fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on Hey... so, uh, whatcha doin' in there? 3 days ago:
It only takes me a few minutes to drive home from my office. Its good to just take a breath
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 1 week ago:
There are also no others that have a good web ui, Google Messages web ui is pretty great honestly.
That said, they recently rolled out a requirement to log in to to your google account to use that and I think that might be the line I refuse to cross.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re game.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people .. too?
Text book straw man, well done.
As I said, a person’s work is tainted by their beliefs, or in this case actions. Reiser’s work is obviously “tainted” as you’ve mentioned it here in this context.
Whether or not a person should continue to use the file system he developed is of course something each individual needs to weigh and decide for themselves. I note however that Reiser is not publishing essays on the art of murdering ones wife, and did not develop his filesystem with the intent of using it to host a community of murderers.
As I also said, using the software is tacit support. It’s not possible to steal the design and reject the doctrine. If you use firefox or libreoffice you support mozilla and or the document foundation. If you drive a tesla that you bought second hand you support Elon Musk
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
Obviously, because using their software is tacit or implied support for that person.
How many millions of people would say they “support” mozilla when really the only support they provide is using the free software.
A person’s work is quite obviously tainted by their beliefs.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 week ago:
Forgive me but, describing age as “a useful proxy” just sounds like shitty behavior to me. I’m not trying to say you’re a shitty person, just that your comment seems to be sane-washing prejudism.
FWIW I agree. A 50 year old guy “dating” a 25 year old woman has an increased likelihood that a power imbalance exists. However, it’s still profiling and prejudiced and a generalisation.
For example, domestic violence may be more prevalent among indigenous communities, but suggesting that indigenous status is “a useful proxy” for a determination that domestic violence is more likely is obviously inappropriate.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
You’re welcome to be amused.
Lemmy aside, if a developer was a fascist, or paedophile, or murderer, would you use their software?
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 week ago:
People on reddit and lemmy have weird ideas about relationships ought to be.
Provided that both people are adults then age in itself isn’t a problem.
I mean, if a 25 year old has several 50 year old “boyfriends” who each give her a stack of pocket money each month and pay her rent and everything, more power to her right?
The problems arise from a power imbalance. If an older guy has manipulated a younger woman into getting trapped in a shit relationship then that sucks but its not the age that’s the problem.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
You don’t seem to understand.
The guy who develops the software that runs on all the instances has strongly held political and societal views which are incompatible with mine.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
All work with the activitypub protocol and are interoperable. There are others which are more like microblogging instead of post aggregation, like mastodon.
Lemmy is the most popular but the dev has some strongly held ideological views which… are unusual. I’d prefer not to support their work on that basis.
Piefed is IMO a direct alternative to Lemmy. I switched to piefed several months ago and there’s nothing missing. On mobile I just use a browser to access my instance’ web page. It’s fine.
mbin and kbin aren’t viable alternatives for most users.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 week ago:
God this is a weird thread.
How come human laws don’t apply to animals?
Sorry to break it to you kids but billions of people all over the world literally eat animals every day.
Barbaric ? Perhaps, but it’s fair to assume that 100% of your ancestors in the last 100,000 years have delighted in this activity as often as possible.
You may not wish to acknowledge this but the reality is: your beloved dog or cat is a lesser being, assigned very few rights.
Obviously if you have a pet dog then you treat that dog differently as you would a chicken living in a cage in a shed with 10,000 other chickens in cages but that dog’s right to life is merely an extension of your rights as that dog’s owner.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 1 week ago:
We need police too dumb ass.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that neither you nor most other people like making bad decisions, right?
I might have thought that a decade ago, but it’s become very, very obvious in the interceding years that people vote against their own interests all the time for a variety of reasons, and do not engage in any kind of self-criticism regarding their previous decisions.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
Even with the best forms of representative government and transparency and so on things are still shit.
There will always be people who crave power and influence and money and are willing to do anything they can to acquire more. Only laws and regulations can mitigate that.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
Nah.
People (yes including me) are pretty much lazy idiots who tend to believe whatever plausible thing was told them most recently, without really investigating supporting arguments and comparing them to counter arguments.
Imagine if you had any vote that might effect an industry or a large corporation. That industry would influence the narrative and hence the outcome.
You may as well just form government by having your largest 500 companies nominate a representative from their board.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the question.
Rehabilitation has better outcomes than punishment. Amazing.
- Comment on Anti-Brexit protesters in front of the Big Ben. 2 weeks ago:
Since the day after the referendum it was obvious the UK would spend the next several decades renegotiating all the same benefits they had as part of the EU. Essentially a return in all but in name.
Actually returning is problematic.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Its not the individual instances but the underlying project.
Its not even the maintainers fault. Its a cat and mouse game. The devs have done an epic job of keeping up, but ultimately all of these projects are unreliable.
yt-dlp is the gold standard and provides the back end for many of these projects, but its cli only.
Ive found freetube desktop app to be more reliable than invidious. Also pipepipe for Android.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
Do any of these instances ever work ?
I loved invidious for a long time but I just gave up about 6 months ago.
Even hosting your own instance it was almost always not working waiting for a new release or workaround to be pushed.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe try being a little less judgemental?
I do make coffee at home in the morning but at lunch time I buy coffee because I don’t want to go all the way home.
I also some times like to buy poncy sparkling mineral water in tiny bottles because I find it refreshing. I don’t smoke, or drink alcohol, or soda, or even juice for that matter.
If you want to judge me for that I think that says more about you than me.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 2 weeks ago:
There sure are a lot of “weird” answers in this thread.
There’s nothing necessarily wrong about co-sleeping in your teens.
Some people might say your mum didn’t “toughen you up” by forcing you to sleep in your own bed or whatever.
That’s BS IMO. Much more likely that you are just wired differently and it manifests as anxiety.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 2 weeks ago:
OP’s mother has some extreme anxiety and self-worth issues
Are we seriously diagnosing psychological issues of third parties now ?
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
so… no one is using that?
I had assumed it was reasonably popular.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
Is jola postmarket?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
I admit that I’ve never truly understood martyrdom, but I think it’s notable that Trump would get thrown under a thousand busses.
He’s objectively directly responsible for a whole lot of bad stuff. Right now no one wants to blame him for anything because he’s a petulant toddler happy to wield the worlds largest economy and armed forces against you if he feels your grovelling is insufficient.
However, as soon as he’s gone I imagine that dynamic will change dramatically. What’s the benefit of sucking up to someone who can no longer shit in your cornflakes?
Instead the opposite is true - his successors will be heavily motivated to blame everything on Trump.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
That’s true, but if you pop this particular pustule it’s not clear how long it would take for another to emerge - perhaps hears or decades. In which time there’s a chance you could at least partially address the underlying health issues.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
Trump has built a “broad tent” with support from a lot of different demographics.
I suppose I agree that MAGA cultists support him because they believe the same things. I think it’s more apt to describe it as Trump gives them permission to indulge their shitty beliefs, but I guess that’s the same.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
This is my take.
Trump’s death won’t change the shitty people who have elected and continue to support him, but those people will no longer have a focal point.
Among all his shitty traits, he does have the uncanny ability to engender support from shitty people in a way that no one else can emulate.
Vance will be POTUS. He will reverse course on Trump’s dumbassery… withdraw from Iran, hose down Hormuz, water down the tariffs et cetera. He will try to win support from the great unwashed and the oligarchy but will ultimately fail.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
The way I look at it is, the easiest 10% of the prep might get you most of the benefits.
A few weeks worth of water, a few days worth of tinned food, that kind of thing.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
Hey. I quite like Canadians.