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<p>I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world&#39;s greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents&#39; web browser and stuff.</p>

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    XScreenSaver 6.17 is out now for MacOS, iOS (eventually), Android and Unix. This is mostly a maintenance release, triggered by some onerous and stupid Apple changes. I think I worked around several longstanding Apple bugs where the &quot;legacyScreenSaver&quot;... https://jwz.org/b/ylBc

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    @matt@istheguy.com If it&#39;s something you wrote yourself, that&#39;s entirely fine!

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    @matt@istheguy.com I&#39;m glad you like it, but if you are sharing a censored version of it, and I mean this most sincerely, fuck you for censoring my work. I choose my words extremely carefully. You are not &quot;helping&quot; me correct an oversight.

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    Billionaires won&#39;t flee. The state won&#39;t lose money. But taxing the rich in CA could spread nationwide. Billionaires just got a massive tax cut from Trump. California billionaires&#39; wealth grew more than 30% a year from 2023 to 2025 and is on track to... https://jwz.org/b/ylBW

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein a winnar is us https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/09.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    &quot;It Is Done. Hail Satan.&quot; City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting: On Tuesday night, Ottumwa resident, satanist, and former city council member Matt Dalbey took the podium to read an invocation to... https://jwz.org/b/ylBN

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    Recent movies and TV. Disclosure Day (2026): This was a hate-watch for sure. What in the Whitley Strieber Dr. Doolittle bullshit did I just sit through. Spielberg is such a hack. How did this guy manage to make Raiders when every other thing he has... https://jwz.org/b/ylBH

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    Dear Lazyweb, if you have some very old Macs, I would like you to test some things. I have a handful of very old XScreenSaver DMGs on the downloads page because, for example, 5.14 was the last XScreenSaver binary release capable of running on PPC. Due to recent Apple stupidity, I was forced to re-codesign these old DMGs. So I&#39;d like to know if they still install and run on very old Macs -- which I do not have. I&#39;d like a status report on: https://jwz.org/b/ylBF

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIXz_vzROrw

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    @jeremy@jeremy.org This is relevant to my interests! https://jwz.org/b/yhEa

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    Hammer Time. A friend told me they were planning an October rewatch of classic horror movies. I said, &quot;So just Hammer, huh?&quot; They said, &quot;...what?&quot; Ok, so, some of you never studied, and don&#39;t know about Hammer Horror. I have made you an introductory playlist. https://jwz.org/b/ylBB

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it is Spooky Season https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/07.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the slopbros won&#39;t stop https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/06.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    Mom: What&#39;s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says &quot;please be good&quot; and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying &quot;My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!&quot; Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests $100 million in your company. Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ ht...

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we return this blog to our core competency: plumbing disasters https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/05.html?utm_source=sp_ma

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    Another codesign firedrill. Apple let stuff expire, so now we have to re-roll our certs, hooray. I have questions: When they say: Installer packages [...] will no longer install. Re-sign all packages with your new certificate before this date. Mac... https://jwz.org/b/ylA1

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    Please enjoy jwz mixtape 260. https://jwz.org/b/ylAw

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    I&#39;m glad they do this: From: California BallotTrax This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of San Francisco Department of Elections. Your ballot for the upcoming November 3, 2026, General Election has been mailed to you. If you haven&#39;t received your ballot within 7 business days, please contact us. https://www.sfelections.org

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    It&#39;s not illegal if you buy new laws. Lyft has to pay out $272 million for the fraud they perpetrated on their employees from 2016 through 2020! But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make that fraud legal, so now they won&#39;t have to pay that again in the future! According to methane-breathing money-ghouls who run our world, this was a great investment: they could have just spent an additional $50M/year on salaries, but now they legalized an across-the-board ... https://jwz.org/b/...

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    Seasons Greetings from Tall Slut No Panties! Krysten Ritter on the hellsite: https://jwz.org/b/ylAq

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    Today in the scraperpocalypse... Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month... https://jwz.org/b/ylAU

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    XScreenSaver thumbnails. Dear Lazyweb, any idea why XScreenSaver thumbnail images are no longer showing up in System Settings on macOS 27? Works fine on macOS 14.7. The .saver bundles have &quot;Resources/thumbnail.png&quot; or @2X@mastodon.social files. I&#39;ve even tried using... https://jwz.org/b/ylAQ

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    The continuing downfall of USPS. For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are *no* Halloween stamps on sale. I&#39;m sure this is also DeJoy&#39;s fault. https://jwz.org/b/ylAO

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    Someone &#39;Torturing&#39; LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet. Jason Koebler: One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like... https://jwz.org/b/ylAM

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    I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh. Nicola Turner: A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres... https://jwz.org/b/ylAK

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    Nomenclature. I got a used Mac Mini to use as a sacrifice zone for testing things on recent OSes. Since at this point it seems like you will pry macOS 14.7 from my main machine&#39;s cold dead fingers. Anyway I can&#39;t decide what to name it. I&#39;m going with &quot;sucker&quot; so far. I thought about &quot;patsy&quot; but that just makes me think &quot;and edina&quot; which is not what I&#39;m going for. https://jwz.org/b/ylAG

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    It&#39;s hard to explain Gavin Newsom to someone who hasn&#39;t seen The Dead Zone.

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    &quot;AI&quot; once again revealed to be three perverts in a trenchcoat. Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts -- And They&#39;re Horrified: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft&#39;s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo... https://jwz.org/b/ylAE

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    Every year or so I forget and investigate: &quot;Surely there&#39;s a way to set my business&#39;s Facebook account to disallow comments by default?&quot; and every year I realize that the answer is is no because drive-by rage from haters is their entire business model.

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    DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Folsom Street Events has fucked us, and not in the consensual way https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/27.html?utm_source=sp_ma