Zozano
@Zozano@aussie.zone
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
Hey man, you said people are either pro, or anti.
I’m just being the one to hold your feet to the fire.
it’s not the religion itself that is fundamentally wrong, but the way it’s twisted to justify actions.
Would you say Scientology is not fundamentally wrong, and that the people who benefit financially are twisting L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmic wisdom?
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
You think this is realistic?
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
Soooo… Since its used to justify atrocities and is thrust upon society, you’re anti religion?
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
Which part specifically?
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
That’s not true. A real two-state solution is the only ethical outcome.
You can argue that this is impossible, and I’m not saying it isn’t, but anything besides a two-state solution is not ethical.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
I’m with you on all of those points, except that I’m anti-religion as a whole.
Zionism is a product of prophecy, this is partially the fault of religion.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre 4 weeks ago:
I think everyone should own a fun
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Mutha fuckin Zoombinis
It’s on Steam BTW.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
I can vouch for Zagorath being one foot in the grave.
Nobody under 18 could play Connections like Zaggy.
- Comment on Bread tags on long list of plastic items to be phased out in NSW 2 months ago:
Can someone tell Woolies and Coles to stop ripping the sheath off corn and selling it in plastic containers to fuck off?
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 months ago:
I’m all for protecting real-world children. But I think Australia’s current laws are counterproductive; they push non-offending paedophiles into isolation, where they feel unable to seek help.
There are two major arguments here:
The harm-reduction argument: substitutes like hentai or dolls can reduce the urge to act on real-world impulses (“post-nut clarity”).
The escalation argument: these substitutes may desensitise some individuals and lead them to seek more extreme material, eventually crossing into real-world offences (“gooncels”).
Both are true, but not equally. The latter group tends to be predisposed to risk-seeking behaviour, often overlapping with other criminal or antisocial traits; violence, theft, mental illness, impulsivity.
These high-risk individuals are rare. To criminalise the entire category of material because a small subset might escalate is a narrow view that ignores those for whom it actually serves as a safety valve.
There’s no real cost-benefit study on this yet, but intuitively, criminalising such material seems to produce worse outcomes overall. It drives people who haven’t hurt anyone further underground, and away from treatment, support, and accountability.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 months ago:
He knows a lot if things! Like, did you know… You can only kiss yourself in the mirror?
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 months ago:
The problem isn’t with the understanding of how vaccines work, the reason idiots don’t want vaccines is they dont trust what you’re telling them is the case.
In their mind, these soldiers you’re training are better off being naturally fit and learning how to fight intuitively.
And this “training” you’re giving your soldiers, is actually just an Al-Qaeda’s communist lgbtqia+/? agenda being pushed by Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (in their mind).
Here’s the thing: you can’t use logic to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
- Comment on Funny 5 months ago:
“There’s only one thing worse than a molester”
- Comment on Male 5 months ago:
Nah, you’ll need jerryfin-ffmpeg for that
- Comment on Male 5 months ago:
FFmpreg
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 months ago:
Not far off base lol. As long as it compiles on whoever’s machine decides to repackage the application, it’ll run on everyone’s.
Most updates its usually just a matter of updating a key.
Its not that hard to make a wrapper for a program designed for hard-linked paths.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 months ago:
Its moments like this I’m glad to be a nixos user lol.
Slap that shit in a flake and forget about it. No matter what updates the dev has, or what system the user has, its always gonna compile.
Fuck I love nix.
If it had genitals I’d fucking date it.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 months ago:
For the past month I’ve been developing a NixOS platform for local businesses.
I keep overestimating how much people know. It’s infuriating trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I don’t need to explain why it’s amazing, just that it is, and it works. I feel like I’m Mugatu talking to Zoolander at times.
Even if I could perfectly analogise what a declarative operating system is, it wouldn’t matter to a client because they don’t understand how a non NixOS machine works.
Though, the worst part is trying to explain to someone, who is “happy with Windows” why they should not be.
How the fuck do people in 2025 not fucking loathe Windows? There’s fucking ads in the start menu. There’s like 4 different places to change settings. The systems bloat and slow to a crawl as the OS ages.
It’s fucked.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 5 months ago:
In the florescent bathroom of food court, nano crouched by the toilet, vomiting his guts up after consuming the kernel-krush slushie. He thought being the lowest common denominator was bad; used by noob sysadmins and confused interns, until this moment.
The slushie hadn’t tasted right. It was supposed to be “Byteblast Blueberry,” but it had an aftertaste of burnt silicone and magic smoke. Something in it was wrong. nano could feel it rewriting him from the inside. lines of strange config code scrawled across the back of his eyelids. His .bash_history was being overwritten. His sense of indentation… sharpened.
As his tremors subsided and the last of the neon goo slid down the drain, he looked up into the cracked mirror. Something had changed. His terminal font was crisper. His cursor… blinking with authority. And there, under the stall’s flickering light, he whispered:
“…:wq”
Suddenly, the doors of ever bathroom stall flung open in unison, people shit themselves in fear as his inner thoughts wrote themselves onto the walls of his stall.
nano inhaled deeply, as a familiar scent wafted from under the entrance door, and a shadow stretched to the far wall.
“emacs…” He muttered to himself, before the entrance door flung open. emacs snorted and coughed, this bloated monstrosity, confused for a text editor, was actually an operating system.
“Poor little nano” he chuckled “serves you right for trying to be more than a fuckin’ stepping stone. Why don’t you go hang out with Edge and Bing, you’re about as useful as a clippy themed Chrome extension.”
emacs’ voice reverberated through the tiled chamber like a RAM leak in a core dump. His trenchcoat, stitched from thousands of unreadable .el files, dragged behind him.
neovim exited the bathroom stall, letting emacs bask in his new glory for the first time.
“Fuck off, Emacs. You press seven keys just to copy a line.”
A silence fell across the stalls. Somewhere, a urinal cake cracked.
Emacs stepped forward, snarling. "I’m the past and the future, nano. I’ve got an email client, a music player, a fucking psychiatrist built-in. You? You’re a Hello World that got a pity install.”
neovims eyes narrowed, one coloured gruvbox, the other catppuccin as he clenched his first “My name… Is Neo (vim)”
Next time:
neovim & emacs - Battle of the Keybinds Will neovims LSP destroy emacs s-expressions? Can emacs remember how to quit in time?
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 5 months ago:
Signal?
Just download the .apk directly from the signal website.
Or from the github repo
Or download it through f-droid
Or install Obtainium
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 5 months ago:
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Let’s yell at that cloud—together 🤜🤛
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
I should’ve been more precise; em dashes are just a piece of the puzzle, however, the smart tools you reference are normally programmed to convert dashes to em-dashes under the following condition:
Text > space > hyphen > space > text
Unless you go back afterwards and delete the spaces between words, the AI text is going to stand out due to its tendencies to use em-dashes in place of semicolons without spaces—like this.
It does suck that we need to take a reactive approach to dealing with the perception our emails might not be written by us, or…
Take it back by using them anyway, and insisting our messages are legit.
Though, unless AI stops generating text with far less em-dashes, I think this is an uphill battle which isn’t worth our stubborn insistence. though, that really depends on whether it’s important for our messages to seem to be written by us.
For me, where I work, people have become very judgemental (though not everyone knows) when they receive an email heavy with em-dashes.
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Real people use emojis too
Doesn’t explain why AI bots loooooove: 🙃 lists with emojis as list points 💩 Em—dashes—without—spaces 🥴 Weird as hell analogies like: 🦮 “responds to throttle like a golden retriever responds to algebra” 🍆 For the record GPT didn’t write this
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Sure, but it’s also in the tone, language and grammatical structure. After you know what you’re looking for, you can feel whether it’s AI written.
For what it’s worth, I’d be cautious about using em dashes; people basically associate it with AI without exception.
Even when I use a document editor, and it sometimes 'auto swaps" a dash for an em-dash, I’ll undo it. Just because I wouldn’t want to be perceived as copy/pasting something.
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Pretty obvious on account of all the em dashes lol.
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Look, champ, I don’t even know where to start with that screed of yours; it’s like you veered across every social lane marker at once and somehow managed to cut off common decency in the process. The whole thing reads like a rolling pile‑up of smug assumptions. you blast past nuance, tail‑gate empathy, and just keep flooring it on the highway of bad takes. People are out here trying to keep their traction in a world full of potholes; maybe set the cruise‑control of basic respect before you rear‑end reality, yeah?
How dare you talk shit about the Subaru Crosstrek. We’re dealing with a 220 mm ground‑clearance, symmetrical‑AWD, snow‑eating, gravel‑spitting, apocalypse‑commuter that will outlive three of your fashion cycles and still start on a minus‑five morning without a whimper.
It’s a five‑star‑safety‑rated go‑anywhere hatchback that gulps eight‑litres‑per‑hundred on the highway while your precious status wagons guzzle twice that idling at a café; it holds its resale value like a dragon sits on gold; throw a kayak on the roof, a mountain bike in the back, and go touch grass. The Crosstrek is the Swiss Army knife of daily drivers; slagging it off is like mocking duct tape - it only proves you’ve never fixed anything in your life.
- Comment on From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked 5 months ago:
Idle games like cookie clicker exploit this to a shocking degree.
Ironically, cookie clicker is actually a parody of idle games, and once you get far enough, there is genuine strategy (assuming you enjoy doing math).
Still doesn’t change the fact the objective is to make number go up
