EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Google has made it extremely hard to degoogle.

Just remember that there are no nice reasons why they are working this hard to keep your phone captive.

We can argue about how bad it will get, but there's only worse things coming from this effort.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He was quite quick to grab one (a gun) at the end of Dalek, but now he's more critical of them.

For fans of the original series, that moment beautifully spoiled most of the time war plotline before the official reveal. The Doctor has always hated guns, but seeing a living Dalek broke him.

Spoilers for The War Doctor and "Genesis of the Daleks" plots.

The Doctor's greatest sin is starting the time war, (Genesis of the Daleks) when the Gallifreyan's sent him to prevent the Dalek's ever being created. His second greatest sin is failing to get the job done.

We have known since those two 4th Doctor plot points that the Daleks were probably destined to destroy Galifrey. (The War Doctor plotline)

But the doctor picking up a gun so quickly upon seeing a living Dalek - pretty solidly confirmed it had already happened.

doctors final words to doctor Constantine made me wonder if this was meant to be a real historical person, but I did a quick search and apparently that's not the case. Maybe a missed opportunity there?

I noticed that, as well. Now I think that Dr Constantine is meant to stand in for every real person who does good kind and difficult work during oppressive times.

"Glorified Search Engine can copy and paste from stack overflow with the best developers, as long as the best developers are babysitting it through the process."

Modern AI is impressive in certain ways. This isn't one of those ways.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We can take action. We can grab the die that Joel McHale has tossed into the air.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and print a recipe for blueberry muffins.

(Just in case...)

I'm not sure if Disney could keep their mobile app working if their lives depended on it..

Browsing their recent reviews has a "1 star: please fix your shit" theme surprisingly often for an app published by a media giant.

I find it hard to imagine that the surprisingly frequent runs of 1-star "please fix your shit" reviews are balancing out to 4.4 star average without purchased bot account positive reviews.

It is staggering to watch unfold.

I cannot think of any previous example of such a large company utterly failing to attract the bare minimum talent needed to build and maintain the most fundamental part of their product.

Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. I don't know what my point is, other than Disney has bought so much of their competitors that they feel they don't even need to reliably deliver on their flagship product subscription.

It also could be they're both liars and incompetent.

if some dumb competitor tries to beat you by using humans, you just buy them out and fire all their humans!

This is the way.

That would be one hell of a recruiting move, for any deity that feels low on converts.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My Doctor Who is on DVD, so I'm still game.

I assumed everyone else had pirated it all, by now, after the latest licensing screwiness

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