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- Comment on MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Scott Bakula will be attending STLV. 2 days ago:
Indeed.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
That reputation has entirely been created by the media frenzy over busting the worst kinds of criminals.
Oh they’re all using the same technology? Yeah of course they are, because that’s the technology that works the best. It has so many fucking use cases.
Funny that the media frenzy is hitting a fever pitch just as we most desperately need powerful tools for opposing fascism. Almost like that’s not really a coincidence.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 3 weeks ago:
TBH, 98% security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 3 weeks ago:
Image This is me.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 3 weeks ago:
Darth Tyrannosaurus.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 3 weeks ago:
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
- Comment on Pick up artist 101 1 month ago:
Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual syngamy in my area.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 1 month ago:
Tekeli-li
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 1 month ago:
I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have techno bable consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even care, rule of cool in a hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care.” Major pet peeve of mine.
Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that.
Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god).
Lower Decks was a better show.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 1 month ago:
Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace.
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).
- Comment on You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg. 2 months ago:
Not futa enough.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 2 months ago:
Many of my self hosted solutions are just DIY cludges. I was talking to a friend of a friend on Saturday about media streaming and he told me all about his Jellyfin setup and then asked about mine and I was just like “I just store MP4s on an SSHFS drive and play them in VLC on my TV (which runs Linux Mint).” When the survey asked about the various types of software I was like “No… I don’t use anything like that… wait… yes I do! I just don’t use a prebuilt solution!”
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton 2 months ago:
Yay, a time travel episode.
Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.
- Comment on Why does Lemmy use "@" instead of ":" like Matrix does? 2 months ago:
Because Lemmy is like social media and Matrix is like Slack and Discord and they both followed the conventions of their predecessors. You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 months ago:
And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven’t seen every single episode of.
So I’ll give Academy a chance.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 months ago:
I’ll watch it, but I’m already skeptical because it’s set in the 32nd century. That’s like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don’t do it).
- Comment on Keep Tabs On Your Vehicle’s Needs With LubeLogger 4 months ago:
In fact, my wife and I already have a self hosted LubeLogger.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 4 months ago:
Since when does lemmy.ml ban political content? Is it on a specific community?
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 4 months ago:
It’s so much easier to set up and install than Matrix.
- Comment on Low resource, Performant WAF 4 months ago:
There’s a learning curve, but if you’re familiar with WAF’s it’s not hard.
- Comment on Low resource, Performant WAF 4 months ago:
If you want to DIY something, I have a bash script that builds OpenResty with NAXSI from source. Most of the web apps I write anymore are actually in Lua, for OpenResty, maybe with an API written in something else. But I also help other members of my team deploy their Node and Python apps and stuff, and I always just park those behind OpenResty with NAXSI, just doing a standard nginx reverse proxy.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my “mess around with AI” box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.
- Comment on Multiple Lemmy Accounts? 4 months ago:
Back in the day I had like five Reddit accounts. I still log into one of them sometimes (no it’s not my main one, that one turned into obscene invitations for u/spez to bugger himself with a hot poker, I’m not exaggerating).
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 5 months ago:
What the other poster said. Is it possible to skip all those episodes? Probably, if you’re okay with getting dropped into an episode like
“Wait, weren’t they under attack by a huge battlefleet? What happened? How did they survive?”
“Wait, this character is dead? How did that happen??”
You’ll also have to skip the season finale of season 6, the first few episodes of season 7, and most of the last episodes of the series, including the series finale.
tl:dr; power through, don’t do it, it gets better.
- Submitted 5 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 5 months ago:
I read a really good article recently about how people from different generations process information differently and so their UI preferences are wildly different.
The gist of it was
- A Boomer walks into a bookstore to buy a book. They feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of books. They choose one by an author they know, that their friends said was good.
- A Gen Xer or a Millennial walks into a bookstore to buy a book. The check the various authors they like, check that the cover art is appealing and read the backs of the different books, figuring out which one they want to read, then they buy that one.
- A Zoomer walks into a bookstore to buy a book. They feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of books, and feel bombarded by the ads for books. They check the authors the influencers they subscribe to on Youtube and Tik Tok say are good. They grab one of those based on the color of the cover, ignore the back and the cover art, flip it open to a random page, read that page and if what they read grabs their their attention they buy that book, but if it doesn’t, they move on.
As a result, each of these people will prefer to interact with vastly different UX.
Of course these aren’t hard and fast rules, set in stone and there are tons of exceptions, but it’s a definite trend.
- Comment on Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 6 months ago:
I’m glad people are finding it tolerably fun, I guess. I’m about 30 minutes in and don’t know if I can keep watching.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 Review: An Open Window on a Side of the Galaxy Not Seen Before 6 months ago:
I wanted to say something snarky about how “Section 31 aren’t the good guys! Don’t you get it? Stop telling stories where they are!”
But I actually suppose that in 2025 the message of “You will lose utopia if you don’t defend it by whatever means necessary” may actually be a tragically positive message.
- Comment on Star Trek:Section 31 Premiere Reaction (ft Emily Inkpen) and Q&A with Michelle Yeoh and Rob Kazinsky [Spoiler-free mini-review] 6 months ago:
the person who saw the movie described it as “fun,” “silly,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy meets Fifth Element meets Mission: Impossible”.
I have a feeling I’m gonna be like “This was a good sci fi movie, but should it have been a Trek movie?”
