Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

I have two identical Macs running the same software and on *one* of them I had to put this in root's crontab:

@Reboot launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.dnalounge.mediamtx.plist

Computers were a mistake.

(Oh right I forgot you're not allowed to type ACTUAL AT SIGNS here.)

Computers were a mistake.

RSS feed subscription regrets:

Add Wired for political coverage. Get: 15 headlines a day on "Great Amazon Prime deals".

Add Consequence for music news. Get: 5 headlines a day about every time Ozzy Osbourne farts.

(You may be surprised to learn that Ozzy Osbourne is still alive.)

I wonder what Blockchain Rasputin has been up to lately:

Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security. Security researcher Alex Radocea found that it's possible to impersonate someone else and trick a person's...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrA

@mattl @ghewgill Not even the NX-01.

XScreenSaver 6.12 is out now. This is another Unix-only release.

• DPMS works on Wayland, using either "wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1" or "kde-dpms".
• Fading should perform much better on both Wayland and X11.
• GNOME continues to be unsupported. *Oh dear. How sad. Nevermind.*
• Still no locking.

What I would like to know: ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqx

Figured it out. Prepend a "sleep 2;" to wait for XWayland to start up.

How do you auto-start things under Wayfire? When I add this to ~/.config/wayfire.ini:

[autostart]
xterm = xterm >> $HOME/LOG 2>&1

I get "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key".

But "lxterminal" will autostart, so I guess it's just X11 programs? And I can then launch xterm from lxterminal.

I know I am probably the last person in the world still running X11 on a Mac, but some time around macOS 14.7.3, XQuartz stopped working with OpenGL programs that use EGL instead of GLX. If someone could tell me how to fix this, that would be great:

libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm
MESA: error: Failed to attach to x11 shm ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqv

@inthehands I am shocked, shocked to learn that CloudFlare is behaving unethically.

Lead! It's what lungs crave!

One of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day's use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes: "When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqt

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release -- this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.

This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I'd get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it...

https://jwz.org/b/ykqg

@cstross I have lost track of who said it, but it has been haunting me: paraphrasing, a European wondered when it would be safe to travel to the US again, and someone said something like: at least 20 years, but by then you won't have to worry about it because you'll be dealing with the wheat crops failing and wondering where your next meal is coming from.

@pl I mean, it's "riddim", which is "what if dubstep was cocaine", which is weird because dubstep was already cocaine.

It's midnight and the DJs have just requested 24 Red Bulls. A pallet of Red Bull.

My children, that is too much Red Bull for you this late at night. Can I interest you in a gross of pixie stix instead?

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...
https://jwz.org/b/ykp8

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...
https://jwz.org/b/ykp6

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...

https://jwz.org/b/ykpz

@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.