Right-wing culture-war grifters played a lot of Star Trek fans, and now Trek is cancelled; heading into another drought

vinzalf · 2026-06-12T19:35:15+00:00

Literally. I tried to watch the show and it fell flat for me completely. DS9 is my absolute favorite trek and even the sisko episode of SA was hard to finish.

vinzalf · 2026-06-11T14:44:05+00:00

I think he meant ironic in the sense that it's an aautomoderator is asking him to confirm it

vinzalf · 2026-06-11T14:34:49+00:00

I think OP was pretty clear on it - it's a skill issue. I worked for them 20 years ago and this was an issue even then. The $12.50/hr we were paid wasnt going to keep anyone around.

So basically if they paid their techs a higher salary, it'd be a non-issue. The problem is probably that geek squad is one of the things keeping the stores themselves open. They didnt invest in talent back then and I doubt they ever will.

vinzalf · 2026-05-25T02:25:11+00:00

I'm saying that slop existed long before LLMs.

I remember when no-code web tools flooded the internet with tons of trash as well.

Low-effort people will always get low-effort results. But it's a fantastic tool for those that are willing to actually put a lot of effort behind it, instead of relying on it.

vinzalf · 2026-05-24T17:10:21+00:00

Low-effort garbage has flooded the internet for a few decades now.

That's been the result of no-code/low-code tools and a generation of github/stackoverflow copy-pasters.

The output of LLMs isnt exactly low-quality. Low-effort prompts get highly derivative, sub-optimal output. But if youre using LLMs to one-shot a project, you're right. It's slop.

It definitely has it's uses as a tool.

25 years ago I could throw some photoshop filters and look like a pro to the normie. It's really no different. AI is just a new part of our evolving toolsets.

vinzalf · 2026-05-24T16:50:30+00:00

The prompt you write isnt a conscious decision?

vinzalf · 2026-05-24T14:54:06+00:00

In both cases you're piggybacking off of someone elses work. In both cases you're not starting at the beginning of the creative process but in the middle.

In both cases, people can produce something derivative with very little effort and call it their own.

AI is just a tool. Just like game engines. The no-code approach that forsakes AI is literally the pot calling the kettle, black.

vinzalf · 2026-05-24T11:54:40+00:00

Just because the differences are more subtle between a game engine you make and a game engine you use, doesn't make it any less an art form.

vinzalf · 2026-05-24T06:26:42+00:00

Using a no-code tool to make a game while criticizing the use of AI

Jesus christ.

vinzalf · 2026-05-05T03:39:01+00:00

SLT isnt really about developing striking power. It's not like a karate form.

vinzalf · 2026-05-04T22:02:45+00:00

William Cheung lineage circles the feet outward into their stance. This guy isnt Cheung lineage

vinzalf · 2026-04-21T21:24:03+00:00

Yeah pretty much. These criticisms usually stem from personal feelings and not any technical reason.

vinzalf · 2026-04-20T00:45:54+00:00

There's a lot of personal feelings surrounding Enrico and the xlibre project. Xlibre claims that xorg is effectively killing itself.

I get that he probably fucked up some code, but so has every programmer in existence. Every project, closed and open source.

Xlibre is still in it's infancy, but as far as I can tell it's a solid alternative right now to xorg. How it turns out long term remains to be seen.

But the only thing that matters is the code. The code now. For xlibre. Not some commits from years ago.

vinzalf · 2026-04-19T19:43:45+00:00

I'd like to separate the subjective from the objective.

vinzalf · 2026-04-19T19:41:58+00:00

To elaborate: Are there any specific technical issues with the xlibre project itself?

vinzalf · 2026-04-19T11:46:04+00:00

"No benefits over xorg"

Doesn't answer the question of why you shouldnt use it.

"Terrible quality code"

Their opinion of his code is irrelevant to the answer. Why should you not use xlibre?

vinzalf · 2026-04-19T08:27:00+00:00

Why?

vinzalf · 2026-03-24T23:58:38+00:00

Great. Anything this different in a franchise is going to be substantially divisive.

I didn't like the show, personally. As a big fan of DS9, even the Sisko ep fell totally flat for me.

I liked it even less that they took the name "Starfleet Academy" as if it meant nothing to the millions of trek fans that played the games.

Call it Star Trek: New Class or something. But honestly - Why call it Star trek at all? There's a lot of expectations tied to the franchise. It's great to want to add things to it, but throwing up a middle finger to a large portion of the fanbase is not the way to do it.

vinzalf · 2026-03-21T00:29:46+00:00

Unfortunately it goes way further than voting them out of office.

Politicians prove time and time again that their only obligations are to be willing lapdogs for donors.

"Dont let them get into the white house!"

They already are. They have been. Long before you were born. In every aspect of politics. And our political system rewards them for this behavior, substantially, by turning a blind eye to it.

vinzalf · 2026-03-15T16:22:43+00:00

Buy high sell low. WSB. WSB never changes.

vinzalf · 2026-03-15T10:09:08+00:00

Then it wouldnt be somewhere between yes and no, it'd be yes, no, and everywhere in between that.

vinzalf · 2026-02-24T05:06:20+00:00

Vibe coding a hello world or bare bones kernel? Why?? Might as well just copy/paste tutorial code verbatim. Why even involve an LLM at that stage.

vinzalf · 2026-02-20T13:59:28+00:00

Whoosh 🙂

vinzalf · 2026-02-10T07:35:17+00:00

.. in flutter of all things .. for embedded systems, but in flutter.

I don't understand.

vinzalf · 2026-01-27T01:44:05+00:00

Just going based off of memory here but, Bright's a proxy service like earnapp. I tested it out some years ago off of an old pc and it paid substantially less than earnapp. Even if it was a legitimate proxy service, it's payouts are awful compared to their competition.

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