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R.L. Dane

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Mar 12

@hp

Also, the Soviet-inspired artwork that #jwz snuck in. ;)

rival Nov 24

This is #fun, #informative, maybe an example of some kind of #hacking #left which we should develop socially (in order to confront against an increasingly decadent #capitalism), and also maybe a good entry-point to learn about an interesting person and #history episodes...
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
#google #jwz #xscreensaver #x #screensaver #playstore #store #repos #surveillance #privacy #politics #culture

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Jan van den Berg Oct 13

Ik keek vier computerfilms, vol met archetypes, fantasie, nerds en een heerlijke gek.

https://janvandenberg.blog/computer-films/

#BlackBerry #CodeRush #Facebook #Hackers #JesseEisenberg #jwz #MarkZuckerberg #Movies #Netscape #TheSocialNetwork

I sincerely hope you put this dishpit in his place.

Mmm, dishpit. Love me some metathesis.

cc: @sotolf, or was it @stoolf? XD

Heck, I'll just leave this here, courtesy of #jwz:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Coyprgiht � 2003 Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]>
#scrmable.pl (shortened (removed comments) to fit in a toot)
# https://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/09/scrmable/

require 5;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

my $porgnmae = $0; $porgnmae =~ s@.*/@@g;
my $vresoin = q{ $Revision: 1.4 $ }; $vresoin =~ s/^[^0-9]+([0-9.]+).*$/$1/;

sub scrmable {
  while (<>) {
    foreach (split (/(\w+)/)) {
      if (m/\w/) {
        my @w = split (//);
        my $A = shift @w;
        my $Z = pop @w;
        print $A;
        if (defined ($Z)) {
          my $i = $#w+1;
          while ($i--) {
            my $j = int rand ($i+1);
            @w[$i,$j] = @w[$j,$i];
          }
          foreach (@w) {
            print $_;
          }
          print $Z;
        }
      } else {
        print "$_";
      }
    }
  }
}

sub usgae {
  print STDERR "usage: $porgnmae < text > scrbameld-txet\n";
  exit 1;
}

sub mian {
  usgae if ($#ARGV != -1);
  scrmable();
}

mian;
exit 0;

Christof Damian 💙💛Sep 26

Thanks for this @jwz

This is just about how I remember raving in the 90s in Germany.

https://youtu.be/dA6eaz8tFYA

#jwz #blade #NewOrder #rave #techno #PumpPanel

New Order -- Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix, Blade Edit)

I removed the movie titles and overlayed a clean copy of the song while preserving some of the sound effects.

YouTube

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C.Sep 25

@darkuncle

Every web page with a comments section should have a "Herp Derp" button as implemented by @jwz on his blog.

#herp #derp #HerpDerp #comments #jwz #blog

Tao of Mac Sep 19, 2025

Netscape Navigator 2.0 released 30 years ago

Nostalgia, in the inimitable style of Jamie Zawinski: “HTML email is probably my fault”. All of it is a great read–full marks, absolutely no notes.(...)

#browsers #history #html #javascript #jwz #mail #netscape #web

https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/09/19/0830

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C.May 6, 2025

@antiaall3s

#jwz would be right on board with that.

Christian Mayer Mar 9, 2025

After all these years 'The secret history of the Mozilla logo' by JWZ is still a funny read.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/

#Mozilla #Firefox #JWZ #logo #art #TheyLive

They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo

I'm going to draw a line through 1930s agitprop, Ronald Reagan, methane-breathing zombie space aliens, the Mozilla logo, Barack Obama and the International Commiunist Conspiracy. It's a long walk, so please stick with me. Let's start with They Live. I've talked to a number of people recently who haven't seen They Live, and that's a real tragedy, because even though it is technically a sci-fi ...

Fionn Feb 21, 2025

#til #xscreensaver for #android is unlike #google

Strap in 😉:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

I am so glad, that #jwz is never gonna give us up 🙂

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