sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

on the playground was where i spent most of my days

why do people find this desirable? it's just 2x 4k displays. my main workstation is 3x 5k displays.

https://i.redd.it/q740slomtmp81.jpg

me: mutes and hides notifications for 50% of the strangers who reply guy me

also me: oh wow fedi is so dead todat

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/SHSH_Protocol

fun fact: modern M1 chips on the latest macOS contact the apple TSS server for bootloader signatures via plaintext http just like an iphone, and transmit their ECID (unique SoC hardware identifier) in *port 80 total plaintext* letting the backbones/IXes/NSA/CIA know the physical location of that specific computer.

this is happening on the latest and greatest M1 machines being sold right now, on the latest macOS, on every OS update.

search pcaps for gs.apple.com/17.171.47.65.

when i was like 14 i had this on my wall (alongside the matching one for the white/grey G4)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164671836173

never owned either of them because they were unimaginably expensive for poverty-line teenage me

i'm replacing my main powerhouse 128gb workstation (a 18core xeon 128gb/4tb imac pro) with a maxxed out 20c/128gb mac studio m1 ultra.

the imac pro is still worth $6-7k (i paid $14k for it). the new box is $8k.

the imac was the first computer i ever bought where i went to apple.com and smashed all the sliders to the far right and whacked the buy button. a dream for 20 years, realized.

i want to sell it while it still has value, but i also want to keep it forever for that reason. wat do?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/

literally just had a 800ms power outage as i was updating my bootloader.

what luck. maybe i should buy a lottery ticket?

my piece of shit tripp lite UPS doesn't alert to an overload condition *before* power is out, so when it switched over to battery, it shut itself off. something something seatbelts that don't work something something worse than useless

i knew 3blue1brown made manim (https://github.com/3b1b/manim) which is the library used for making the animations in their videos, but i didn't know they publish the full source for the generation of all of the videos. that's fucking cool

https://github.com/3b1b/videos/blob/master/_2020/hamming.py

monterey 12.3 21E230 https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/28/33/071-08758-A_9Y17AVKK4V/bg6zbc46bg162m5673fw3ubm2gowlh5388/InstallAssistant.pkg released 9 days ago on 2022-03-14

apple's software update checks will not work with ocsp blocked, you have to temporarily allow it to get updates. also there are bugs in the UI; if you have it blocked it will tell you your system is up to date (with a current "last checked" timestamp) when it's actually not.

is transgenderism an innate trait of a human being or is it a choice/decision made by the person?

what are the arguments (right or wrong) or evidence supporting or debunking the answer?

i am interested in philosophical examinations of opposing, warring viewpoints. i'm pro-choice, for example, but i also recognize that the right to an abortion is a *legitimately* contentious issue because the anti-choice argument is *logically sound* given its premise of human life beginning at conception (a premise with which i do not agree). anti-choice people aren't acting in bad faith, they're just wrong/dumb.

The trans-vs-terfs one is another I love to read about:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2