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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2026 20:52:12 JST 
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I read that first line as "no dentistry win" which I think would be totally on-brand for the proposal. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2026 20:28:28 JST
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Are you richer than a homeless person? The answer might surprise you.
RT: https://flipboard.com/users/NationalPost/statuses/5BAO202sRDWtJB7Fvjy8Gg🅰2486686811 -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 09:25:33 JST
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Pretty sure UT99 (which I still fire up now and again) will run on a microcontroller in 2026 (assuming you could compile it for an appropriate cpu architecture). -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 18:15:59 JST
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Imagine a federated metaverse.
Really cool idea.
But even as an early adopter of VR, I don't think the idea has legs: Phones are addictive in part because it's "easy" to slip into them and out of them. Slip the phone out of your pocket, look, touch, slip it back in. There's nothing easy about VR.
The neural implant I imagined in Future Sepsis is a bit different in that regard: One of the guys in the book becomes addicted to Augmented Reality for a variety of reasons, but one of them is that he can easily just go "Hey AI, bring back X" and the object of his desire literally just pops into the room with him. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 22:00:55 JST
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@PNS Yes. Beyond the market or the state lies culture, and beyond that personal accountability and values.
I will say that our culture is also philosophically half-formed, and postmodernism has cut away a lot of ancient wisdom just because if you say it in a derisive way it sounds stupid. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 21:37:17 JST
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@PNS Let's be honest: The sort of people who regularly shoplift aren't typically well-known for their executive function -- they aren't thinking that far ahead. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 03:40:46 JST
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i liek monkeys -
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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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