sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

interesting - apple software updates fail if you block all trustd internet access (which makes OCSP freshness checks fail)

the pandemic in the USA is pretty much the worst it's ever been. hospitals are more full than at any other point, more people are dying than at any other point.

throwing parties and gatherings right now is utterly irresponsible.

if you use protonmail, electronmail is a great gui client. it bundles the app stuff locally so it only talks to github (update check, disableable) and the api endpoint. you can tell it to only communicate with the api endpoint via tor, too, which is sweet.

well that certainly was a rabbithole

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/misc/HentaiAtHome/default.nix

useful list, but not all good decisions:

https://the-empire.systems/linux-macos-setup

gpg/yubikey on macos 12.x needs this fix:

https://nbari.com/post/gpg_selecting_card_failed_operation_not_supported_by_device/

around 70% of chips being made are >=40nm, not the 7-14nm latest and greatest tsmc hot shit

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/idc_chip_shortages/

https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm

When you update the OS on an M1 Mac, it transmits system unique identifiers to Apple's TSS server on gs.apple.com via plaintext HTTP (no TLS/SSL!) via an XML plist.

Verified today on a new M1 Max 16" rMBP upgrading to 12.2. I have pcaps.

what's the US LTE or 5G carrier that you can simply pay per GB used and not get throttled at x GB? i'm using fi but it throttles you and caps your bill after x GB, and i'd rather pay more and not be throttled to 128kbps (i downloaded apple OS updates on LTE today and destroyed my data cap)

it's sort of crazy, internet i regard today as very slow would have been mindblowingly fast for me when i first got broadband

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