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- Comment on Badnwagon — a federated Bandcamp alternative 4 days ago:
Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.
- Submitted 4 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more 5 days ago:
This reads like a whole lot of research was boiled down to fit the “barely an article” constraints of a casual news outlet. The outline is all over the place but seems well-intended; it’s just not clear what information we’re supposed to take away from this.
Kudos for mentioning GNU Social, Zot and Diaspora, but I’m not really sure any of them are relevant anymore?
- Comment on Avoid Virpus VPS 6 days ago:
First I’ve heard of Virpus but thanks for the heads up. More than 50% packet loss does not sound like a working infrastructure, much less one that should be marketed to consumers.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
I dunno, Odo’s morals are very much tied to his need to maintain control and appearances. Yes, that aligns perfectly with his shapeshifting ability 🙂
- Comment on The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here 1 week ago:
As a Doctor Who viewer, I thoroughly approve the “timey-wimey stuff” line. And as I’m currently rewatching Voyager I’m so glad to see the recurring crew in Prodigy ❤🖖
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
I know! Who would’ve guessed watching him in DS9 S1 (Quark’s doofus whipping boy passing down the abuse to Nog) that he would have one of the most low-key amazing character arcs of the series?
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
Also countries that probably started out socialist but took a sharp turn into authoritarianism and under-the-hood oligarchy… You know who you are.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
You’re right, I wrote one thing but my head was still at the general economy matter! Will edit.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
Rom was in way before: Image
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but claiming that private property is a thing of the show’s past is as old as the show itself. Almost 30 years ago we got this great bit between Picard and Lily in First contact:
— The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century.
— No money? You mean you don’t get paid?
— The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.
This, of course, from a man with inherited real estate in La Barre… But there are several anticapitalist barbs in TNG and DS9, too.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
Got it. TBF, most of what comes out of Pella’s mouth I interpret as sarcastic quips. She’s the SNW version of Jett Reno, after all.
Not that she’s wrong, it’s just not exactly a franchise-wide decree of mission statement passed down from Alex Kurtzman or the Roddenberry estate…
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
they explicitly use the term socialist to describe the Federation economy in SNW.
I’m going to need a source and context for this, apparently it flew by me in between all the parallel timeline nonsense required to shoehorn James Kirk into the series. Also, the “Gorn, but Xenomorphs” whiplash.
Generally speaking, I was fine with Socialism being a quiet part of Trek economics for 50+ years. I don’t do a lot of mental gymnastics aligning the minutiae of a fictional future with contemporary concepts. Science fiction is a reflection of our real world, sure, but I have as little use for connecting the dots between 21st and 23rd economical concepts as I have for schematics for the replicators on Enterprise. A lot can happen in 2-300 years, especially when Trek concepts are metaphors and narrative shortcuts for telling stories about a future that recontextualise our own times.
But I get what you mean, it was always Socialism, wasn’t it? Our real world has taken a weird polarised turn that makes Trek’s space utopia seem more far fetched than it has for a long time. Even if “the culture wars” sounds like something the franchise might have introduced as a philosophically apt concept back in the '90s…
In that regard I too appreciate that the show’s producers put their company scrip where Trek’s mouth has been all those years. It seems that some very loud “culture warriors” never grokked that this was a deeply left (or at the very least humanist) leaning show. It’s a little late in the day to spell it out for them that, yes — “Trekonomics” are frigging Socialist, but apparently that’s the level of media illiteracy we’re dealing with here.
So good on SNW for letting its red flag fly. It will probably piss off some people who still can’t separate Socialism from whatever garbled idea of “Red scare” indoctrination has been passed down through generations. Whatever, they’re pissed off no matter what.
It is ironic to me that this “Socialist” discourse is coming from a franchise(!) so ensconced in capitalist production and economic structures that it is gauged for marketability and profit. That’s the big elephant in the room throughout all the “Trek so woke” outrage cycles: We’ll never get to a post-scarcity future resembling Star trek by sitting around watching Star trek.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
You say that with such certainty, as if proof of stake schemes won’t simply be a greenwashing alibi for accelerating validation of currencies using them, to the point of the same carbon footprint as POW.
You’re simply wrong to say that POS is without environmental impact, even Ethereum’s carbon reductions were only that (and not nearly as high as they claimed).
- Comment on is there a search engine for the fediverse? 1 month ago:
Oh, the single, shared built-in search function in mastodon, pixelfed, misskey, lemmy, friendica, peertube, diaspora, castopod, writefreely, &c?
Please, the fediverse is more than [platform you’re currently using].
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. I think there is a certain overlap in the language used around general privacy principles and the more… out there, political anti-society movements.
Sometimes it’s innocent and random but when I see somebody putting cryptocurrency up front in their project and using “sovereign computing” as a tagline, my internal crackpot detector goes nuts. I’m fairly sure that deep down these people would want to see the world burn to stay warm toward the end.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
The title literally says “Sovereign computing”. Are you okay? I do recommend reading from the top down, for more information please re-read.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
It’s been a buzzword among the ultra-libertarian, anti-government, tinfoil hat wearing set for decades.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
I mean, true. Tipi and CasaOS are savvy enough to do this. But do you really want to teach more cryptobros to slip their message under the threshold? I’m fine that they show their true goals front and centre, it’s like a note saying “hit me” taped to their backs.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
“Sovereignty”, that big white whale of the dysfunctional far right?
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it’s flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can’t use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 month ago:
BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING
LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 month ago:
There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.
- Comment on Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release 1 month ago:
Microsoft: Trust us with all your work and private data.
Also Microsoft: Um, we mislaid the files for this historical project. They’re here somewhere, maybe.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 2 months ago:
I used to have an old laptop stuck in a corner just running Transmission. I called that
Seed
because that was its sole purpose. Its replacement is fully automated *arr and media server, making it both seed and vault, so I had to call itSpitsbergen
(reference) - Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 months ago:
I’ve been eyeing it for a while, it looks quite mature for an alpha project, and it’s really charmingly presented.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
I think the open data projects have a fair potential for innovation. They need some kind of backbone for permanence which would need widespread federation, but I think they’re a conceptually interesting addition yo the Fediverse.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 2 months ago:
No, I agree. It’s not about waiting out the bigger players. It’s making sure that everybody does their part!
The fediverse has its footprint for sure and it’s great that we pull together to minimise that. I just want to put it in perspective at the same time and point out that federated services aren’t the only, or even biggest offenders here.
Many of the hotshot technologies — cryptocurrencies a few years back, this season it’s “AI” — get launched without a thought of their environmental impacts, at a time where basically every MWh counts. I want to help with my fedi usage, but I also want that to be reflected in idiots’ bitcoin mining or GPT generated “content”.
There has to be proportional balance.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 2 months ago:
Sounds like a bit if a Swiss army knife for the fediverse. This kind of thing may take off with developers but I’m uncertain what regular selfhosters need it for.
- Comment on Star Trek Writer Deep Dives Into Discovery Season 5’s Villains 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not clicking a Screen Rants link but “Jelly Breens” is a quality pun!