I miss when Star Trek was boring and for the extremely nerd, instead of mainstream generic space opera of doomsday threats and cartoonish villains. But it's not about gatekeeping or whatever you might think - it's because it was different. Unlike Narissa from Picard S01, I am not a onedimensional character. I can be many things, and being extremely nerd is just one of them. I am also mainstream audience, and I do greatly enjoy mainstream melodramatic space opera, like the Mandalorian for example. But my nerd self has nowhere to go now.
Also, the future of classic Star Trek was somewhere that made you want to live there and daydream of what could be possible. The NuTrek dystopia where everything is blowing up all the time, is not that. Can we please have different things
Also, the future of classic Star Trek was somewhere that made you want to live there and daydream of what could be possible. The NuTrek dystopia where everything is blowing up all the time, is not that. Can we please have different things
I gave up on modern Treck after season 1 Discovery, not as bad as Enterprise, but I just knew they could never get back to this level. TV is just not written like this any more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41aEtE0iYs
Star Trek The Next Generation - Justification of a preemptive strike vs. Picard
Another starship captain starts a preemptive war all by himself, kills 700 people and then tries to justify it in front of Picard.The episode's title is " Th...YouTube
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"Can you give me an example of what you mean when you say that you sometimes interpret questions literally?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
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I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.
I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.
I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.
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Content is corporate.
Don't be corporate.
The only way left to combat the algorithms is being aggressively human.
Don't be corporate.
The only way left to combat the algorithms is being aggressively human.
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People talk about dull or menial jobs like they're easy
Ok yes, it's easy to make a coffee or pick a tomato. Now do it 1,000 times. Do it every day. Do it with people yelling at you. Do it in the cold. Do it while you're sick.
Just because the task is easy doesn't mean the job is
Ok yes, it's easy to make a coffee or pick a tomato. Now do it 1,000 times. Do it every day. Do it with people yelling at you. Do it in the cold. Do it while you're sick.
Just because the task is easy doesn't mean the job is
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Yesterday I took my last PrEP pill.
This morning I visited my medical provider and began Apretude, an injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis that I will take just once every two months. Sure, it means two more medical appointments per year, but I no longer have to take a daily pill.
I take #PrEP because I am sexually active. I speak out about taking PrEP because I want to do my part to destroy the stigmas surrounding sexual behaviors. Slut shaming has no place in 2023.
This morning I visited my medical provider and began Apretude, an injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis that I will take just once every two months. Sure, it means two more medical appointments per year, but I no longer have to take a daily pill.
I take #PrEP because I am sexually active. I speak out about taking PrEP because I want to do my part to destroy the stigmas surrounding sexual behaviors. Slut shaming has no place in 2023.
why is NTFS such a horrible painful botteneck jfc. How can a simple copy task of some GBs bring the entire OS performance to a halt, to the point where windows take minutes to render their contents. Specially when the CPU is just sitting there idle having a relaxing afternoon. I really don't understand
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if you make a game and i Have to be a man
youve made a bad game
unoriginal
boring
stop making games.
youve made a bad game
unoriginal
boring
stop making games.
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only online/PVP girl protags or only part of the story playable as female protag is actually Worse than none at all, thanks
me, a video game blogger or st: tell me about your new game
some dude: (talks about the hard work of the team, story designers, etc)
me: but can you be a girl?
some dude: well, no bu—
me, looking to camera: 0/10
some dude: (talks about the hard work of the team, story designers, etc)
me: but can you be a girl?
some dude: well, no bu—
me, looking to camera: 0/10
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i think if i ever stream i will have a ranking system, and rank them as i go/play them
and 5 of the ten points will be if i can be anyone other than a cis het white man in his 30s with straight, usually brown, short hair
and 5 of the ten points will be if i can be anyone other than a cis het white man in his 30s with straight, usually brown, short hair
“ginger it doesnt matter, and his gender has nothing to do with the story so just pretend its a girl”
if it doesnt matter then Let Me Be A Girl
stop being a lazy dev
if it doesnt matter then Let Me Be A Girl
stop being a lazy dev
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“females are just too difficult to animate”
(sees a very cute female NPC with better hair and clothing options shortly after entering the game)
???
(fire them all)
(sees a very cute female NPC with better hair and clothing options shortly after entering the game)
???
(fire them all)
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gonna scream about misogyny in video games even after i die
i will haunt all devs who only make male protags and all gamers who think theres nothing wrong with that
i will haunt all devs who only make male protags and all gamers who think theres nothing wrong with that
Several years ago, there was this meme running around regarding The Sims (I'm not even sure there were even called memes back then), probably paraphrasing, about how the game lets you realize your wildest dreams, such as owning a house, having a steady job, pursuing all your interests, and so on. At the moment I was like "*chuckles* oh, you Internet, lol". Today at 41 it's not that funny anymore.
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I encounter disturbingly often people who tell me I can't be #ActuallyAutistic.
It's incredible, really. They are essentially telling me straight to my face, that either I (not to mention my diagnosticians) am mistaken about my identity and that they, random strangers, know me better, or that I am lying.
The only thing I am *not* doing is fitting their considerably prejudiced ideas of what autistic people are like.
Where on Earth do these people get such endless self-confidence? 1/
It's incredible, really. They are essentially telling me straight to my face, that either I (not to mention my diagnosticians) am mistaken about my identity and that they, random strangers, know me better, or that I am lying.
The only thing I am *not* doing is fitting their considerably prejudiced ideas of what autistic people are like.
Where on Earth do these people get such endless self-confidence? 1/
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The list of my shortcomings as an #Autist is both sad and hilarious. For the longest time, my favorite reason why I can't be autistic was "you don't dress like an autist", but now the situation is a tie with "you can't name even ten train models".
Communication is among my major talents, yet there are these times when words fail me... 🤣
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Communication is among my major talents, yet there are these times when words fail me... 🤣
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Some very nice liberal people need to learn it's totally okay to hate someone who is literally and objectively evil, that evil isn't just a deplorable word right-wingers invented to attack marginalized people, that actual evil transpires around us all the time, and there's no middle ground, no compromise, and no debate to be had with people who want to commit actual genocide.
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this place that I work with has been migrating parts of the infrastructure to aws for the last year or so. since there is an aws guy in the team, I was able to mostly ignore it - but then the dude went on a vacation, and the stuff defaulted to me for some reason. anyway the experience let me remember just why, and how intensely, i hate aws & friends
when did IT go so wrong... honestly, coming to loathe my chosen field of work was not what I imagined when I started as a starry-eyed youngster some 20 years ago
#ThereIsNoCloud
when did IT go so wrong... honestly, coming to loathe my chosen field of work was not what I imagined when I started as a starry-eyed youngster some 20 years ago
#ThereIsNoCloud
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I love my job, but I do find it frustrating how much of my job consists of repeatedly arguing obvious stuff like "phrenology is bad even if a computer does it" and "using probabilistic lossily-compressed text databases to guess next words is not sentience" and "understanding Merkle trees does not guarantee you'll make tons of money in speculative trading of unregulated currencies" to students and peers and occasionally university administrators.
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?
“…”
Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.
Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?
“…”
Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.
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@Xan 9 from Outer Space That's my go to reply as well. Tho in my case, it was me being unable to find a job...
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being an anticapitalist in tech is constantly pointing out how the latest shiny new tech hyped up through venture capitalist billions and using more energy than a small country probably doesnt have your best interests at heart, and getting gaslit into accepting that it must be part of the future and you're just some weird luddite, until 1-3 years later everyone accepts its shit and starts agreeing with you by which time its too late
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Does anyone know how I can check whether an image has alt text on Mobile Firefox? Since I'm not really able to do a "pointer hover" over it...
Thanks!
#alt-text #accessibility
Thanks!
#alt-text #accessibility
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works, huh?
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works, huh?
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Definitely trying to get sued https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-s-exclusive-interview-with-j-k-rowling-1850141221
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling: “Tell me which genitals you have right now.”Chad Nackers (The Onion)
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@Bethany Black
> “Do you have any words of encouragement for aspiring transphobes?”
> J.K. Rowling: “Find the time in your day to practice transphobia every day, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.”
lmfao
> “Do you have any words of encouragement for aspiring transphobes?”
> J.K. Rowling: “Find the time in your day to practice transphobia every day, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.”
lmfao
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So many people freak out that the #fediverse is just creating a bubble with all the banning and blocking. What they don't realize is that algorithms also put you into a serious bubble. Everything is a bubble, it just comes down to WHO decides what bubble you are in. Most of history we have lived in a geographic bubble. The pre-algorithm internet had a hybrid of interest and geography bubble. The publicly traded internet creates a make money bubble, ethics be damned. Anyone who thinks they aren't already in a bubble of some kind is delusional. The Fediverse and #mastodon are a much more mindful and ethical bubble, and seems much closer to the early internet bubbles than the for-profit ones.
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@Daniel Brotherston Pretty sure you wouldn't deal with those people in real life, why be forced to deal with them in person. There are social punishments to them in real life, why should online be different?
Exactly!
I think however it's less common in person. These people are part of social groups like churches or other groups which force people to interact with them, despite their inherent repulsion.
I think however it's less common in person. These people are part of social groups like churches or other groups which force people to interact with them, despite their inherent repulsion.
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Freunde #Psychowawuschel 18.2.23
In der Kindheit sitzen viele mit #Borderline #ADHS #Autismus .... Gründen für #notjustsad oft allein da, ohne Freund:Innen.
Weil unsere
Wahrnehmung,
Fühlen,
Emotionen
Anders sind.
Das traumatisiert.
Ich durfte in den letzten Jahren die Erfahrung machen, dass es Menschen gibt, zu denen wir gehören und die zu uns gehören wollen.
Die finden wir, so oberflächlich es klingt, wenn wir nicht mehr danach suchen.
Please keep holding on.
It will get better.
In der Kindheit sitzen viele mit #Borderline #ADHS #Autismus .... Gründen für #notjustsad oft allein da, ohne Freund:Innen.
Weil unsere
Wahrnehmung,
Fühlen,
Emotionen
Anders sind.
Das traumatisiert.
Ich durfte in den letzten Jahren die Erfahrung machen, dass es Menschen gibt, zu denen wir gehören und die zu uns gehören wollen.
Die finden wir, so oberflächlich es klingt, wenn wir nicht mehr danach suchen.
Please keep holding on.
It will get better.
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bigots are the worst of humanity and they don’t even know how boring they are
I’ve seen more ingenuity and creativity in a pile of rotting potatoes
I’ve seen more ingenuity and creativity in a pile of rotting potatoes
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I don’t worry about whether the latest MarkovChatBotAI thing is sentient. It isn’t, and won’t be any time soon (if ever).
What I worry about is what we’re missing, what we’re looking right past, as we obsess over a funhouse mirror of ourselves.
What I worry about is what we’re missing, what we’re looking right past, as we obsess over a funhouse mirror of ourselves.
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Appliances that aren't "smart" is a right-to-repair issue.
One of the biggest reasons why I don't want any appliances to require an app is that it introduces another way to force you into obsolescence and prevent you from repairing your stuff forever.
I'd always rather have an older repairable thing than a new thing I can't fix.
One of the biggest reasons why I don't want any appliances to require an app is that it introduces another way to force you into obsolescence and prevent you from repairing your stuff forever.
I'd always rather have an older repairable thing than a new thing I can't fix.
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Today marks twice in two months that companies have given a job to someone else after I got a thumbs up from everyone at every stage of their multi-week interview process.
What if we stopped making interviews an endurance race? I mean, even ignoring the value of my time, this must cost them 4 or 5 thousand dollars per candidate. If companies invested even half this much time in their onboarding, they would just never make a "bad" hire.
What if we stopped making interviews an endurance race? I mean, even ignoring the value of my time, this must cost them 4 or 5 thousand dollars per candidate. If companies invested even half this much time in their onboarding, they would just never make a "bad" hire.
@Jenniferplusplus The whole hiring process amounts to little more than corporate astrology and I wonder why everyone keeps falling for it.
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Scare quotes on "bad" hire, because there's almost no such thing. People just do not apply for jobs that they're wholly incapable of doing. Certainly not at the rate that would justify this expense or treatment of people. Especially given how easy that is to identify.
So if companies are finding that people routinely come into their environment and fail, they should really fix the environment, not the people.
And if they somehow do get lots of unqualified candidates, maybe they should stop favoring cishet white dudes?
So if companies are finding that people routinely come into their environment and fail, they should really fix the environment, not the people.
And if they somehow do get lots of unqualified candidates, maybe they should stop favoring cishet white dudes?
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reading @slightlyoff’s post “The Market for Lemons” (https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/) has me thinking SPAs are an adversarial pattern designed to weaken competition
The Market for Lemons
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks.Alex Russell
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moving on to @seldo’s rebuttal https://seldo.com/posts/the_case_for_frameworks
The case for frameworks
Today I read Alex Russell's screed The Market for Lemons and I found myself compelled to write a rebuttal. I am a big fan of Alex's work in general but not of this post in particular, which is very long, so allow me to attempt to summarize itseldo.com
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something i would recommend every developer watch is “simple made easy” by rich hickey (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy), which makes a very salient distinction between simple (i.e. not complex) and easy (i.e. at hand, already known). just because something’s easy doesn’t mean it’s simple. managing complexity gets time consuming enough to tank companies and products, even if it’s “easy” to plow ahead because of the sunk cost fallacy
Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.Rich Hickey (InfoQ)
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@TBpnw saw this and thought you should see this round bird
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What's the worst git commit comment that you've ever seen?
I'm torn between "lots of stuff" and "change". Can't decide.
I'm torn between "lots of stuff" and "change". Can't decide.
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"It's hilarious but also a bit disturbing how common it is for men who come into the public library I work at to pick up books that their wives or daughters put on hold to loudly and angrily boast about how they "haven't been to a fucking library in my life" and "don't understand how anything works around here because I never go to libraries, that's my wife's thing" as if they think I'd otherwise be judging their masculinity for being there." - from a librarian comrade
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> These are all birds that hang out at my place from time to time.
😲
jealous? No, I'm not jealous...
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