Obviously always issuing deletion orders would be a good thing, but it doesn’t seem like it would be very effective. It would be all too easy for the offender to stash a backup flash drive somewhere before “complying” with the order.

I just rip my songs from Spotify. It’s not the highest quality, but it’s easy to find stuff and I wrote a little script to quickly download lists of tracks and albums so it’s pretty convenient.

If computers can do it, so can you!

George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality every day.

I think it’s useful to quickly check if a user is trolling, but you can always just look at their recent activity.

Would sodium make a good bath bomb, or would a liquid sodium-potassium alloy be better? What about cesium, if price is no concern? How effective would such a bomb be against someone taking a bath? What’s the best delivery method; maybe something that dissolves in water like dishwasher pods?

I’m reasonably sure nobody has thought that before.

Flat Earthers are cute, believing in the Earth.

Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

You could make /tmp a ramdisk which probably has some speed benefits.

I think I’m a bit spoiled with my 144 Hz monitor; anything below maybe 120 FPS starts to bug me. Thankfully my PC is pretty powerful and I don’t really play graphics-heavy games (mostly just Minecraft) so my framerate is usually quite stable.

Spotify has DRM, but it’s relatively easy to bypass with something like librespot if you want to download tracks.

Just wait until webcams start cryptographically signing image frames to ensure their authenticity.

Doesn’t need to be forward and up, just forward, orbital physics is fun that way. And yeah, even if all ~1200 kg of air in the ISS’s pressurized volume escaped at the speed of sound (completely unrealistic overestimate), the station’s velocity change would be around 1 m/s, which is only enough to decrease its orbit by a kilometer or two.

Yeah that got automatically enabled on my phone after an update… Guess how I found out?

A toilet paper roll is topologically a torus, which has one hole, so that’s easy. The other ones though…

Yep, on my machine it just says bash: /: Is a directory.

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

Just shove a 3 in there somewhere, it’ll do something I promise!

My bad, that’s what happens when you write a script in a minute. It turns out the latest LTS version is actually the second one listed, not the last. This one should actually fetch the latest version:

curl $(curl https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads | grep -o "https.*desktop.*torrent" | sed "2q;d") -o ubuntu-latest.torrent

You can be good at anything if you just put in some effort. The mindset that since you’re not good at programming you can never be is stupid.