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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you related pseudonymous online work/activity when applying for jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you related pseudonymous online work/activity when applying for jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I’m glad to see the sentiment turning around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correction to Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Blu-ray in the Works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting this! I was going to buy this on blu ray very soon after launch, but now I think I’ll give it some time. The only thing I worry about is that the incorrect version will be sold to retailers, who will just sell me that when I go to buy it next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Arrives on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD December 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Season 1 has a couple fun extras on the disc. One in particular shows how they use the LED walls to create rich set environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you currently handle Covid infections?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I think I’m sick, regardless of what I’m sick with, I try to isolate and mask as much as possible. Nobody wants to get sick from me. For the flu and Covid, I go and get tests to allow me to take the antiviral medications. If I have Covid, I mask for a couple of weeks just to prevent spreading it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager and Paramount Plus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Voyager episodes 1-4 all display in 4:3 on Paramount Plus for me on PC and iPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcement: Startrek.website will be read-only for a while, and down for a few hours while we migrate hosts (Sept 4th)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I bet it’s the latter. It would make sense to lock the database before a migration, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcement: Startrek.website will be read-only for a while, and down for a few hours while we migrate hosts (Sept 4th)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious how you actually turn a Lemmy site read-only!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings who downvote news posts because you disagree with the conclusions, why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is usually the reason I will downvote a news article. Misinformation needs to be marked somehow, and a negative score is a good way to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people not hating (and even liking) Star Trek Enterprise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m making my way through the special features and commentaries in the Blu Ray edition. It amazes me that so much of the bonus content is apologizing for/explaining the bad quality of the show. I’ve never seen anything like it, really.

  I have watched this series several times. There was one way to watch it that makes it pretty good: follow the skippables list. It tells you which episodes to omit and which to watch to get the full story. It’s pretty incredible what it does to the experience of binging the show. Suddenly it feels Voyager-like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rank your favorite Star Trek movies! Be ready to defend your positions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nemesis above Undiscovered Country? That’s a shock!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Roasting means to cook over a flame. Baking means to cook in an oven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ Plans Global Rollout for International Original Series (Exclusive)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mortimer, we really have to do something. We’re almost out of Star Trek episodes and the writers are still on strike! All of them! Quick, look around and see what we can get to keep those subscriber numbers up!”

  Those shows might be great, but I have no doubts in my mind that they are coming because Paramount executives are digging in for the long haul and trying to break the strike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. There goes my workday productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like the Xenomorph from Alien will be Dead by Daylight's next killer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just started playing it for the first time a few weeks ago. Bought it in the Steam Summer Sale. It was really frustrating at first, but that’s because I was playing a survivor and I’m much more suited for the killers. But I kept with it and I think it’s quite fun. No toxicity, quick matches, and interesting available strategies. I really like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the current "favorite" show?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now? Silo. Every damn episode of that first season was perfect. In a few months it will probably be Star Trek Lower Decks again.