julian

joined 12 years ago
[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 2 points 6 days ago

... but but but he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs or something maaaaan

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 13 points 1 week ago

It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out — One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out

 

Did you know you needed this? Apparently so. It's been a long road.

https://bsky.app/profile/punsultant.bsky.social/post/3m6hraqf3ts2o

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 1 points 3 months ago

> Batel's Gorn DNA infusion, the treatment from the chimera plant, and her earlier encounter with the Vezda are stirred up into a convoluted sci-fi stew to explain all this in a dialogue scene that tries with all its might to use sci-fi-y terminology to convince us this actually makes sense, but mostly just draws attention to what a whopper of an ass-pull it all really is. The overriding sense one gets while watching this is, "Well, they're just making stuff up now and pretending it holds water." It really doesn't. But I have to admit that I respect the commitment to the sheer insanity of the concept, even if the effort and seam-hiding are lacking. In the end, it's basically, "because we said so."

god bless Jammer.

https://www.jammersreviews.com/st-snw/s3/new-life-new-civilizations.php

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 23 points 3 months ago

> None of this "Universal Star-child" bullshit.

Bang on. It's the same reason I couldn't stand Discovery. There's a universe ending problem and you alone are the key to solving it? Blech.

Fan fic with higher production values.

I think Batel was a well written character, otherwise.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 4 points 4 months ago

Sorry you're just in the wrong because you don't know how to easily spell my new app nncjcosiwhebf

duh.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

> Look, TNG got a sequel series (Picard), Voyager got a sequel series (Prodigy)... what we want is for DS9 to get one

You and I both know a Garak miniseries is the only appropriate answer.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 8 points 4 months ago

robocall@lemmy.world only for Boston based instances

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Honestly it could be something as prohibitive as not having secured film and TV rights from the authors.

I can imagine that doing it after the fact is often quite expensive.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

just to correct something, NodeBB will not send a mention unless you are specifically mentioned. We do auto populate a mention in the text box though, so it's probably happening because of that.

What we also do is send the message to everybody so everybody has a copy. (Everybody is addressed)

e.g. you should not have been mentioned here.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting about this thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange

I'm interested (in a tired defeatist way) in what I need to do to stay on the right side.

It sounds like geoblocking is probably the quickest legally safe course of action, so perhaps it's bye Mississippi too...

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 4 points 4 months ago

oh gosh judgement rites... the fact they built a full on 2D dogfight simulator in that game was epic.

I got good enough at it that I could shoot down Trelane.

Spoiler alert — it didn't matter, he stranded you on the planet anyway.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 5 points 4 months ago

Sound a bit like XCOM2 set in the ST universe. I'm game.

 

Keep up the good memeing though...

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An in-person conference centered around the fediverse is happening this Friday and Saturday at UBC Robson Square in Vancouver, BC.

Put on by reiver@mastodon.social, it is bringing together a number of big names including Evan Prodromou (of AP fame), Dan Supernault (Pixelfed creator), and more!

> 🎉 FediCon is in 1 day! > >If you already have a FediCon ticket, you should receive this reminder e-mail message. > >See you there! > >... > >🌐 FediCon >📍 Vancouver (Canada) >🗓️ August 1-2 >ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca/ >🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941 > >🥳 https://lu.ma/kowist5x >🥳 https://lu.ma/reg4appv

I'll be on stage speaking about some of ActivityPub's "hard problems", and what people are doing to fix them. It's a rehash and expansion of a talk I gave at FOSDEM this past February.

Are there threadiverse related problems? I'd imagine so. Would love to include them in my presentation.

 

You might've heard that search sucks on software X... maybe software Y... definitely on software Z. The default one kind of sucks on NodeBB too, admittedly.

But why? It's because search is really frickin' hard to get right, and expensive to get good at.

Remember that Google started as a search company, and they became king because they got really good at it, and it was their only product (at the time, anyway!)

The easiest type of search is "full text" search. It matches words exactly based on what you type in. For example if you search lemmy it would match posts that include the word lemmy but depending on how the content was indexed, might not match lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmyverse, etc.

From there you start adding complexity like supporting AND and OR. You support partial matches (lem returns posts containing lemmy and lemmings).

Add more logic to remove stop words and articles like a, the, etc.

Put in some sorting logic to rank stuff higher (what's your algo? Recency? Votes? etc.)

That's just the tip of the iceberg... this problem domain is so vast that entire companies have been built around just providing searching as a service (e.g. Algolia), and it isn't cheap!

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Speed run through the fediverse baby!

 

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