Who is this clown "jwz" and why does his opinion matter?
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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He's someone that was a developer for Netscape and Firefox. I used to follow him but stopped doing so and now I find him quite annoying, haha
I agree with him in many things but he's always replying people like he's better than everyone which makes me think he must be a very shitty boss considering he's the owner of a club.
"Right about a lot of things but fucking insufferable" is an apt summary of JWZ
"Insufferable ass" doesn't begin to summarize my experiences with him. But he's been right about a lot of things.
This was exactly my experience.
Also got the same impression back when I used XScreenSaver from jwz. I looked in to customizing the logo shown on the login dialog and some of the screensavers, only to find a rather preachy write-up on the advantages of XScreenSaver and a very stubborn affirmation that the logo is hard-coded and should not be changed because it is the identity of the program or something.
Oh yeah, the Debian vs. JWZ XScreenSaver spat, that was royally stupid and led me to stop using it altogether
Kids these days...
Every interaction I’ve had with that person is insane. Who even are they?
Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.
Thanks! I only knew them as yelling, cursing, and attacking others on mastodon person
He’s old and cranky like me 🤷
Haha! How did you simpsonify a photo of yourself?? That's so cool!
I know him as the guy who made his webserver respond to everything with a ballsack in an eggcup if your Referer is hacker news. Seems childish
More like one of many developers
Obviously. But it wouldn’t have happened at all without him.
Sorry but in this house we avoid jwz's opinions on things like the plague
He's like the Morrissey of foss
Man, I haven't seen a goat.se in years
Not trying to be pedantic, but the original was goatse.cx
Yeah everyone likes to call it "Goat-see" or "Goat-say", but it was originally supposed to be "goat-secx" i.e. "goat sex".
I think part of the confusion may be that when the site was taken down, the mirrors that sprung up were things like goat.se, etc.
I've heard it pronounced "goatsee" and said that myself back when the original site was live. You are 100% right on the intent of the name though.
That's probably the only reason I clicked it. Honestly, kinda regret that I did because the author just seems like a dude yelling at the sky because he's wildly critical of the smallest things but doesn't offer up any solutions.
So you're disappoint it wasn't a rickroll of the original image?
No I think he clearly said he's disappointed by the low quality content.
The original, while disgusting, was not low quality content.
I (wrongly) assumed that if he was hilarious to have made that graphic, that he'd maybe be more reasonable, hopefully funny. I was disappoint.
It did kick off me spending about 2 hours comparing Signal to SimpleX, and Briar, and a bunch of others, and I can only conclude Signal is the best out of them. The security community seems to be REALLY paranoid about every, single, tiny little thing - but I understand that they must be.
SimpleX doesn't do any kind of IP address masking or have quantum resistant double ratchet encryption.
Briar doesn't account for rogue-tor nodes, etc.
There's just always some big glaring flaw in one of them.
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okay
The fact that there are no interoperable third-party implementations, or even third-party builds/distributions of the Signal app
that's not true, Molly is perfectly fine
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