danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 5 hours ago:
I like it, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that you’re talking about Discovery. I’ve said in the past that the show should be called “Star Trek: Michael Burnham” as it would at least be more honest.
To be fair, I think every series has a lot of episodes that would fail this test, some of which were excellent, like DS9’s “In the Pale Moonlight”, and “Far Beyond the Stars” or TNG’s “The Inner Light”, but if used to assess a series, I think this could be a good metric.
- Comment on [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability 4 days ago:
Looking at that list, this suggestion seems entirely appropriate.
- Comment on domains on internal network 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting this! I have the same router.
- Comment on Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents 1 month ago:
Don’t these dipshits have anything better to do?
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 1 month ago:
Could he now sue the people that beat him (or even Sainsbury’s)?
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 1 month ago:
This is the path to enshitification.
- Comment on Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation 1 month ago:
Fuck yeah.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 1 month ago:
Voyager: One Small Step
It’s one of my top ten favourites, but it’s also a very typical “one off” story.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 month ago:
Awesome, thanks!
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 month ago:
It says it’ll hit “overnight”, but surely in 2024 we can be more accurate than that?
- Comment on Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' 1 month ago:
“Deeply frightening” can you name even one thing Corbyn said or did that was antisemitic other than be openly antizionist? Given that it’s Israel’s Zionist regime that’s currently committing genocide, I would think Corbyn would have been vindicated by now.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 2 months ago:
Kubernetes Cluster
- pi-left
- pi-right
- pi-centre
Others
- pi-katamari (file server & database)
- pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
- Berlin (desktop, bought in Germany)
- London (laptop, bought in London)
- Brighton (company laptop)
- Brussels (old company laptop)
- Cambridge (laptop, bought a long time ago… somewhere)
- Toronto (Surface Pro3, bought in Amsterdam)
- Laconia (phone)
- Vulcan (phone, old)
- Bajor (phone, old)
- Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion 2 months ago:
You might want to consider just Dockerising everything. That way, the underlying OS really doesn’t matter to the applications running.
I’ve got a few Raspberry Pi’s running Debian, and on top of that, they’re running a kubernetes cluster with K3s. I host a bunch of different services, all in their own containers (effectively their own OS) and I don’t have to care. If I want to change the underlying OS, the containers don’t know either. It’s pretty great.
- Comment on Britain developing new, sovereign nuclear warhead 2 months ago:
It’s the tight coupling between the government and arms manufacturers. I used to work at UKTrade and nearly every decision there was rooted in how we can give more money to arms companies.
- Comment on MPs and peers sign letter urging UK government to ban arms sales to Israel 2 months ago:
Is there a comprehensive list of the signatories somewhere? I want to know if I need to praise or harass my MP.
- Comment on What's the deal with Docker? 3 months ago:
There have been some great answers on this so far, but I want to highlight my favourite part of Docker: the disposability.
When you have a running Docker container, you can hop in, fuck about with files, break stuff as you try to figure something out, and then kill the container and all of the mess you’ve created is gone. Now tweak your config and spin up a fresh one exactly the way you need it.
You’ve been running a service for 6 months and there’s a new upgrade. Delete your instance and just start up the new one. Worried that there might be some cruft left over from before? Don’t be! Every new instance is a clean slate. Regular, reproducible deployments are the norm now.
As a developer it’s even better: the thing you develop locally is identical to the thing that’s built, tested, and deployed in CI.
I <3 Docker!
- Comment on Bluesky Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters 3 months ago:
Upon a cursory read, it sounds like you host a server and then relay all of your through their centrally controlled system all while also pushing your account data to them.
I’m not sure they understand what “federated” means. Or rather, they know, but they’re hoping we don’t care.
- Comment on Interview: Jeri Ryan On Taking Seven From Borg To Bi Captain Of The Enterprise To ‘Star Trek: Legacy’ 4 months ago:
Don’t feel bad. That whole series was a disjointed mess.
- Comment on Interview: Jeri Ryan On Taking Seven From Borg To Bi Captain Of The Enterprise To ‘Star Trek: Legacy’ 4 months ago:
I really don’t get the fawning over PIC season 3. It was bad. I’d love to see more of Ryan in a new series, but only if they recruit writers on par with SNW and lose the phone numbers of those who did PIC.
- Comment on Self hosted Wetransfer? 4 months ago:
Nope. It’s definitely not. The idea is just to make it safe® to share files within an organisation. The assumption is that for direct P2P sharing you’ll want something simpler like Croc.
- Comment on Self hosted Wetransfer? 4 months ago:
Not really. It’s async in the sense that you can send a file now, and the server will hold it in an encrypted state until your recipient comes to collect it.
- Comment on Self hosted Wetransfer? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Experts lament ‘appalling decline’ in health of under-fives in UK 4 months ago:
Have you seen what they feed kids at school?
- Comment on Boss of British Gas owner says it is ‘impossible to justify’ his £4.5m pay 5 months ago:
I love anything that breaks from the norm and looks creative/fun, but it also makes him look like a supervillain so… 50/50 I guess.
- Comment on Boss of British Gas owner says it is ‘impossible to justify’ his £4.5m pay 5 months ago:
I’ll be the first to admit that I (and most of my field) is grossly overpaid when you compare what we do to more valuable work like nursing and teaching, but I’m not going to demand a 50% pay cut to stand in solidarity with the nation’s nurses, especially when I know that everyone else in my field wouldn’t be doing the same.
This dude with the super villain moustache straight-up said that his salary was exorbitant and unreasonable, and he did it on national television. I think that’s pretty great. We should be having an open conversation in this country about compensation and working toward something like a wealth cap.
My only criticism is that this guy didn’t use this opportunity to go that bit further. I mean, he’s half way there already being critical of his own income, why not go all the way and say something baller like “No one should be allowed to make more than £100k/year”?
It’s probably because he doesn’t actually see a problem with his compensation, but either way, I think conversations like this should be encouraged and journalists need to pursue the topic of a wealth cap when situations like this present.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 5 months ago:
Of course not. No, you vote for parties who want the same things you do, to remind Labour that your vote isn’t a forgone conclusion. So long as they can count on your vote by simply being “not Tory” that’s all you’ll ever get.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 5 months ago:
That’s a lot of faith to place in a leader and party who have shown zero evidence of principle or conviction.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 5 months ago:
You mean the guy advocating for changes this country desperately needed? You’re right, let’s only have leaders bent on doing nothing.
- Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] 5 months ago:
Um, no. It’s the very opposite of that. Solarpunk addresses inequality and bigotry directly.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 5 months ago:
As an outsider, I offer the following theory: it’s cultural.
Brits are conditioned by the media and each other to suffer and wear that suffering like a badge of honour. This is the country that pioneered the battle tactic of having soldiers just line up in an orderly fashion to get shot and have their countrymen just step over them to take their place afterall.
I’m still in awe of a conversation I found on Reddit when I first came here. A Polish guy was asking why the homes were so poorly insulated: “I’m Polish”, he said, “I’m familiar with cold weather. This is deliberate suffering”. He was berated at length for being “weak”, that he should “just put on a jumper and shut up”. In the same thread, someone actually referred to carpeting as insulation.
Worse still, you seem to have no idea who to properly blame for that suffering. You keep electing kleptocrats and aspiring fascists and turn your nose up at anyone who points out that your suffering is the direct result of said kleptocrats. You passed on one guy 'cause you fell for lies about him being “extreme”, “a communist”, and “antisemitic”, and you passed on the one before that because he ate a sandwich funny.
What you do excel at is scapegoating. It’s the immigrants. It’s the poor. It’s anyone but ourselves and the kleptocrats we elected.
This is why you can’t have nice things. Recognise that you’re part of the problem, demand better leaders, and stop being so fucking stupid at the polling booth, and maybe then you’ll get better results.