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- Comment on Mastodon Follow Packs 2 days ago:
Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.
Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 days ago:
Same, I stay away from /all and only follow my subscribed communities by new.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
This is the exact reason email never took off. /s
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
Even if you’ve watched some or all of the old shows in order, I think it could be fun to do a casual rewatch by LDS references. It gives you reason to watch some deep cuts out of context, and probably not the ones you’d be inclined to pick on your own 🙂
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 6 days ago:
I had a brief spell of panic there. Thought I’d missed an episode!
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
Since you’re into Lower Decks, I dare you to just follow the episode annotations and canon connection published here and use those as your guide to Star Trek. Every episode of LDS is so full of references to older episodes across different series, that might be a fun way to experience the canon 🙂
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
Agreed. I watch SNW when new episodes air, but it’s the one Trek show I’m never tempted to rewatch. It’s basically overengineered fan fiction.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x06: “Starbase 80?!” (SPOILERS) 6 days ago:
…you mean episode 5x05? 😉
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
Went over my head by several decimetres!
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
Spotted the Ferengi!
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 1 week ago:
Not assumption, just worst fears when they give us so little to go on after two or three aborted or stalled movies 🙂
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 1 week ago:
Oh great, another recast of the TOS crew, but they’re all preteens hijacking a spaceship and fighting preteen Romulans together? Also, they form this deep and meaningful bond that has to be reset/memory wiped by the end of the movie yet somehow steer them onto a shared future?
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
Meh, it’s fine. I used it knowing the literal and vernacular meanings, either is valid here 🙂
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
Oh, want? I think you’re contributing agency to inert goo. 😄 I’m just not certain Boimler’s face hair will be able to deal with the steady scrubbing (also chemicals).
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Episode 505 With New Images From “Starbase 80?!” 1 week ago:
Five Federation credits says that disinfectant is going to decimate Boimlers “beard”.
- Comment on Help us improve our alt text generation model | The Mozilla Blog 1 week ago:
Sure, I’ll help: The best way to achieve this is not sacking 30% of your employees.
You had the workforce,you laid them off. It’s a bit soon to come asking your userbase for voluntary help.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 1 week ago:
Damn, he was a highlight of anything he appeared in, and his Trek parts were amazing. His memory lives on.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x03 -Best Exotic Nanite Hotel 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair. But we do not know the specifics of that parallel universe Boimler’s face fur:
- How long has it been growing?
- Did he fall into the raisin fertiliser as a teen, prompting an uncanny beard growth?
- Might he even be part Tribble (on his mother’s side)?
- Or is it simply a Captain’s Chair-worthy toupee? I’m betting on the toupee, and so is Shatner.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x03 -Best Exotic Nanite Hotel 2 weeks ago:
Judging by the amount of facial hair growth Boimler’s exhibited over the course of the three episodes this season, we can assume that so far the entire season has taken place over about 17 hours.
Now now, let’s not be normative about the speed of facial hair growth. Some people take longer filling in their mustache and beards than others, and this could easily be something like 17 days if Boimler has particularly slow and/or sparse facial hair.
Characters were artificial body parts include […] Jack Crusher [personality]
Harsh, but true.
- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 3 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is, vote Borg. Gotcha 👍
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
That is certainly an improvement over Signal, yeah.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “Matrix as IRC” with general interest rooms is an unmonitored cesspool. “Matrix as IM” for staying in touch with mates is doing just fine.
- Comment on Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt 3 weeks ago:
“Slightly biased”, yeah.
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 3 weeks ago:
There is also MicroBlogPub, although development has wound down in the past year. I spun up a test instance before that, though, and it does what it says on the tin.
- Comment on The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. - Elena Rossini 3 weeks ago:
Of late I’ve tried out the Translate You Android app. Not necessarily an endorsement of the app itself, but it offers a selection of 9 translator services, a few of which are libre.
Certainly LibreTranslate and Lingva are open source, probably a few more on their list. Give them a try and see which works best for you!
- Comment on The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. - Elena Rossini 3 weeks ago:
Looks like Mastodon have been hiring accountants 😆 mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112769333503182077
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 3 weeks ago:
Cool cool, glad to see I may have jumped the gun. But I had cause to try a couple other Firefoxes (Nightly Beta and Mull) in the meantime!
Now I’ll just be refreshing F-Droid every five minutes until the update comes through 😄
- Comment on The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. - Elena Rossini 3 weeks ago:
I mean, Deepl is useful, and more accurate than Google Translate — but I’d prefer a libre alternative. Haven’t found one yet that hits the mark.
But anyway, that’s OT for the Fediverse sub 🙂
- Comment on The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. - Elena Rossini 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, for one thing deepl is defo not part of the fediverse.
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t even know there was a Waterfox for android, good to know.