like the unicorn is gonna make some mystical symbol on you with his unicorn tattoo gun

sometimes i am sad because i used to have a girlfriend that looked just like the girls the anime borgar bot account posts (down to the love of borgar, natch) and she left me for some uggo she met on the birdsite. c'est la vie

i did fine with the society-wide crisis until this week.

it is still legal in the USA to work in a hospital during this pandemic (700k+ dead) without being vaccinated.

what the actual fuck

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

maybe i should get my business cards reprinted

“People are embraced or condemned according to their beliefs, so one function of the mind may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or disciples, rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true.” —Steven Pinker

social joke display names slay me sometimes.

today’s was UTXHoe (@UTXHoe). i noticed a screenshot from a while ago from someone on birdsite who had the display name “Bang & Olufsen-Feynman Condensate” which is also extremely good

he’s not always right, but when he is, he is:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1452792781726961668

where my cheap unmanaged 10gbase-t 8 port switches at?

https://www.thechatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives