Oh GAH, RIGHT after posting this I found it. They're next to the plants, in the advanced technology page!

facepaw.

-- Frost

This is awesome. Should be the normal way to do things!

-- Frost

Because they're literally MITM-as-a-service. I wish I was exaggerating.

Seriously. If a website uses Cloudflare, Cloudflare can see everything you do on that website. Stuff you say. What pages you go to and what you're looking at. Any passwords you type in. Everything.

(And your browser doesn't warn you about that because Cloudflare has a legit cert for the site; as far as your browser is concerned they ARE the site.)

-- Frost

This is probably a bit cheating since it just came out, but we had A Fox Tale on our wishlist since 2021 and it apparently actually came out a couple months ago and we completely missed it!! I immediately went and grabbed it and yeah, it is good. Fox platforming, great story, really good level design and gosh the ART is just so good!

-- Frost

The license is what makes it possible to legally distribute the source code, or use it in other stuff.

Without that, the source code is still legally considered proprietary and the author could sue you if you distribute it to other people, or modify it and distribute modified versions. Even if they made it publicly available!

-- Frost

Actually, without a license, they can't legally do that but nobody else can use your code either!

(Nothing's stopping them from doing it illegally, license or no. Which is why I personally tend to default to permissive licenses myself. I'm more concerned with open-source cross-license compatibility than about corporations stealing the code for our little projects.)

-- Frost

The steam-devices package is just udev rules and the drivers are already built into the kernel, right? So there's a good chance you'll just already have the drivers!

(...in theory. Debian critters may want to run testing+unstable rather than stable for the next while, if the new steam controller needs specially written drivers that won't be in current stable.)

-- Frost

Probably "oil long" is the opposite of an "oil short", where you bet the price is going to rise, as opposed to betting it's going to fall? I don't know much about this stuff though.

-- Frost

A) Fuck ICE.

B) Let's mock them for being evil, not for being fat. There's actual reasons to hate them, going "oh haha look how fat they are" just hurts regular fat people.

-- Frost

Look, between the "let's not do anything at all" party and the "wants us, specifically, dead" party, I'll take the "let's not do anything at all" party.

You don't have to 100% like everything a given party is doing to recognize that they're the least bad option. Sure, they aren't really actively good, but a vote for them is a vote against the people who want to kill us. (And voting third party is just tossing your vote in the garbage, unfortunately.)

-- Frost

systemd used to be just an init system.

It'd actually be pretty good, if it stuck to just being an init system!

But noooo. Now it does DNS resolution. Network management. NTP time sync. They basically bought out udev and folded it into systemd, somehow. Login session management. A fucking BOOTLOADER.

It's too much power to give to one project.

You uninstall systemd, half your system breaks and you suddenly have to relearn a bunch of crap all at once if you were using the systemd things for them before.

Oh, and did I mention that anyone using or talking about non-systemd methods of doing things tends to get painted as "oh that's OLD and OUTDATED and OBSOLETE, just use the systemd way it's Modern™ and good"? That's a thing too. See: cron and systemd timers (oh yeah, they have a cron replacement now too for some reason).

-- Frost

Wait, they were on the emergency frequency??

Yeesh, ATC being upset makes sense now. I'd assumed they were just meowing on the normal communications frequency they'd otherwise be using.

-- Frost

As a furry, this is uh, worrying.

Really glad we're not in the UK. Though uh, not like the US is much better at this point... but at least the US has the whole "everyone understands that the current government is going on a series of ridiculous power trips" going for it, so they're less inclined to just think "ah yeah, throw all the weirdos in jail, totally normal!".

(I'm not into incest, but I am into completely different Weird Shit.)

-- Frost

It's about squick.

Think about how they call sex with animals "bestiality". It's not "oh it's because it hurts the animals!", it's because "ew, gross, you're stooping to the level of an ANIMAL!".

I don't think it's about consent, either. If you were somehow able to communicate well enough to actually get consent (which, to be clear, is pretty iffy what with the whole language barrier and such), people would still be squicked.

(also I'm pretty sure "zoophilia" is more about being into animals rather than actual sex with them, which is the whole "bestiality" thing. You can be into someone/a group of people without wanting to rape them.)

It's probably because most of society fundamentally doesn't see other animals as people, and therefore killing them is totally fine ("what? they're not people!"), but having sex with them is Evil and Bad ("why would you want to have sex with them? they're not even a person!").

Yeah it makes no sense.

The No Man's Sky people are generally super chill and welcoming! It's really nice.

It's kinda funny, you see the occasional person come in and go "okay but wouldn't it be BETTER if it were combat focused??" (you know, like almost every other game out there). Everyone politely tells them nah, let us have our weird little chill game in peace please, and then they leave. But as long as you're not trying to turn the game into yet another FPS, or going around griefing people, you're cool!

-- Frost

Because it's Google trying to control not just everything ELSE about the internet, as if that wasn't enough, but even what image formats we use.

If PNG and JPEG aren't good enough, which they often are, by the way, JPEG XL is right there.

-- Frost

Debian.

It's pretty great for desktop stuff these days. Basically Ubuntu minus the shit. Any desktop you want, it's got live installers now (several different ones with different desktops), it's got nonfree firmware on the disc, they've really upped their game.

(And if the recent systemd stuff skeeves you out, you can toss out systemd, even. It's not for the faint of heart though.)

-- Frost

Look, is this some kind of coordinated harassment campaign? It's feeling like it.

Can't we all just take a step back and breathe?

-- Frost

Consent, for one thing.

There's a HUGE difference between me posting stuff of myself and someone else posting stuff of me without asking me.

But also, the restrictions aren't about the kids. They were never about the kids. "Think of the children!" has always been a convenient excuse to make people shut off their brains and agree with whatever surveillance/control thing they're pushing.

-- Frost

I'm a furry and even I don't get most furries, haha!

Like, I'm here to be an animal. I heard "people who like to be animals" and went "whoa, sign me up!" and it turns out a lot of furries DON'T like to be animals, they just... pretend to be animals but "oh that's a character not really me" and they still consider themselves human...?... also they're only half-human-half-animals, not actual animal shape either?... I don't get it

turns out most of the actual "I'm just an animal" animals are the therians instead (once I found them I decided I'd be both). I'm still a non-character, non-anthropomorphic (the furry jargon for normal animal shape is "feral") furry though, and the anthro furries can just deal. :3

-- Frost