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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 04:22:27 JST 
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Morality or not, we've got two choices here: the "everyone who presses this button lives" button, and the "if I press this button there's a chance I die" button.
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 11:54:23 JST
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What does homeassistant do? Is it just a central point for smart devices? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 18:42:57 JST
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As part of an ongoing project I have been setting up various flavors of BSD.
Freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, and dragonfly bsd. Nothing particularly fancy, they are all just living in virtual machines.
Unix is Unix, but it's surprising how different each one is. Freebsd was The most straightforward so far, feeling the most familiar and straightforward. OpenBSD so far has been the most difficult to develop on because it has a lot of security features as mandatory that other OSes recommend set as default. Dragonfly has a lot of similarities with freebsd, but in trying to set it up feel like I was back in 1996, fumbling with manual config files only to have no keyboard or no mouse for reasons known only to God.
Another big difference between them is how they manage current versions of things. Freebsd maintains 3 different version lines going back several years, but openbsd is standardized on whatever the current version is.
Something that is constant between Linux distributions is the Linux kernel, so you can chroot between distributions which is convenient for compiling between distros, whereas BSDs are basically their own thing and each kernel is unique with a long individual genetic line. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 18:42:53 JST
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Once again watching so-called anti-fascists bend over and lick the boot with respect to mandatory age verification in their FOSS operating systems.
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 08:35:00 JST
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And they say nobody wins in war. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 18:09:06 JST
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(1975 is almost 50 years. Why would there be a mortgage?) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 17:59:26 JST
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Imagine the irony that so many of those titles would have been paid for a hugely inflated rates by Chinese Nationals who came over hoping to protect their wealth against a government that didn't respect private property. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 22:04:05 JST
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That judge looks like her family tree is a stick. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 08:51:19 JST
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Technology Connections gets so stupid retarded when it comes to these things, it actually makes me mad.
"Oh, a battery can be refilled many times!" so can a fuel tank, jackass. And unlike a battery, a fuel tank doesn't need to be replaced in 20 years.
I figured that to store enough energy to convert the US to renewables you'd need about 3 days storage, minimum. To do that, you'd need to create thousands of warehouses filled with batteries, several times more lithium ion batteries than mankind has produced to date, and a several year monopoly on humankind's entire lithium generation capacity (and they need to be replaced). Meanwhile, several times that amount of energy is kept in the US strategic petroleum reserve in a really cool cave someone found. When people point to battery plants, it's like saying you bought a pack of AA batteries "so we don't need to plug the tesla in". It's so trivial it doesn't even count.
"Oh, the sun is free and I'm cheap!" the sun was free back when the pants that died and became oil were growing too, jackass. It isn't free for us to use. Just ask the people in Australia and California.
"Don't worry, I'm not saying you have to give up your oil and gas powered things" no, you're just going to condescendingly act like you found a perpetual motion machine because your pocket calculator never needs a battery, and that we're the idiots for not realizing your brilliance. Jackass.
Jeez. You'd think a guy from Chicago would know better, if only for the long dark cold nights. Maybe he should try practicing what he preaches, and he can be a broke, frozen, dead jackass with a bunch of expensive magic environmentalism boxes on the roof of his house that just got a natural gas furnace installed after the new owners fix all the frozen pipes that burst. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 23:44:04 JST
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I've talked a lot about it before, there are a lot of people who go to places like blue sky, and they weren't happy on X and even if they get everything that they ask for they're not happy on Blue sky.
On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech.
The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun.
And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 12:50:00 JST
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When I saw the Americans going to sanction India while the Europeans went to open up trade to india, it all really fits.
They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. It's part of the post-fascist European state, they need to pretend that they're pacifist, and they do that they get the Americans to do all the ugly bits of diplomacy. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Feb-2026 12:50:46 JST
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Just because you redefine "a cold" as only diseases caused by rhinovirus doesn't mean cold weather doesn't have a direct effect on the body that might look exactly like a cold, meaning it is for all intents and purposes a cold regardless of the cause. It's an etymological sleight of hand where you redefine a common disease by the vector you want it to be caused by and ignore counterfactuals. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Feb-2026 05:03:44 JST
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The "aha" moment for me was running nextcloud.
Under Google, they've always been chill, but you know in your heart of hearts that if they wanted to they could get pissy if you had something copyrighted or something they politically disagree with or something inconvenient for them on your google drive.
But I was sitting there, and it's like 'Wait, I can just keep all my stuff on here, and literally nobody cares because I'm copying my files from my hard drive to my hard drive'
It feels like moving from a rental to a house you own. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 00:49:30 JST
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The easiest way to not have to worry about threads is to not be highly moderated HR approved drivel.
None of us are allowed to see threads posts. As God intended.
All these lefties who are terrified of threads ought to think a bit harder as to why the corpos want to take over their fediverse and not ours. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 14:39:24 JST
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And part of the reason of that is any attempt to coordinate what being good means will necessarily end up with bad actors who want to inject their little things, and suddenly what it is to be good has a bunch of little strings attached that bad actors can use to justify evil.
The solution probably isn't scalable, it's that people just need to be trying to do what they think is best without letting themselves get too caught up in the hubbub of trying to standardize it all. Historically, the best that anyone could do would be coming up with a set of common standards for the people immediately around you that were the ones that mattered. Universal standardization is ultimately an invention of modern nationalism. People didn't used to have to be that standardized, even stuff that you would think of as standardized like religion would be somewhat relational, and depending on your local church.
That didn't mean that those local decisions would necessarily be even better than the universalized ones, but at least people could choose where they wanted to be, whereas under the more nationalist view, everywhere has to be the same thing. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 00:17:14 JST
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Sort of funny since it's like name rank and serial number "I have a boat I'm sailing to cannes" would you like this underage girl? "I have a boat I'm sailing to cannes" want to engage in some cannibalism? "I have a boat I'm sailing to cannes" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 19:53:09 JST
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I think it's particularly funny because if you think about the things going on in 2014, basically none of them including gamergate are something that are actively brought up on a regular basis by any faction of the right. However, even though it has been 12 years, it's like the left's Pearl harbor. It's like their 9/11.
A bunch of incompetent gaming journalists having conflicts of interest because they were all banging the same incompetent "game developer" is treated like this generational wound that must be brought up like the Holocaust for all time.
When you get right down to it, the concept that people need to be careful about conflicts of interest when they start sleeping with individuals they are doing new stories about is entirely uncondual, it is basic journalistic ethics. The way that it got reframed about misogyny doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense. It wouldn't be any more correct if female game journos started falling over a male developer that they were having sex with, or if everyone in the situation were gay and a bunch of males started amping each other up after secretly having sex. In fact, you can take sex entirely out of the equation, You're typically not supposed to write new stories about someone you were related to, or friend, or occurrence or former employer, at least not without making the conflict of interest publicly known.
So the fact that it was a basic journalistic standard basically forever really speaks to the fact that this was about individuals who thought they had a monopoly on narrative creating it like the Holocaust the moment that someone other than them formed a narrative. Which is really silly.
And let's say that gamer gate was actually entirely wrong and all of the facts brought forward by the ex-boyfriend were self-serving and wrong. Even then there's nothing to discuss. Okay, there's a nasty breakup and a guy started slinging accusations around. That seems like something that ought to be very straightforward to resolve without turning it into a Pearl harbor, Even if a bunch of people on the internet got on board. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 22:11:12 JST
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HITLER WAS RIGHT
On at least 51% of the questions on the test, and thus has gained his certification. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 02:30:58 JST
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The first time I saw that, it was shocking to the conscience.
"Who does your baby want to have sex with?"
Jesus Christ, nobody what's wrong with you?
I have seen paper forms asking the sexual orientation and gender identity of a newborn. Not computer forms, paper. Someone had to design that, had to look at it, and nodded to themselves that this was correct. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 22:55:40 JST
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https://youtube.com/shorts/l0Hqp7Y6Eoo
I made the comparison of law enforcement to a black bear.
Where I live, it's relatively routine to see black bears. As long as you do all the right things come on as long as you follow the rules of being around black bears, you're going to really have an uneventful time. Act big, make lots of noise, keep your distance, me absolutely sure to never get in between a bear and her cub.
Again, as long as you follow the rules you'll probably get to see a hundred bears and never have any problem. But if you don't follow the rules, that bear is bigger than you, it's stronger than you, it's faster than you, and it doesn't need fancy tools like a gun to kill you. It has big teeth, it has big claws, and even without those and has strength that is considerably greater than most of the strongest human beings on Earth. Fuck up, and you're just dead.
Same way with cops. There's a bunch of rules to interacting with cops. Don't mind your sudden moves. Don't run them over with your car. Don't pull out your gun. If you follow the rules, you can get away with a surprising amount around cops and still make it out of the interaction one hundred times out of 100.
Now people can argue that it's unfair that you should have to change the way you behave just because there's a black bear there, and maybe you're right, but if you have your right in one hand and you're dead in the other, guess which hand stops mattering?
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