sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

fucking ios won't let me download updates bigger than 1gb on cellular, even though i pay my carrier for unlimited data. it wants me to connect to wi-fi. if i pull the sim out of the ios device and put it in a wifi lte router, it works fine to do the download over the same connection.

fuck this platform

OS updates for M1 macs (like today's 12.2 security update) connect to some random 17./8 on port 80 to "personalize", which presumably transmits your hardware serial unencrypted? i'm redoing it now, while pcapping, to see what it is actually sending...

there are at least 5 places in brave you have to opt out from it advertising to you or trying to get you to use their services

why is the usa sending tons of ammo to ukraine?

https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv/status/1484709938807070721

symbolics.com, the first .com ever registered, has a webpage on it that does not render without javascript.

one of the original tenets of the world wide web (which of course .coms predate) is graceful degradation: that if your computer sucks and can't do the thing, it will at least still render the words.

guess we can cross that one off the list...

this person literally said they only care about human rights in one nation: that is, for only part of the humans.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/590034-golden-state-part-owner-says-he-doesnt-care-about-uyghurs

lol macos makes you agree to a license to run /usr/bin/strings

these are the words that china's apps are required to censor. anyone got translations?

https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/olympics/illegalwords.txt

even with location services off, anything that uses maps on macOS will send locations to apple because it fetches tiles from the apple maps tile servers.

i really wish my calendar reminders for all day events would bug me incessantly about them at like, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm on the day. i snooze the notifications of friends' birthdays at like 9am or whenever they go off, and then i'm working in the evenings when i need to be reminded and end up forgetting until it's super late where my friends are and too late to call. i literally remembered my friend's birthday today at 23:59 in the timezone we're both in (after several alert reminders at like 9am)

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.