Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

I pay my parking tickets like any other Corporate Person: a million dollars at a time.

Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025, with fines of nearly $1 million for various violations.

Waymo spokesperson Chris Bonelli told Gazetteer in an email that the company pays parking tickets "like any other driver".
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Recently getting dozens of follows a day from e.g. "chill girls who like bubble baths".

Happy Bell Riots Day, to all who celebrate.
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My friends call it the big D.

Periodically, the "d" key on my keyboard stops working. Always and only "d". Power cycling the keyboard doesn't fix it. Plug the keyboard into a different computer: works fine over there. Rebooting the Mac fixes it. And I have now discovered: the mere act of launching NoMachine (without typing anything) fixes it -- for a while.

It just █i█ it again, 5 minutes later, go█ █ammit.
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Classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS: Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules -- the original 68k module code, not a remake or port -- with no dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS. [...] Powered by the...
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Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today.

As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra...
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@glyph The phrase "An extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub's search function" will never leave my head. https://jwz.org/b/ykDo

@SeiriosB @CorioPsicologia Thank you for your service!

Though... I ran this past a native Spanish speaker and we question your translations of "cringe" and "motherfuckers".

We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. "With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"

I had some cards printed up.

These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.

Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
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@mjg59 I feel it is my duty however to point out that that movie is trash and you should watch Vertigo instead.

Shit man, or Freaky Tales.

Youtube's joke of a fair-use appeal process, Total Eclipse of the Content ID Robots Edition.

"Good news! Your dispute wasn't reviewed within 30 days, so the claim on your YouTube video has now been released." Bonnie Tyler died last month, and so the...
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@dangillmor Once you put a computer it it, it's a Liability Crumple Zone. The same reason nobody is charged with manslaughter when a self-driving car is used to kill someone. The same reason moving violation citations aren't issued, and they can park in bus lanes with impugnity. "Welp, nothing we can do I guess."

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.