ChaoticNeutralCzech

Does the cross mean “oh, it’s actually only 3 things other than that one legendary dwarf”, “hating elves” or “no relationships”?

Probably more. Just search for ‘x’ in a name register and filter the normal ones like Alex.

Yeah, (O)OP is such a rookie they probably call it Homework, which is a well-known trick. The correct stealth strategy is a directory called linux_malware_test_vm_imgs containing archives such as

clamav_analysis_cumulative.tar
CVE-2022-4907_ffmpeg_backdoor.tar
CVE-2024-3094_xz_backdoor.tar
CVE-2024–2961_php_24yo_chinese_string_insertion.tar
gimp_2022-11-01_trojan.tar
löve2d_hump_bundle.tar
löve2d_pölygamy_crash.tar
löve2d_yaoui.tar
malwarebytes_tarball_anal.tar
qt_vuln_sql_6.3.0.tar
tcp_heading_segment_length_handling_overflow.tar

Yes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.

Cop porn. Pretty common roleplay actually

imagine thinking sex was negative or morally questionable

I think lots of Christian denominations find it a necessary evil. I did too before I became an atheist. Still, I think the platforms are so afraid of showing age-inappropriate content to someone they’d rather stash it away to somewhere nobody finds it unless explicitly searching for it.

That negative or morally questionable topics are advertiser-unfriendly. Of course, advertisers don’t need to run positive or moral ads, though.

YouTube’s and TikTok’s algorithms that determine monetization and visibility. People then censor these words on other platforms out of habit, I guess.

In spoken language, substitutions (porn corn, kill unalive etc.) are more popular than bleeps.

Cameras are not too great. Ground-station-based radio positioning systems, some of which can be used to enhance GPS precision to centimeters, already exist. (The ground stations, in a mesh tens of kilometers apart, get their position to that precision by averaging GPS over several days.) I’m pretty sure there is already a system on non-GPS frequencies too.

Well, only some plastics can be recycled, and not very well at that. Plastic manufacturers have known this for 50+ years and never told us.

GIMP’s mission statement is 1. be hateful to use

It hurts to say but you’re right. I was like “can’t you remap the right mouse button to another tool? Everything in the context menu is in the Menu bar regardless” and they responded with “nope, design philosophy”

Sure, it’s only garbage people who litter. But don’t forget that it was lobby of the plastic industry who overemphasized the waste and recycling system as a solution to pollution, as opposed to reducing consumption.

And the fact that more-than-0-layer PCBs exist

They might have helped but we’ve seen how it fared regardless

Better version:

The alphabet from the front and above:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
––––‒‒––·‒–‒— –––––‒–––—––‒

This corresponds almost perfectly with Roboto on my Android phone. Characters featured:

• U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT (I)
• U+2012 ‒ FIGURE DASH (EFJLSZ)
• U+2013 – EN DASH (ABCDGHKNOPQRTUVXY)
• U+2014 — EM DASH (MW)
• U+200A   HAIR SPACE (put in the middle cuz M&W are too wide for any dash)

The Pixar lamp choosing where to strike:

Plot twist: he already has one but stays quiet about it, because the result is apparently bad

I think they do make some kind of edutainment but not like this. Point-and-click adventures were relatively easy to integrate some education into but the kid needs the time and patience to find a solution when they inevitably get stuck (perhaps with hints but not walkthroughs). Their attention span is too short nowadays because content comes more often than on 1 CD-ROM per month for the delayed gratification of exploration and puzzle-solving to work.

I had a blast playing the Czech-localized version of Bioscopia until the CD got scratched and it started crashing. I was terrible at gaming (still am but can look up guides now) so I never got past the starting area and reception. Still, the interactive encyclopedia kept working and I went through most of it. I recently pirated a working English-language copy (developed by Tivola together with the German one, I think) and had a blast. It would still crash at later points but I was able to hack the required items in through the plaintext XML save file, as well as 99 credit on the keycard (not as interested in biology anymore) and finish the game.

CNC machining often uses the same filetypes. I don’t know how long 3D printed parts would work here.