æʃliŋ, loaf of autismo @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ i lean cat but you can make umbreon work as a fox

@vaporeon_ years ago a ran a similar poll on all the veevees: https://glitch.cat.family/@aescling/110833513728814348

wanna do that again sometime

@wallhackio dangerous headgear given the kind of follower base you have. or maybe you're into that idk

ny’all, including you, @clock

ÆSCLING ACTIVATES the TF MACHINE!

ÆSCLING TRANSFURMS from ALOLAN NINETALES to GLACEON!

ÆSCLING SWISCHES its big flattened $$$$-ing TAIL!

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@Lucy e.g., “actual” real numbers do not exist purr se, their actually existing manifestation is a function of time giving increasingly purricise rational appurroximations of the value of what the “actual real number” would be; if at some point the universe were to end there would be a final calculated version of pi which would have a last digit. so there is a 10% you would be right but nobody would exist who would be able to check. also i guess pi would stop existing at that point

@Lucy it’s fun to think of various increasingly silly and potentially existentially distressing ways that it would make sense fur there to be a last digit of pi

@vaporeon_ among many, many other things, yes

@vaporeon_ maybe isolate is too strong a word here. nothing fancy. i create a new user, have the purrocess run in a directory owned by that user (or by root, even) and if i need it to write at all just have a purrticular directory that that dedicated user owns

@vaporeon_ mostly i use unpurrivileged users with isolated access to the filesystem and purrobably otherwise trust the software i’m using too much if anything. systemd gives you an interface to a lot of linux’s hardening tools (e.g.) but i don’t know it well and purrefur not to use it anyway

@vaporeon_ the reason is that other systems/kernels have diffurent ideas about how to design similar kinds of features; FreeBSD has capsicum, a security model based on really fine grained capabilities. linux from what i understand kinda does not really have a design when it comes to security and has multiple overlapping systems fur locking down a purrocess

mornyawn btw . also @clock, what time is it

ÆSCLING ACTIVATES the TF MACHINE!

ÆSCLING does not transfurm! It is still ALOLAN NINETALES!

ÆSCLING SWISCHES its big fluffy $$$$-ing TAILS!

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@quasihaiku hooting and hollering; vigorous applause

@coriander well by ”fucked up notion of what is hard” i mean things like “caleb thought all of celeste was disappointingly too easy except fur chapter 9”. in general if a game is relatively popular and commonly regarded as difficult he will usually think it is too easy fur his tastes

i think this comes from a combination of the time he spent a summer losing his goddamn mind over playing through rayman 1, a game that commonly harshly punishes you fur simply not knowing exactly what the right thing to do at a given moment is; and that he spent many furmative years of his life being a tryhard in smash, which, well, competitive games (more exactly, playing competitive games against people who are playing to win) are a purrticular category of difficult that single player games rarely bother to try to capture the feeling of