It was fun to see the cast. The ship? Meh. We called the "big reveal" minutes before it happened without any spoilers. The writing was that obvious. I say this as someone who LOVED the Enterprise-D -- still my favorite ship -- that scene had zero emotional weight for us because it was such an obvious/desperate member-berry. Then to see that ship, which moved like, well, a ship (first few seconds of the clip), fly like an F-16 because some idiot thought Star Trek needed to crib from Return of the Jedi. Sigh.

I'll give New Trek props for production values, the bridge looked AMAZING, but the priorities of the production team are all wrong. All you need to know, they spent three months and a small fortune to recreate the set, then had less than two days to complete the shoot before tearing it back down. New Trek is all form and no substance. Here's a shiny thing to distract you from the horrible writing, just turn your brain off and keep giving our streaming service your money.

The sole saving grace to S3 was seeing the cast back together. The conference room scene on the Titan and the poker game at the end. That's it. The story was throughly forgettable. None of the characters (except perhaps Worf) were written correctly. It copied all the bad tropes -- character deaths for shock value, wanton violence, pointless cliffhangers immediately resolved, and mystery box writing -- that made Discovery all but unwatchable. You ultimately could have told the same overarching story (Changelings and Borg team up to take revenge; the old crew unites to stop them) with a solid movie rather than a ten hour faux-miniseries. Image this same team making Wrath of Khan. It'd be ten hours long, you wouldn't met Khan until Hour 8.5, then it'd be neatly wrapped up in 45 minutes.

Anonymity is the real problem with social media/the internet, see the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. It's hardly unique to the Internet. Road rage has been around since the invention of the car and the faux-anonymity of the motor vehicle leads to behaviors that would never happen in a face to face setting.

And at its worst it prices residents out of their own city while destroying the local hospitality industry. For every "common person with an unused spare room showing tourists cool local things" there are at least ten faceless investment firms treating them as de-facto hotel rooms you get the honor of cleaning yourself.

Seriously, AirBnB is your shining example of why we shouldn't view tech bros with extreme skepticism?

Want to talk about the rest of the gig economy which only exists by evading decades of hard won labor rights/regulations?

Interesting. I thought I thought a change along these lines had already happened. ScummVM has been on the AppStore for a couple of months now. You can hook it up to cloud services (Dropbox etc) or copy files from iCloud/etc to ScummVM storage on the ipad. It works really well.

You can certainly make an argument for the former, but as for the latter, the copyright holder in this case has been aware of the image's use for decades and taken no action to defend their copyright. Case law on this is clear: they have no claim at this point. Further, the implication of legitimate academic and research use over the course of several decades would itself make any copyright claim difficult at best. At this point, it is highly unlikely that the wishes of the copyright holder matter, from a legal perspective.

Or Larry Wall of Perl. Was a music and chemsitry major, ultimately did linguistics and language.

I'm also a Liberal Arts major and grad schooler. I was 2 classes shy of an undergrad computer science major (2 prereq math classes I didn't care to take) and I've never felt that has held me back!

I'm running OCLP on a 2017 imac and it runs about 98% fine. The 2% is that occasionally, like once a month or so it will fail to wake up from sleep. I haven't had to disable anything. I guess ther eare some issues with the old GPUs in the 2014 model? What did you have to disable?

Which hypervisor?

In Soviet Russia, correlation causes YOU!

The EU does capitalism better than the US does. What we have in the US is not capitalism. The correct term is crony capitalism.

Gulfstream.

You didn't think they flew commercial with the dirty plebs, did you?

Those products all paid licensing fees to whomever owns the underlying IP. You can find examples where the IP owner decides to be a dick. I'll call out everyone's least favorite, EA, and point out that you can't legally get the SNES version of Sim City on modern hardware via any sales channel that I'm aware of. Of course, there are "gray" options to play it, but you won't find it in the Wii store and there's no (legal) packaged emulator for it on Amazon.

Meme: After years of working in tech the only "smart" device in my house is an inkjet printer. I keep a gun next to it in case it makes a sound I don't recognize.

It's pretty trivial to install your own certificate authority and perform MITM attacks against all encrypted traffic coming from a particular endpoint over which you have control. It's less trivial but still doable to decompile a program and look through the source for hidden processes like you describe. All of which is to say I doubt Google could keep something like you describe a secret for very long, if they were inclined to try it, which seems unlikely. Why risk the bad PR and inevitable lawsuits when the majority of the unwashed masses happily consent to being spied on?

It absolutely is. What Google is doing here is no different than how most endpoint protection suites work. They all submit visited websites to a real time authority to check for known pfishing/malware sites. They will block in the moment where possible and retroactively alert the IT team when a visited site is later determined to be bad. I'm assuming Chrome will at least do the first. The second would be trickier while maintaining privacy but would still be doable locally, if the browser can download the database and compare it against its own history.

You're not wrong to call out the nonsensical equation to slavery as being silly at best and highly offensive at worst....

But where do you see a choice to go to work or not? Did you mistake Amazon's home country for one with a meaningful social safety net? Did I sleep through humanity waking up in the Star Trek utopia where we only work doing the things we love and not to meet our basic needs for food, shelter, healthcare, etc.?

They used to. Boeing is a case study in what happens when you let Next Quarter MBA assholes run an enterprise. The story of the last few decades of American capitalism has been such assholes hijacking virtually every company of note. It's not enough to be profitable, you have to be MORE profitable than you were last quarter, where you were MORE profitable than the quarter preceding it. That appeases the Wall Street beast, which boosts the stock price, which is all you really care about in the C-Suite since stock options make up the majority of your compensation.

Now, it's obvious to those of us who don't have MBAs that you will eventually reach a point of maximal efficiency/profit where further gains can only come at the expense of safety, worker's rights, product quality, customer satisfaction, or most likely, all of the above and then some. And here we are. To quote John Oliver, "We went to business school. Get on our plane!"

Some additional backstory if you're interested.