[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago

The 90's is the decade when the internet took off. Ease of access (and stuff worth accessing) increased dramatically over the course of a few years.

In 1990 if you didn't have access through a university or your job then you would need a subscription service that connected over your home phone line. It wasn't difficult, really, but it was a niche hobby thing that used expensive equipment, so most people didn't even notice it. You had email, newsgroups, ftp servers, and bulletin boards, but not the modern concept of "the web".

By around 1995 the web existed and was really taking off. Companies like Yahoo, Netscape, ebay, and Amazon were founded and high(er) speed dedicated connections started to become available to home users.

By 1999 you have mega sites like Google and Paypal, the first great browser war was raging, and high-speed DSL and cable connections were becoming standard in homes.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Captain Picard". You're Captain Picard. I'm "The Picard". So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Picardness, or uh, Picarder, or El Picarderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bride of Chaotica is my all time favorite Voyager episode. The cast all seem to be having so much fun with it, especially Rayner/Chaotica himself. The scene where Lunzak shoots Janeway and it just bounces off (cuz holodeck safeties) and she ad libs "ha, you're no match for Arachnia!" is just so perfect. Satan's Robot is hilarious. And I love how they merge the Chaotica-style music and Star Trek theme for the end-of-episode musical sting.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

Who grades the test? Who judges the competition?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

Homer, give him what he wants!

spoilerMr. Burns cuts off beer after Homer refuses to give him Bobo. Barney reacts in character.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it's the consonants that are sustained.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

The problem is that you're using Windows 95.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

It's almost as if hostile nation states are manipulating public opinion to destabilize western democracies and alliances.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

I'm sympathetic to the NYT, even if it's not reproducing their IP verbatim.

AI companies need to acknowledge that their LLMs would be worthless without training data and compensate/credit the sources appropriately.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

He's the kind of lawyer that gives decent, hardworking ambulance chasers a bad name.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The implication is that only people on Putin's payroll wouldn't see it as treason.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Don't other countries have truth in advertising laws?

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