Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@nafmo Is is the obsolescence warnings I specifically care about.

@nafmo I have a taker but notably not a patch!

XScreenSaver ffmpeg version skew.

Dear Lazyweb,

One of you could save me a whole lot of swearing if you would send me a patch that makes XScreenSaver 6.09 configured "--with-record-animation" compile without warning when linked against the ffmpeg 7.1 libraries rather than 4.x. (sample_fmts, supported_samplerates, ch_layouts are now deprecated and if there's a porting guide, I have not found it.)

Future generations thank you in advance.
https://jwz.org/b/yklt

@cstross I got NLS!

Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"

It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.

This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.

Stop hanging out at the Nazi Bar.

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

BTW, since I assume I'm getting sent to the camps regardless, I'm going to spend my remaining time calling stochastic terrorist christofascist piece-of-shit motherfuckers what they are. Oh, did I swear? Was it indecorous? I'm so fuckin' sorry.

Having read Gruber's lament about being blacklisted (take the win, man), I was disappointed to learn that I am still number 80 on the highest-ranking personal blogs of "Hacker" "News".

But that's a lifetime number. My ranking per year, 2009 through now are: 32, 47, 10, 7, 197, 351, 2034, 2127, -, -, -, -, -, 3255, 2605 and -.

"Let's keep this conversation going!"

https://jwz.org/b/yklG

@NanoRaptor Got suspended from a 9th grade "computers" class for showing the other students that since we were all dialed up to the same mainframe, we could "chat" during class by just printing directly to each others' consoles instead of doing our FORTRAN assignments.

@evan Kid Rock or P. Diddy.

@dansup Yeah, they rejected the iOS XScreenSaver app because I had the audacity to mention that there's also an Android version. So petty.

@grumpybozo Wow, that's amazing. Great job everybody! So glad we spent so much time implementing all of that crap!

Taking a stroll through my spam folder, I saw a bunch of legitimate messages from people and companies with their own domains, that are not publishing DMARC and SPF records. Surely everyone (and by everyone I mean Google) is rejecting their mail? How do they not realize this?

Then I noticed that one of them was received *from* gmail, so their mail probably works fine so long as they only mail gmail users. But another was via Yahoo, so that doesn't track.
https://jwz.org/b/ykk8

Trump, Musk Shred Constitutional Protections as Country Lurches Toward Mafia State.

"William Boot": WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nearly two months after a historically unprecedented coup by junta forces loyal to South African oligarch Elon Musk, the United...
https://jwz.org/b/ykk2

Tech Support: Dictators.

"Bro wtf is fascism?"
https://jwz.org/b/ykk4

Reminder: Cloudflare is a Nazi company and under no circumstances do you "have to hand it to them".

UK Subs Denied Entry into US.

After being held for "25 hours without sleep," Gibbs was finally released. "Although not being something I'd want to replicate, it was actually an educational experience," Gibbs concluded. "I'm kind of proud of myself for...
https://jwz.org/b/ykky

@shanselman @pluralistic Oh it will -- but without pay or health insurance.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34195

If Patreon was software, I would never, ever upgrade it.

Every change they make is worse than the one before.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkt

Man, the fake-docusign spam from weird TLDs is just off the charts in the last few days.