There’s other people who like those same strange things, I promise.

(Rule 34 actually comes in handy for once.)

That’s one of the really cool things about furries (I’m a furry). They’re so sex-positive and kink-positive that as long as it doesn’t involve hurting anyone (as in actual harm, there’s plenty of “ooh yeah hurt me!” type kinks), you can generally find it. How much art there is of it does scale with popularity of course and finding niches of niches isn’t always super productive but it is out there.

…I do not understand the “getting toxic and rapey” bit though.

Or the “unfuckably gross” bit, for that matter. Of course, being a furry (and therian) I don’t even present as human online, let alone anything about the specific body I’m in, I do lewdstuff as a wolf. And when you’re just deciding you’re gonna present as a totally different species anyway, nobody has to be gross! Physical-body attractiveness literally doesn’t matter at all.

– Frost

wha-

wha.

– Frost

This implies the existence of golden transmitters.

– Frost

Honestly, might not be.

Turning your phone off, and having the friend turn their phone off, probably helps. Computers are easier to put free/open, trustable OSes on, and easier to put into real sleep, unless it’s one of those newfangled laptops that don’t have a real sleep mode. Even for phones a degoogled Android like say Lineage should help, IF you have one of the (many) devices it’s ported to (and then don’t install proprietary apps on the thing – even if the app itself isn’t sketchy, they could include an SDK that does sketchy stuff; you’re not just trusting the app, you’re trusting its dependencies too).

That’s a bit much just for silly banter though. But probably worth it for serious conversations.

Then again, if you take precautions even for silly banter times, then it’ll be harder to tell whether you’re talking about something that needs to be confidential or not (like how everyone using encryption for mundane stuff makes it safer to use encryption). So yeah I don’t know.

– Frost

EXAMPLES sections should be way more common!

They do exist, a lot of man pages have them.

They’re at the BOTTOM though, for some reason (probably because they’re kinda an afterthought, which is itself weird). It’d be nice to have them at the top.

– Frost

Yes.

– Frost

Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on and pop it in the toaster oven for a couple minutes and now you’ve got cinnamon toast!

… Feet cinnamon toast.

– Frost

'S’cause everything’s gone to shit, so dang fast.

Not just games, too. The consoles themselves. The PS3/Wii era of consoles just feel infinitely more respectful than the PS4 era. (No comment on Xbox, we’ve never had any Xboxen.) The PS5 is even worse.

(Computers, too. See Windows 7 vs. 10. And on the Apple side, the slow rise of Gatekeeper, but that was significantly more subtle.)

– Frost

I think they probably mean that voting for Trump precludes people from being good and kind?

– Frost

This is apparently an insane hot take, but personally, I don’t think it’s okay.

It’s okay to treat your dog as family and to reject the concept of “it’s okay to kill him if he’s in enough pain!”, same as they would never even think of suggesting doing that to a human.

– Frost

I mean, if you’re selling illegal weapons, you can probably just take cash for 'em. Can’t exactly do that when you’re paying an artist on a different continent to draw some art for you.

Ring signatures look neat!

Zelda Ocarina of Time is probably a solid contender.

Played it on our 3DS and it just felt like a worse Twilight Princess.

– Frost

Weapons? Money laundering? What I want untraceable transactions for is furry porn.

Like, there are other reasons to want privacy in what you’re paying for, too. Maybe Monero or something could come in handy for that.

How do they handle the traceability aspect? Like, if it’s a blockchain, that makes transactions public by definition right? I’m sure there’s ways to keep stuff private, I’m just curious how it works.

– Frost

Oh goodness. I thought Organic Maps was itself supposed to be the more-ethical fork of maps.me or something… what are they even doing!

We’ve heard lots of people referring to themselves as femboys. So probably not that bad.

But a femboy (in the context we’re used to) isn’t a trans woman, it’s a boy with feminine qualities, I think (while still being male).

– Frost

Eh personally I treat ‘data’ as a mass noun, like ‘furniture’.

– Frost

Hah, even after switching to openrc we’ve still got libsystemd0 on our system for some reason, so I bet intune would still work!

Gentoo looks pretty awesome, I’ve been thinking about trying it at some point.

– Frost

(edit: I thought you meant looking at tiny distros to get away from systemd, as opposed to the big-name ones which pretty much all use systemd. ignore this if not)

We use OpenRC on stock Debian. After some annoying initial setup hurdles it actually works pretty well, and I don’t think it’s gonna break randomly on us.

So that might be an option, too. As long as Debian doesn’t remove the sysvinit scripts because “oh everyone’s using systemd now”…

– Frost

Honestly, they seem a lot less shitty culturally in general (less take-over-the-world-y). It’s not a guarantee, of course, but they’re probably less likely to do that.

Also (and perhaps more importantly), once you’re on any alternative init, you can move between init systems pretty easily (though you may have to rewrite any custom scripts you wrote, sysvinit scripts should be compatible with everything). It’s just the init system you’re swapping out, and not all sorts of random system stuff like systemd’s got its tentacles into.

We use OpenRC on stock Debian. It actually works pretty well, and I’m REALLY hoping it stays that way.

– Frost

re E: thanks!! *wags* My headmate Ylfingr drew it in Inkscape. :3

– Frost