Beyoncé's Tour Rider Includes Brand-New Toilet Seats at Each Venue. Headline appears to be incorrect: "Rider" means that each venue is expected to provide it, whereas it looks like she's actually bringing these with her on tour, from her private stash. Still. Show us the fuckin' … | Continue reading
It's so weird how these companies so often just "have no records" of the incidents in which their heavily-surveilled vehicles injure bystanders. Edgard Velarde refused to settle out of court for injuries sustained after being hit by the door of passenger exiting an Uber ... | Continue reading
Now I'm just an unfrozen caveman, your modern climate confuses and frightens me; when I went into the ice, atmospheric CO2 was at 175ppm. But apparently now there's a CO2 shortage? We just got an invoice from our CO2 vendor (Carbonic) saying: "Our primary supplier has declared a … | Continue reading
Erin Kissane: During the big waves of Twitter-to-Mastodon migrations, tons of people joined little local servers with no defederation policy and were instantly overwhelmed with gore and identity-based hate. A lot of those people, understandably, did not stick around, and plenty o … | Continue reading
Normally I try to focus these reviews on shows that I actually enjoyed, but there's been a lot of crap lately so here comes some snark. Shadow and Bone (2021): It's a fantasy world where like, Thailand and Spain are right next to each other and they're both the size of Los Angele … | Continue reading
"In order to responsibly develop new technologies, it is critical to ask 'how will this be used for evil?'" In a world of widespread, suspicionless surveillance of protests by law enforcement and other government entities, and of massive corporate union-busting and suppression of … | Continue reading
Eric Meyer: Today I learned about Mozilla's new AI startup from my gas pump. Stop the future, I want it to be less stupid. We go now live to Mozilla HQ: | Continue reading
Police Sue Afroman for Using Home Raid Footage in Music Videos: In August 2022, police in Adams County, Ohio raided the home of Joseph Foreman -- a.k.a. Afroman -- on unfounded suspicions of drug trafficking and kidnapping. In brilliant retaliation, the "Because I Got High" rappe … | Continue reading
starshine: STOP DOING THREADS POSTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPLIT INTO 25 PARTS. YEARS of POSTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for a low character limit. Wanted a low character limit anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "SMS" "My post got so long that I had to … | Continue reading
I haven't actually looked at the output of DadaDodo in over two decades, but it still does pretty well! And it will never, ever mansplain to you. Holy a desktop due to allow the design and campaign, plank; he himself. Excavating, This will be the mailbox format and get selection … | Continue reading
SF's Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology: "Our train control system in the Market Street subway is loaded off of five-and-a-quarter inch floppy drives," SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED's Priya David Clemens this week. "We have to employ programmers wh … | Continue reading
Adam Daniel: I watched Groundhog Day every day for a year: "What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?" [...] In 2021 I was wrestling with the same question. Living in lockdown, I was feeling frustratio … | Continue reading
Dear Lazyweb, Can anyone explain to me what the default event alert time actually does on macOS and iOS with iCloud syncing? What I would like it to mean: "When I create a new event, that event is created with an alert 15 minutes before, instead of needing to add that by hand." W … | Continue reading
Big Tech layoffs are in the news, you say? On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from "clienteng" over to the "website" division. For abou … | Continue reading
...in news that will change absolutely no behavior of anyone anywhere. WHO continues to recommend the use of masks by the public in specific situations, and this update recommends their use irrespective of the local epidemiological situation, given the current spread of the COVID … | Continue reading
50: "dot eth" pseudo-domains about to go offline because domain owner is in prison 49: Star Trek Mad Science (2016) 48: Dyson Snot Cannon 47: Following the money 46: Great Moments in Taxonomy 45: Last man standing in the floppy disk business 44: Gigantic Pentagram Found in Kazakh … | Continue reading
Today's probably a good day to re-read my deep dive into the San Francisco sewer system, with particular focus on Lateral Service Connection L-157660 and the North Point Wet Weather Treatment Facility. | Continue reading
Warning: do not use Hive Social: We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they acknowledged the report. After multiple days and multiple remi … | Continue reading
I've been using Fluid for a few months, and I really like it! It lets you generate a standalone macOS application that is just a window hardcoded to a particular web page. This means it gets its own dock icon instead of just being one of your web browser's windows or tabs, but mo … | Continue reading
As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way t … | Continue reading
The more I read about Mastodon promoters' opinions on how it should work, the more I think, "How could you possibly think that is how it is going to go?" One group of people want a Federated Feed Reader: They want to read the clever updates and memes from their friends and favori … | Continue reading
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400% Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That's a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web stan … | Continue reading
In 1983, Pete Shelley's album XL•1 included as its final track a program for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit home computer. To play it, you had to first copy the track from the vinyl record to cassette, wait several minutes for the computer to read the cassette, and then press the … | Continue reading