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jwzStudy Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist.
I thought it was just me. NEW HAVEN, CT -- Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80%...
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jwzSince yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers. This time, though, load is below 1, but I'm getting up to 10 requests a second and all of my Apache workers are in state "R". "apachectl restart" fixes it... for a while.
What levers do I have to pull on this? E.g. maybe it would be sensible to drop connections if they stay in "R" for more than a couple seconds?
This 12 year old post suggests some sysctl.conf changes, but I have...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0T
jwzToday in Email Hegemony.
Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the @dnalounge@sfba.social store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.
73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else
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jwzReally wish Mastodon web-interface filters had booleans, for so many reasons, but today's thing I wish I could accomplish but cannot: "Hide posts by [REDACTED] that are boosts of other people mentioning [REDACTED]."
jwzThis may be my favorite new Mastodon feature for protecting me from cognitive toxins.
jwzVideo text remover.
Is there a Mac app similar to Hitpaw Watermark Remover that is... not that? I bought it, and it's adequate but has some annoyances so I would like to try anything else.
Only use case I care about is: scrub thru video; select a series of rectangles and start/end times; run ffmpeg with a series of "delogo" filters.
Auto-detection or anything "AI" is an explicit non-goal.
Web search for this topic has been utterly poisoned by grifters.
https://jwz.org/b/ykyK
jwzLos Campesinos on streaming:
"It being Streaming Stat Season, I thought now would be a good time to offer a detailed breakdown of how much money we make from our music being streamed." There are many reasons, unrelated to artist reimbursement, why...
https://jwz.org/b/ykyI
jwzXScreenSaver and PAM.
Lazyweb, I have PAM questions. I added support for PAM to XScreenSaver in 1998, when PAM itself was a little two-year-old baby. Your keyboard was still PS2 and HDMI hadn't been invented yet. For lo these many decades, nobody...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx_
jwzKohler's $600/month toilet camera uses your turds to train AI.
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as "End-to-End Encrypted": But emails exchanged with Kohler's privacy contact clarified that the other "end" that can...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx8
jwzSnail Heist.
€90,000 of snails. 450 kilos of snail meat. He said he had lost his entire annual production in the theft between Sunday night and Monday morning. "They cut the wire fence, broke open the door with a pickaxe, smashed the motion sensor...
https://jwz.org/b/ykx6