Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

I find state machines soothing. If the thing you're writing isn't a state machine, it might be evil.

Yeah, so, yesterday I wrote a whole-ass VT100 emulator from scratch. I had my reasons.

It's way more complicated than it has any right to be.

Bezos is, as always, 100% in the bag for Musk and Trump.

Common Cause: The Washington Post doesn't want you to see this Fire Elon Musk ad: Our ad was all set to run tomorrow morning, with a signed contract and all. But at the last minute, Jeff Bezos's...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiS

Anyway the world is on fire but I spent all day writing tty curses code for an extended joke that like 5 people will ever notice and I regret nothing.

It is the year 2025 and I just fixed a bug in a VT100 emulator. For work.

This Is the Age of the Coward.

Joan Westenberg: This is Bob Iger, who once wrote about the importance of moral leadership in his memoir. He might as well write a new book: "The Joy of Capitulation: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boot."...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiK

Apparently what happened is that one @jerry decided that my posts should be blocked from being seen on infosec.exchange, then changed their mind.

So keep that in mind when choosing your instance, I guess.

At no point in this process did I receive any communication about it from anybody.

And apparently a side-effect of this was that *I* lost followers?

This system is not a good system.

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/113998651182303405

I am declaring a complete moratorium on people "sounding the alarm".

Some time yesterday, everyone I was following on infosec.exchange, I was no longer following. I was able to re-follow them, and everyone from there who was following me, still is.

WTF?

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF: Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don't like, which means that the word "women" is on the forbidden list while "men" doesn't initiate...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiA

"Any editor reverting this edit will be arrested. Do not try me." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gulf_of_Mexico&diff=prev&oldid=1274372322

Currently practicing self harm by reading the changelog on the Wikipedia page for the Gulf of Mexico. The best part is the ongoing weeks-long edit war over whether a subheading should say "Name" or "Nomenclature".

Wiki gonna wiki.
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Nazify.

Shopify still wants that sweet, sweet Nazi cash. Shopify says they only closed Kanye West's store because they thought he might not actually ship the Nazi t-shirts, not because they were Nazi t-shirts. Truly a principled stand. In the message,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykh8

@dansup I love to see a corporation just setting money on fire. Oh no, not the briarpatch.

The Nerd Reich in 5 minutes.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh4

On Blocking, Mastodon HOA Edition.

One of Mastodon's biggest barriers to entry is the Mastodon HOA, the massive volunteer army of scolds who take it upon themselves to tell strangers that they are doing it wrong. It's like you're waiting in line at...
https://jwz.org/b/ykho

@drypaphmrbro I love all my children equally

Well, the Jan 2021 update on this site has aged like fine milk: https://isthisacoup.com

The status of your country has changed to In Review.

You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism.

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them: If there's one thing I'd hoped people had learned going into the next four...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhS