Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

Under Attack, Please Stand By.

My server is getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers today. Load is 140+ and I just manually banned 58,000 IP addresses.

Top ten user agents: ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqJ

Always scrub your travel phone of JD Vance memes.

Mads from Tromsø reacts strongly to the treatment he received at American border control on his way into the United States: They threatened me with a minimum fine of $5,000 or five years in prison if...
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FuckLAPD dot com:

Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops: "We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up," McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police...
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A shocking discovery... this works, kinda:

swayidle -w timeout 60 "/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gfx &" resume "killall xscreensaver-gfx" &

That will give you a minimally-functional screen saver under Wayland + XWayland...

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@haihappen @cstross My thing just feeds DadaDodo to anyone who hits the "secret" URL that has invisible links to it from everywhere but is also excluded by robots.txt. For someone wanting to install this kind of thing on their own who is not me, Nepenthes is probably the easier choice.

@cstross Well in your case maybe dadadodo would be easier! I'll send you the cgi if you want.

@Daojoan The worst part about working for a company: your boss is a moron. The worst part about working for yourself: your boss is a moron.

@dangillmor I hope they hold up some very small signs.

New password manager just dropped.
https://jwz.org/b/ykpO

@anildash Your head's in the right place, but if I were still in tech, my priority would be: how is my work harming the Facebook/Google hegemony specifically, and the surveillance-industrial complex generally?

Framing it reactively might not sit well, but we are in a war and we are losing. A positive spin like "building community" risks being a platitude like "don't be evil".

The priority for anyone with ethics in tech must be to destroy advertising, AI and crypto. All else is wainscoting.

How much more on fire could they be? Waymo.

The weaponization of Waymo: Other witnesses and journalists who were there shared the same story: People summoned the cars to light them on fire when they arrived. Protestors were reportedly calling them...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpH

Donuts.

Unable to find a source for this one. I hope it's real.
https://jwz.org/b/ykpA

@counternotions This is what they stole from us

@nafmo OBS is not ingesting, it is creating. OBS -> nginx RTMP creates the TS files in the "int" directory which seem fine. Then nginx -> other nginx creates the files in the "ext" directory which seem not. I linked to the doc for the nginx RTMP plugin which also doesn't mention IDR frames, but that is sensible since as far as I am aware moving MPEG frames over RTMP *does not create new frames*.

"RTMP is old and busted, go find something else" is not what I find a compelling argument.

@nafmo I don't have the slightest idea. The "int" files were created by OBS and sent to nginx. The "ext" files were sent from nginx to nginx. I don't know how the frames in the segments get split and recombined, but I am pretty sure they are not re-encoded.

RTMP / HLS segment corruption.

Dear Lazyweb, When my internal video encoder machine relays its RTMP stream to the external public server, MPEG glitches get introduced, and I would like to know how to fix that. I am hoping for answers from someone who...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoc

@nwd @anildash Count me among the people who reach immediately for the "close" button rather than the "maybe later" button at the first pop-up. Fuck these intrusive dark patterns entirely. You should know better.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine *a boot stamping on a human face forever* a spicy autocompleter submitting software changes to a regular expression parser.

Also, you can't block it. As Kyle Reese reminded us, "It absolutely will not stop -- ever -- until you accept its pull req̷̩̓u̸̾͜ḙ̶̈s̶̫͑t̶̙͒."

https://jwz.org/b/ykoZ

@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.
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