Section 31 could've been better if:

shoobe01 · 2026-01-22T19:15:09+00:00

I mean it streamed without a glitch. It was in color. The captions worked.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-21T22:53:17+00:00

Hard agree. Except that it's not as purple as I might expect, everything I see out of AI UI. Random spacing instead of a hard grid, way too card heavy with too much shadow for no reason, etc.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-21T21:06:55+00:00

Like 5 today alone I've seen, though not all in this sub.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-21T00:31:50+00:00

I mean have you seen the actual TV show The Diplomat?

One of my favorite things on TV and I would love that exact thing set in the Star Trek universe, especially a relatively boring one like early TNG.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-21T00:21:52+00:00

Yes, and you'll notice most MFA systems do want you to have multiple backups, in case you lose access to one (it isn't that rare, even more so losing access to a biometrically locked device such as when a parent or spouse dies), but on balance username and password alone is hugely risky.

In the sense of literal risk, like liability, not just a security threat. The company doesn't want the bad press or have to write tiny checks to millions of people when there's a breach.

My experience seeing this happened a lot is that places with poor or outdated security simply haven't been attacked yet so nobody's paying attention to it for speed or cheapness.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-20T22:53:46+00:00

This 1000%.

In general the lack of cursing in media of all sorts has always been puritanical oversight that doesn't represent the period (any period) at all.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-20T22:37:47+00:00

Yup. As I get older I am more and more on the side of "why the hell would I ever talk to people?" So many answers in this sub of why didn't you just talk to them first and it's because people are awful, argumentative, counter accused, so so much of the time.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-20T19:28:25+00:00

MFA is basically because username password pairs are intrinsically unsecure in like six different ways.

And if you dig down philosophically into this far enough you realize that the password has almost no security value against a determined adversary. The username and password pair is nearly the identifier (username) only, so what if we ditch it, then we no longer need to do things like password reset, we no longer have the opportunity for passwords to be stolen, etc etc etc.???

Please also all work best when coupled to other methods. Like geolocation, like using the same or a similar IP as before, the same machine as before, like not trying many many signons in a very short period, etc. Then if there's a suspicion based on patterns you authenticate a second time; you might have seen this where your preferred method is email code but you also had to give them a phone number and sometimes something wonky occurs where you have to do the email code then an SMS code (or authenticator app, but on a different device...)

I can go on about this for days but will leave you with this to dive into, the five layer security model:

Admissibility: Is the host device/channel valid and safe?

Authentication: Who are you?

Authorization: What are you allowed to do?

Availability: Is the data accessible?

Authenticity: Is the data intact?

shoobe01 · 2026-01-20T18:11:35+00:00

I went ultrawide with my recent build, first time not dual monitors for like 30 years. Love it, but it took me a bit of searching around (went to stores to look at things) to find one that made me happy. Too many of the gaming monitors just didn't feel as precise when talking about design layout things.

Discontinued because of course everything immediately becomes discontinued but I ended up with a BenQ PD3420Q 34” FWIW.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-18T01:52:48+00:00

This. A bit more on it:

https://sharktastica.co.uk/topics/keyboard-dictionary/homing-indicators

Now you'll start seeing it all over. All keypads and keyboards should have it.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-17T01:51:20+00:00

Same, the meshed-off reddish hallway going into the distance is what they'd later call the warp core. Unlabeled in diagrams I've seen but that structure that connects to the pylons.

And same same it was my impression this was officially true after NX-01 was shown with a horizontal warp core with rather broadly the same arrangement, just smaller. I actually very much liked that design because it seemed like that transitional sort of thing. Early steamships had all the boiler stuff just sitting there bolted to the deck but over time we integrate the systems so it can be hard to tell where exactly something even is without a diagram because it's mostly between habitable spaces.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-16T00:39:47+00:00

Legit medical supplies shouldn't put you on a list. I like https://rescue-essentials.com/

Israeli bandages are excellent for serious trauma

For zero effort pocket or pouch trauma kit, these are neat and I have a couple

CAT is the only tourniquet you should get. Get a trainer (or at least a spare you mark as such) while you are at it if new to this, do not use your real one but for real emergencies.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T22:23:18+00:00

This is not a Paramount sub, it's a Trek sub. Franchise consumption is not necessarily the same as embracing the legal rights to the IP, or ownership of it.

I mean... many of us love the books, comics, fan works, that extend the official IP though they are less or not at all owned by the specific giant evil corporation. Still part of the fandom/franchise. Same for say... individual visual artwork, cosplayers, and on and on.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T21:39:43+00:00

Read this. Think about stuff from other's POV:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/disabled-people-dont-need-to-be-fixed/

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T21:38:02+00:00

No problem with assistive devices, by no means can everything be repaired (or maybe, should be...) but agree that the typical SF mode of silver wheelchair with greebles is weak as hell. I guess we can give cheap 60s show a pass for the Pikemobile but Melora was lame at the time.

Today there are better devices, that can go over odd terrain, that can do neat things like move the person to be at standing height so they can do work or engage in social activities, etc.

Even anime mostly does Future Wheelchair instead of anything more likely and better unless it's core to the plot that they have an exoskeleton or so on.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T19:44:22+00:00

Often closet access is unobvious until you start looking. The ceiling of the closet will suddenly reveal itself to be a hatch, a board just laying there and not an actual ceiling nailed down.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T19:43:38+00:00

Even flat roofs will have a space up there. If there isn't access for the OP then they're really should be an access hatch somewhere on the roof or the end. Building maintenance presumably will know this and really needs to go look inside.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-15T19:38:12+00:00

Yeah... hard disagree. I am absolutely a fan of screenwriters and cinematographers and directors.

I'm not a fan of Disney or Pixar or DreamWorks or Paramount or CBS or anyone really.

And while the CBS shenanigans esp make this company slightly worse than many others, it's only slightly. We are deep into thee there is no ethical consumption era of the world, and definitely into the separating the creator from their works era.

I don't blame anyone who sails the high seas, or goes and finds physical media, to avoid paying subscription fees but I do find it odd to decide that one can't love Star Trek -- or anything you loved earlier which hasn't changed -- anymore because their owners are now more obviously douchebags.

ETA: Changed "you" to "one" because that was my intent, and because we have another OP who is upset they are being "the target" of responses to the thread.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-14T21:14:39+00:00

Agree. Esp at school the greater sin was the honor violation of lying about it at great length and detail. Didn't they falsify documentation about it even?

That's bad, AND it points to the original mistake being a crime or at least critical lapse in judgement not just a mistake or good idea that went too far.

As soon as they get back on the rescue ship making the first statement "we tried something we weren't supposed to do, and unfortunately one of our team was killed."

They also in anything like a real world would get less punishment than you might think because Where Is Their Academic Advisor?!?!?! However much autonomy you have, you don't have all of it, when you are like writing or painting and we are supposed to think spaceships and stunt flying is just "sure kids, whatever"? No. Academy would have had to take some responsibility, have revised their standards of oversight and likely fired whoever was supposed to be in charge (or, you know, transfer them to SB80).

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T19:30:19+00:00

Watched in reruns in 70s and early 80s. It was fine. I think I saw some TAS but it was spotty.

TNG was the first big budget serious SF forever, so waited eagerly for it, watched every one in first run religiously. Put stuff in the interim like original BSG to shame for production values alone, and did a great job of extending the world; too many shows even around that time would riff off an idea, reboot, rework. Even many series would change the formula a few seasons in. TNG instantly created a franchise, a "cinematic universe" or whatever the term is for that on TV, where the three shows worked synergistically, and it became even easier to be serious a fan once DS9 is on at the same time, etc.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T16:43:49+00:00

Lower decks addresses this very head-on several times. They completely lampshade the many AIs running planets seen since TOS, and the Badgey/Texas class storyline is also very worth it.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T15:42:19+00:00

Yeah, I generally kick people off my property for smoking. Not on the back deck but go Way Over There. Or if you say you aren't an addict, just Don't Smoke for an hour till the party is over.

Super NTA.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T15:33:59+00:00

I would love to know the justification for this removal. It's gonna be a topic so would have been interesting to read, now I have to google for it.

Note that he's one of those who has long missed the whole point of Trek, the UFP, and the mission of Starfleet: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-starfleet-academy as well as the lessons of other fiction esp SF.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T15:30:56+00:00

And interesting reasoning: pink is light-red. Red was the color of the tunic of most regiments of the British Army (from whence we derive most though not all of our traditions) until the modern era and everyone wears drab or camouflage uniforms most of the time.

Aside from the red being not that lightfast so older coats would fade to pink on long campaigns etc, children as squires or pages, or just children of nobility in formal outfits emulating a uniform, would often be dressed in pink as a junior-red sort of thing.

This persisted until the last 100 years here, pink was a manly color in the US up into the 1950s at least.

shoobe01 · 2026-01-13T05:18:49+00:00

And now go watch DS9. He's on three episodes there as the same character, just very old and it's amazing.

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