ryper
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- Comment on Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites "fighting" against piracy streaming 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 1 month 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 2 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 3 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? 3 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" 3 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” 3 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” 3 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 3 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 4 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] 4 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] 4 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? 5 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" 5 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.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 5 months ago:
Re: limits of programmable matter:
On Discovery away teams wore programmable matter flashlight bracelets that could turn into a phaser, and I think even a phase rifle, but from these last couple of episodes it seems they can’t make a tricorder that turn into a medical tricorder.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x01: “Kids These Days” 5 months ago:
The Doctor mentions he put an aging program 5 centuries before to put organics at ease, which is obviously the Watsonian explanation for why Robert Picardo looks older.
That should also establish that he’s not the Doctor backup from VOY: “Living Witness”, who wouldn’t have been online 500 years ago.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 5 months ago:
When Is Starfleet Academy Set?
Although the show is somewhat vague about it, Starfleet Academy is set in the late 32nd century—approximately around the year 3190, a similar timeframe to when Star Trek: Discovery‘s fourth season takes place, which had previously mentioned the reopening of the institute to a new class of cadets in its premiere. The show is, at the very least, set some time after the events of Discovery‘s third season, which saw United Earth rejoin the Federation after a century of independence, as Starfleet Academy itself—based out of the starship USS Athena—spends much of its time docked at the Academy’s ancestral home near the Presidio in San Francisco.
I thought it was obvious that the show is set after Discovery? In the fourth season the Academy reopened on the station/ship where Federation headquarters was; Earth agreed to rejoin the Federation at the end of the fourth season (not the third), and it would have taken time to finalize Earth’s re-entry and then more time to reach a point where Starfleet Academy would move back.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 6 months ago:
NetNewsWire doesn’t have its own accounts, but it can still sync your read items through iCloud.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 6 months ago:
There must be something else to it. I’ve never paid any interest on my credit cards and I paid off my mortgage early; by your logic I should have a low credit score, but it’s actually in the “Excellent” range.
- Comment on A New 'Star Trek' Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight 7 months ago:
Why the Civil Rights Movement, other than the immediately obvious reason? It brings things full circle with Uhura and her first actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who initially planned on leaving the original Star Trek after a single season. It was a discussion with Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed her mind; as a fan of the show, he called her “our image of where we’re going. You’re 300 years from now, and that means that’s where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what you’re doing, you are our inspiration.” And when she told him about her plans to leave, he told her, “You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”
TIL MLK convinced Nichelle Nichols to stick with the show.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 8 months ago:
Apple Music has an Android app.