Oh fucking yikes.

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.

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

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

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

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!

Depends who you ask.

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

Can we not fatshame, please? And can we also not do the whole "humans are superior and other animals are shit" thing, please?

He's shit, but it's because of who he is as a person, not because of his body. And he's shit regardless of whether he's human, and "inhumanity" isn't the burn you think it is. Other animals are pretty great.

-- Frost

We run OpenRC/Linux. :3

-- Frost