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Classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS: Afterglow is an emulator built specifically for running After Dark modules -- the original 68k module code, not a remake or port -- with no dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS. [...]

Dear Lazyweb, if you have succeeded in getting VLCKit to build on macOS 14, specifically BasicPlayerWithPlaylist, please let me know how you did it.

There's someone on eBay trying to sell unused tickets to our 2013 Prince shows for $700 each.

You ever notice that Dale Gribble sounds like Jello Biafra?

Parked Waymos actively record 360-degree video and audio even without passengers aboard.

Handshake, not a drug deal: SFPD drone case falls apart: DA officials did not say whether they agreed with Helvestine's argument that the footage showed only a handshake.

Meta glasses are a workplace menace: The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media.

As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra rewrite, but that new team face-planted so badly that we had…

US12711711-B1: The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

I had some cards printed up.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: Nine PBS VP and CCO Leah Freeman confirmed the station's lawsuit against Iron Mountain and its dedication to retrieving the archival materials and programming, which she says span over "70…

It was never about the money, it's about the impunity.

38 years ago today, Zero Cool hacked all those banks across state lines.

"Good news!

▶︎ In what-is-now-traditional journalistic malpractice, none of the articles about this have a photo or video of the guillotine.

If you are going to Outside Lands and don't want to install their crappy app, here's a calendar file of the whole schedule.

You may have noticed that my various sites were nearly unusable for the last 4+ days, and are still maybe not doing great.

Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Wiener employs Anthropic's tech for an interactive attack ad, but all Chan's campaign sees is desperation: The Wiener campaign was in part inspired to create the chatbot in order to "lean into the AI craze overtaking the

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