Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

Pivot to AI: If you like music even a bit, you might boggle at the idea that people would be happy with a stream of anonymous machine-generated slop. But to the music streaming business, caring which song you're hearing makes you a weird outlier. The vast
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Well that's all going according to plan. Ship it. (This keeps happening. It's not just Steve. Hi Steve.)

@deathkitten You can't have nice things because there are no nice things. Nice things were officially deprecated in 2005 and have now reached the end of long-term support.

@arstechnica Paging @cstross

@NanoRaptor Now I want my desktop keyboard to have a horn.

Duran Duran's Rio Cover Model Identified 42 Years Later.

The reference photo for the album cover was pulled from a 1981 issue of Vogue Paris.

For decades, fans have speculated about the identity of the inspiration for illustrator Patrick Nagel's...
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Is there any recourse -- besides bolt cutters -- to these scooter companies coming by in their truck and locking their commercial product to *every slot in every bike rack* so that nobody with a bike can use the rack at all?

Is there anyone at the city who will do something about these assholes?

The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
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Do mosh pits go the other way in the Southern Hemisphere?

@apocraphilia All Clocks Are Bastards

Today in "Daylight Savings Chaos Monkey"

If you have backups but you have never tried to restore them, you do not have backups. This is true.

I made a MySQL oopsie, and tried to restore a table from my voluminous backups of same, and was met...
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All you people getting excited that Jack Dorsey's new social media site no longer requires invite codes are like those people tearing off their masks and throwing them in the air as soon as they weren't legally required.

You have learned nothing.

And you are making the world worse.

People, the story about the toothbrush botnet does not pass the most basic sniff test.
• All articles point to a single source
• Target not named
• Researcher not named

Dear middle-aged white dudes: you don't actually need to begin your every comment about Taylor Swift with "I don't like her music, but".

We know. We know.

What is this, "no homo" for Billy Joel fans?

Today in "Party Pigeon" News.

Flight risk: suspected spy pigeon released after eight months in detention in India:

Indian police have cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon and released it into the wild after eight months in detention, according to...
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@cstross I'm definitely not regretting that 3.5" floppy drive I had implanted at the base of my spine in 1985.

@anildash Given the current Substack implosion, it's disappointing to see so many people still giving Cloudflare money. A company who's position on Nazis is basically: "We would gleefully do business with ISIS if we were not legally prohibited from doing so".

I was just thinking about how every techbro podcaster must have a really cringeworthy gallery on their phone where they tried to nail that perfect overly-excited selfie for the youtube thumbnail. Thinking about how awful those photos must be made me smile. And then I thought, I'll bet they just use "AI" image generators for that now, and I made it worse.

"Microblogging" prior art:

@lain @treeico Well @Gargron's response there is just asinine.