observantTrapezium
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- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel? 1 week ago:
Vaultwarden isn’t actually susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, since the passwords are encrypted and decrypted on the end device. But some relevant metadata do go over the connection so it’d better have TLS.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 4 weeks ago:
Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 5 weeks ago:
You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x10 "New Life and New Civilizations" 5 weeks ago:
2/10
Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.
Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”
“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 5 weeks ago:
I watched… I have no idea what to say as I don’t have or know any pre-schoolers.
I usually dislike “back in my day” comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.
Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it’s also “for kids” but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 1 month ago:
Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 1 month ago:
the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.
I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium" 1 month ago:
That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.
I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast On Their Characters’ Fates, Nudity, And Not Getting A Musical Episode 1 month ago:
About Culber:
he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.
So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.
Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 1 month ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 1 month ago:
Understatement of the century
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 1 month ago:
I think they are not very good at doing funny by themselves, but can do it with outside help. For example, the crossover with Lower Decks was good. In this episode, the only saving grace was Patton Oswalt (Doug), he was just hilarious!
4/10. It was 30-35 minutes too long.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 1 month ago:
I think exploring the idea of the Federation as an imperialist power is interesting, but done very poorly here. Thinking back to DS9 and how it dealt with moral questions. Beto is such a random character, exploring this from his perspective feels so meaningless.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 1 month ago:
The plot was interesting, the format was bad, I’ll go with 5/10 for this one, so just an OK episode…
I get that they are doing a lot of “experiments” with this show, I don’t think it was a successful one. Too much focus on nonsense.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 1 month ago:
It was good! 7/10
Overall quite a good balance of sci-fi and action, and a bit of funny with the phone shtick.
I kinda had a hunch they were human. I don’t really appreciate how our guys were mourning them at the end, these people must have killed billions, now they’re stopped. It’s not super convincing that they have planet-destroying abilities, but just one ship that’s mostly known from ghost stories. But we’ve had worse plots.
Loved seeing Paloma Nuñez (as Alvarez) known from the hilarious Baroness Von Sketch Show.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 1 month ago:
While the Star Trek franchise has been nominated for many Hugo Awards over the decades, the last win came all the way back in 1994, for the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale episode, “All Good Things.”
(it was actually 1995, the episode was aired the year prior)
Well deserved Lower Decks!! There was definitely some good Star Trek over the past 30 years, but I think the fact that LD is the first winner in so long is really telling. In my opinion it really was the best show since TNG. I think the other modern animated series, Prodigy, is not too far behind, shame it didn’t get more love.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules 2 months ago:
No, I think they should ignore it and let the British government do what they will. Again, they are not bound by UK legislation. Similarly they don’t block Chinese IPs because of censorship laws over there.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules 2 months ago:
I’m not an expert but I feel like organizations like Wikipedia that are not based in the UK and do not do business in the UK shouldn’t fight or comply with this nonsense. If the British government instructs ISPs to block access to Wikipedia, let them, and see the uproar it generates.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 months ago:
3/10: well directed horror flick, not particularly good Trek.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Matrix, with the Element app on phones.
- Comment on Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping! 3 months ago:
Interesting, I’ll keep it in mind next time I have to deal with this problem (hopefully never but who knows).
A few years ago I was in contact with researchers that were developing an AI tool to parse PDFs (I think they didn’t care about converting to editable formats, but extracting data), from their material I got the impression that it’s extremely difficult to do right using traditional algorithms.
- Comment on Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping! 3 months ago:
It’s a curse because it’s used for things other than what it’s intended to. It’s doing a good job representing printed material, but unfortunately people very commonly expect it to be something more akin to a word processor file.
- Comment on Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping! 3 months ago:
I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there’s just no “one size fits all” that I’m aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.
What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them…
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 3 months ago:
Hate? Digital decluttering feels really good, for me anyway.
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 5 months ago:
To my knowledge it’s not supposed to differ.
If you trust that the client (which is open source) is doing what it’s supposed to do, security-wise I don’t think there’s a difference between self-hosting and using Bitwarden’s service.
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 5 months ago:
No, you don’t need to trust the VPS provider. The VaultaWarden password storage is encrypted, and the master password is never transmitted to the server. The passwords are decrypted only locally on your device.
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 5 months ago:
For files I just use WebDAV that’s built in to Apache. It’s really not fancy, but does all I need.
- Comment on Good self-hosted webmail client? 6 months ago:
I use RoundCube, I think it’s one of the oldest solutions out there, and is pretty good (and not ugly as of a few years ago).
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t say pale in comparison. Enterprise was really good in my opinion. Lower Decks and Prodigy too, these are a bit different, but have the same spirit I think.
I also rewatch The Original Series episodes every once in a while. The show as a whole is not really good by modern standards, but it has gems and it’s interesting to see where it all began.
Every show except Discovery has a balance of great episodes, filler episodes, and bad episodes. Discovery was bad from A to Z.