"Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again."

Haven't seen this before. Credits of film from major Hollywood studio beg AI companies to pretty please not train on it: Eponysterically, the movie was "Caught Stealing (2025)".
https://jwz.org/b/ykv5

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein you get a bird's eye view

My latest big dumb art project is hand-crafted, bespoke QR codes.

"Hey Kate, tell him about the QR."
"There's an Olympic sized QR code on the roof. Take the stairs over there."
"Yeah. Sure."

So yeah, I painted a 25' QR code on the roof. And like the Nazca lines of Peru, it can only be properly scanned from Heaven.

4Ø3 Robots Forbidden

(www.dnalounge.com)

Who do I know who is local and has a drone? I need some brief, specific, outdoor aerial video of DNA Lounge, for important comedy purposes. Email me, please.
https://jwz.org/b/ykvo

fail2ban.

Dear Lazyweb, My jail.local has an "ignoreip" setting that is thousands of lines long, because reasons. I would like to put those lists of IP addresses in separate files instead of inlining them all in the same place. What's the easiest way...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvm

Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.

This version introduced a number of new features:

• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:

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(jwz.org)

Yet another Space-X vehicle explodes.
Billionaire ketamine enthusiast unavailable for comment.

Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvW

Just heard a solar panel repeatedly screaming at an empty parking lot, "You are trespassing!! Please leave the area immediately!!"

It had ED-209 voice, in case you were wondering what phase of dystopia we're in.
https://jwz.org/b/ykvQ

Worst Kirk.

The Nation goes hard: "It's a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"

Charlie Kirk's Legacy Deserves No Mourning:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvK

Qualifying Conditions.

Pro tip for Californians: If you try to get a COVID-19 vaccine at Walgreens, they will ask you if you have a condition that puts you at high risk, and what it is.

The correct answer is "smoking".

Who said cigarettes are bad for you?

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The "School Shooting Industry"

According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing. "The school safety and security industry has grown rapidly over the past...
https://jwz.org/b/yku9

@dangillmor
No.

So much no.

These people are asking us to judge the AT protocol on its own merits, entirely divorced from Blue Sky, the company founded and funded by fascists. These are the "keep politics out of tech" people who wan to believe that any tech can be apolitical.

Blue Sky must be destroyed.

As for the purportedly-apolitical and untainted AT protocol, I must again refer to the sage Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know."

Who wore it best? Pissdrunk Pete Kegstand, Secretary of GWAR, or President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?
https://jwz.org/b/yku1

yt-dlp is back to only downloading SD videos again. Last time, this fixed it:

--extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default,web_safari,web_embedded"

But no longer. Anyone got a working incantation?

Jellyfish Sap our Atomic Essence, again.

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month. The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuw

In the last 4 hours, fail2ban has nuked nearly *two thousand* distinct IP addresses for probing .git/config

Billionaire Calls Burning Man Demonic.

Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen, Nicole.

Nicole Shanahan, ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former vice-presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made the stunning accusation...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuh

@attoparsec Tag yourself, I'm Intravenous Martini.

@jonw Oh look, it's some other fuckstain telling me I'm internetting wrong. *plonk*

I guess today is going to be all about:

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, have unsolicited advice for you, since you are obviously brand new to this whole 'running a web site' thing."

"I, a person you have never spoken to before, feel the need to point out that the way Facebook is fucking you over is perfectly sensible, actually."

Welp. I now have proof that Facebook is using the same outbound IP addresses for both A) scraping web sites for "AI" training and B) fetching images from my site when I use the official API to post to Instagram.

This means that I can either defend myself from injuriously voracious AI scrapers, or have a functional business Instagram account, but not both.

Not just the same subnets. The same IPs.