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seanpm2001 🇺🇦️🇬🇱5d ago

I am now onto my 3rd screensaver on XScreensaver. I started out with Scooter, but eventually got tired of it, and moved to Abstractile for about a month, until yesterday, when I switched to BinaryRing. All 3 of them are pretty cool screensavers. I am able to get screenshots while in screensaver mode, which is how I got these 3 images. As long as I don't move the mouse or click anything, the screensaver will remain active. I also softlocked myself today by accident, double clicking the screensaver option, then the screensaver literally would not go away (I could still use programs by keyboard shortcut only, but couldn't see what they were doing) and I had to hard power cycle my system to fix it. (The Scooter screenshot I took isn't very good, it looks much better when animated)
#screensaver #screensavers #xscreensaver #jwz #linux #ubuntu

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C.Mar 28

It occurs to me that it might not be deliberately ignoring the directives in robots.txt, but instead simply be that they can't write correct code to parse robots.txt. That would be extremely on-brand for Apple software. Incompetence, Occam, etc.

Like my final-gen Ipod Touch that can't start playing music when you hit "play", for example, without doing a complicated dance and waiting 30 seconds.

#jwz has documented a ton of such "omg how did you even release this software" issues on his blog over the years. Reading them always seems to invoke the "I tell you the things I do so you don't have to experience them" vibe.

#incompetence #Apple #OnBrand

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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

XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy

XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.

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, 2025

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, 2025

@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.