swelter_spark

I've got things that need to run periodically set up in crontab, and create menu launchers for things that I run as needed.

I've played WoW on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. No problems there.

The US economy in the 70s was famously bleak.

Good point.

I can definitely see how people could find it while looking for porn. I don't understand how people can do this stuff out in the open with no consequences .

File-sharing and online chat seem like basic internet activities to me.

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.

Omg. That's hilarious and so disturbing. I would imagine you'd see a lot of things like that if your job involves watching security footage.

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

Not literally everyone, but there was a time period where it seemed much more common than not, at least in the US. When it was taught to children starting in elementary school, and taking advanced classes was required for many jobs, it seemed rare to meet someone who wasn't knowledgable. I guess it isn't included in children's education or business education these day.

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.

It's crazy to me that within the span of my adulthood computers have gone from being a niche interest to something everyone uses and is knowledgable about and back again.