jwz
jwz@mastodon.social
<p>I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world's greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents' web browser and stuff.</p>
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Post #4490428
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein today is Zero Cool Day https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/08/10.html?utm_source=sp_ma
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Post #4479506
Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process, Total Eclipse of the Content ID Robots Edition. "Good news! Your dispute wasn't reviewed within 30 days, so the claim on your YouTube video has now been released." Bonnie Tyler died last month, and so the... https://jwz.org/b/yk-Y
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Post #4399942
Please keep this clown out of Congress, redux. Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Wiener employs Anthropic's tech for an interactive attack ad, but all Chan's campaign sees is desperation: The Wiener campaign was in part inspired to create the... https://jwz.org/b/yk-P
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Post #4387395
Bummer and Lazarus appreciation post. https://jwz.org/b/yk-N
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Post #4326034
@attoparsec@clacks.link Nobody would disagree that that's a +10
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Post #4325992
@attoparsec@clacks.link That is the most "I will not be taking questions" hammer I have ever seen.
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Post #4321756
TLDs used to mean things. We used to be a society. I would love to hear the reason that all San Francisco government email addresses and services are advertised as being on the sfgov.org domain instead of the sf.gov domain. I'll bet the reason is deeply, *deeply* stupid. UPDATE!!! I am begging -- *begging* -- every one of you sad-ass Well Actually motherfuckers who feel the need to explain the dot-gov domain to me to first CLICK THE LINKS IN MY POST. https://jwz.org/b/yk-L
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Post #4300294
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/31.html?utm_source=sp_ma
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Post #4296342
Googly-eyed Kremlin bitch loses defamation lawsuit. Patel and the Kash Foundation sued Stewartson over a series of allegedly defamatory statements: Among the statements at the center of the lawsuit were claims that Patel "attempted to overthrow the... https://jwz.org/b/yk-F
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Post #4291787
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling. [ REENACTMENT ]The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much. On July 8, Amnesty International UK released a report titled... https://jwz.org/b/yk-D
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Post #4286672
It has now been over two and a half years since Google has updated their aerial imagery of -- *checks notes* -- the sleepy seaside town of San Francisco. Still no QR for you. I guess they've redirected that drone budget into feeding books into the plagiarism woodchipper. https://jwz.org/b/yk-B
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Post #4170825
The Eye of Pizza is, Once Again, Upon You. As you may recall, my beloved Gakken World Eye shit the bed during a power failure a couple weeks ago, after having been on 24/7 for nine years. Since these are going for almost a thousand dollars on eBay, my... https://jwz.org/b/yk9-
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Post #4130797
Wait, *which* one of these bottle blonde dirtbags is Igor the Carpathian? https://jwz.org/b/yk98
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Post #4104442
We should rely less on the Nazi Bar somewhat. After outcry, Meta reverses suspension of The Stud's Instagram page: Meta Platforms initially suspended its Instagram account after the bar said bad actors flagged old posts with false charges of "human... https://jwz.org/b/yk96
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Post #4101071
So there's a Neuromancer trailer out and it's exactly the necrophiliac snore you'd expect it to be. I already watched this show when it was called Altered Carbon, and it sucked. Nobody listens to me, but the only way to make this work was to have gone full Lisa Frankenstein. How is Jared Leto not in this? It has that Leto Stink on it. We could have had a second season of The Peripheral instead of this. https://jwz.org/b/yk92
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Post #4093785
This is fine. https://jwz.org/b/yk90
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Post #4076970
SF Officials Will Arrest You for Partying in SoMa, Also Really Want You to Come Party in SoMa. Do it our way or else! Two inbox items from Thursday, presented without comment: July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke... https://jwz.org/b/yk9w
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Post #4076112
I see Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen is also getting into the Antichrist biz. Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch: A Tesla solar customer went to pull up their lease agreement in their Tesla account this month and... https://jwz.org/b/yk9u
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Post #4072779
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein another artifact comes to light https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/24.html?utm_source=sp_ma
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Post #4020918
Please keep this jackass out of Congress. Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave: State Sen. Scott Wiener was not invited to the Trans March. He was really, really not... https://jwz.org/b/yk9q
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Post #3948122
A one day task turned into a two day task because I'm not buying $7 SD cards for $45, out of principle. https://jwz.org/b/yk9o
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Post #3941372
The Eye of Pizza is No Longer Upon You. Yet another casualty of last week's PG&E antics: the projector in the pizza eyeball no longer lights up. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did: it's been on 24/7 for nine years. Sadly, the Gakken... https://jwz.org/b/yk9l
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Post #3917968
WP pro tips. There's a new WordPress exploit out there but I will show you how I vaccinated myself against it 6+ years ago: https://jwz.org/b/yk9j
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Post #3868137
Today in Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process. Apparently now Google requires you to give them a lock of your hair before allowing you to file a DMCA fair-use counter-claim to a spurious content-ID rejection. "Build history as you grow: Once... https://jwz.org/b/yk9d
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Post #3851888
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein another artifact comes to light https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/15.html?utm_source=sp_ma
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Post #3840711
Today in Hoffman Lenses. Everybody Hates Elon: "Meta has spent years tracking us online," said a spokesperson for Everybody Hates Elon. "Now it wants to track us in the real world too." [...] "Meta and Ray-Ban's new AI glasses can be used to secretly... https://jwz.org/b/yk9Y
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Post #3816450
More Pi fuckery. In raspi-config on Debian 13.6, when I enable the overlay file system it... does not. I found some breadcrumbs here but installing the linked eeprom did not fix it, and anyway that was a year ago and I have rpi-eeprom 28.28-1. How make go? https://jwz.org/b/yk9U
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Post #3803796
When people say "the billionaire speculators are going to deny us access to space for decades", I implore you to phrase that like you're not threatening me with a good time.
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Post #3794398
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we're twenty-five https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/13.html?utm_source=sp_ma
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Post #3790630
Weird Pi failure mode. I have a Pi 4 B that, after a power failure, seems unable to talk HDMI in any resolution higher than 1024x768. I have tried both ports, multiple cables, multiple monitors, and a known-good CF card. # xrandr. Screen 0: minimum... https://jwz.org/b/yk9O