ryper
@ryper@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 2 days ago:
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
- Comment on Happens a lot 4 days ago:
Like I tell me mom, you asked if you could hug me but you didn’t say anything about me hugging you back.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 week ago:
Capital expenditures are for things that are expected to last a long time, like buildings and vehicles, so I guess the accounting rules around them are meant to allow the costs to be realized over a similarly long time. The idea is probably that companies would be less likely to invest in capital if it meant taking a big hit all at once. But I’m not an accountant.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 week ago:
How can something be profitable, but also have negative cash flow?
It’s been about thirty years since I took an accounting class, but I think capital expenditures like this AI spending are amortized over several years and don’t fully count towards present expenses. So the chunk that counts for this quarter/year can still be small enough to make the company profitable (income > expenses). Free cash flow I would guess is money that came in minus money actually spent, so something like a $1m capital expenditure might count as $100k for this year’s expenses but the full $1m for calculating cash flow.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" 1 week ago:
If Pike’s fate were truly sealed his future self wouldn’t have needed to come back and tell him changing it was going to go badly for the Federation.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" 1 week ago:
I don’t think there was anything that showed they couldn’t change the past; Pike just made the right choice to avoid changing it. If they tried to shoot down the missile and something went wrong, that I would maybe take as a sign the past is fixed.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
At the end of June they announced this would be rolling out “over the next month”. So anyone who can use old reddit without logging in could still run into it soon.
- Comment on Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites "fighting" against piracy streaming 3 weeks ago:
It’s by IP:
The maths is brutal. On a match day, blocking just 4 to 20 IP addresses knocked out more than 400,000 unrelated domains. The outage lasted as long as the game.
None of this is new in kind, only in scale. Courts across Europe have long ordered providers to block pirate sites. Spain runs one of the continent’s most aggressive regimes. What has changed is the plumbing. The web now runs on shared infrastructure, so a crude IP block is a shotgun, not a scalpel.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 4 weeks ago:
Premium includes Google’s equivalent of paid Spotify. Premium Lite and free users get something closer to Spotify’s free tier.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 4 weeks ago:
The tier makes sense, if not the name. Google insists on including music streaming in Youtube Premium, and Premium Lite is a cheaper tier that doesn’t include music streaming. It’s missing some other features too, but it beats Premium for people who just want to not have ads and for some reason won’t use an ad blocker.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
They also just announced that the PS3 and Vita Playstation Store will be shutting down, starting next month in certain regions and everywhere by July 2027. At some point in the future it will be impossible to buy games for your old PS6 because it doesn’t support discs and the Playstation Store dropped support.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Apple could use higher quality drives, or have to pay a premium for being weird and buying controller-less drives, but yes, a big part of the difference is probably just higher profit margins.
Apple raised prices on a bunch of stuff today, and the iPad Pro upgrade is now £900.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
The £800 to upgrade the iPad Pro isn’t just paying for storage. The 1TB and 2TB iPad Pro have an extra CPU core and 4GB more RAM vs the lower storage tiers.
- Comment on First Auction Of Set Pieces From ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Coming This Friday 2 months ago:
Same rules as the Starfleet Academy auctions:
The rules for the new auction remain the same as the previous ones, requiring bidders to be residents of Ontario or place a deposit with a Canadian bank. Bids can be placed online, but you need to pick up items in person as 403 auctions is not shipping anything.
- Comment on No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes 3 months ago:
And yet somehow the part where there are active MLB players who share names with Cold Play’s lead singer and Carlos Santana is not wrong.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 4 months ago:
Why would they sabotage viewership for season 2 instead of canceling it outright? Or at a minimum just dump the rest of it now?
They can’t dump season 2 right now because it only finished filming a month ago and there’s a lot to be done after that.
- Comment on where? 4 months ago:
There are at least 2 dead people on the plane. I think I’d wait for another flight…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x10 "Rubincon" 4 months ago:
And I do hope they find Ocam - I assume he wandered off into the woods or something after episode 8.
I suspect he actually followed orders and went down to Betazed last episode like he was supposed to.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Finale With 6 New Images From “Rubincon” 4 months ago:
Instead of “Rubin con”, it could split as “Rub in con”. If Nus pulled off a good con he’d for sure rub it in.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Finale With 6 New Images From “Rubincon” 4 months ago:
The picture of Anisha looks to me like she’s betrayed everyone and the dude in the background with what seems to be a weapon is with her.
Lura is back. I feel like it’s been a few weeks since we’ve seen her.
- Comment on whos your favorite borg? mine is localhost 4 months ago:
I can’t remember if it was at university or a job, but there was a server named ‘borg’ and on there localhost really would have been borg.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x09 "300th Night" 4 months ago:
I don’t watch WWE, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Becky’s wrestling gear based on her character’s uniform has gotten more screen time than the actual uniform.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x09 "300th Night" 4 months ago:
Frakes says this was the last Star Trek episode he has directed. None of the filming since has fit his schedule.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x09 "300th Night" 4 months ago:
Why did they bother introducing the Athena’s bridge crew if they’re not going to use them?
I guess reunification between the Vulcans and Romulans must have taken a while if Vulcan was renamed to Ni’var in Nahla’s lifetime.
Convenient that they waited until the school year was over to lose most of the school.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Wins Emmy Award For Animation 4 months ago:
Prodigy season 2 came out in July 2024. How is it winning awards in 2026?
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 5 months ago:
So much of the Verge is paywalled these days it’s completely understandable for someone not to bother clicking through.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 5 months ago:
Comparing mu whitelist to the suggestions I’ve found online, I can only come up with api2.branch.io, saa.paramountplus.com and tags.tiqcdn.com; I might have also deleted something from the blacklist. There’s a few Paramount+ whitelists, like this one, that you could look at if none of those work.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 5 months ago:
When the app wouldn’t save my watch history, I eventually found that I needed to unblock a domain in pi-hole to make it work. Are you using anything like that?
- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 6 months ago:
They started filming the season 2 finale this week. I think if she wasn’t going to be in season 2 we’d have heard something by now.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 6 months ago:
The away team braclets are programmed for at least a couple of different modes, and switching is pretty quick. I would think if they could use programmable matter to make a multi-mode tricoder, it would be standard.
At any rate, I assume they can’t program matter into dilithium, because that would have made recovering from the Burn a whole lot easier.