FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Just as an example that this sort of localisation also happens the other way around: Paw Patrol features Ryder as the human in charge of the crack hero dog outfit. He turned into the rather Japanese ケント or Kento over here. Ryder when turned into katakana is a little too close to "懶惰, 嬾惰 [らんだ, らいだ]: indolence, laziness, sloth, idleness." And he is a dull smartass but to be fair to the lad he isn't lazy.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 34 points 1 day ago (6 children)

When potatoes came over from the New World, a lot of Europeans grew them as decorative plants. New shit makes people do weird stuff.

Not everybody is trying to make a business with so-called AI. The peddlers are just the loudest.

The companies promise their models can do all this stuff for paying customers. If the models were truly that capable, the so-called AI companies ought to be doing everything with them and be raking in the dough like mad. Which they're not because they know the limitations of the models. It's what economists call the bullshit gap between marketing and reality. And by economists I mean me.

I suspect the makers don't check what's going on here much. You'll probably have more luck contacting people directly via their website https://librewolf.net/

There is a subreddit for artwork, which is also linked on the website. If you can't get ahold of anyone, that could be your next step. You could try to get permission from the community creators directly.

I don't know what the tenor of your review will be. I suspect if you didn't shittalk them like you were the president of the USA you'd probably be alright to use their logo with proper attribution underneath it. But that's just my opinion and I don't work there.

The devil is in the details. You have to define homelessness first. Would a ban on that even be legal? And what is the state doing to prevent it and/or what are the penalties for violators? There is certainly a chance that this inches painfully close to keeping people concentrated, in a camp, which should, in a sane world, weigh heavily against such a ban. But if a ban meant anybody on the street gets put in an apartment, given medical care including therapy, and then given a chance to become a productive member of society within their means, then it wouldn't be imprisonment. That's the Finnish solution to the problem, which benefits from having a smaller population in the country overall and a smaller percentage of homeless people than, say, Los Angeles.

Fools! That's exactly what was missing from creating Skynet! The workers were replaced with slop bots, now management gets replaced by slop bots too! It's slop bots all the way down! Run for the hills!

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems to me like you are coming to grips with the fact that statistics are nice but one mustn't trust those one hasn't forged personally.

I imagine there may be political or even practical reasons why they draw the line there. A lot of times lines remain fixed because they made more sense when they were drawn ages ago and now it's just a pain in the butt to change them. Or to keep numbers comparable with those from previous years.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless it's an air gapped machine run for a specific reason, nobody should run Win7 in 2026. If it's connected to the internet, you are doing that at your own peril. Obligatory switch to Linux.

"Censorship" is probably not quite the right word here, is it? You're thinking more along the lines of privacy. Censorship is what a government does. And that would affect the content of the internet more than anything else you come in contact with. And that is roughly the same whether you run your browser on a Win7 or Win11 machine (save maybe some more modern features the outdated browsers cannot do).

If you're worried about the spectre of age verification, I would suggest switching to Linux and investing into a VPN.

A memory wipe would make sense. Or they go back in time, say, to punch some more dinosaurs, come back, and there is just Bob at her station and nobody bats an eye because the timeline was changed. A reverse Sela (the RomYarLin from TNG) move. Because I'd like both of these solutions, I'm very positive they'll find a far less satisfying one.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think you could save this one still. People knew his name before he was elected leader because he was imprisoned by his racist government. That's not really a good thing.

Aung San Suu Kyi, for a short time while in power before she tolerated genocide on her watch, would have sort of fit in the Mandela category as well.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Strange New Worlds is en exercise of writers writing themselves into exceedingly narrow corners if in the end they want to connect to TOS. They had a descendant of Khan on the crew, half the crew dated her, yet none of that comes up when they meet the actual Khan. I wonder how they will connect that story point.

During the wedding episode, nobody sees Trelane as Trelane. They see other people he inhabits. In the daily soap ep, only Pike sees him, and he isn't around later. So they kind of got that right, I think.

The first coherent space opera was Babylon 5 where one creative mind oversaw everything and in the end wrote all the scripts. The reboot Galactica is another example. You could tell The Expanse was all made up by these two guys. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, a Stargate possibly. But Trek and also Doctor Who all change with their changing writers and over the decades. There are periods where certain people are in charge and there is stability in story and focus. But then their tenure ends and somebody else comes in. And if it all made sense and everybody loved it the same way we'd have nothing to bitch about.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the problem arises mostly from trying to add subtitles to arrrr creatively acquired videos where the settings of the creator were not adhered to in the strictest sense.

I mean, I totally wouldn't know about that myself, I just heard about it online.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Eight minutes can seem very long though.

 

I recently started a rewatch of DS9. And it's going so well I found myself in S5 in no time. There are a bunch of mirror universe episodes in that series. I used to hate those when the show came out. I look at them as interesting diversions now. Kind of like making a Muppet Show episode.

So if we put to the side the notion that MU episodes are acting bones thrown to the cast by the writers and producers. And that this is sci-fi and you have to suspend disbelief: how come most of the characters in the show DS9 have mirror copies? If we just look at relationships: MU's Sisko and Jennifer hooked up but had no children. MU Smiley was never forced to eat Sushi or Cardassian food with a botanist of our acquaintance. There is no Molly in the MU. Kirayoshi hasn't been born yet where I am on the rewatch. If Molly avoids all temporal trap doors and grows up, beams over to the MU for whatever fabricated reason, she'll come back disappointed. Same with Jake and his offspring. That's just three examples of people who don't appear in the MU. What are the odds that Bennifer, Kira, two Daxes, Bashir, Quark, Rom, Nog, Garak, Odo, Brunt, O'Brian - all of these guys make an MU appearance. All their parents met up and procreated (or they got shot out into the universe for fun by the MU great link). This doesn't seem likely. We have three examples of a group of people of about a dozen main and recurring characters who didn't get born in the MU. The family tree is cut off in about 10% of the characters I listed. That sort of variance must accumulate through time. Identical MU copies should be the absolute exception, not the norm.

If we go to Disco, MU I'm gonna name you Saru is there. In a universe where they eat Kelpians. What are the odds his parents survived long enough to meet and make a really tall baby?

How can this make Star Trek sense?

 

What would puppet Khan look like? You may guess why that thought popped up in my head at this time.

 

... and then you have to go back and do it again. Mildly infuriating a-hole design on the LINE messaging app (popular in Japan).

 

To the berry, Kates!

 

Und wir fragen, wo der Hass dieser Tage herkommt.

 

About three weeks ago they have embarked on major changes to the mobile app that have made different parts of it useless. Their forum is full of frustrated users and all they get is "we will fix this soon." As I said, it's been 3 weeks. Currently, the mixer is broken so nothing can be finished ...

I am making music as a hobby to put in family videos and stuff like that. It's instrumental. I don't want to use bullshAIt. What are good alternatives to this no longer good app from Image Line?

 
 

I don't have the foggiest idea where I could've gotten the idea from.

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