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data1701d (He/Him)

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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Too Many Reposts

  • I’ll look into that. Thanks.

  • I want to move out from Ubuntu and use something else.

  • I swear Ubuntu does something - I have run different distros in equally-specced VMs, some with GNOME, and Ubuntu by far performs the worse. Sometimes, it’ll actually take 30 seconds to respond to a simple button click.

    When I have to test builds with what’s in Ubuntu repos, I usually avoid using Ubuntu directly and opt for a derivative like PopOS (which has unfortunately fallen behind on getting to Ubuntu 24.04).

  • How long would a shuttle from Earth to Vulcan take?

  • I mean, today, we use shuttle pretty broadly, to refer to anything from buses to a space vehicle that went to the ISS.

    Not everyone works in Starfleet, so civilians might have a different definition of shuttle.

  • ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code

  • Firmly agree with you on that.

  • Why did Richard Daystrom get a research organization named after them?

  • TLDR; Daystrom did bad stuff but under mental collapse, and it's very much in part Starfleet Command's fault.

    I think also, as much as Daystrom had much responsibility for those deaths, it was not as intentional as something like slavery, genocide, or sexual assault. He was fundamentally in a state of psychological distress partially beyond his control. Depending on when Daystrom Institute was founded (touched on above), he may have had decades for rehabilitation and redemption.

    Additionally, Starfleet command probably had ample opportunity to avoid this very early on, like:

    • Looking over Daystrom's reports to consider potential risks of using engram imprints in a manner similar to a university's Institutional Review Board - (Though perhaps Daystrom was rather secretive about it and kept it from reviewers.)
    • Running the M-5 in simulations. We know the Kobiyashi Moru existed, so we could probably create a wide range.
    • Not running the test on the Federation flagship, literally one of Starfleet's most powerful weapons.

    While it's possible Starfleet took more precautions than we see onscreen, Commodore Wesley's enthusiasm in "The Ultimate Computer" almost suggests an over-enthusiasm in Command, possibly one that caused them to skip necessary precautions. In fact, we had almost this exact scenario happen in Lower Decks "Trusted Sources"/"The Stars at Night" with the Texas class a century later. Ultimately, Starfleet Command likely bears a non-negligible amount of responsibility in the M-5 affair.

    Of course, the above does not reduce the wrongness of Daystrom's actions and perhaps only serves to deflect from the OP's question. However, I feel Starfleet's potential role combined with Daystrom's mental condition may be mitigating factors that would make Richard Daystrom less unworthy of having an institution bear his name.

  • Why did Richard Daystrom get a research organization named after them?

  • Good catch.

  • ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code

  • I would agree calling it a web crawler is inaccurate, but disagree with the reasoning; I think it's more in the sense that calling an LLM a web crawler is akin to calling a search index a web crawler; in other words, an LLM could be considered a weird version of a search index.

  • Why did Richard Daystrom get a research organization named after them?

  • It looks like this rulebook was released 2 months before the Discovery episode.

    Honestly, I think I’d personally consider the Disco naming a canon goof up - Daystrom was only 37 years old at that point. While he’d certainly done a lot in his career by then, it still feels weird to name such a major part of Starfleet Federation research (thanks OP) after him when he’s still relatively young.

    I think my headcannon, and a reasonable retcon in my opinion, is that there was a predecessor organization to Daystrom, somewhat like how there was NACA before there was NASA. When Discovery mentions Daystrom, they should actually be mentioning the predecessor organization.

  • Why did Richard Daystrom get a research organization named after them?

  • This is firmly Memory Beta canon, but this bit from the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook still feels like an interesting addition to this conversation:

  • Cmd. Riker chooses who has to follow uniform code apparently

  • This might be right. I mean, Migleemo also doesn’t wear a standard uniform:

  • Linux distributions named after Star Trek terms

  • Ubuntu doesn’t deserve Uhura. 🤣

    But in all seriousness, guess I’m a Denobluan now, minus the polyamory.

  • Not one person is talking about seven of nine's bodysuit. Is needs to be remedied immediately.

  • Not one person is talking about seven of nine's bodysuit. Is needs to be remedied immediately.

  • It was actually an attempt to use indirect characterization - by using "lasers" instead of "phasers", it shows that the demographic I am describing only pays attention to the superficial aesthetic of Star Trek rather than its meaning or even common technical terms in the show.

    But still, I derive quite a bit of humor from your comment.

  • Not one person is talking about seven of nine's bodysuit. Is needs to be remedied immediately.

  • Oops.

  • Not one person is talking about seven of nine's bodysuit. Is needs to be remedied immediately.

  • There’s 2 kinds of people in Trek fandom:

    1. The sane people who know Berman sucks and her outfit is a known unfortunate symptom - we just pretend Seven had real clothes.
    2. “I liiiike Seven of Nine” - creepy gen X white guys who just watch Trek for boobs and lasers.

  • The world may never know

  • While DS9 quality is an issue, I think Keevan is just a PS1 character- a beautiful one.

  • The Pegasus (TNG S7E12) ruined star trek for me. What's your view on that ep?

  • I find Pegasus a decent episode. I think that while utopian aspiration is a fundamental tenet of Star Trek, I think it’s a bit reducto e to call it completely a show about perfect humans.

    Heck, from the get go we had Garry Mitchell doing pyscho god stuff and Charlie X groping people, and a captain who sacrificed his crew to the weird space Romans so he would survive.

    I think in truth, Star Trek is both about the best humanity can be and how the best in humanity can overcome the worst in humanity - you can’t exactly do that without episodes where the protagonists or the Federation makes mistakes, sometimes small and sometimes on the magnitude of Pegasus.

    In many ways, DS9, darker as it is, feels the most Trek - a team of very different people with different beliefs overcoming/respecting their differences and forming a beautiful community despite the folly and evil around and within them.

  • Can't set the clock to Arizona time in KDE

  • Can you give more info about what you tried (commands, GUIS, etc)? What does it say when it denies your request?

    Also, timezones usually go by cities - I for instance, I’m on AZ time as well, and the time zone for me is called America/Phoenix.

  • Not so little or private.

  • The whole Gumato!