Dress how you’d like, anyway. Even Victorian romanticism wasn’t univocal, there have always been subcultures and demimondes, and they weren’t always marked by clothing.

LofA dis bread.

I remember the occasional person on Molly at a rave in the 1990s dying of water intoxication. But I don’t think it was ever more than two or three people.

For people who want a GUI tool, VLC will download those m3u8 files and stitch the parts together.

This one is for the monster smut reading booktok girlies.

I think probably the technology and legal challenges sections of the wikipedia article on Anna’s Archive are the best picture of the current state of play. Anything more insulated than Anna’s Archive probably needs to be only on an overlay network with no clearnet presence.

This is true, but less so than a decade ago.

It would be nearly impossible to forbid AI upstream, since it’s in the Linux kernel.

If you want stable, you can’t do better than Debian. If you want a good balance of stable and up-to-date, Fedora is good, and the immutable variants are interesting. Debian stable doesn’t get as out of date as it used to, either.

Username fits!!

It’s all vibes.

Or at minimum, Vimes Boots Theory.

I sometimes have the suspicion that corvids and octopuses are more intelligent than humans on a one-to-one basis, but are hampered by their limited ability to share culture and build upon knowledge generation on generation. Worse for octopuses because they are solitary and don’t parent their young after they hatch.

Do not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written.

So, what’s Preston Harp’s username on here?

Interesting interpretation, since the series is from 1998, before social media as we know it existed. Not a wrong interpretation, it definitely yields itself to that interpretation.

I’m surprised “Cruel Angel’s Thesis” isn’t higher on the list. I’d say Lain isn’t niche, it’s just old. It’s one of the best-remembered anime of its era.

This isn’t the matrix, they system cants be defined and left, it is people with motive to maintain it.

To be fair, that is also true of the Matrix:

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

Gimme a two-beer-pill without the side effects of consuming addictive poison please.

Pretty sure this was the idea of synthehol in Star Trek TNG. I read an article on “what would that entail, pharmacologically?”.