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  • I feel like there's probably a way I could do the same thing without Comcrap as a middleman. Anyone written libraries for doing this kind of thing with an openwrt box and a bunch of Linux machines?

  • And yes, reading through Xfinity’s privacy policy indicates they do monitor the WiFi motion data, and will share it with law enforcement or other third parties without notifying you.

    🙁

  • Use Duckduckgo over tor.

    Use tor browser, Brave or Librewolf.

  • We tried to build systems that perform a kind of basic, rudimentary, extremely power intensive and inefficient mimicry of how (we think maybe) brain cells work.

    Then that system lies to us, makes epic bumbling mistakes, expresses itself with extreme, overconfidence, and constantly creatively misinterprets simple instructions. It recognizes patterns that aren't there, and regurgitates garbage information that it picks up on the internet.

    Hmmm... Actually, maybe we're doing a pretty good job of making systems that work similarly to the way brain cells work...

  • I agree with basically everything you said, although I've found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right... they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It's like TNG's attitude was "We know we're goofy, but we DO have technobabble consultants, and we try to link some of what we're doing to real physics and engineering" while SNW is like "We don't even like, bother man... rule of cool in a Hollywood hipstery writer way, we don't really know what we're talking about, nor do we care... hey can we get mocha lattes to the writers room ASAP?" Major pet peeve of mine.

    Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she's just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn't ever need that. It feels out of place, but shoe horned in anyway.

    Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I'm like...oh thank god) and just gratitude that at least they're trying to make something LIKE Star Trek.

    Lower Decks was a better show. So was The Orville.

  • Yiff.

  • This makes me want to implement a programming language as an alternate tabletop magic system. Maybe give my players runes to experiment with and let them figure out it's a programming language.

  • Many of my self hosted solutions are just DIY cludges. I was talking to a friend of a friend on Saturday about media streaming and he told me all about his Jellyfin setup and then asked about mine and I was just like "I just store MP4s on an SSHFS drive and play them in VLC on my TV (which runs Linux Mint)." When the survey asked about the various types of software I was like "No... I don't use anything like that... wait... yes I do! I just don't use a prebuilt solution!"

  • tail -f of vim

  • Capitalism has entered the chat.

  • Something very similar happens to me in some Windows games on Mint with Cinnamon, especially older games running using Proton. I've had it happen recently with Age of Mythology and Fallout New Vegas.

    Unfortunately, I don't have the answer for you, but I can tell you you're not alone.

  • Yay, a time travel episode.

    Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.

  • Neither my wife or my ex (my son's mom) thought this joke was funny.

    But my son laughed at it.

  • Are you me?

  • Pretty sure it's possible to play LoL on linux...

  • Be as uninteresting as possible. Millions if not billions of people's information of this sort is out there.

  • And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven't seen every single episode of.

    So I'll give Academy a chance.

  • I'll watch it, but I'm already skeptical because it's set in the 32nd century. That's like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don't do it).

  • The waffle looks like a macaroon flavored waffle, which I am now imagining how that would taste and thinking of trying to make it.