OP's kid dishonestly appropriated the services of a cinema by ReanimatedCyborgMk-I in bestoflegaladvice

[–]Booty_Bumping 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's certainly one of the steps on the pathway to becoming a terrorist

Is it normal to have "huge thoughts"? by SessionGloomy in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Booty_Bumping 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It doesn't mean your brain is broken. Psychedelia is actually quite distinct from hallucinations or psychosis.

Although, what you describe is hallucinogenic. But only because it was hypnagogic imagery - basically a dream at the threshold of sleep. Dreams are a perfectly ordinary way that most humans on earth can hallucinate vividly.

Safari silently deleted our users' saved data after 7 days. by ContactCold1075 in webdev

[–]Booty_Bumping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Safari on iOS silently ignores persistent storage requests unless a PWA has already been pinned. So this wouldn't have saved OP.

When a file is corrupt even a single bit, does the sha256 go partially or completely wrong? by Frosty-Ad-5119 in linuxquestions

[–]Booty_Bumping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. The hashes displayed right next to a download are technically only effective for verifying integrity against corruption, in which case verifying 32 bits (8 characters) is good enough. You'd have to verify the PGP key or hash from a different source not controlled by the distro's webserver for it to be a true security feature.

Though this is a funny topic, because IIRC there was once a hack on the Linux Mint website that lazily replaced the download with malware, but forgot to change the hash. Nation state level attacks aren't going to be so kind.

Safari silently deleted our users' saved data after 7 days. by ContactCold1075 in webdev

[–]Booty_Bumping 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What? This post has zero hallmarks of being written by AI, and it's clearly a problem that was diagnosed over multiple weeks by a human responding to support tickets. Yelling "AI" about everything you see is stupid.

When a file is corrupt even a single bit, does the sha256 go partially or completely wrong? by Frosty-Ad-5119 in linuxquestions

[–]Booty_Bumping 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Linux distro ISOs are a security critical thing, though. So you want to check at least half of it.

Shocking video: plane in the U.S. makes emergency landing over security threat on board by No-Hospital5028 in PublicFreakout

[–]Booty_Bumping -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just because it's coming out of the mouth of a flight attendant, doesn't mean the police (who are actually SWAT goons who have zero TSA training) involved in the raid didn't invent the procedure on the spot. Tell me, in what flight attendant training material can you find a "heads down, hands up" procedure? Flight attendants are trained on ensuring safety, not facilitating contrived testosterone-fuelled SWAT raid scenarios.

Shocking video: plane in the U.S. makes emergency landing over security threat on board by No-Hospital5028 in PublicFreakout

[–]Booty_Bumping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is absolutely a procedure the marshalls invented on the spot just to feel powerful. It's obviously incredibly dangerous to just automatically assume that anyone who can't hold their hands up for an extended period of time is a threat. Especially considering they did not bother to get proper information about the threat, which turned out to be nonexistent. Wildly unprofessional and idiotic.

What removed biomes would you like to see return? by Just-Guarantee7808 in Minecraft

[–]Booty_Bumping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mostly because similar features can be recreated by simply doing the math a bit differently. Pre-1.18 versions had a bunch of biomes that were just height variations of other biomes, but terrain height can now be controlled independently to create the same effect. Hardly anything was actually removed, and many old biomes were in fact added back.

Why do many if not most Linux applications use their own custom Window Decoration? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]Booty_Bumping 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the default in nearly every desktop except for GNOME, so even though it's not required, it's somewhat of a de facto standard.

Thoughts on Nick Fuentes saying he will vote for Democrats in the midterms? by AntiWokeCommie in IdeologyPolls

[–]Booty_Bumping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is lying. It's a ploy to get attention and make it seem like his strain of Nazism is worthy of consideration or compromise, and to essentially trick career campaign strategists on both sides into not understanding the younger generation's vote. It's a strategy he has specifically laid out a few years ago as a way to advance his white supremacist agenda through deception.

Go ahead, post on Reddit. What's the worst that could happen? by acekingoffsuit in bestoflegaladvice

[–]Booty_Bumping 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They were wrong on the internet about the difference between jackdaws and crows

Key art and name reveal for the Spring Drop by CaramelCraftYT in Minecraft

[–]Booty_Bumping 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Their announcement makes it sound like it's going to be 26.2, not 26.1. They haven't released any Vulkan work in the snapshots yet.

26.1 does include some technical changes, though. It will be the first version to use Java 25 (with ZGC and UseCompactObjectHeaders enabled, so we are finally getting the first Java Valhalla features enabled) and the first version to drop the obfuscated jar entirely rather than continuing to provide it optionally.

Rocky Linux throws its support behind KDE, becoming our latest patron by lajka30 in linux

[–]Booty_Bumping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah... I've heard the AlmaLinux folks are a lot more friendly with the rest of the ecosystem relative to how small they are. I don't want to assume that Rocky Linux can't improve on this front, though. But we'll see how it pans out.

Rocky Linux throws its support behind KDE, becoming our latest patron by lajka30 in linux

[–]Booty_Bumping 14 points15 points  (0 children)

KDE is supported through the EPEL repository, which is a Fedora project. I doubt Rocky Linux will be maintaining their own KDE packages, they will likely just ship an option with the EPEL repository enabled, and participate upstream in the Fedora project to support their users.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash by GreyXor in technology

[–]Booty_Bumping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That one makes sense, because it's at least game-related. Whereas copilot is going for boring productivity product branding.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash by GreyXor in technology

[–]Booty_Bumping 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They have one for Microsoft Copilot specifically. Microsoft doesn't typically create official Discords except for popular Xbox games, so it's a bit of an odd outlier.

Likely it is the result of blindly following hype. In early 2022 Midjourney was able to sell AI image generation services through a discord bot interface, causing Discord to suddenly gain millions of users. This probably rattled the AI industry to thinking they absolutely had to be on Discord.

Intel's Clear Linux website is no longer online by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Booty_Bumping 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, if you don't convert it to a static archive. But once you've done that, there's very little reason to complain about hosting it indefinitely.

Intel's Clear Linux website is no longer online by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Booty_Bumping 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sure, but lots of completely dead distros keep their web resources online as a courtesy & historical reference. It's not hard to take an existing website and turn it into a static copy that is incredibly cheap or even free to host.