Lemmy copying Reddit with the downvotes system is something that really frustrates me.

The downvote button is one of the most toxic things about Reddit. Nobody uses it the way it is supposedly intended to be used.

Lemmy saw that and thought great, let’s copy.

I don’t know whether they did it because they wanted to make a straight up Reddit clone, or whether they mistakenly thought Lemmy users would be above that kind of behaviour (lol), but either way it was a mistake IMO. It just encourages division.

It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.

Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.

Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.

Extensions break with every update.

Sort of.

When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.

You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.

If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.

Good sausage. Nice house.

It’s worth noting that Pressman wasn’t alone in this, he had approval, it was just kept hushed.

I’m going to do something a little different from the rest of the comments here and think about it from a strategic realpolitik perspective: the Federation played an absolute blinder with the phased cloak device. It was a genuine strategic and political masterstroke.

They knew the Romulans, who they signed a treaty with not to develop cloaking technology in exchange for peace, were becoming emboldened and expansionist… they were gearing to break the peace anyway. They knew the Romulans, in their arrogance, thought the treaty held them back. That their agreement to peace was a mistake, and that their empire was suffering because of it.

So the Federation says yes, develop this cloaking tech that is vastly beyond anything the Romulans (or Klingons) have.

The Romulans see it, and they can’t believe it. They can’t believe how woefully outmatched they are.

Suddenly it dawns upon them that breaking the Treaty of Algeron is something they really don’t want to do, and that confrontation is not in their interest.

The Federation then says, so how about this treaty, eh? Should we scrap it, slap this phased cloak on all of our ships, then go to war? Or should we bin this cloak and both agree stick to the treaty? Put yourself in the Romulans’ shoes… what would you do when you’re faced with that choice? The Federation have just given a clear demonstration of their technical prowess… would you want to go up against that? The Romulans had no real choice but to tuck their tail between their legs and put out a statement saying they’re committed to the treaty.

Both parties silently agree that the event didn’t happen. But the Federation comes out of it top dog. Their enemy has been put in their place and knows that a war would not go well for them.

Good. Honestly it’s staggering they’ve supported it for this long. It’s hard to envisage such an old system browsing the web using Firefox, the modern web is so bloated that any 32-bit system will seriously struggle.

It’s much better to have that developer/testing effort spent elsewhere. Mozilla doesn’t exactly have the infinite resources that Google has.

But “redshirts” of the TNG era are actually goldshirts 🤔

The Federation is clearly not a dystopia lmao

That episode also notes there are only five Federation ships named “Enterprise”

That can be trivially explained away as the Enterprise NX-01 being commissioned as an Earth Starfleet ship, not a Federation Starfleet ship. The NX-01 predates the Federation.

I know you say in your opinion it probably counts as a Federation commissioned ship, but meh, I can also easily see it not counting.

I also like Archer in Enterprise, despite most of the fandom really not liking him.

I feel it’s completely unrealistic to expect him to be as much of a polished and perfect Starfleet officer as, say, Picard or Pike are.

He’s doing all of this stuff for the first time, with completely inadequate training, very little in the way of standard procedures imposed by the Earth government, etc. he also doesn’t have captain’s logs from others to pore through and learn from.

He’s an ex test pilot who’s been given command basics that are completely inadequate for interplanetary exploration and diplomacy, and he’s expected to learn on the fly.

People complain that he’s out of his depth half the time, but that’s the entire theme of the show.

It’s actually somewhat fun - as a one off for a Trek series - to see humans not be hypercompetent and perfect, while at the same time trying to be. You can see that they’re not at the level of evolved sensibilities that we see in TNG, but they want to be. That’s their goal. They’re trying to be. And not half-arsed trying either, they’re genuinely putting as much effort as they can to better themselves as a species. They’re risking their lives to be a positive force in the galaxy, only to end up making a mess of it and sometimes making stuff worse, but it works as a series because you can see it comes not from malice, but from a desire to do good. They’re trying to impose good morals on a galaxy full of realpolitik and shades of grey. It’s like watching Superman, except unlike Superman they don’t have might to back themselves up, quite the opposite, they’re small fish trying to impose goodwill onto the great whites. I find that very endearing.

I miss Enterprise. It’s a great shame we never got to see the Earth-Romulan war and more of the political back and forth between the Federation founder worlds.

Mirror universe Ezri Dax. She can beat me up anytime.

Yes, I have problems.

A lot of the Linux community are the most obnoxious entitled scumbags I’ve ever met in my life.

The amount of people that get very demanding or hate developers (who are donating their time for free) when they don’t cater their project towards that user’s desires… it bothers me. It’s even present in this very thread. It’s an extremely popular viewpoint to have, and it seriously bugs me.

If you don’t like how a project is run, don’t use it. It’s their project.

To be fair, it does make sense.

“Warp 9.975” (and beyond, for newer ships than the Intrepid) is getting a bit absurd

Having heard about some of the difficulty in budgeting for a charity my friend works at that is also reliant on donations, this isn’t surprising.

She said things would be managed more effectively if there were predictable payments coming in, even if they were taking in less money in total.

It appears Gnome, and probably others, are the same.

Trouble is, I too am a “I like donating to things in lump sums so my bank account is less cluttered” kinda guy.

Doesn’t it say in ENT that the transporter had only just been approved for transfer of biological matter?

Seems very normal for him to be sceptical of it, given that. Especially for transporting his own crew, for whom he is responsible for their safety.

I imagine he really didn’t want to tell families that he told [crew mate] to use the transporter and it killed them in some gruesome way, or to have that memory torturing him at night.

And it’s not like he wasn’t vindicated, either. Weren’t there multiple instances of transporter incidents in ENT?

Tbh, I like the explanation that they genetically engineered it into that ‘design’ of Vorta, but not others.

We know the Founders are seen as gods to the Jem Hadar (not just to Vorta), and yet the Founders still chose to make them reliant on ketracel white, just in case they overcame that ‘programming’ and rebelled.

Seems completely logical that they’d also limit the Vorta’s abilities in order to more easily curtail any future uprising too. Giving them all the ability to fire energy blasts could be something the Founders regretted later on.

It’s also true that the Federation’s first meeting with the Vorta was all orchestrated. It’s possible the energy blast is something they purposely show off during first contact to other powers, to act as a show of force to them.

As for plot lines that went nowhere in DS9, does anybody remember that there was initially a rift between Jem Hadar created in the Gamma Quadrant and those created in the Alpha Quadrant? It was shown in that episode where the defiant shrunk, but then was never mentioned again. They were clearly gearing up for a civil war plotline, but it never came to be.

You fuck one candle ghost passed down by your grandmother then you never hear the end of it, smh

I watched The Orville for the first time only recently, and thought wow she does not look ~23 years older than she did in DS9.

You see Chekov

I see Bester

We are not the same

Certainly 3.

Fully open and accessible: Fully open-source release of model weights, training hyperparameters, datasets, and code, fostering innovation and collaboration within the AI community.

That’s actually pretty good. Seems to be open source as the OSI defines it, rather than the much more common “this model is open source, but the dataset is a secret”.