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jwz

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I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world's greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents' web browser and stuff.

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jwz, to random
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Just replaced a 2014 computer with a slightly faster 2014 computer.

jwz, to random
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Albini, Redux.

I spent all afternoon assembling yesterday's blog post and mixtape about Steve Albini. Afterward, I went out to DNA Lounge to check out some punk bands with whom I was unfamiliar. (Just like Steve would have wanted.) But all night, I...
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jwz, to random
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Steve Albini, RIP.

Wow, this one hurts. He had his hands in everything. "Recorded by Steve Albini" is practically a genre in itself. Just look at this insane discography. I own so many of those records, and of the many others that I don't, I feel like...
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jwz, to random
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Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground.

"The signpost itself has recently been replaced."
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jwz, to random
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Political Journey.
https://jwz.org/b/ykP-

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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Someone keeps parking their cybertruck in the crosswalk at Lombard and Mason every weekday "like clockwork". https://brokeassstuart.com/2024/05/08/san-francisco-cybertruck-crosswalk-parking/?utm_campaign=butts #SanFrancisco

jwz,
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@docpop Apropos of nothing, this thread: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112176528573788827

jwz, to random
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An envelope with 3 sheets of paper reminding me that I am enrolled in eDelivery.

jwz, to random
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Most common 4 digit PINs.
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jwz, to random
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I weep for the future.

Last night, a friend I thought would know better was telling me how excited they were about "AI". My gesticulating ten minute response hit points such as: fraud at scale, fruit of the poisonous tree, VCs with sunk costs in...
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jwz,
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@LanguageMan1 Are you talking about the deep-future serenity of the moss growing on our bleached skulls, or...?

jwz, to random
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Dear Lazyweb: what is the most recent model of Mac mini capable of running macOS 10.13 High Sierra? That is: the last OS capable of running 32-bit Intel applications.

jwz,
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@awb I am pretty sure that's not the case.

jwz,
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@schultzor You'd think that a Mac Studio M1 Ultra would be fast enough to run macOS 10.13 in emulation. And yet.

jwz,
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@awb Welp, my lying memory of upgrading from 10.13 to 10.14, having the apps I care about no longer launch, and immediately downgrading again disagrees.

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Countdown until we learn that Waymo is similar to those Amazon stores where the self-driving cars are actually controlled by offices full of people who are playing a variation of Mario Kart in order to get us to our destinations.

jwz,
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@Alice Countdown: T Minus 6 Months Ago.

"Cruse 'autonomous' vehicles require 1.5 drivers, and manual intervention every two and a half miles:"
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fraying, to random
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Jack Dorsey has always been a gigantic piece of shit.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91119170/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-relationship-bluesky-twitter

jwz,
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@fraying The most amazing thing about this is how multiple so-called journalists manage to dredge a 5 page article out of an unpunctuated, ungrammatical one-liner from Dorsey, like they're the god damned Oracle at Delphi, huffing those potent Twitter fumes. The way they take the sound of some rich dude's farts and inflate them into a manifesto is insane.

I guess they have practice with this from cleaning up Trump transcripts and trying to make his glossolalia sound statesman-like or even human.

jwz, to random
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BreakTime.

Decline calendar invites by playing Breakout:
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jwz, to random
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Is Xcode actually a program, or a fractal zipbomb of nested installers?

Software update: "New Xcode!"
I fill with dread.
Two hours later: Finally launch Xcode.
Xcode: "Oh, did you want a compiler?? Update tools! Update components!"
Two hours later: press "Run".
Xcode: "Suddenly you have no simulators! Those old ones, they were no good! Download a single simulator!"
Four hours later...

jwz,
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I regularly download entire seasons of a TV show faster than Xcode can download command line tools.

jwz,
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@EricCarroll You can install just the command line tools. It's when you actually want to use Xcode that all this other mess happens.

jwz,
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@j3rn It does not, but fortunately I only need to touch the muck-encrusted monstrosity known as Android Studio about once every six months.

jeffjarvis, to random
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You had to find "experts" to say this, NYTimes? I'd think most any decent person on earth could have told you this.

jwz,
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@jeffjarvis "...why this is bad for Biden."

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Little Bobby Scunthorpe');--

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs to avoid "problems with computer systems".

"All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored...
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docpop, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey referred to Twitter, the privately owned company that blocked links to competing social media platforms like Mastodon, as "freedom technology". What a clown.

He also deleted his account on Bluesky announced he's no longer on Bluesky's board of directors. Jack's involvement was one of the reasons I was never excited about , TBH.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/?guccounter=butts

jwz,
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@docpop I won't let that change my opinion of Blue Sky.

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I'm heading to Alamo Drafthouse in SF tonight to take part in a 21 hour marathon viewing of movies. That's Star Wars 1 through 9, with live performances of the 501st Legion, and some bits of trivia and games. Rogue One and Solo will not be included.

I haven't watched episodes 1-3 since they were in theaters and I'm curious if I'll like them any better now than I did then.
https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/star-wars-marathon?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=59461

jwz,
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@docpop There's a fan edit of eps 1-3 called "The Last Turn to the Dark Side" that condenses them to 2:45 and omits most of ep 1. It's... not terrible? It manages to take three movies about... whatever the fuck they were about, accounting and tax irregularities I guess? and redirect them into a movie about an asshole monk with anger-management issues. It also may have actually helped that the torrent I found was approximately VHS quality. Made it feel retro.

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