Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

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

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 you have enough history, we'll automatically unlock features." Apparently my 14+ year old youtube channel has not yet reached 2 months of active use, according to the vibe-coded math of Google's robots...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9d

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

Today in Waymos On Fire:

When they weren't rolling through fireworks they were trapping people near the Golden Gate Bridge. Waymos were a key reason for the traffic snarl in the Presidio after Saturday night's foggy fireworks display on the Golden...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9D

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we are going hard on movie nights
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/05.html?utm_source=sp_ma

@Infoseepage Hard to say how "stable" it is given that I haven't succeeded in getting any devices that require 2.4GHz to do anything.

The Broadlink RM4 Pro, once I got it to connect, thru its proprietary app (!) that requires a login (!!) says it recorded the remote but doesn't play back properly.

HomeAssistant is a sprawling Winchester Mystery House of plugin UIs.

This is why I'm back to "maybe I'll just use a microcontroller to use relays to press some buttons."

Now I have two problems.

@Infoseepage Yes I already tried all of these things. Read the rest of the comments.

I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can connect to on any channel because there is too much interference. 82% interference, 10% TX retries. Let's take a look at where that's coming from...

Oh. It's because literally every car in the garage is doing wifi bukkake, several floors below me, through many feet of concrete.

https://jwz.org/b/yk8i

There was a ~20yo dude at the club tonight wearing some kind of expensive Sports Team jacket that had a giant UPS logo on the back and also was covered with many copies of the number... "88".

On Pride weekend in San Francisco.

There is a whole *series* of bad decisions that led to this.

Best of luck not getting your ass kicked I guess?

@anildash And in a not-at-all-shocking lack of introspection, the first five replies here are people saying, "Anil must not know how to use the block button, I shall explain to him how he's doing it wrong. I am helping."

The Vaillancourt Fountain when it was fully operational.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8p

There is an airplane flying in circles above San Francisco dragging a banner with an AI ad on it. Something something world's largest metaphor about fossil fuels

@WarnerCrocker They are all named here: https://lingo.lol/@amyfou/116757181906556083

Commodore (or some entity now calling itself Commodore) is releasing a flip phone. Smartphones are mindlessly seamless by design. Callback is built around a simple research-backed finding: remove features designed to pull you back in, & reintroduce...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8a

RELEASE THE "P" TAPE.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8U

@mattblaze Get the real pros on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhjqDWf95E

@timbray I have witnessed a lot of construction projects in my day and I have never, ever seen a scaffold go up so slowly. Are these guys fucking with us on purpose?

180 http req/sec. A *single botnet* has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.

"Do you know what a Personal Improvement Plan is?"
"It means your boss wants to fire you?"
"Yup."
"And the 'improvements' are..."
"I don't use enough AI."

It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month.

I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't connecting to my site afterward. But anecdotally, telcos and cable companies...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8O