Zozano
@Zozano@aussie.zone
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 weeks ago:
He knows a lot if things! Like, did you know… You can only kiss yourself in the mirror?
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
“There’s only one thing worse than a molester”
- Comment on Male 3 weeks ago:
Nah, you’ll need jerryfin-ffmpeg for that
- Comment on Male 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
Let’s yell at that cloud—together 🤜🤛
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Pretty obvious on account of all the em dashes lol.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 4 weeks ago:
Even Furthermore…
Wanna censor it? Good fucking idea /s
Shoving that shit into the shadows doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it untraceable, unmoderated, and unaccountable.
If you care even remotely about preventing harm, you don’t force taboo communities off the grid. You keep them where they can be seen, tracked, and contained… preferably behind legal firewalls, age gates, and content filters.
If you push them into the dark web, and congratulations: you’ve just built a Petri dish for escalation, radicalization, and actual predation.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 4 weeks ago:
Furthermore…
Their decision to target the payment processors - not the developers, or itch.io, or steam, is some of the most cowardly and authoritarian things I’ve ever seen in the gaming space.
It’s economic coercion; a playbook used by religious bigots and authoritarians for decades. Financial censorship by proxy.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 4 weeks ago:
Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic. Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.
If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.
Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 4 weeks ago:
Accusing me of misogyny because I pointed out a basic legal fact is a cheap dodge. You’re not arguing in good faith, you’re hiding behind identity politics to avoid admitting you’re wrong.
My point was clear: not all sworn testimony is admissible by default. That’s a factual statement about how evidence works in court. It’s completely independent of gender.
Saying “I’m talking about real cases” doesn’t change anything. Of course some testimony gets admitted. That’s not the issue. The issue is that being sworn in doesn’t bypass evidentiary rules. Judges evaluate relevance, hearsay, and competence. Period.
If you want to talk law, then talk law. If you want to talk ideology, then you’re changing the subject.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 4 weeks ago:
Not true.
Not all witness testimony under oath is admissible.
Just because someone is under oath doesn’t mean their testimony is automatically allowed in court. There are rules of evidence (like hearsay, relevance, competence, etc.) that still apply.
Testimony under oath can be evidence, but it’s not automatically admissible. Courts have strict filters for what testimony gets presented to a jury. Being under oath isn’t a magic pass.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
Ah, yes… Pedos… Known for waiting until OP turns 13 so they can ethically swoop in and steal their girl.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 5 weeks ago:
Did you forget about beef?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 5 weeks ago:
“You’ll still be able to access your content”
Yeah, until they release a new version of the launcher, or underlying framework, which prevents the old app to run, locking people out of the content they paid for.
- Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 5 weeks ago:
So does putting some in your south mouth.
- Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 5 weeks ago:
Pussy or ass
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
“Yeah, sure, I see no problems with that. Alternatively, I could just boost your characters to max level if you would like?”
