Kirk

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The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered a design question that amazingly no one had asked before: "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?" in c/doctorwho@startrek.website
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 19 hours ago

Modern controller design has truly missed the mark

'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly, well said. I think for a lot of people the advent of paywalls felt like taking away a free thing, instead of a return to the norm. Personally when it comes to journalism I prefer a paywall to advertiser-supported.

NYC’s Urban Textscape: Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets in c/citylife@beehaw.org
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

Bummer that the site that this talks about is down: https://www.alltext.nyc/

'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

The argument that paywalls somehow ruin the open parts of the Web always fell flat for me. It is trivial to contribute to the Web for free if one wishes. Nobody is forced to paywall their content.

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The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered a design question that amazingly no one had asked before: "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?" (infosec.pub)
 

Source @natasha_jay@tech.lgbt https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115485893919837503

/r/RedditAlternatives post - "A good alternative to Reddit? " in c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, nine times out of ten someone who wants "free speech" on the web means they want to force others to listen.

/r/RedditAlternatives post - "A good alternative to Reddit? " in c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

The nice thing about Fedi is that slur-loving people can have their space that allows slurs, but people who don't want slurs can de-federate.

If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

It doesn't really improve productivity much for me. And if you take into account the emails I receive from coworkers written with copilot then I'm actually doing more work to decipher what they are trying to say.

Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks great, can old Google location data be imported?

CBS News just gutted its climate team in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

John Oliver did a deep dive into her recently. It's not good. She brands herself as a moderate but is essentially in lockstep with most MAGA views. The owners of CBS are gutting everything that's left of the storied CBS brand to enrich themselves.

Whats up with AI today ? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm only seeing information about ChatGPT, Sora, Claude and Gemini... Where is the news about AI?

If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is just advertising. The more I think about it the more I can't think of any practical use for generative AI that doesn't involve essentially spamming everyone.

The AI hype in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It is lol the dead giveaway is there's no watermark or artist credit

EDIT: Unrelated but a reverse image search turned up this amazing LinkedinLunatic

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Layoffs hit CBS News and Paramount as David Ellison’s cost-cutting plan takes effect (www.poynter.org)
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It (futurism.com)
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Comment on /r/BlueSkySocial: "why can't we have one single social media site with a CEO who isn't weird and bad" (one reply mentions Mastodon). (www.reddit.com)
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Looking for a community for AI skeptics that is more actively moderated than /c/fuckai (startrek.website)
 

/c/fuckai has two dozen mods but ironically only time I've ever seen them take action on anyone was when they removed my post asking for recs for a community with more active moderation (lol)

I'd like to discuss generative AI from a highly skeptical perspective but with higher standards of quality and without all the mouth-frothy raging and bad memes of /c/fuckai.

Does anywhere else like that exist on the fediverse? I don't care if it's small/underutilized. And no I'm not interested in creating it myself.

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Anyone have any tips to get HDMI-CEC working on LineageOS? (startrek.website)
 

I'm trying out LineageOS Android TV for Raspberry Pi 5. There is an option for HDMI-CEC in the menus, but nothing I do can get it working.

I know it's not the Pi, my TV, or my cables because CEC worked immediately with LibreELEC.

The Pi will go into sleep mode when the TV shuts off (even when the setting for that is disabled) so I can tell that something is being communicated. But I don't seem to have any control over it.

Does anyone have any advice for troubleshooting? I've tried power cycling the TV and Pi, unplugging cables, etc.

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Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew (bigthink.com)
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I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made (infosec.pub)
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TNG: The Debrief (infosec.pub)
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If I wanted to donate a few dollars a month to the future development of a phone OS that will allow users to continue "sideloading". What is your recommendation, and why? (startrek.website)
 

Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google's changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?

I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?

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Some nice attention to continuity by the SNW team! (infosec.pub)
 

Not my OC I brazenly stole from @moregaghplease@startrek.website on reddit

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"Through the Lens of Time" was one of the silliest episodes yet [Spoilers] (startrek.website)
 

Yes I know I'm behind everyone else!

First the away team spends a long time debating if they should proceed or... step outside for five seconds to call the ship. They ultimately decide that stepping outside for five seconds is not feasible.

But then literally one minute later Ensign Gamble is somehow beamed up. Presumably they must have called the ship to do this? Did they just... leave out the part about the (now obvious and real) danger? Was there a scene where Pike said "ok yeah his eyes are gone but you can keep going"?

Then later in the episode the away team spends a long time talking about trust and friendship while debating if they should walk on an invisible walkway instead of just like, I don't know, tapping it lightly with their toe or throwing a pebble on it first?

The Ensign Gamble B-plot was good and freaky and featured some great acting by everyone involved. But the A plot felt like it was vibe-scripted! I love SNW but come on.

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