Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social), page 9

@profdc9 Why are you yelling at me about this, please stop

@jef So this was a performative suicide attempt. Can you get a 5150 hold for a corporation? Corporations being people and all.

@profdc9 WTF are you on about?

@kbal @profdc9 *plonk*

@eschaton Congratulations, our team has decided to award you the τῇ καλλίστῃ award! https://jwz.org/b/ykEj

@rwwh no

Compliance in advance is always the best strategy.

Word of advice, maybe also try to be more masculine. See if you can combine that with obsequiousness! NetBlocks: TikTok has deactivated its own service in the US [...] there are no indications of...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgj

@jef They should also try being more masculine.

@jef Obeying in advance is the only way to win!

Reading List.

After all these years, I am still baffled at how terrible Apple is at syncing. Truly, it is shocking. How are they so bad at this? I have 3 Apple devices right next to each other and the chance that all three of them will have the same...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgh

@adriano @cstross I remain unconvinced that there was a single concept or gag in Austin Powers (1997) that wasn't lifted directly from Our Man Flint (1966). That movie was straight-up plagiarism.

@GottaLaff @WarnerCrocker
Or they do what I've done for years in the South, develop passive resistance that's hard to pin on you.

@cstross Would any of the bond villains even read as villains in today's "business climate"?

The Cringeocracy.

I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down -- I just didn't expect them to be such losers. I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgf

it's pretty funny to see infosec people telling me this is a bad idea

when all i am doing is disclosing a vulnerability and noting that it requires very little technical skill

Interview done :)

Well, super rude email from an elon bro in my work email inbox, so I guess that interview must be published somewhere

Oh here it is! Yup, I totally stand by the quote the author picked for me. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/spacex-s-starship-rocket-exploded-again-elon-musk-called-it-entertainment-but-should-we-be/article_89e9d122-d513-11ef-bd3b-db191f8a4e87.html

@anthracite That's because the App Store restricts you to a single .app bundle. It's literally not possible to list anything else there. Also apps that are secretly installers are prohibited. That's why XScreenSaver for macOS isn't on the App Store: because it is a DMG of .saver bundles. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html

@james And now you'll never be heard again! *plonk*

@trochee @threatresearch @jef
Yes, that raven is the ghost of Matt Cable, psychotic first husband of Abigail Arcane, who later married Swamp Thing. I do not need to remember these things and yet I do.