sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

If you boot an encrypted disk ubuntu/kubuntu, it will boot up to the point where you can enter your disk crypto password. this is console, not an intelligent graphics mode, so there's no screensaver. it displays the same thing on all attached displays, regardless of rotation. there is no display sleep timeout, if you boot your computer and leave the room for a few days, it will burn the disk password prompt right into your displays.

it's 2022

note well that this is WITHOUT using a single apple service: no icloud, no app store, no facetime, no imessage, no handoff, no Apple ID at all!

This is all of the things that try to talk to the internet on a brand new format/reinstall boot of macOS Monterey 12.1.

what's the part of libvirt that's supposed to create virbr0 and run dnsmasq and all that shit?

can't do an offline install of 12.1 on an imac pro even with "medium" boot security and external booting enabled. trying to boot the 12.1 installer says it "requires an update" which doesn't work without network. i think it's a bridgeOS (T2) update but still, no way to establish a trustworthy OS on this thing.

i've been reinstalling OSes for twenty five years. today i booted to external media, formatted, and went to reinstall.

guess who formatted the wrong disk?

of course it was the temp/scratch usb3/flash disk that just had, like, mp3s and vms and stuff that's easily reproducible, but it's still annoying.

always *double check* that the disk is the right disk before you zeroize it.

fonts still look ugly on chrome on linux no matter how many ttf files i copy from the root of the mac

and ungoogled chromium doesn't support DoH on linux for some esoteric reason i don't understand

wow, it's super annoying getting ungoogled chromium to work right on a current ubuntu. even just getting flatpak installed was a mess.

ok, so the dissonance between command/control for keyboard shortcuts between mac and unix was hurting me. i swapped the keys on unix for a while but the problem is that control-c is still used on mac in the terminal for control-c, so then it's physically command (alt)-c in terminal on linux, so no go there. i of course have caps lock as control.

the trick, i've found, is starting to use the physical caps lock key as the shortcut key on linux always.

this is such a pain in the ass.

i want to publish my blog posts on a hidden web-based blog (write.as or something) that outputs RSS, and would like my jekyll blog SSG to render my static site from that RSS feed instead of the markdown in _posts. Does anyone know some existing tools to do this or must I write them?

thinking of writing a small/quick youtube-dl web frontend, sort of like put.io

hmm drop just cancelled one of my orders without so much as an email notification. i logged in to see when it was coming and it just said "cancelled", i didn't even get an email about it.

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