Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social), page 8

@marcusb @riotnrrd @FediThing @bobthcowboy @egerlach @neurobashing Bridgy does not even remotely solve the problems they are proposing to solve. So while Bridgy is also stupid, it does not demonstrate the point you are trying to make.

@mat @neurobashing @FediThing @egerlach @marcusb @bobthcowboy Yeah, whatever. I know the guy. He has a bad take. It happens. Your ad hominem is not helpful.

@clark @codinghorror @FediThing @bobthcowboy @marcusb @egerlach @neurobashing
Counterpoint, the Winchester house is an object lesson as rebranding technical debt as a desired feature.

@FediThing @bobthcowboy @marcusb @egerlach @neurobashing

I often think of this quote from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing:

"Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance. But a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat. It is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan. And he... he too has grown more like Etrigan."

@FediThing @bobthcowboy @marcusb @egerlach @neurobashing I wish I knew.

@bobthcowboy @marcusb @egerlach @neurobashing
Yes, it is 100% exactly that, all over again.

Except this time with: soliciting donations from well-meaning dupes, then setting that money on fire.

@sennoma SOKATH, HIS EYES UNCOVERED http://darmok.com/

"I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.

There are people out there apparently seriously proposing to spend over thirty million dollars, and an uncountable...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgp

@spacehobo @Nicovel0 @TheBreadmonkey Nobody has sent me anything but an adaptation of this would be great -- https://lumon-industries.com

@docpop My condolences, and recommendation:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HackerNews [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} news\.ycombinator\.com
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png

@overeducatedredneck This filter is for catching all the people who can't stop impotently *complaining* about NYT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNytMN4QL0

New filter in progress

Dear Diary,

Today I got takeout from a taqueria and sat on the grass in my local park listening to jazz singers celebrate MLK day. Then I read half of the (paper) book that I am currently enjoying. After that, our little clubhouse put on a Prince-themed burlesque show and we made it Purple Rain.

If something else happened today, I'm sure I don't need to know, or maybe eventually I'll hear about it later.

@glennsills Your opinion was not solicited.

BREAKING: I will be ignoring the internet, and specifically "the news", on Monday, Jan 20, 2025. Whatever stupid shit happens, I will learn about in *abbreviated* digest form on Tuesday, rather than following along with whatever mortifying nonsense happens in realtime elevated-heart-rate horror. If it is important, it will come back.

This is self-care and I strongly urge you to consider it.

https://jwz.org/b/ykgn

@virtualbri I wanted to like this movie but it was not very good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_Do_with_the_Dead_Kaiju%3F

@timbray One thing to keep in mind is that those "resolution" settings are lies. Your monitor's pixels are physical objects, so you're just telling the Mac what kind of downsampling to do. Apple is conflating "I want my text and icons to be bigger" with "when a program tries to draw a pixel, smear that out to 3.7 pixels instead".

It is *possible* that if you have your "display resolution" set to 1080p, a video player will still have access to native hardware pixels, but I haven't checked.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat If you're cold, they're cold, bring them inside!