XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

Internet advertising is going great.

I hear Spotify is the new hotness, let's see if they will take our money:

Ad name: DNA Lounge Bruno Mars Party
Your ad wasn't approved for the following reasons:
Reason: Your ad contains only music.
Recommendation: Submit a new ad with a clear voiceover that explains what's being advertised.

Do you want TikTok AI Voice? Because this is how you get TikTok AI Voice.

https://jwz.org/b/yk5a

Dear Lazyweb, why doesn't alpha blending work when lighting is enabled on Android? Transparency works with glColor but not with glMaterial.
GL_VERSION in the Android simulator is "OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 (4.1 Metal - 88.1)".

This works fine on iOS and Cocoa, so it's not strictly a GLES thing, just Android. GLSL is not involved.

Test case:
https://jwz.org/b/yk5Y

"Official Video, Full HD, Remastered"

Now, I'm old enough to remember when "remastered" meant "we re-scanned the 35mm negative". Let's take a look at the upper left quadrant of the first 15 seconds of that video at half speed. On the left: a 702x576 rip I made of the video in 2003 from the SD DVD release, Directors Series Volume 3: The Work of Michel Gondry; on the right, the 1392x1062 "Official Full HD Remaster"...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5U

The Oberlin Luddite Club.

Oberlin Luddites Reject "Year of AI. Exploration" Adopted by School. Dear President Ambar, We are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old; this is a. machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5M

Recent movies and TV.

Normally I try to keep my reviews focused toward "these were good and you should watch them" but I've watched a lot of garbage in the last couple of months so this one has more complaining than usual. You're welcome. The Bluff...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5A

Oil collapse (no not that kind)

BLDGBLOG: "The U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve is a series of vast, subterranean salt caverns in four different sites in Louisiana and Texas. Many are enormous -- the average cavern holds about 10mn barrels [...] This...
https://jwz.org/b/yk48