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[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Maybe if you remembered to put Jupiter back where it belonged after you were done with it, it wouldn't be lost now, hmm?

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Some of my earliest memories are watching The Next Generation with my parents. I never stood a chance! I was always destined to be ๐Ÿค“

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 151 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Real answer: these are actually real languages! They're just conlangs, or constructed languages, instead of natural languages. The major problem with conlangs generally ends up being the limited vocabulary, but the grammar foundations are usually solid.

I actually really like Klingon as a language because it was intentionally designed to be alien, and specifically to be very Klingon. Most languages are Subject-Verb-Object (like English and other Western languages) or Subject-Object-Verb (like Japanese or Hindi). Klingon, however, is Object-Verb-Subject - it's very direct with the emphasis placed on the target of the sentence, which makes sense with the Star Trek world and Klingon culture.

Fun fact, Klingon has at least one native speaker - some guy raised his daughter to speak Klingon as well as English. (I'm not a fan of this - on one hand, learning multiple languages from an early age is a huge leg up in being able to learn more languages in the future, but on the other hand Klingon is entirely useless as a primary language given its structure and the few other people who speak it.)

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, I think due to the way ActivityPub works, the domain name is inexorably tied to the instance. Trying to migrate to a new domain name would break a lot of federation to my understanding.

It looks like someone posted an attempt at a workaround here (latest reply): https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/5774

But it does require the self-destruct button because the old domain name has to be erased from other servers.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 2 points 4 months ago

How long until someone discovers an arbitrary code execution exploit in the simulation?

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

if camping's so great, why did man invent House? ๐Ÿ˜

(I've never actually been camping. I think I would like to one day though, both for the general experience and the ability to actually see stars, which I think would be neat.)

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 7 points 5 months ago
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[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 8 points 5 months ago

you WON'T BELIEVE what MOZILLA said about MICROSOFT ๐Ÿšจ (watch to the end)

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 16 points 5 months ago

There is a Light Gary on your right shoulder and a Dark Gary on your left. They don't provide any great moral advice, but damn do they love to argue about the best hiking trails.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 24 points 5 months ago

Y'all kids and your speedrun strats. Some of us have poor reaction time and need to perform safety setups.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 157 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I've never understood why people have such a hard time with the trolley problem. Obviously, if you pre-emptively move that lone guy over to the rail with the five, you can hit all six at once to maximize your score. Just requires a bit of setup.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Though the network engineer cries out, the parents do not come back to take care of the hatchling. The newborn must climb down the cell tower on its own and immediately begin searching for food, shelter, and a job in the telecommunications industry. The rapid fledging cycle of the network engineer means that only a handful survive into employment.

 

As email is the original federated system, it might be worth looking to our history to see our future: what was once a utopia for nice people communicating with each other has become a spam-filled arms race dominated by only a few domains.

Email originally wasn't built with safety and protection in mind, and now we're racing to catch up - maybe we can do better on the Fediverse, but it'll take more than just kbin (or even kbin and Lemmy) - this would require coordination between everyone implementing ActivityPub.

(This is also a fun video in general which goes into the inner workings of email.)

 

Spiner himself explained,

One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula's character, Archer.

I can't imagine it would have been good, but boy do I wish I existed in a universe where this movie had been made.

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