Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@inthehands I mean, I appreciate the politics of it but the meat of this article is "dude this is just like what happened in my D&D game".

@inthehands Ok but elevating "wargame roleplay" to the level of a "model" or "simulation" is... a lot. It has all the rigor of the Game of Thrones writers' room, except the latter probably had a bigger budget.

@anildash It's my "brown M&Ms". Once I see that, trust or belief requires a full audit.

@dansup For maximal stupidity they should call it Wayland.

@anildash I enjoyed reading this but I chose not to share it because he undermined all of that good work with one line:

"The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT."

Once you have made that decision, instead of just finding some real clip art, I can't trust anything else you say to be true, or even to be *non-fiction*.

Once you've made that decision, we're done here.

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

@notmyname @skinnylatte I find these baffling. Who is the target audience? Do they understand how advertising works? Do they think that billboards are for something other than what I think they're for? Whyyyyyyyy

@notmyname @skinnylatte Like the only hypothesis that makes any sense to me is that these billboards are purchased to please an audience of one, the VC.

Singer just referred to Godzilla as a "lizard" and I have taxonomic *opinions* on this.

Hey look, here's Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband sucking Ben Shapiro's dick: https://www.commondreams.org/gavin-newsom-shapiro-ice

"Newsom then boasted that there have been 'over 10,000' deportations he’s cooperated with since he became governor of California. 'California has cooperated with more ICE transfers, probably, than any other state in the country,' he continued. 'I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.'"

Periodic reminder that Newsom sucks.

Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax:

In interviews with Politico and the New York Times, [Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband] described his office's efforts to kill the proposed billionaire tax and told the Times he would "do what I have to do to protect [rich people's yacht money]". As a direct-to-voters ballot initiative, Newsom would not have the power to veto the tax if the proposal passed...
https://jwz.org/b/yk10

Four way stop versus $100 billion valuation, redux.

The number of stalled Waymos is a valuable trade secret: That information is a trade secret, Waymo's attorney Jack Stoddard told Senior Administrative Law Judge Robert Mason, drawing snickers from a...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1o

Great Moments in Patents.

US20250238653A1: Universe Time Machine using AI god and the Universe Internet: A method to create a Universe Time Machine with the ability to time travel via object manipulation by manipulating every atom, electron and em...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1i

Today in "Google broke email"

I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email.

Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At all. And they announced this change less than 60 days ago. (The announcement was in the basement, stairs, leopard, etc.)

What I want to accomplish is simple: ...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1C

What asshat decided that user name and password should now always be on separate pages? How does this make anything better? Fuck you.

Unknown Xmas.
https://jwz.org/b/yk02

Four way stop versus $100 billion valuation.

It's on its back, baking in the hot sun, but you're not helping, Leon. Why is that?

Also, all the headlines say variants of "Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams" but what they fail to mention is that it took nearly six hours of these traffic jams before Waymo *finally* decided that the press they were getting was bad enough that they should do the most obvious thing in the world.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0t

What are your favorite Shadertoys?

I threw together an XScreenSaver module that is API-compatible with Shadertoy. My thought was that this would be a good way to pull in a bunch of new savers, since the cool kids don't write C any more, they just write GLSL. There are some problems with that plan, though:

• The default license on Shadertoy is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and the vast majority of uploads use that, but since that prohibits commercial use, it is not an open source...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0r

@acb @ansuz
[ ] yes
[ ] maybe later

@vkc Just go back to the Shepard Fairey dinosaur logo and you don't have to pay them anything. We bought that art outright and open sourced it.