You know what, yes. Let's build a power efficient AI simulation where all the tech bros can play their little pyramid games with digital Monopoly money — and keep that rubbish in that simulation. Just siphon every emerging grift into the bubble and ensure the bullshit doesn't have real world ramifications like <checks notes> using most of Kazakhstan's energy production to run Bitcoin mining server parks.
Probably onboarding one cryptocurrency scam or other. Gala even peddles NFTs which by now have been so utterly, publicly ridiculed that it's a wonder the term still makes it into product descriptions.
Nope, and I bet Mark Cuban isn't really invested in TikTok either way. It's just a current talking point pivoted to make him feel relevant.
Oh, I know "Web3 is going just great" already. It is the true ledger of the blockchain hype, and it's all in the red. Hopefully your link brings it to somebody for the first time.
i loved Michelle Yeoh on Discovery, loathed her character. The closer this gets to release the more I dread the results.
I'm going to hate watch this even more than I do Strange new worlds. I do appreciate fresh takes on the Trek universe, dark or no, but this seems like generic action sci-fi that happens to tie into ST canon. I'll be happy to be proven wrong when it airs.
I see, I thought the finger was aimed at Nostr and cryptocurrencies. As you describe them they sound like the last hiding places for the worst assholes of the internet, and I feel confirmed in staying far away from everything web3/blockchain.
I agree with your initial paragraph, certainly to the point that we shouldn't focus on ActivityPub as some grand unifier or a goal in itself. It's just the protocol that currently federates with the most different platforms.
AFAIK some bridges from AP to other protocols currently exist, but we would really need to bridge (or somehow fully integrate) all the federated protocols you mention to talk about one fediverse. Whether it will be made possible through ActivityPub or some other protocol, that remains to be seen.
I don't disagree with your point, but how do Nostr or Monero play into the article? They aren't mentioned at all.
I weren't even aware it was a Signal fork! What kept me away was their heavy integration of the Oxen crypto token (now apparently replaced with their own "Session token" instead). Anything that deep into web3 is a red flag to me, but the security flaws discussed in the above blog post look white hot.
Sorry for your loss!
If I may offer my own experience in sympathy — last year my brother passed after a few years of cancer treatment. We grew up as TNG aired, and Trek was always a shared reference.
During his final illness, one effect of his treatment was constipation which he alleviated with... prune juice. Often in the last months he would raise his glass and say, "A warrior's drink!" It never got tired 😄
On the night he passed away the only meaningful thing that I could think to share on social media was the TNG screenshot of the Klingon death ritual — I'm sure you know the one.
Star Trek may be a utopian sci-fi future, but the shared stories and communities lend meaning to our everyday lives nonetheless — your deep, shared experiences with your grandfather, or my brother putting up his best Klingon warrior face against his illness. We need those optimistic stories to ward off hopelessness, and to remember the good moments by.
In the face of grief and loss — Qapla'!
The important difference between a paid VPS subscription and a free account with <GENERIC EVIL BILLIONAIRE>s online services is how they are financed. With the latter, definitely assume you're the product, specifically your data.
Any VPS provider should have a privacy policy, and as a user you should acquaint yourself with the securities they (claim to) provide. The fact that you pay even a pittance for their service should be an incentive not to monetise or snoop your data.
But yeah, short of an encrypted online backup service, I'd never put "very private data" online at all...
Most content you read is going to be long for a reason
This is something all of those auto-summarizers neglect to mention. Sometimes long is good, and activates understanding in a way you won't get from a one-paragraph tl;dr version.
I wonder how Orbit would summarize this newsbyte? "Long is a bother. This better ❤️🤖"?
I've used matrix for the better part of a decade, and I get that reference.
That said, while the matrix crew have worked hard on the decryption issues, I'd much rather feel that particular pain on a federated network where I can change servers than be stuck with Signal if/when the single server's policies turn evil.
OT, and I'm usually not the type that comments with gun trivia, but
the cold metal of a glock
Wasn't Glock famously made of ceramic polymer and became popular for evasion of metal detectors?
Sorry for the sidetrack, that single point irks me even if it's way outside my wheelhouse.
Maybe even a note why this is worth clicking on, and not just a lazy teen spamming /all with anything they come across on a school night.
That may just be my preference 🤔
I ses the referrer hash in mbin, so that checks out.
Yeah, that still seems weird to me. Does it connect the post in any way to the magazine (especially Lemmy communities), or just end up a hashtag if people read from a fedi microblog instance?
Recaps every episode? I was thrown that there even was a recap before the show finale, because I don't remember seeing one before on Lower Decks.
12 minutes of show, LOL no. The shortest episodes are ~23 minutes. Bar the intro and credits they're still 20+ minutes of actual story.
Read this with your lights on
Lights are safely on, but somebody forgot to add a link to the article?
Incidentally, FediMeteo uses the existing Open-Meteo API. The use case is just... you can follow your nearest city on Mastodon and get forecasts in your home feed?
If you start the third episode of "Nightmare in Eden" at 23 minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve, the clock on the screen changes from 20:24 to 20:25, and Romana presses a button on the spaceship's dashboard to set the midnight bells tolling.
Landing in the horrors of World War I, the Doctor discovers a galaxy-spanning threat.
> > > When the Tardis lands in the horrors of World War I, the Doctor uncovers a threat spanning galaxies and history itself. But this time, saving the day might doom the Doctor forever. > >
These are my thoughts on the colourised, re-cut version of the War Games serial released on December 23 2024: https://bw.artemislena.eu/tardis/wiki/The/_War/_Games/_in/Colour/(TV/_story). It had been edited down from 10×25 minute episodes to one 90 minutes special, with new material added in, including score.
Surprisingly enough, the cuts for (much shorter) airtime worked quite well. Some parts of the plot were lost, and people were inexplicably saved from certain pickles to appear unharmed — but that was to be expected. I enjoyed the edit more than I thought I would. There were more exterior shots added than strictly necessary, and I guess they were often used to disguise cuts. They did seem a bit too frequent in the second act, but that could be just my preference.
The colourisation was pretty loyal to the colour film of the time, I thought. Especially for the genre and target audience. Quite bright, but with all the earth tones required for the initial World War One setting. The recovery of 16mm location recordings made some scenes stand out even crisper than they ever looked on screen!
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I did have issues with the hamfisted way the War Chief was retroactively confirmed as an earlier incarnation of the Master, with the much later Saxon Master’s theme inserted into the soundtrack, and a sound effect of a beginning regeneration after the War Chief’s demise. That seemed an unnecessary indulgence of old fanboys’ head canon.
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The reason to race through most of the serial, of course, was to get to the Time Lord trial and the Second Doctor’s [edit: previously unseen] regeneration into the Third — canonically eliminating another ambiguity from the Whoniverse that had until now allowed for ample Season 6B theorising.
The trial had some fun, 21st century additions that I rather enjoyed — if you know you know, I'm not going to spoil those — but the added regeneration sequence (pasted from this fan video) didn’t just fill a gap where fans’ imaginations had run creative for 55 years. It also gave us an absolutely atrocious CGI rendered closeup shot of “Jon Pertwee”.
Is anybody happier and better off that we have this new end to War Games? I doubt most viewers are more than indifferent to those superfluous, dreary last minutes. And I’ll definitely remember season 6B fonder than I will this ending.
Thoughts, fellow viewers? Did you watch this hour and a half more charitably?
Just putting this question out here, as my family xmas traditions revolve around movies. Sure, food and presents, but movies before and after.
Now, christmas themed monster and horror movies in general? I can name lots, but no kaiju films come to mind. And I know christmas isn't a culturally Japanese thing, but maybe some cinematic elements were adopted via osmosis from Western culture?
So, allowing for the tiny fact that Santa isn't going to turn up to help Godzilla defeat King Ghidorah, and there likely won't be scenes of kids fighting around the christmas tree — what do you think is the christmassiest of kaiju movies?
Probably on the lighter side of "piracy", but as this is currently the only Kodi addons community on Lemmy (that I can find), I thought it was worth the shot.
I've been using the Youtube add-on with Kodi for years, partly to access trailers but also to share videos from my (Android) phone, using the Newpipe app. Until of course Google decided that you need API keys to access Youtube — and I got rid of my Google accounts way back, so that's not an option.
I've installed the Invidious add-on as well, but I can't get it to work in the same way that the YT add-on did. Now, I know Google are doing their worst to trip up Invidious instances as well, but the issues might also be due to poor configuration on my part...
So my question is basically in the title — is there any way to use Youtube on Kodi without API keys? I've tried searching online but it seems that, unlike me, most people are fine connecting a Youtube account to their home media centre...
Any advice or just links to tutorials are much appreciated!
> > > It’s really important to point out that our own interaction with tech may have changed to be extremely controlled, and seem like we have a dependency on corporations… but the original underlying structure still exists. We have power to exist independently, and create our own alternatives too. > > > > At the core of it, we can participate our own way, if we know where to look. > You can still create websites, your own tools, distribute your own software… and how to do that is a very important understanding to cultivate. > > > > Tech literacy is an imperative, especially in the era that we are in right now. > >
In Radio Times' fireside chat, the two writers reveal all.
> > > what are Davies and Moffat’s secrets to telling a great Yuletide yarn? And what do they get up to at Christmas themselves? In [Radio Times'] exclusive fireside chat, they reveal all. Are you sitting comfortably? Then they’ll begin… > >
In which the writers of christmas episodes past and present discuss
- each other's christmas specials;
- how Joy to the world came about;
- why the Doctor doesn't just solve everything by going in the TARDIS;
- writing, and why AI won't steal creative writers' jobs; and
- what comes next on Doctor Who?
The special edition will also feature recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast.
According to Radio Times,
> > > this new version of the serial will feature a 'lost' piece of Doctor Who history – while the Second Doctor's regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) originally took place off-screen, the special edition of The War Games will depict the changeover on-screen. > >
and
> > > We're also promised the new release – which will air on BBC Four and be available on BBC iPlayer – will feature "recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast". > >
First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.
I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?
Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?
To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" — yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.
So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.
Thanks in advance!
First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.
I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?
Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?
To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" — yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.
So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.
Thanks in advance!
haverholm @kbin.earth I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket; — when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount; — eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant "You should make a comic about that!"
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren't going to buy it, and I'd smile politely, "Yeah, sure. Someday."
"Don't try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it," they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don't make comics any longer after all.