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  • The Good Trek

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  • Touche. Your erudite scholarship wins the day yet again.

  • The Good Trek

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  • Steve Jobs was a hippie. He changed the world. The counter culture played a big part in the invention of the personal computer. Trek rejected this aspect of the 60’s era free thought, and embraced the more conservative Nixon silent majority view. Pretty far from social justice IMHO.

  • The Good Trek

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  • I feel like it is a bit more nuanced. Yes TOS was forward leaning on race issues. But it was conservative in other areas such as pro-Vietnam War (as seen in the conclusion of "Private Little War") and anti-hippie (as seen in "Way to Eden"). Today's Trek is much more liberal overall when you look at it taken as a whole IMHO.

  • What is the most attractive quality in a person that instantly makes them desirable?

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  • Most people are going to say personality, but I am going to go with breast size.

    A quote (or mis-quote) from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" https://youtu.be/W_ENWgPmXnY?t=134

  • If you could have a superpower, what would it be? I'll start: to be invisible.

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  • Dr X level Psionic powers, mind reading and mind control

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • Can anyone recommend a good food processor? Mine broke. Specifically I want it to be able to make hummus with alacrity.

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  • Take a look at stick blenders. They are very versatile and eliminate a lot of the junk that comes with traditional food processors/blenders.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • That makes sense. It is interesting to read the original blog post from Wikimedia:

    https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/

    and what they say you can do if you want to help:

    "Active volunteers can further help meet this moment by working with Wikimedia Foundation teams to test out new experiences and tools on Wikipedia. As the internet changes rapidly, this is a moment to consider what parts of Wikipedia should change (and what parts should not), while staying true to the promise of human-centered, free knowledge for the world.

    A specific area where volunteers can help is with our new readers teams. We welcome you to review the current experiments we are running and help us answer key questions about what will most help readers. Please join the readers teams on their talk page and sign up for their newsletter to share your thoughts and learn more about their work. We’ll also be reaching out to communities soon with both live and on-wiki ways to talk about these trends, and what they mean for the Wikimedia projects."

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    How successful would a masked vigilante be in real life?

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  • Fighting street crime is tough, hard to find and it leaves little evidence. White collar crime OTH often leaves a paper trail. They don’t wear capes, but investigative journalists use these paper trails to uncover such crimes.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • Every time someone visits Wikipedia they make exactly $0. In fact, it costs them money. Are people still contributing and/or donating? These seem like more important questions to me.

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • There is definitely a bubble. But also what Nvidia is doing is smart. They have boatloads of cash. They are investing that cash in the companies that are using their products to create money making services. If one of them can create a killer app or viable service this will create demand for their products and they will have an ownership stake in it. Is this guaranteed or even likely? Probably not. We have reached the point where we were in 1996 where the chairman of the fed came out and said we are in a period of "irrational exuberance." That bubble took four more years to pop. This one may end quicker, but it is impossible to tell when it will end or what will come out of it from where we sit today.

  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • From the CDC website:

    “Bacteria can multiply rapidly if left at room temperature or in the "Danger Zone" between 40°F and 140°F. Never leave perishable food out for more than 2 hours (or 1 hour if exposed to temperatures above 90°F).”

    https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/prevention/index.html

  • The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix

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  • Moral from the original ACM paper: "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from com- panies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possi- bility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware mi- crocode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well-installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."

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  • I'm 40 now by Kplx

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  • Can confirm. I did exactly this at 40. Now in my 50's I just traded in the gravel bike for an ebike and bought a milk frother for my espresso machine!

  • Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins

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  • This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.

    edit: So I guess the point is that IT admins are frustrated that Copilot for users in an org is $30 per month vs $10 per month for a home user. Again, I don't buy it. If I think of all the ways MS is screwing me, this is not high on the list. Microsoft's predatory bundling practices have driven the cost of their services to a ridiculous point, well before this Copilot noise.

  • What's your strategy to ensure date night goes well?

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  • Chance of success… 32.33%

    Repeating, of course

  • How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people?

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  • The reality is it will take some disruptive force to alter the status quo. Maybe the government splitting up tech giants, maybe some public backlash to current events or maybe we will be invaded by aliens. Whatever it is, I will be waiting here on the Fediverse to welcome any and all who wish to join. Now having glimpsed a world free of invasive spying and constant manipulation to buy more stuff, I will never go back.

  • How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people?

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  • A free and open source social media platform supported only by the users and not by spying on its users.