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<p>I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world&#39;s greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents&#39; web browser and stuff.</p>

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we return this blog to our core competency: plumbing disasters https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/05.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    Another codesign firedrill. Apple let stuff expire, so now we have to re-roll our certs, hooray. I have questions: When they say: Installer packages [...] will no longer install. Re-sign all packages with your new certificate before this date. Mac... https://jwz.org/b/ylA1

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    Please enjoy jwz mixtape 260. https://jwz.org/b/ylAw

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    I&#39;m glad they do this: From: California BallotTrax This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of San Francisco Department of Elections. Your ballot for the upcoming November 3, 2026, General Election has been mailed to you. If you haven&#39;t received your ballot within 7 business days, please contact us. https://www.sfelections.org

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    It&#39;s not illegal if you buy new laws. Lyft has to pay out $272 million for the fraud they perpetrated on their employees from 2016 through 2020! But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make that fraud legal, so now they won&#39;t have to pay that again in the future! According to methane-breathing money-ghouls who run our world, this was a great investment: they could have just spent an additional $50M/year on salaries, but now they legalized an across-the-board ... https://jwz.org/b/...

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    Seasons Greetings from Tall Slut No Panties! Krysten Ritter on the hellsite: https://jwz.org/b/ylAq

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    Today in the scraperpocalypse... Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month... https://jwz.org/b/ylAU

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    XScreenSaver thumbnails. Dear Lazyweb, any idea why XScreenSaver thumbnail images are no longer showing up in System Settings on macOS 27? Works fine on macOS 14.7. The .saver bundles have &quot;Resources/thumbnail.png&quot; or @2X@mastodon.social files. I&#39;ve even tried using... https://jwz.org/b/ylAQ

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    The continuing downfall of USPS. For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are *no* Halloween stamps on sale. I&#39;m sure this is also DeJoy&#39;s fault. https://jwz.org/b/ylAO

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    Someone &#39;Torturing&#39; LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet. Jason Koebler: One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like... https://jwz.org/b/ylAM

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    I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh. Nicola Turner: A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres... https://jwz.org/b/ylAK

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    Nomenclature. I got a used Mac Mini to use as a sacrifice zone for testing things on recent OSes. Since at this point it seems like you will pry macOS 14.7 from my main machine&#39;s cold dead fingers. Anyway I can&#39;t decide what to name it. I&#39;m going with &quot;sucker&quot; so far. I thought about &quot;patsy&quot; but that just makes me think &quot;and edina&quot; which is not what I&#39;m going for. https://jwz.org/b/ylAG

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    It&#39;s hard to explain Gavin Newsom to someone who hasn&#39;t seen The Dead Zone.

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    &quot;AI&quot; once again revealed to be three perverts in a trenchcoat. Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They&#39;re Horrified: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft&#39;s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo... https://jwz.org/b/ylAE

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    Every year or so I forget and investigate: &quot;Surely there&#39;s a way to set my business&#39;s Facebook account to disallow comments by default?&quot; and every year I realize that the answer is is no because drive-by rage from haters is their entire business model.

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Folsom Street Events has fucked us, and not in the consensual way https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/27.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein there&#39;s a little more about the parklet https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/26.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    Dear Lazyweb, please help me figure out why OBS keeps doing this crazy thing where sometimes audio goes into slo-mo dubstep glitch mode. Sometimes switching inputs fixes it. Sometimes only &quot;sudo killall coreaudiod&quot; fixes it. Here&#39;s what it sounds like. It seems to be doubling the spacing of the frames, and the buffer is infinite. Even worse is that my check-volume.pl script fails to detect it much of the time. On this particular TS file it reports &quot;glitchy: 27.4 ... https://j...

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    Left Behind. Smooth Dunk: https://jwz.org/b/yk_8

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    It&#39;s a good thing I write these things down, because I&#39;m now about 7 deep in absolute bangers about &quot;how much it sucks to try and run a business&quot; that I can&#39;t post about yet. Like even when I&#39;m talking to my friends I&#39;m like, &quot;oh shit, I forgot to tell you about Apocalypse Number 4!&quot;

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    SF Democratic Party loves Flock: The SF Democratic Party [sic] voted on Wednesday to continue its support for Flock surveillance cameras: Two major resolutions were in front of the party&#39;s 31 members -- 13 of whom were absent -- on Wednesday. One,... https://jwz.org/b/yk_6

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    Techbros literally out here trying to disrupt the fraternity rape-house: Today these so-called hacker houses are driven by missions, like the advancement of humanity, and have become critical nodes for the AI industry. Residents are often startup founders or engineers working at OpenAI or Anthropic. Rent can hit $10,000 a month for a room. [...] &quot;This is a new golden age,&quot; Nixon said, according to the court documents. https://jwz.org/b/yk_4

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    In the annals of hobbies I wish I did not have: just spent 2 hours expanding and optimizing my AI-matching RewriteConds.

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein SFMTA wants to bulldoze DNA Lounge&#39;s parklet https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/22.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    Ducking autocomplete. Dear Lazyweb, There are folks in macOS/iOS &quot;Contacts&quot; whom I haven&#39;t emailed in years. How do I make them stop being the first completion? I would prefer to not have to shitcan their contact info entirely, but I&#39;m sick of almost accidentally emailing the wrong person. *&quot;Remove from previous recipients list&quot;* does not fix it. They show up as completions anyway. https://jwz.org/b/yk_0

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it&#39;s the gayest weekend of the year https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/21.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    So-called journalists still out here transcribing &quot;wanted to spend more time with his family&quot; without laughing.

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    Batman: The Doome. &quot;The doome warning all men to the iudgemente wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approued authors by St. Batman professor in diuinite.&quot; 1581. https://jwz.org/b/yk_t

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    @zak Sounds like something a Cylon would say tbh

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Hubba Hubba Revue is two decades old! https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/17.html?utm_source=sp_ma