Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@mattblaze If he wants to fly around in an insecure plane, I think we're in a "never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake" situation.

Pascal's Weiner.

If Roko's Basilisk is real, then wouldn't it be a certainty that you would *already* be being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you'd be experiencing the *one* that was not.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh no.
https://jwz.org/b/ykn9

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet.

How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him? The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years. In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi,...
https://jwz.org/b/yknv

Happy to be serving AI bots such URLs as:

the/virtuoso/righteous/who/to/a/the/he/
topanga/what/non/been/emotions/thereby/to/most/implementado/
black/layer/in/this/why/read/thrush/earths/foran/
also/its/chase/cremation/a/connection/shamelessly/page/
space/instead/putt/they/
seaming/are/demonstrates/mixers/dresses/fillmore/cambron/
seaming/rational/is/ministry/
perron/packard/apr/piece/were/will/i/mother/
fixes/in/should/each/period/
peached/supprised/all/so/a/onecomplete/connection/affleurant/

Rewrites and error logs.

Dear Lazyweb, How do I do an Apache rewrite but also have it show up in error_log? E.g. the following has the side effect that it is not logged, making it unavailable to fail2ban: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f....
https://jwz.org/b/yknN

I really can't tell what portion of these hits from "Windows NT 6.1" (2009) and "Chrome 70" (2018) are botnets/scrapers, versus garden variety fuckin' idiots.

Bobby Brainworms.

So I guess we're reaching the point where if you want to remain vaccinated against COVID, you'll have to figure out how to buy an illegal import from this "dark web" I've been hearing so much about.

Or maybe go down to one of our famed "Open Air Drug Markets" and buy it from a.... Blade Runner...

https://jwz.org/b/ykm4

@inthehands As someone who has spent a large portion of my life actually *implementing* this sort of adversarial interoperability with unwilling, billionaire-backed systems --

No. No it won't.

Got another metal band coming through who want to open doors even earlier so they can be in bed by 10pm.

Big bad Satanists, I tell you what.

You will be shocked to learn that the password was 1234. "We take this matter seriously and are working as fast as we can to respond to the situation." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_crosswalk_button_hacking/

@anildash The collective noun of "techbro" is "a podcast".

It's hard to make it even a few paragraphs in to the various articles about Musk's eugenicist breeding program, because as far as I can tell, the women involved are all *also* MAGA fascists, and the only thing that makes them victims in this story is that, after agreeing to be breeding stock, turkey-basted by Übermensch Musk Spunk™, they didn't think that the leopards would eat *their* faces too.

Often I'll be scrolling through the Explore tab and there will be some cringingly banal headline like "5 Great Tips For Salad!" and 100% of the time it is Pinboard.

"Pinboard, The Supermarket Checkout Line of the Fediverse"™

The sad thing here is that the reason I'm seeing it is that people are reading it. WTAF.

"Ethical use of AI doesn't exi...."

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg:

""It's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.""

https://jwz.org/b/ykmc

@evan It was just a joke!

@evan

Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule).

But out of curiosity, because I haven't been keeping up, has the Signal Corporation addressed: ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykmD

Harriet Tubman, Human Trafficker.

WASHINGTON -- As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website had been revised...
https://jwz.org/b/ykl-

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

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