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- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 1 day ago:
They started filming the season 2 finale this week. I think if she wasn’t going to be in season 2 we’d have heard something by now.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
The away team braclets are programmed for at least a couple of different modes, and switching is pretty quick. I would think if they could use programmable matter to make a multi-mode tricoder, it would be standard.
At any rate, I assume they can’t program matter into dilithium, because that would have made recovering from the Burn a whole lot easier.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
Re: limits of programmable matter:
On Discovery away teams wore programmable matter flashlight bracelets that could turn into a phaser, and I think even a phase rifle, but from these last couple of episodes it seems they can’t make a tricorder that turn into a medical tricorder.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x01: “Kids These Days” 1 day ago:
The Doctor mentions he put an aging program 5 centuries before to put organics at ease, which is obviously the Watsonian explanation for why Robert Picardo looks older.
That should also establish that he’s not the Doctor backup from VOY: “Living Witness”, who wouldn’t have been online 500 years ago.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 3 days ago:
When Is Starfleet Academy Set?
Although the show is somewhat vague about it, Starfleet Academy is set in the late 32nd century—approximately around the year 3190, a similar timeframe to when Star Trek: Discovery‘s fourth season takes place, which had previously mentioned the reopening of the institute to a new class of cadets in its premiere. The show is, at the very least, set some time after the events of Discovery‘s third season, which saw United Earth rejoin the Federation after a century of independence, as Starfleet Academy itself—based out of the starship USS Athena—spends much of its time docked at the Academy’s ancestral home near the Presidio in San Francisco.
I thought it was obvious that the show is set after Discovery? In the fourth season the Academy reopened on the station/ship where Federation headquarters was; Earth agreed to rejoin the Federation at the end of the fourth season (not the third), and it would have taken time to finalize Earth’s re-entry and then more time to reach a point where Starfleet Academy would move back.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 6 days ago:
Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.
Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad? - Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
This renaming happened for the Office app a while back, but now they’ve applied it to Office itself? It is April 1st already?
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
- Comment on Hackers threaten to leak massive 'Wired' customer database 2 weeks ago:
The hack affects all Condé Nast entities as well
It doesn’t affect Ars Technica:
The hacker also says that they will release an additional 40 million records for other Condé Nast properties, including our other sister publications Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more. Of critical note to our readers, Ars Technica was not affected as we run on our own bespoke tech stack.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 2 weeks ago:
NetNewsWire doesn’t have its own accounts, but it can still sync your read items through iCloud.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Apple’s newer phones are USB-C worldwide.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 month ago:
They’re already getting sued over ChatGPT helping people commit suicide. Imagine the uproar once the advice includes ads for rope, knives, etc…
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
“Our deepest sympathies are with the Raine family for their unimaginable loss,” OpenAI said in its blog, while its filing acknowledged, “Adam Raine’s death is a tragedy.” But “at the same time,” it’s essential to consider all the available context, OpenAI’s filing said, including that OpenAI has a mission to build AI that “benefits all of humanity” and is supposedly a pioneer in chatbot safety.
How the fuck is OpenAI’s mission relevant to the case? Are suggesting that their mission is worth a few deaths?
- Comment on A New 'Star Trek' Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight 1 month ago:
Why the Civil Rights Movement, other than the immediately obvious reason? It brings things full circle with Uhura and her first actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who initially planned on leaving the original Star Trek after a single season. It was a discussion with Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed her mind; as a fan of the show, he called her “our image of where we’re going. You’re 300 years from now, and that means that’s where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what you’re doing, you are our inspiration.” And when she told him about her plans to leave, he told her, “You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”
TIL MLK convinced Nichelle Nichols to stick with the show.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 2 months ago:
They have a pro version that adds AI features, no idea the pricing yet though.
The aricle says the AI stuff is tied to Canva’s Premium subscription, which is 120 USD/year:
Canva Premium subscribers will also be able to use AI-powered Canva editing tools like image generation, photo cleanup, and instant copy directly within the Affinity app.
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- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 2 months ago:
Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they’ll get more interested in safety.
- Comment on Try BentoPDF if you haven't / are unhappy with StirlingPDF 2 months ago:
Their web page doesn’t really mention self-hosting, but there’s github link way down at the bottom and that has self-hosting instructions.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
Apple Music has an Android app.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
Apple Music has a family plan, and it’s cheaper than Spotify’s, at least in Canada (16.99 vs 20.99).
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s just a one-off transfer, I’m not planning to stop the transfer, and it’s my media library, so nothing should change, but I figured something resumable is a good idea for a transfer that’s going to take 12+ hours, in case there’s an unplanned stop.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I was planning to use rsync to ship several TB of stuff from my old NAS to my new one soon. Since we’re already talking about rsync, I guess I may as well ask if this is right way to go.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 3 months ago:
- On the Xbox home screen, go to "My Games and Apps."
- Then, go to “Apps,” “Settings,” “General,” and "Personalization."
- Go to “Games and Apps,” then scroll to the right until the three boxes below "Choose whether game hubs open automatically from the following places."
- Uncheck the boxes on all three options: “Recently Played List,” “Groups,” and “Installed Games.”–
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 3 months ago:
When was the last time you checked? A client was added to the WebOS store maybe 2 or 3 years ago for recent models, and support for older models (like my C9) came months later.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 4 months ago:
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 5 months ago:
Apparently the TARDIS stopped by. I’m going to have to go back and see if I can spot it.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Microsoft got companies like Samsung, HP and Lenovo to make WMR VR headsets that require the WMR Windows components. There is official support for Steam VR, but the headsets don’t work if the WMR components aren’t there, and after November there will be no officially supported version of Windows with those components. From what I’ve read it’s basically impossible to get WMR working on 10 LTSC, and I assume the situation is the same on 11 LTSC.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025. Users must upgrade to version 24H2 or 25H2 to continue receiving security updates.
Windows 11 23H2 was the last version that supported Windows Mixed Reality. They’re really in a hurry to kill WMR.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 5 months ago:
I actually like this strategy, they’re taking hope away from people who think Windows alternates between good versions and bad versions by announcing they’re going to follow up a bad version with another bad version.