danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 3 days ago:
What do you use for voice synthesis?
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 3 days ago:
OMG I love this. Thank you for sharing!
- Comment on Unauthorised car park near Stansted Airport grows after notice 3 days ago:
Tow every last one.
- Comment on Favorite Trek episode that's not in the usual top 57 lists? 3 days ago:
I really liked VOY: “One Small Step” (s06e08) wherein the crew work to salvage the wreckage of an ancient Earth probe from a dark matter asteroid
It’s a nice acknowledgement of the reality that space is fucking dangerous, and of the bravery of the men and women who shot themselves into it with little more than a few layers of metal and their wits to protect themselves. All this in the name of advancing science and exploration.
It closes with seven reading a eulogy for the centuries-dead astronaut who died diverting all power to the sensors so that knowledge would be preserved.
- Comment on Favorite Trek episode that's not in the usual top 57 lists? 3 days ago:
- Comment on London council set to cut Haifa ties over Israel's apartheid against Palestinians 4 days ago:
It’s always nice to see Greens following through on their promises.
- Comment on Wildfires 'stark reminder' of extreme climate challenge, says William 4 days ago:
Why does anyone give a shit about what this man thinks?
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 1 week ago:
Well we are in the midst of a massive drought.
- Comment on Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises 2 weeks ago:
“Small” steps, because the necessary big steps like insulating homes and rebuilding our road infrastructure for flood resistance is work the state must do… and they’re too busy throwing old ladies in prison for holding up signs and splashing paint.
- Comment on Tutorial for setting up Iocaine (Scraper tarpit) 2 weeks ago:
That’s an excellent tutorial, but the bit about blocking legitimate web crawlers should be a little higher up in the article. I read all the way down and was ready to try it out when I encountered that deal-breaker.
- Comment on UK children will be one of unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors say 2 weeks ago:
They paved everything and filled the streets with monster trucks that park on every possible surface. Children are prisoners in their own homes. None of this should be surprising.
- Comment on We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? 2 weeks ago:
I agree 100% but would point out that simply having healthier options available at reasonable prices is only half the solution. The other half is time. With much of the working class working 9-10hr days and commuting for an additional 2hrs, that doesn’t leave a lot of time for the gym or cooking healthy meals. …and that’s for those lucky enough to be working only one job.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 weeks ago:
Not unless those AC units are combined with rooftop solar. Most schools have massive amounts of space on the roof, so solar should be cheap and potentially even profitable to install.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 3 weeks ago:
Also way cheaper.
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 3 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely connections between them, though most of their videos seem to be bending over backwards to draw lines between some of them. The problem is in the presentation: insisting on drawing so many connections is unnecessary, especially when some of them are so tenuous.
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 3 weeks ago:
I love the idea of DDN, but so many of the videos are just the same dude spinning connections between different parties until it’s just a big ball of red yarn pinned to a wall. This, coupled with the spooky music and those ridiculous title cards (it’s always EXPOSED!) I just can’t with them.
- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely not. We should regulate them into transparency and prevent them from experimenting on children.
…but that’s not what he’s doing is it? This is punishing children by excluding them from their community because he lacks the courage required to stand up to American techbros.
- Comment on UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act 5 weeks ago:
“Act”? Like, “just stop oil”? Nonsense. That’d be terrorism. /s
- Comment on Greens leader Zack Polanski calls the genocide in Gaza the moral litmus test for politicians 5 weeks ago:
All perfectly reasonable requirements.
- Comment on Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff 5 weeks ago:
Well as someone who’s never heard of Flint Global, I think the fossil fuel link required supporting data.
Even still, having worked in the past for a company that did lobbying for many industries, one of which was fossils is still a ways from “fossil fuel lobbyist”. That sort of claim requires more direct evidence for me.
He is however the former chair of Friends of Israel though, so I think were on the same “fuck this guy” page.
- Comment on Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff 5 weeks ago:
Neither the Guardian article, nor his Wikipedia entry mention any lobbying for fossil fuels. Do you have a source for this?
- Comment on More than one million homes in London need retrofitting due to increasing temperatures 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, this number feels low.
- Comment on Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover 5 weeks ago:
Please no.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen (and read) The Expanse, and you’re right, it’s fantastic. One of the authors has also repeated gone on record as doing his best to fight the patriarchy.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 5 weeks ago:
I agree that this is valid criticism. The Star Trek writers have clearly gotten lazier over the years, opting for hamfisted, blatant, “see? we’re being woke in this scene” rather than allowing you to think for yourself.
However, the complaint here is laziness and not the nature of the message. I’d even go so far to say that due to the complex storytelling of earlier series, there’s a large continent of the fanbase that didn’t realise their progressive nature, and are objecting to how it’s woke now.
So basically I think there’s two complaints here: a valid one that you’re making: “lazy writing is terrible and arguably less effective”, and another one coming from, shall we say, those unburdened by an overabundance of schooling that are objecting to progressive ideas that were always there, but they only notice it now with the lazy writing.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 1 month ago:
I whole-heartedly agree.
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- Comment on Elon Musk: Zack Polanski is ‘a scumbag and traitor’ 1 month ago:
Well if Elon says he’s a bad guy, it must be true.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: James Bond must not be woke 1 month ago:
I see the Toties are continuing to focus on the critical problems of our time.
- Comment on Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England 1 month ago:
I got my MRI in a matter of days, not because my case was dire (it was just a routine screening) but because I paid for private health care through my employer.
We need to have a grown up conversation in this country about how fucked up it is that private companies have injected themselves into our “single payer” system to create two-tiered care.
You cannot share this space with private companies. The only mode capitalism has is stratification and enshittification.