re: the great veevee polls (1/9)
@vaporeon_ this was intentional
@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
together with "telepathy", i'm also launching a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/animagarden/
i'm currently independent, and i would very much like to stay that way. i want to have the freedom to write, make art, create software and games, and manage my time as i see fit.
it's a long road to get there, and i don't currently know if i'll be able to make a living off of this. but i'd really like to try.
@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
@quasihaiku hooting and hollering; vigorous applause
it’s pronounced “ashling”. canonically a black housecat or any of the grass cat pokémon, but currently experiencing daily TFs. Commewnist. it/she and more. i automatically change my pfp on the furst post of the day. (i suppurrt PluralDawn (https://exa.y2k.diy/garden/pluraldawn/) fur when i want to spontaneously change form fur a post or two)
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