Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 39 seconds ago:
14TB or 140TB? The later is what’s being talked about, so that’s more like 2800 movies. Which more than covers that 1000+ movie criteria.
- Comment on Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform 6 hours ago:
I’d imagine they were effectively banned, but not explicitly banned.
- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 2 days ago:
I believe they reach adulthood in their mid to late thirties. Merry and Pippin are technically in the equivalent of their late teens when they head off with Frodo in FotR
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 2 days ago:
Water makes other water wet. If you have a single water molecule then it is not wet, as it has no other water to make it wet. Otherwise water, as a grouping of multiple adjacent molecules, makes itself wet.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 days ago:
He said it like that, or is that embellishment for the sake of clickbait?
- Comment on One out of ten Ferengis recommend Colgate 3 days ago:
Honestly the only nu-trek show I’ve watched has been Prodigy. I even downloaded the first half of Discover season 1 back when it was airing, but never watched it. It just didn’t seem worth the time.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 3 days ago:
Odo (and I think someone else) do suggest reasons, like a virus or genetic engineering.
How did Enterprise plot out the changes?
Mind you, I’m not trying to imply that Enterprise didn’t have a unique and interesting storyline all its own. I think it did, but they absolutely followed in the footsteps of DS9s own homage.
I think, in the Enterprise episodes, they implied that only a small population of Klingons underwent that change. So there would still be Klingons who appear as they did in TNG (and the movies) and beyond while allowing for the more human appearance of those in TOS. I dont know about Discovery, as I’ve not watched it, though.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 4 days ago:
Technically there was a throwaway comment in DS9 before the Enterprise episodes. I only mention it because they basically took the lines from that episode and combined them all into one story.
- Comment on One out of ten Ferengis recommend Colgate 4 days ago:
Nog (and Rom) had the tooth sharpeners, Quark only have a wood chew stick.
- Comment on One out of ten Ferengis recommend Colgate 4 days ago:
It’s all that interbreeding with Jem Hadar I guess?
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 4 days ago:
Back in my day it was TL:DR! Get off my lawn!
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 1 week ago:
Does this give them any actual control over Blender development or is it just one of many groups saying “We like what you’re doing, keep at it”?
Not saying there isn’t the possibility of pressure because “If you don’t do what we want, we’ll pull our funding”… but again, if they’re just one of many patrons at that level (amongst many at a smaller level) so that’s not necessarily going to make that big a difference.
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 1 week ago:
Are there requirements for these programs? Or can they make it as onerous as possible to disincentivize usage of said program? (More rhetorical than anything)
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 1 week ago:
They had a conflict, sure, but by now means a major one. They made mention of other conflicts as well, like with the Zenkethi.
That doesn’t mean their society was all about war and conflict, it means they had border disputes. Conflict with smaller groups, like the Cardassians and Zenkethi, would not have nearly the effect as one with a much larger, much more powerful foe like the Klingons, Romulans, or eventually the Dominion (as shown in DS9).
With the latter, they have to specifically dedicate their resources conflict and war. With the former its mostly peacekeeping. Making sure their colonies and allies are defended while still being able to dedicate the majority of their resources to exploration and diplomacy. They won’t simply overrun the Cardassians, or the Zenkethi, as they’re likely potentially able to do (as im sure is implied with the Terrans in the mirror universe), as that is simply not part of their ideal.
Conflict with the Cardassians, or other smaller powers, is simply the price of being a large power. Conflict with a power more matched to their resource level, like Klingons or Romulans, would have more if an effect. Thus what you see in Yesterday’s Enterprise.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 1 week ago:
That story didn’t contradict established continuity, just added to it, right? Its not a situation of “we’ve always been at war with Eastasia”, it’s a situation of expanding on what already exists to provide more depth.
I think this kind of flexibility is good… but it also highlights problems I have with certain aspects of modern storytelling. Namely things like The Flux in Doctor Who and The Burn (which I, admittedly, have not watched stories for, only read wiki articles) which seem to fundamentally affect every aspect of the universe at once with far reaching consequences that fundamentally change the nature of the universe of that setting. They do so for the sake of one story, then everything after has to accommodate for this, not because of interesting storytelling elements… but because the storyteller wanted to raise the stakes.
I think the initiating premise of Picard had this, with the destruction of Utopia Planetia causing a massive shift in how Starfleet, and The Federation as a whole, operated.
Alternatively, something like the Dominion war, which had a similar effect on the universe, didn’t encapsulate it as a singular event meant to shake things up. Rather it was a slow build over time that actually showed what was happening as it happened. The story wasn’t “Oh no, thing happened, what do we do?” It was people living their lives as the world moved in a direction they had to deal with.
- Comment on Mosaics are analog pixel art 1 week ago:
… no?
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 1 week ago:
“Legal” is now (more) dependant on political loyalty than it is actual jurisprudence.
- Comment on Transistors are probably a bit reason we don't live in a steampunk world. 1 week ago:
And if it weren’t for microchips we’d all be living in Fallout.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 2 weeks ago:
All those rocket engineers got cushy jobs with NASA too.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 2 weeks ago:
Anything as a Subscription is a bad idea, honestly.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 2 weeks ago:
That may lead to FaaS, though, Firearms as a Subscription.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
There’s also
Clippy 3.0Copilot. “I see you’re trying to be productive, how can I get in the way today?” - Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 3 weeks ago:
And if she ever gets in your face just remind her of her lizard babies she abandoned.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 4 weeks ago:
At no point did I mention volume, I inferred education. I actually find just yelling louder to be worse than censorship, as all it does is increase the level of tension and push people towards extremes. Which helps no one.
I also didn’t mean to infer that we shouldn’t use band-aids at all, just that it’s a simple treatment, not a cure. Blocking certain speech and rhetoric can help to a degree… but not if it’s the only thing you do.
The problem with current strategies is that no one wants to go beyond that first step. Whether it’s censorship, or shouting.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 4 weeks ago:
Censorship is, at best, a band-aid. And they can always find ways around it. The best solution isn’t to block them from view temporarily, but to teach people to evaluate what they say with empathy and critical thinking.
That is, of course, difficult to accomplish. But then again, there’s no easy solutions, only easy excuses.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 4 weeks ago:
I mean, they acknowledge that it’s wrong, and they acknowledge that Bruce Wayne is not stable enough to have power by having him give the power to Lucius.
Not all scenes are so one-note that it only ever has one meaning or message.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 5 weeks ago:
No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!
I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”
It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s probably the worst thing that’s going to result from fumbling.