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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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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...
https://jwz.org/b/ykP0

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.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Two fictional characters go into a contraption and are merged together as the one person - you.

Which two make up you?

jwz,
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@NanoRaptor Ferris Bueller and Gaius Helen Mohiam.

jwz, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV5dbcOmw6I

docpop, to Starwars
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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.

jwz, to random
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Today, for the first time in my life, I received an email that was not spam that unironically began with "I hope this note finds you well."

jwz, to random
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There should be WhatTheFont for screws. I take a picture of a weird tiny screw and then they mail me a package of them.

jwz, to random
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I see MonkeyBrains is still delivering on their five eights of uptime promise. (I'm not even in the red area and my network is down).

jwz,
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@dbloom

jwz,
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This is fine

jwz, to random
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Merchants Are Getting People Killed.

Streetsblog:

No American city has the guts to commit to what Paris did and I'm going to be frank as to why.

The number one obstacle to any safety improvements is local merchants. Business owners and the merchant...
https://jwz.org/b/ykPx

jwz, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-vUY6erQU

fraying, to random
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I used to call myself the web's last optimist, but I think that title belongs to @molly0xfff now.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

jwz,
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@molly0xfff @fraying I always explain it as: The good thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

So if I'm still trying...

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

jwz,
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@julian Do you have a link for what their proposed fix is? It's not obvious to me what they're planning, from that GitHub page.

jwz,
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@gabek @julian 100%

wimpy, to random
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WAT!? 🤦‍♂️

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

jwz,
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@wimpy I wrote about this problem two years ago and there has been no movement toward a fix or even mitigation from the Mastodon developers. https://jwz.org/b/yj6w

BTW, everyone who knee-jerk replies to this with "LOL get a CDN" is saying: "I expect all web sites to be run by dedicated professionals, so that my social network can be run by amateur hobbyists".

jwz,
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@ThirstyGayGeek @wimpy @maikel OMG. This is not my first fucking rodeo. What Mastodon does is different in kind.

jef, to random
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LOL

The thermoplastic installers got it right, these are supposed to look like Yield signs.

Not that any drivers know what they mean. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

jwz,
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@jef Never in a million years would I have guessed those were supposed to look like yield signs.

jwz, to random
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Fallout Cyberdeck.
https://jwz.org/b/ykPt

jwz, to random
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Remember, the collective noun for techbros is "a podcast".

dangillmor, to random
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On a multi-person video call this morning, we were asked what podcasts we listen to.

I didn't get a chance to chime in but here's my answer:

None regularly. I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text.

Podcasters, please post transcripts.

jwz,
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@dangillmor A podcast is an audiobook of a blog post, where they then delete the blog post. This meeting could have been an email.

adam, to random
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Lego is a mirror for society.

jwz,
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@adam Lego has been all-in on copaganda for basically their entire existence. Lego is a cop.

jwz, to random
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You guys, an Acquistions Manager is still interested in XScreenSaver! https://jwz.org/b/ykLI

jwz, to random
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I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

Pictured here: Twitter founder Biz Stone checks in to his new position on the Mastodon board of directors: "The board was selected based on the values they share with Mastodon."
https://jwz.org/b/ykPm

jwz,
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@foxxtrot @textfiles It was 100% sincere. It ended with "this is about money, people complaining about the source is about PR"

jwz, to random
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Some Andreesen-Horowitz Crypto-Bro bloviates on a vision of Fascist San Francisco.

I hesitate to even give oxygen to a story like this, but it's just so fucking whack-a-doodle. It sounds a parody, or an April Fools joke, or a stand-up comic doing a...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOm

jwz,
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@madopal It kind of tracks, though: all of his friends exclusively wear polo shirts with company logos on them. In his world, fashion exists only to advertise class allegiance.

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