And if you didn't know the other other definition, "men loving men". I think.

-- Frost

It's about squick.

Think about how they call sex with animals "bestiality". It's not "oh it's because it hurts the animals!", it's because "ew, gross, you're stooping to the level of an ANIMAL!".

I don't think it's about consent, either. If you were somehow able to communicate well enough to actually get consent (which, to be clear, is pretty iffy what with the whole language barrier and such), people would still be squicked.

(also I'm pretty sure "zoophilia" is more about being into animals rather than actual sex with them, which is the whole "bestiality" thing. You can be into someone/a group of people without wanting to rape them.)

It's probably because most of society fundamentally doesn't see other animals as people, and therefore killing them is totally fine ("what? they're not people!"), but having sex with them is Evil and Bad ("why would you want to have sex with them? they're not even a person!").

Yeah it makes no sense.

I mean honestly, (we're in America and)

yeah, we carry a physical transit card, it's WAY less hassle than dealing with a phone.

And yeah we use cash when buying used stuff. Hell, a lot of craigslist listings say "cash only please"! Works fine.

-- Frost

Oh fucking yikes.

Debianite distros have /var/run/reboot-required. It doesn't tell you which packages, though, just if you should reboot.

HTTPS is literally just HTTP, but shoved inside TLS, which is a generic encryption thing you can use on TCP* connections. It's like shoving your message inside a magic envelope that can't be broken into before you send it, the receiver can open the envelope though and read it. The stuff inside is still regular HTTP.

(*connections to a server that let you send/receive a stream of data, instead of just firing off packets and hoping they make it there like how UDP works.)

But as for HTTPS itself: First off there's the encryption, which prevents anyone listening in from reading the stuff. But you also need to know that you're talking to the right server, and some attacker isn't just pretending to be the server you want and forwarding your messages to the real server, then relaying its answers back.

That's where certificates come in. Those are, unfortunately, centralized at least as web browsers use them; there's a Big List of allowed "certificate authorities" in each browser and/or OS, which are organizations you can get a certificate for your website from. Certificates are signed (more cryptography math magic) by the CA so that your browser can know the cert came from a known CA. If it doesn't, it goes basically "huh? I don't know who signed this! maybe an attacker did. I don't trust it."

There are other ways to handle that sort of trust. Mumble (a voice chat platform) also uses TLS certificates, but instead of just having a Big List, it just assumes that the first time you connect you're not being actively attacked, and then if the certificate ever changes it can freak out and let you know. Much like SSH works (but SSH has its own completely different encryption scheme). Mumble also knows about the big list of CAs though and will accept ones signed by a known CA without questioning it.

-- Frost

Yes it does, check out Bodhi Linux!

It doesn't have to be an 'against AI' thing, to be fair! It's also just fun to use.

Depends who you ask.

We know someone named Gray and a different person named Grey!

This is awesome. Should be the normal way to do things!

-- Frost

The license is what makes it possible to legally distribute the source code, or use it in other stuff.

Without that, the source code is still legally considered proprietary and the author could sue you if you distribute it to other people, or modify it and distribute modified versions. Even if they made it publicly available!

-- Frost

Actually, without a license, they can't legally do that but nobody else can use your code either!

(Nothing's stopping them from doing it illegally, license or no. Which is why I personally tend to default to permissive licenses myself. I'm more concerned with open-source cross-license compatibility than about corporations stealing the code for our little projects.)

-- Frost

The steam-devices package is just udev rules and the drivers are already built into the kernel, right? So there's a good chance you'll just already have the drivers!

(...in theory. Debian critters may want to run testing+unstable rather than stable for the next while, if the new steam controller needs specially written drivers that won't be in current stable.)

-- Frost

Probably "oil long" is the opposite of an "oil short", where you bet the price is going to rise, as opposed to betting it's going to fall? I don't know much about this stuff though.

-- Frost

A) Fuck ICE.

B) Let's mock them for being evil, not for being fat. There's actual reasons to hate them, going "oh haha look how fat they are" just hurts regular fat people.

-- Frost

Look, between the "let's not do anything at all" party and the "wants us, specifically, dead" party, I'll take the "let's not do anything at all" party.

You don't have to 100% like everything a given party is doing to recognize that they're the least bad option. Sure, they aren't really actively good, but a vote for them is a vote against the people who want to kill us. (And voting third party is just tossing your vote in the garbage, unfortunately.)

-- Frost

Wait, they were on the emergency frequency??

Yeesh, ATC being upset makes sense now. I'd assumed they were just meowing on the normal communications frequency they'd otherwise be using.

-- Frost

As a furry, this is uh, worrying.

Really glad we're not in the UK. Though uh, not like the US is much better at this point... but at least the US has the whole "everyone understands that the current government is going on a series of ridiculous power trips" going for it, so they're less inclined to just think "ah yeah, throw all the weirdos in jail, totally normal!".

(I'm not into incest, but I am into completely different Weird Shit.)

-- Frost

The No Man's Sky people are generally super chill and welcoming! It's really nice.

It's kinda funny, you see the occasional person come in and go "okay but wouldn't it be BETTER if it were combat focused??" (you know, like almost every other game out there). Everyone politely tells them nah, let us have our weird little chill game in peace please, and then they leave. But as long as you're not trying to turn the game into yet another FPS, or going around griefing people, you're cool!

-- Frost

Look, is this some kind of coordinated harassment campaign? It's feeling like it.

Can't we all just take a step back and breathe?

-- Frost