canis_majoris
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Interview — Kate Mulgrew on Star Trek: Prodigy's Inspiring Admiral Janeway 3 months ago:
They made more Voyager, it just also happens to have kids in it.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2 Launching On SkyShowtime In Europe In August; Canada Still Waiting 3 months ago:
I would have said Teletoon is a no-brainer to put it on, but they’re owned by Corus/Shaw. I’m so out of the cable game I didn’t even realize Teletoon had been retired as a brand and replaced with Cartoon Network.
I went to go looking at the Bell Media offerings and you’re right, they simply do not have any kind of kids channel. Both YTV and Cartoon Network are owned by Shaw. They likely just don’t want to try to compete in this space, since Shaw would likely have the rights to basically everything worth airing and streaming.
- Comment on The Star Trek Adventures first edition Core Rulebook pdf free for Saturday, June 22 4 months ago:
I bought this when it originally launched, and unfortunately never really found the time to play a campaign.
We were workshopping a TMP-era story based around a crew serving on a Miranda class vessel. I had really high hopes because Star Trek is absolutely my favorite universe to roleplay in.
I hope a bunch of people pick this rulebook up and have a fun time with it!
- Comment on The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops 5 months ago:
There are actually already a few projects that are for upcycling old Framework mainboards. You can definitely find a good case for the form factor.
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 5 months ago:
It was the only way to get screenshots off the console without physically using the SD card. I had an account just for Animal Crossing screenshots.
Same with PlayStation; a lot of people had accounts just for getting screenshots they had taken off the console.
- Comment on Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use? 5 months ago:
Again, there are easier ways to do this.
Biometric authentication can be required for some companies. You’d have to opt in to use the system or at least agree to the terms set forth by the employer.
- Comment on Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use? 5 months ago:
There are easier ways to spy on your employees. This is not cost-effective.
I use Zoom for work now and each call can be several gigabytes large, depending on resolution of shared materials and a few other factors. If you want to save that kind of stuff long term, you have to pay to keep it somewhere. If you multiply several gigabytes over a few dozen calls a day, you’re going to end up with terabytes of garbage you need to store. Zoom also informs you of when a recording is starting and active, offering for you to leave the call or otherwise implicitly agree to being recorded.
When I did contract work for Apple support, the spying was way more efficient than just listening to my calls. My supervisor could literally always see my monitor through the chat program we had installed. There’s all kinds of remote software for things like this. If an admin wants to see you misuse your equipment, they have easier ways of finding out than sifting through calls to find wrongthink.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 6 months ago:
There’s a transaction limit on tap payments. Sometimes you need to chip or swipe when it’s over $250 or something.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 months ago:
I really like The Drumhead from TNG. It establishes the nature of Star Trek at its most essential. It’s mostly a talking episode, although there’s some action with an explosion, which is perfectly average to me. It gives you a feel of the dynamics of some of the politics in the universe, which I think is a great way to get people involved. It’s got one one of those great Picard speeches that puts a badmiral in their place, solving the problem non-violently. It’s also a great parallel to any slippery slope security tightening after a major event happens, which is basically always a timeless message of avoiding overreaching authoritarianism at all costs.
Another TNG one I’d pick is probably The Ensigns of Command. It’s another example of an episode that’s mostly talking, a little bit of action, with a non-violent resolution. It’s fun watching Picard come up with inane legal bullshit to deal with the very strictly by the books alien species, satisfying their requirements in a way that meets his agenda while also being within the rules.
Honestly, I could rationalize different episodes all day, but since those were the first two that came to mind, I’ll just leave them at that.
- Comment on Is anyone still playing Command and Conquer Generals (+ Zero Hour)? 6 months ago:
I used to play against the computer as the particle weapons general, build up a massive defensive perimeter, build a bunch of particle cannons, and then draw dicks in the enemy base with the laser.
It’s one of my favorite games of all time.
- Comment on Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy 6 months ago:
Canada has the same problem, but our monopoly now is an everything company. Lawblaws owns pharmacies, financial institutions, telcom infrastructure, and are vertically integrated throughout the logistics and production side of the grocery chain, while also operating the most stores. They got caught price fixing bread for almost 20 years, and they posted the highest quarterly revenue in decades after “adjusting for inflation”. The government is talking about trying to more heavily regulate the industry but when there’s only basically one guy doing it, he effectively tells you to go fuck yourself because you can’t turn to anyone else.
Right now, for the month of May at least, we’re actively boycotting their stores, which is quite difficult in a lot of remote regions. It’s a good thing that it’s springtime though, because farmers markets are opening up more frequently around town where I can get actual quality produce and goods from real people who produced it all themselves. I am with you 100% on wishing we were all market-based and not supermarket-based.
At the very least, we’re trying to hit the corps in the wallet and see what happens. The CEO has actually been on record calling the boycott “misguided”.
- Comment on Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI 6 months ago:
I’ve always loved the pun, it’s such a great URL.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
Don’t forget about the new Snapdragon X series.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 6 months ago:
You can enable REBAR on older machines with a UEFI hack.
It’s been part of the PCI spec for ages but Nvidia and AMD only started using it recently.
- Comment on What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it? 6 months ago:
I dunno man, even when I talk about Gundams in public sometimes I get some strange looks.
Then again, that’s just what happens when I try to explain the UC timeline.
- Comment on What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it? 6 months ago:
FMA is good. I’d still consider it a silver standard compared to Brotherhood which is now a gold standard.
There are a lot of little things that happen in FMA that don’t happen in FMA:B that are still referenced, and personally I always kind of took both series together as a bunch of adventures for the brothers. I do prefer the ending of Brotherhood though.
Also obligatory Olivier Mira Armstrong is best girl.
- Comment on Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others 6 months ago:
Not bleeding social policies dry?
- Comment on Starfield Next Update Arriving This Week, Shattered Space DLC Sails Out This Fall 6 months ago:
How in their right mind can they charge for a DLC?
Get outta here!
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
SA used to be great. That move actually made the forums a pretty good place for a while because it kept out a few demographics including bots and kids.
Something Awful, YTMND and Newgrounds were basically the comedic engines of the internet back then.
Good 'ol pre-YouTube internet.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
I followed a bunch of artists and content creators and I got annoyed when the entire feed became just interspersed with Musk’s ramblings and bullshit.
- Comment on Samsung takes top phone-maker spot back from Apple 7 months ago:
I don’t understand this comment, because they don’t?
They’re both at the forefront of developing things like processors and displays. Exynos, Bionic and Snapdragon processors all compete for the top spot and push each other’s development forward. The tech that went into Bionics and Snapdragons have been translated to laptop form factors and the Snapdragon X kicks ass. Samsung has some of the best display technology on the planet and similarly pushes the industry forward.
They do objectively make good, cutting edge consumer hardware, but I am sure this is mostly about their design practices of removing things like the SD card and headphone jack and being anti-consumer for repairs. Yeah, they do suck at both of those things, but literally everything else about the phones are not only considered top tier by the average consumer but are literally the trend setters across the entire industry.
- Comment on Paging Mr. Manager 7 months ago:
If somebody can’t moderate their instance in any kind of way that’s impacting other parts of the federation, it makes sense to defederate until they fix their problems.
I don’t think anybody should have open signups. It’s literally just an invitation to mess with the rest of us who are federated with the instance.
- Comment on Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military 7 months ago:
With Stable Diffusion’s case, you would use the software to determine what targets to protect, rather than destroy, obviously.
- Comment on The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC 7 months ago:
They couldn’t figure it out for consumers, but their machine learning systems based around natural language processing are based on mostly the data they gathered from people using Cortana. They just pivoted her to be a business tool instead. She was also the basis for the chat bot AI tools prior to the LLMs.
They did eventually capitalize it, they just realized the consumer-facing version wasn’t working so they retooled it for corporate.
- Comment on YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos 8 months ago:
You can only really pull that with older people and children. Most of us millennials can spot the patterns AI gen produces, but I’ve seen my dad just consume the content and be largely unaware of the fact that it was artificially generated. He constantly complains those videos say nothing but watches tons of them anyways, mostly related to non-news about sports.
- Comment on Post-Brexit watchdog ‘ready’ to investigate flood of cheaper Chinese electric cars 9 months ago:
There is no competition to be anti-competitive on the EV market. You can’t tell me that a 40k+ EV from any manufacturer is remotely comparable to an 11k BYD. A 30k difference is not a competition it’s a slaughter.
- Comment on Post-Brexit watchdog ‘ready’ to investigate flood of cheaper Chinese electric cars 9 months ago:
Yes, but the local industry already hurt itself by having not focused on the correct avenue for electrics.
There is no entry-level electric car as far as I’m aware. Everything is incredibly expensive because they are all priced as luxury items. China has made this no longer the case.
Somebody was trying to pitch me a 45k BMW as an “entry level” electric. Until last year, the Chevrolet Volt which is the closest thing I can find to entry level was also similarly priced around 42k until they dropped the price more than 10k for the 2023 models. From what I saw, all the Kia models are similarly priced around the 40k range.
We focused entirely on making premium luxury vehicles, as if cutting emissions is a luxury solution and not a necessity.
- Comment on Post-Brexit watchdog ‘ready’ to investigate flood of cheaper Chinese electric cars 9 months ago:
What is there to investigate?
They’re cheap, they get the job done, and the Chinese will absolutely sell them at a huge loss until they dominate the market.
Why is this happening? Because the West hasn’t made an actual cost effective electric vehicle, while the Chinese focused on that almost exclusively over the dumb nonsense of building massive SUVs or luxury sedans as a premium item.
So, investigate the Chinese or whatever, but why don’t we try to build a consumer electric vehicle that’s actually affordable instead of bitching that China did it first.
- Comment on Those who don't learn from the past...something, something, lets give robots full access to our security apparatus! 9 months ago:
Classic Badmiral decision making logic.
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
It doesn’t block the users unfortunately, just nukes all the blocked instance’s subs from loading on your feed.