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  • What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?

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  • i think threadiverse is the move. partly because it's already in regular use and partky because it's very self-explanatory. forumverse could have some legs to it now that more traditional forum software like nodebb and soon flarum support federation now, maybe it could refer to the broader category containing traditional forums and the threadiverse, but i feel like leaving out the "fedi" part kinda defeats the point (threadiverse at least partially maintains it by being a pun on it). maybe fediforums is the way to go?

    it's a whole 'nother can of worms but ironically in my experience the "verse" part of threadiverse is more offputting than the "thread" part because people think "metaverse," but that's just anecdotal and the term fediverse itself already has too much momentum to easily fall out of fashion

  • This dren is getting out of hand

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  • having cameron not be crichton is still the funniest thing in the world to me

  • Trip vs T'Pol

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  • trip is best engineer because he does acrobatics like sliding down the stairs and climbing on the warp core

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  • I'm reminded of that onion article, "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made An Excellent Point." on one hand, as an independant musician who has many friends in different artistic fields, we all agree IP law is a net negative for us all. the threat of wrongly being accused of copyright infingement and being punished for it is very real, whereas the threat of having our work stolen is non-existant and wouldn't matter anyway because we're making fuck-all money in the first place. and the fact that we can't legally iterate on existing music the way humans have for as long as we've had music until very recently is just criminal. it makes me absolutely sick

    on the other hand, if IP law exists to protect small creators but in actuality protects corporate interests, and suddenly corporate interests think IP is bad, then we should be very worried. i said earlier that the threat of our work being stolen is minimal because we're not making money, but with all this generative AI bullcrap, they're using our art as raw fuel to displace artists entirely and burn the planet to a crisp. it makes me even more sick

  • ♬ I love you just the way you are! ♬

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  • at the time the green screens were what probably made it look so advanced to kid me- it's funny/sad how those effects aged like milk but the practical effects from TNG and DS9 aged like wine

  • ♬ I love you just the way you are! ♬

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  • And yes, I will count ENT as the tail-end of the "golden era,"

    i remember seeing ENT reruns as a kid and thinking how it made TNG look ancient by comparison. all these years later with the newer series to compare to, all that stands out is the uniforms and CGI (the latter of which is also all over VOY)

  • Happy First Contact Day?

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  • best case scenario is we're one of those "gotta break the prime directive here because jesus fucking christ" scenarios

  • Real Starfleet Heroes: Invisible Wheel Turning Guy

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  • i guess this was before stem bolts were self-sealing

  • Project Genesis

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  • that's what brings the Genesis device to 32X the speed of light

  • Punch it! 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs

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  • i don't know the exact intricacies either, it's just that in the past the lights on the bridge have been dim enough under normal circumstances that to my eye it almost looks like they're at red alert. the bridge in TOS was very bright, partially because they were going for a fun utopian look and partly because it showed up better on a CRT screen i guess. the newer shows tend to go for moodier, more dramatic, and honestly probably more realistic look. the difference is shown really well when an old ship shows up in a new show- when the E shows up in Picard or the regular Enterprise in Discovery, they both look blindingly light compared to the other ships. when it came time to film SNW though, I guess they wanted it to be more consistent with the other shows and went for a more subdued look

    compared to Picard and Disco, the problem isn't as bad in SNW to begin with. i actually went to take a few screenshots to illustrate my point and was surprised that it wasn't as bad as i remember. the picture in the article just seems brighter to my eye and that change alone makes the bridge look much more like it did in the 60s to me, and i am apparently the kind of person who gets excited by that

  • Punch it! 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs

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  • holy shit! look at that photo! if they're using that lighting while filming then my one single gripe with SNW will be eliminated

  • Electronic dictionary market shrinking in Japan

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  • were electronic dictionaries a bigger deal in japan than elsewhere? as far as i know, in america they were never anything more than novelties even before everyone had a computer in their pocket. i did a little googling and it seems like they were/are more common in japan but couldn't find any reference as to why. my only guess is that it has something to do with keeping track of kanji but in the 80s they probably weren't even capable of displaying kanji so /shrug

  • The ‘Really Bad’ Worf Line Michael Dorn Roasted When He Didn’t Know Ronald D. Moore Was Standing Behind Him On The Star Trek: The Next Generation Set | Cinemablend

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  • the icon recently talked about one of the moore embarrassing lines he ever wrote for Trek.

    ftfy

  • confused about communities and servers.

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  • you can just subscribe to them all. that way, if one instance goes down, or dies out, or makes nonsensical moderation decisions, you still have the others. it's not a bug, it's a feature!

  • The ultimate doomsday device

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  • blast processing

  • Kate Mulgrew: Janeway's Star Trek Return Is "Being Pursued"

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  • if she ends up back in the captain's chair, harry is her first officer. but he's still an ensign

  • Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices

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  • The CIO said 'Why do we need a wiring closet, we're a cloud first company'."

    you have to laugh, because otherwise you'd cry

  • I want to open this jar of pickles

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  • i guess it depends on what you consider to be the good stuff to begin with. SNW is essentially more TOS and TNG which makes it a pretty safe bet. Lower Decks is great but it's very different, being a comedy first and foremost. if you want to play it safe i would avoid Discovery and Picard, and that's coming from one of the ten people who liked parts of both of them

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  • stack overflow

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  • there's no one easy fix to the rancid sociopolitical climate in the US but a Tim Hortons on every corner would certainly go a long way