sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

people complain when i (objectively, accurately) use the term spyware to describe software that bundles opt-out analytics. it transmits your activity off your device, without your consent, often silently. everyone gets butthurt and says "that's not spyware, that's analytics" but not one person has offered any explanation on how that's *not* exactly the same thing that spyware is and does.

this is so fucked up. reporter out alone operating camera and doing a segment, gets hit by a car.

are we angry at the car operator who hit a well lit human being? no, we're angry at the newsrooms who send reporters out alone for some reason?

how is this not victim blaming? it happened because she was alone? fuck no, it happened because americans don't pay attention to the road.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/reporter-hit-by-car.html

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1147217161/minimalist-mac-style-pbt-keycap-set-124

someone has my number fuckin' stone cold

anti-blockchain zealot bingo:

a square with "carbon footprint"

a square with "deflationary spiral"

a square with "misunderstands xkcd 2030 as anti-all-blockchain-applications"

murdering children in your protective care deemed legal in the usa: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/cedric-lofton-kansas-custody-death.html

His name is Robert Paulson.

wow the documentation for fabric (python ssh admin tool) is terrible

it bothers me disproportionately when people tell lies about me. i'm fine if you share negative opinions about me or whatever, that's your business, but it really grinds my gears when people spread factually incorrect statements about me

hey @leah and @rixx - https://github.com/chaossocial/about/blob/master/blocked_instances.md says that this instance is blocked due to "privacy violation" which I think is false. please advise.

imagine being proud of this first bullet point, on stage

i got a music box, so naturally now i have to write software to convert midi to g-code for a laser cutter.

this typeface has a lot of glyphs that most typefaces don't.

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

keep getting rate-limited by my own masto because docker's userspace l3 proxy obscures source IP in http requests because docker is dumb and mastodon has no knob(!) for disabling rate limiting.

wikipedia VPN IP blocks should not apply to you if you're logged in

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