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- Comment on Did the largest Ukraine community & its instance got nuked? 4 days ago:
The words “Ukraine” and “nuked” should probably be used with special care at this particular moment in history.
- Comment on Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputing 1 week ago:
You could relive booting up your computer at breakfast to get it ready to use by lunchtime.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x07 "Erigah" 1 month ago:
That’s what I thought was happening as well. The camera cutting back and forth between their expressions is what convinced me as well.
- Comment on Disco Version of TOS theme with awesome brass and kickass flute solo 2 months ago:
Says video is not available.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors" 2 months ago:
I’ve got a bit of a spoilery kind of question:
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If L’ak is Breen, how come he bleeds after the fight with Burnham? I thought that they don’t have blood, or did I miss something established earlier?
- Comment on Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say 2 months ago:
The audio almost sounds convincing.. One thing I noticed is that despite how riled up the speaker is, the tone of the voice seems consistent throughout despite being flustered.
- Comment on South Korean military set to ban iPhones over ‘security’ concerns | The Straits Times 2 months ago:
The sources, however, claimed that Android-based smartphones, mostly those from Samsung Electronics, will be exempted from the ban, while the document explicitly states that “bringing in iPhones will be completely prohibited”.
The reason is purportedly because iPhones do not fully comply with the restrictions outlined by the National Defence Mobile Security, a mobile device management application operated by the military authorities.
For instance, when activating the security app, it begins to restrict several smartphone functions, including the camera, Wi-Fi, tethering, USB functions and the microphone.
- Comment on AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find 2 months ago:
According to this analysis—and, I have to warn you, it’s kinda funny—liberals and conservatives have markedly different facial morphology. Liberals have “smaller lower faces” and “lips and noses [that] are shifted downward,” and chins that “are smaller” than conservatives, researchers write. Researchers repeat the key conclusion later on: “liberals tended to have smaller faces.”
So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 2 months ago:
My take is that it could be a Starfleet origin story that takes place between Archer and Kirk’s stories.
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 2 months ago:
The film is “set decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film.” Toby Haynes (Andor, Black Mirror “USS Callister”) is directing based on a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith (The Lego Batman Movie), with J.J. Abrams returning as producer.
[…] the origin story movie is set to start filming by the end of the year. There are no details yet on the plot, specific time setting, or cast. If Paramount can move fast enough they could get the origin movie into theaters by 2026—in time for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary.
I’d be down for an Andor-styled origin story.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x03 "Jinaal" 2 months ago:
I found Jinaal’s “this guy works out” comment to be too out of place.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Director Fesses Up To Unplanned Cameo In Episode 502 2 months ago:
Of course Jörg spotted it lol
- Comment on Star Trek Coffees Launching In May With Several Blends 2 months ago:
Here’s to the finest brew in Starfleet.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 2 months ago:
The
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self-sealing stembolt
callback was fun.
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 2 months ago:
It’s pretty good for shit.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to visit the site.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 3 months ago:
All of this can be yours for the low, low price of $19.99/month.
- Comment on Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 3 months ago:
I’ve been using Windows 11 at work for a couple years now, and completely forgot that this was supposed to be a feature.
- Comment on Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution 4 months ago:
Handcrafted artisan satellites? Yes, please!
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 4 months ago:
If they were truly concerned, they’d start giving it the funding it deserves.
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 4 months ago:
Totally agree. With that statement they’re treating both employees and bots like scapegoats.
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 4 months ago:
According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.
“Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot,” Rivers wrote.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Will Give Blue Checks to Anyone, Even Terrorist Leaders | Leaders of Hezbollah, and other sanctioned groups, paid for premium features on Elon Musk's 'free speech' platform. 4 months ago:
To be fair, would you really want to debate best waifus with an unverified terrorist leader on Twitter?
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 4 months ago:
Sounds good for the world. Curious to know what else is being captured.
- Comment on Paramount Global Laying Off 800 Employees as CEO Bakish Cites Need to Trim Costs 4 months ago:
Eat the rich!
- Comment on Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses 4 months ago:
I had this conversation with one of my instance’s mods about a month ago.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 4 months ago:
Stitcher actually got shut down last August after the SiriusXM acquisition.
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- Comment on New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like 4 months ago:
Not phased at all knowing that Uranus is bleached.
- Comment on The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down 4 months ago:
”Tech is not supposed to be a master tool to colonize every aspect of our being. We need to reevaluate how it serves us.”
I consider myself a Luddite not because I want to halt progress or reject technology itself. But I believe, as the original Luddites argued in a particularly influential letter threatening the industrialists, that we must consider whether a technology is “hurtful to commonality”—whether it causes many to suffer for the benefit of a few—and oppose it when necessary.