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- Comment on How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Used a Murder Mystery to Pay Homage to Shatner, Roddenberry and the Original Series: ‘We Didn’t Have Any Adult Supervision’ 4 days ago:
I enjoyed the episode a lot. The USS adventure bits were hilarious , but I did wish the murder mystery was better. It seemed just like a pretext for all the meta stuff.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
actually, looking at the trailer there are 2 cadets of the Red squadron from USS Valiant in the wall:
- Karen Farris
- Dorian Collins, The sole survivor, though in the wall the appear she is listed as ACPO (acting chief petty officer).
Unfortunately the wall seems to be more an easter egg than anything meaningful.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 1 week ago:
and Red Squadron in TNG “The First Duty”.
I think Uhura was also a cadet in SNW first season
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien 2 weeks ago:
one of the photos shows a wall with many known names. it seems nothing interesting happened in starfleet between LD and DSC.
also. why is Joseph Mbenga listed as CDR instead of CMDR? (assuming it is him)
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. Most people I know keep their phones from 3 to 5 years, sometimes more.
- Comment on Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection 1 month ago:
they are also confusing the software with the firefox brand.
- Comment on UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework 1 month ago:
I guess is people were using the oracle VM without license and were caught. Oracle makes it very easy to not notice that the Java distribution you download requires payment.
- Comment on UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework 1 month ago:
they are tons of cheaper and free java vendors. There is little reason to choose Oracle’s
- Comment on Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon 1 month ago:
what exactly do you mean by “locking down” in this context?
- Comment on Mario Kart World | Review Thread 1 month ago:
I’ve been enjoying the game a lot. My kids did complain that the battle mode is so barebones. 8 had a lot of battle modes. Going back to just balloons and coins is not great.
But I haven’t seen reviews complaining about this so I guess nobody really cares
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 2 months ago:
and it requires line of sight which means it is hard to scale, will have issues with adverse climate and probably will need frequent realigments
- Comment on Epic CEO says Apple still hasn’t approved its Fortnite iOS submission, suggests it’s obstructing the process [VGC] 2 months ago:
they still could play nice and show some good will. they have been behaving awful recently
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 2 months ago:
I think that if that was feasible a successful protect would exist already to develop . it is not like people does not want it to exist. sure, there are tons of projects making variations of existing browsers but none of them do much besides minor tweaks.
From the top of my head Servo is the closest one and it has a big head start since mozilla developed originally. and that is just an engine, not a full browser.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 months ago:
I think you underestimate the costs of development.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 months ago:
while they have made a lot of dumb decisions, they are also in an almost impossible situation. every time they try to diversify their income they get hammered hard by the community.
- Comment on EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption 3 months ago:
I’m so tired of the EPP. Also I wish these outlets where better at reporting anything related to the EU. do know there are parties like there are parties in the US? all this shit comes from the EPP.
- Comment on Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business 4 months ago:
the article is not a news story, it is a personal analysis. of course it will show the author’s opinion
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 months ago:
they have only survived so far because hype and government money. they have never been profitable. the stock could halve again and it would still be overvalued
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 4 months ago:
it depends on your carrier
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 5 months ago:
also I don’t think they offer e2e encryption for what the UK demanded.
afaik they provide e2ee for messages and mail but not photos or drive, which apple did encrypt e2e when ADP was enabled.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 5 months ago:
the current law does not allow them to no comply. they can go to court, but they would be required to comply in the meantime.
unfortunately the UK law says not complying is a criminal offense, not just an administrative un compliance. so apple employees would be liable to criminal charges.
this is very bad but it’s the draconian UK laws the problem here.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 5 months ago:
I’m conflicted on what would have been the best course of action.
if they would have fought this (in private) I assume people would assume they were complying. so the only option would have been to break UK law and fight it publicly. I am not sure that was feasible.
but this also just creates a precedent for other countries push apple to do the same
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 5 months ago:
they did define themselves as leeches recently
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 5 months ago:
saying the gulf of Mexico is an US location is like saying the Pacific Ocean is an US location.
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 5 months ago:
it is worse when you notice than other places with two names do not use that schema.
Google maps shows “Rio Bravo” only when in spanish not Rio Bravo (Rio Grande).
- Comment on Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future 5 months ago:
I want a Billups / Barcley spinoff
- Comment on UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted 5 months ago:
It’s reasonable to assume Google has been served that same request. it just has not been confirmed to any outlet.
- Comment on UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted 5 months ago:
Most platforms did not had e2e back in 2013. now most offer it (thought sometimes it is optional)
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 6 months ago:
I honestly think the issue is that these people want a SmartTV but are annoyed about its downsides. When I bought my current TV I disabled the smartOS but ended up enabling it back because I did find value on its features.
I think the complaints are not well articulated. They do want the smart TV they just want good ones that dont spy on them or show ads.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 6 months ago:
smart TVs mostly can be used as a dumb TV if you reject the terms of services when you set it up. I understand they are annoying, but people making such a big fuzz about them are clearly just fabricating drama.