jmcs

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Have you watch TOS and try to actually watch it without the lense of nostalgia? The episodic format makes it easier to focus on the absolute classics and ignore some of the worst episodes of Star Trek ever, but the average quality is not above modern Star Trek shows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Something like shoot for the moon, if you miss you'll die alone in the void far from the stars.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago

Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It still says that executive branch employees should just follow orders, which is not compatible with the rule of law.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That still reduces the executive to "just following orders" which is a principle that's not accepted anywhere that follows the rule of law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

LLMs can't do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.

It's like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Does Black Friday do that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The idea is to buy the essentials on other days if possible too. It won't have a major impact for the corporations in the long term, but if it works it might force at least some minor conceptions to appease the more scaridy shareholders (let's not delude ourselves that management boards care about customers or a single bad revenue day).

The cynic in me thinks this can easily backfire if Amazon and Walmart decide to announce black friday level discounts on that day .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Basically anything that sells ePub, so Kobo.com, ebooks.com (this one has a drm free category), etc. DRM is decided by the publisher not the store so not everything will be available without protection.

If the book you want has DRM there's a Calibre plugin that is usually able to remove it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There are alternatives without DRM or at least with DRM that's easy to strip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes. The moment someone questions that they are no better than a fascist.

Some people may need to be detained to prevent harm to other people, but that should always come from a place of respect for everyone's lives and wellbeing and not out of a desire for revenge or punishment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Worth" in the humanist "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" sense, not in the capitalistic "if you aren't rich or making the rich richer, then die" sense.

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