Zero Jackal
zerojackal.bsky.social
Zero Jackal
@zerojackal.bsky.social
That jackal from Jersey. Sometimes a coyote.
Went to the brewery for a beer and burger for lunch. Awesome!

Not awesome: dude who shows up and sits next to me, and I swear smells straight up like a men's bathroom at a carnival. Holy shit how does anyone smell this bad and not notice!!? I legit had to move to the other side to building.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Anybody still on twitter at this point is willfully ignorant, and has CHOSEN to be an enabler by refusing to do the absolute minimum of getting off a site run by a literal nazi. I don't care about their "engagement" excuses, kick these people out of anything you can. Ostracize them. It works.
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I swear, nobody makes good monitoring software that's not an absolute chore to use.

Work uses Solarwinds and it's seriously the most confusing, convoluted, utter mess of a system. Setting up a simple alert you have to practically know another language and it's a 50 step process. Zabbix was the same
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Saw Zootopia 2 yesterday! I was really surprised by just how good it was - probably on par with the first movie (although the whole "exploring forgotten things" aspect might push 2 over 1, at least for me. It's my alltime favorite trope in anything).

Well worth a watch, theres SO MUCH stuff in it
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
With the announcement of new Stargate coming out, decided to throw on SG: Universe during my lunch break.

It really is unfair that this show got such a weak reception - it's VERY much the "ST: Voyager" of Stargate, full of interpersonal relationship stuff and exploration. Worth a watch imo.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tried getting back into Elite: Dangerous again recently. Still pretty. Still a neat flight model. Still incredibly shallow and boring.

Plus like everything else nowadays, the entire thing has been turned into a grindfest laden with an *insane* amount of microtransactions. Maybe I'll spin up X4.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Seeing chat admins in the fandom going all "don't discuss politics" in this era is wild. Seems like an easy way to eject the conservative twats from our social spaces, but I guess performative progressivism is more important than actually doing anything.

I get conflict sucks, but then don't lead?
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is your friendly reminder that no matter what you're doing today, no matter how much you don't want to - PLEASE go out and vote.

Yes, the "opposition party" fucking sucks. But in order to save the 'patient' (country, localities), you need to stop the bleeding. THEN we can start fixing.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Yappy halloween everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Forgot to post pics of the awesome TWRP show I went to a week ago! These guys are absolutely amazing and if you haven't heard, you absolutely need to listen (especially if funky grooves is what you enjoy)
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Man, being a new musician in 2025 must be awful.

I use YTM for my streaming music, and lately like 1 out of every 5 songs is some AI slop. It's gotten to the point that if I see 2024 or 2025 in the release date (and don't know the artist), I immediately become suspicious.
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I never put much thought into the disappearance of 'third places' before, but I had a sudden realization the other day that there's really nowhere to go anymore for the classic 'bar' experience (eg: not Applebees), nor is there anymore 'neighborhood hangout' sort of joints, and it sucks.
September 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Pork Roll
September 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I really wish Telegram had a speech to text thing for voice messages, because I swear I will never actually click on one of those things, ever.

I'm almost never in a position where I want to hear a random person speaking who knows what, out of my phone speaker
September 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Minor gripe but *man* can US restaurants knock it off with trying to cram "hot honey" into everything? It's the early 2000's bacon fad all over again.

I like the stuff, but we don't need everything to taste like honey and cheap hot sauce.
September 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Listened to the new Pendulum album all the way through. Mixed bag, but mostly ok (mostly due to the fire EP's they threw on the album)

Best: Archangel, Driver, Colourfast.

Unlistenable: Halo, Cannibal, Mercy Killing, especially Save the Cat.

Best when they stick to dnb+rock. Bad with screamo emo.
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
August 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ok, I gave the KOTH reboot three episodes to give it a fair shot, and well.... it's.. so-so bordering on meh.

Much as I like how they show Bobby all mature and grown up, I dont think the premise of the show works well like this. Complete lack of A/B plots in the episodes also?
August 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I had no idea Pendulum was coming out with an album so soon - pretty excited! A lot of the recent songs have been pretty alright, except that newest one (Cannibal) which I thought was pretty bad.

Hopefully the rest of the album feels more like "classic" Pendulum; not a fan of their 'hard' stuff.
July 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Indian food and other "dinner" stuff is perfectly fine at 8AM, and makes a fine breakfast.

Sub sandwiches need to be soaked in vinegar. The top bread needs to be soggy with vinegar to be the "right" amount.

The correct amount of seafood in any dish is precisely "0".
BlueSky: tell me your food crimes

for example, I eat string cheese by just biting right into the stick
July 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Much as I've enjoyed using it, Linux has so many utterly dumb ways to do things.

Changing an ip address isn't just a simple command. Oh no. You need to edit or create like 2 files and whisper sweet nothings into the computer. And each distro thinks they're the coolest and does it differently. Ugh!
July 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Every time I get confident I "finally figured it out", it ends up like this.

I think I my lifetime, I have a success rate of 5%. Impossible dark arts.
June 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I see the Tankie "Rehab Tour" is in full swing. Pepper still hasn't ever apologized for all the shit takes, condescending crap, and insults hurled at those trying to tell him to stop being an asshole. I seriously do not understand why we're trying to shoehorn this guy back into the fandom.
🤣 A NEW stand-up event is coming to #Anthrocon #AC2025! 🤪

Join four familiar comics at the City Winery in Pittsburgh's Strip District, on Thursday July 3. No admission or badge required, and accessible by foot, car or our Red Route shuttles!

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/j5p6wrshKQri...
June 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just randomly realized that I haven't eaten at a "sit-down" restaurant in ages (outside of FURG).

Ever since Covid and the obscene price hikes for everything, something about the idea of 'being waited on' is.. Offputting? Like I'd rather just do my own service, without tip obligations
June 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Absolutely devastated finding out that Mikayla (owner of SaveAFox), one of the sweetest, most caring people, has passed. She truly loved all those animals, and they really loved her back. This one hurts =\
June 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM