I don’t know about that.

I spot most of it while looking for out-of-print books about growing orchids on the typical file-sharing networks. The term “blue orchid” seems to be frequently used in file names of things that are in no way related to gardening. The eMule network is especially bad.

When I was looking into messaging clients a couple years ago, to figure out what I wanted to use, I checked out a public user directory for the Tox messaging network and it was maybe 90% people openly trying to find, or offering, custom made CP. On the open internet, not an onion page or anything.

Then maybe last year, I joined openSUSE’s official Matrix channels, and some random person (who, to be clear, did not seem connected to the distro) invited me to join a room called openSUSE Child Porn, with a room logo that appeared to be an actual photo of a small girl being violated by a grown man.

I hope to god these are all cops, because I have no idea how there can be so many pedos just openly doing their thing without being caught.

I think that’s been the law everywhere I’ve lived, too, but not always followed…

The first time I took it, my mom wasn’t happy that my score was low, so she demanded that I be tested again, and told me she’d buy me ice cream if I did better. The second time, I was miraculously a genius.

I used to work for the female version of this guy.

It definitely seems weird how easy it is to stumble upon CP online, and how open people are about sharing it, with no effort made, in many instances, to hide what they’re doing. I’ve often wondered how much of the stuff is spread by pedo rings and how much is shared by cops trying to see how many people they can catch with it.

I’ve seen landlords put these things on doors, too, and use them to allow entrance to anyone they think has a reason to be inside, whether the resident knows and consents or not.

I was watching a friend’s dogs while she was on vacation when the batteries in her door lock died. I had to climb in a back window to get inside and feed them. Luckily, there was a back door with a dumb lock, but I had to get inside first and borrow her keys for that to help.

Yeah, I wonder. From what I read, they sound healthier overall, but maybe with a higher risk of hyperlipemia?

With Ollama, all you have do is copy an extra folder of ROCm files. Not hard at all.

With an AMD RX 6800 + 32gb DDR4, I can run up to a 34b model at an acceptable speed.

Tbh, I’d love to get everywhere by donkey.

All laptops are supposed to be formatted and have the necessary software freshly installed before being assigned to someone. Either it wasn’t wiped by accident, or the person whose job it was found the CP and left it, hoping my dad would report it. He deleted it, though, because was afraid he’d be blamed.

When my dad worked for the DoD, he was assigned a laptop for work that had explicit photos of children on it.

AI CP seems like a promising way to destroy demand for the real thing. How many people would risk a prison sentence making or viewing the real thing when they could push a button and have a convincing likeness for free with no children harmed? Flood the market with cheap fakes and makers of the real thing may not find it profitable enough to take the risk.

My distro struggles despite being one of the more widely-used and known. There are never enough people to do everything that needs to be done. And I see constantly that projects I care about don’t have enough help to fix bugs, test, or continue development. FOSS is a community effort. Not every user needs to be a professional, but everyone should learn enough about how a computer works to be able to contribute in some way. Everything being done by a few frustrated, overworked people isn’t healthy or sustainable.

FOSS software needs to be maintained by the user base to survive. Not enough people contributing is a big problem for many, if not most, open source projects, including the big names. If not enough people care enough to learn, the project dies out and disappears.

W2k was the best.

Yeah, I really liked LXDE.

Yep. I’ve had no problems with x11. It’s always been super stable.

TBH, I’ve always wanted to do this.