Posts by jwz@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B4hxS4Cx9okxr8uQ76 by jwz@mastodon.social
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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
(DIR) Post #B4i39u0OwztMj5lAJ6 by jwz@mastodon.social
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@astraleureka If you mean my gl to gles library, it is not involved. These are native calls.
(DIR) Post #B4i5oSKgwRyKgLiQKG by jwz@mastodon.social
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@astraleureka Sad to report that I understood none of that....
(DIR) Post #B4itpfNeuXmn9AsFua by jwz@mastodon.social
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@astraleureka Apple works fine, it's only Android that is being weird.
(DIR) Post #B4oGieesT2aXcFLxcO by jwz@mastodon.social
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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
(DIR) Post #B57T4AZHufQA7K0ESW by jwz@mastodon.social
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Important XScreenSaver policy update.25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.https://jwz.org/b/yk56
(DIR) Post #B5MWYlqr4aehfctz3A by jwz@mastodon.social
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@IzzyOnDroid They pioneered this with me a year and a half ago. They locked me out of the "Play" [sic] store and made me unable to update my decade+-old app because I wouldn't give them a lock of my hair. https://jwz.org/b/ykcj
(DIR) Post #B5NGyd64qA25wJI49Y by jwz@mastodon.social
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@xgranade Why can't we have a Parents Deicide Act instead.
(DIR) Post #B5ulervlUKrmwuCZs0 by jwz@mastodon.social
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Happy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate.# date +'%F %r %Z = %s'2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777https://jwz.org/b/yk62
(DIR) Post #B64no6yT4JqBhXbHhA by jwz@mastodon.social
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"If Linux can be maintained by sending patches to an email mailing list, 'doesn’t work at scale' arguments are skill issues."https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
(DIR) Post #B6989YDhjwkw014ExE by jwz@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor I gotta say, I find this governor race confounding. This is looking way more game-theoretic than I am used to.
(DIR) Post #B6KzbsJ25RzOiEVfYu by jwz@mastodon.social
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The Rust Evangelism Task Force has declared "ethics" to be out of scope. And that's going as well as you might guess: This document establishes a policy for how LLMs can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. [...] No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:• Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs• The environmental impact of LLMs• Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output• Moral judgements about people who use LLMshttps://jwz.org/b/yk7V
(DIR) Post #B6heZCloOW16H1gYee by jwz@mastodon.social
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Today in "Butlerian Jihad" news.US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows: This new effort follows President Donald Trump's National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone...https://jwz.org/b/yk7o
(DIR) Post #B6kvRz6l4aCIZLVPLE by jwz@mastodon.social
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In this, the Year of Our Apocalypse 2026, Rockbox still cannot display EXIF album art if it is a progressive JPEG of *any* minuscule size or resolution.I can't even.Also, while you can finally have a playlist with up to 32,000 songs, "shuffle all tracks" is still hardcoded to 2,000.I'm starting to think that their heart just isn't in this any more.https://jwz.org/b/yk7w
(DIR) Post #B7Rc3c24hkjawe3v60 by jwz@mastodon.social
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There is an airplane flying in circles above San Francisco dragging a banner with an AI ad on it. Something something world's largest metaphor about fossil fuels
(DIR) Post #B7vBvA37zTuca8Kl9s by jwz@mastodon.social
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@mjg59 Unpopular take: Google Reader was nothing special, but lots of people who should have known better decided that this re-centralized version of RSS was equivalent to RSS, and so when Google Reader died so did RSS. All the anger about Google killing RSS is wrong, they just killed one barely-above-mediocre app.[ narrator ] RSS is exactly as alive as it ever was.Google Reader's one innovation was "what if cache". It was the Clownflare of blog syndication.
(DIR) Post #B7vBvAIN4o6bLPSvuy by jwz@mastodon.social
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@mjg59 As just one data point: in 2013, when Google Reader was killed, there were 69M WordPress sites.In 2026, there are 600M WordPress sites.That means that in the years since Google "killed" RSS, there are *at the very least* 531 million additional RSS feeds.
(DIR) Post #B96OUzw3GG0y343o5w by jwz@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor Once you put a computer it it, it's a Liability Crumple Zone. The same reason nobody is charged with manslaughter when a self-driving car is used to kill someone. The same reason moving violation citations aren't issued, and they can park in bus lanes with impugnity. "Welp, nothing we can do I guess."
(DIR) Post #BA7zioGT7gqLIc7w3s by jwz@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor Were they ever principled though?
(DIR) Post #BAPKain2vDoXY9M6vw by jwz@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor Set your browser to do "Reader Mode" by default.