sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

the crypto wars are back.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/

i didn't know this. did you?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5751

facebook outrage mobs lynch a few dozen people because people claim the site isn't sufficiently censored. meanwhile, computer-aided disease research prevents millions of deaths. woke twitterati declare computers the cause of the world's downfall!

it's trendy to hate computers, hate software, hate the internet, and think they're making our world worse.

this is a stupid, stupid, naive, fad-chasing take. our world is better than it has ever been, and computers are largely responsible.

the same people who are telling me that software-based voting systems are entirely untrustworthy are in the group saying that the last election's results (conducted via software voting) are accurate and trustworthy and free of fraud.

wow:

https://mccarthygarberlaw.com/a-comprehensive-legal-guide-to-web-scraping-in-the-us/

2 mins using pixelfed and i'm finding ridiculous basic broken stuff :/

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3169

my list of things wrong:

1) this is a useless feature that should have been deprioritized and the time used elsewhere

2) it should be a freeform text field, it's way more time/effort to make a list

3) now someone has to update the list because there isn't an "other..." option, increasing the time sunk into this useless feature

4) the 99% use case is not at the top of the list

5) nobody, and i mean nobody, knows that you need to command-click to select multiple items in a multiselect list

pixelfed.social has an itemized list of pronouns you're allowed to use on your pixelfed profile. you can't just type into a plain text box, there's a list that you can choose from. you can choose up to 4. they're almost all made up words that don't exist.

there are many things wrong with this. at least 3.

~/Documents/_MEME/_CATS/

i really like that several of the best things i liked on twitter and reddit are now mirrored by bots into fedi, specifically

@foone and @it_meirl_bot

@tk runs a pretty good instance over there! i especially like the amber phosphor color scheme. <3

ugh, i keep my apps in ~/Applications so as to keep the systemwide /Applications not needed to be backed up. Then I just back up $HOME/. The problem is if I exclude $HOME from spotlight indexing, it won't let me command-space launch apps in ~/Applications. I'd happily make an /Applications.mine or something but you can't make directories in the root of osx anymore because the root is readonly and all user data is on an overlay fs.

hooking up displays to a mac is sort of a pain in the ass. despite adopting usbc for laptops, pcs still don't use usbc for high res desktop displays. i have 3x 4k hooked up to a pc with displayport, hooking them up to my 16" m1max rmbp would use up all of the i/o i think? maybe i can do two with displayport to c adapters then maybe the hdmi will do 4k@60hz and i can just switch the third monitor's input?

i am about to completely zeroize my main battlestation after 3ish years and even though i have 4 backups and two other full-ass configured/operational workstations it is still making me nervous

we need more AP clients with adversarial interop. for example scraping rss of instances that defederate

idea: keycaps with ascii hex codes

i think perhaps the jerk admin of mastodon.technology has finally unbanned my instance. i hope this means that he has realized that preventing 17,000+ adults from being able to read what they want to on the internet is rude.