You are mixing up transparency and legality with the private\public category. When one side of this category is more popular, the other side is often described as the solution to the problems with the former two. But there’s no causation.

Computers with some encyclopedia, but no GPTs are fine, no?

If a kid can write and train a mini-GPT trainable on that encyclopedia, then maybe they deserve the mark for desperation and ingenuity and being a fucking new Leonardo.

Oh. Hate that. You have a list of subjects, prepare for them as good as you can, then get one you know and one you don’t, start with one you don’t know - not be in time or mood to finish one you know, get something shitty, the other way around - do the one you know and then be interrupted while you just probably remembered something about the one you don’t, get something shitty.

I have no idea what you are talking about in your first two paragraphs.

This sentence looks as if implying it were my fault. And of course it is, but that’d be any misunderstanding, with some other common traits of misunderstandings, like that it’s symmetrically the other side’s fault too.

Meant that you never know the upsides and the downsides of something for real. Just in some limited model, with your own imperfect projection of the universe.

Maybe you can have another go.

Feel more like another attempt at TNG, but yes, maybe.

They are though. They are definitely better than the prequels and arguably at least as good as the OT, at least from a story telling and movie making perspective.

You are right, of course, in at least one of the myriad of possible interpretations.

In mine half the good things about them are a bit masqueraded references to how the old SW EU felt, and not original decisions. And in the rest there are flaws as bad as those of prequels. No way they are better than the OT. They may be better than prequels, if we are not taking a huge part of prequels’ atmosphere and removing it from flaws, calling it author’s style (I do ; I don’t, however, ignore parts that seem left as they were because Lucas lost the interest in deepening them or finishing them, I actually suspect he’s a bit on the spectrum too).

I also don’t consider prequels obviously bad, which seems to be such a common opinion that its bearers often can’t elaborate on it, other than vague terms like “bad dialogue” and “bad pacing” and “doesn’t make sense”. I would, of course, welcome good supporting points on that.

Andor doesn’t show failure though, it shows how fascist systems work and how fascism affects the ‘little people’.

That’s what a huge part of Star Wars is about, except “fascism” is a word a bit tasteless for the more generic thing.

By “looming failure” I mean Luthen&co’s approach to planning, risk and lack of backups, and that they also act like agents of something far more powerful than the Rebellion in that stage. In the EU at that point they’d be all surveilled by ISB 3 steps into the chain from anybody who touched any of the suspicious senators. The private moments and conversations would be intentionally arranged and rare. Instead they act like Soviet agents in USA or vice versa, as if knowing that at worst they’ll be exchanged for someone. Almost like ambassadors.

OK, I guess we might still see that Luthen was just an upper society cynical, but naive type, and in the end learn that the Emperor watched them all every moment and laughed.

No, that’s not what I said. Just that to make clearly distinguishable and good sarcasm you don’t need “/s”. Most people can’t, of course.

Also I do think virtue signalling and identity political do have some value to some capacity.

Well, there are some cases you can assume a thing and some cases you can’t. Sometimes you can trust the other side to send the message of the right size and form in one piece over TCP, sometimes you can’t. Say, if you are a Gopher server, you can. Sometimes you can wait longer, sometimes you can’t. Sometimes you can’t condition stopping some process by waiting for a response, sometimes you can’t.

It’s the same in life. You may see the good parts of something and not see the bad parts. Or the other way around. Life also doesn’t have fairness, you can easily encounter a top level boss after just creating a character, in game terms. And no justice, no error processing, nothing of the sort.

So - answering your question, I don’t remember a single DS9 episode right now, just my impression of their structure and level of complexity.

Rogue One and Andor are fine, but I wouldn’t call them some of the best Star Wars made, more like the only Star Wars made since Disney acquisition. They are set in the same universe, more or less, that I can accept. And they touch upon the same things good parts of the old universe did. And they make references to things I didn’t expect to be referenced under Disney. I can agree they are good. Probably just things shown I imagined differently, but then my imagination was trying to make them feel safe, similar to the second paragraph here, while Andor shows it all as a looming failure, which for may intents and purposes that phase of the rebellion indeed was.

It is because sarcasm needs tone. Which you do not have in text.

“Frodo didn’t offer her any tea”

“And the more they drank, the more sober they were becoming”

Just off the top of my head.

All those were token characters regularly repeating stereotypes about said groups, but OK.

Showing people from different sides of the curtain working together in future was kinda normal for science fiction.

The whole PR representation of the Cold War was like “friendly competition” or “hostile agreement” or a schism of the same religion. A good faith disagreement. USSR in some sense pretended to be like USA, but a better one, to bring the next stage of humanity’s development. You know all those failed\cancelled continuations, Half-Life 3, KotOR 3, Perl 6, FreeBSD 5 (ok, that transpired and didn’t kill FreeBSD completely, but), Gnome 3, KDE 4, Star Wars after 2005 and till being bought by Disney. Or ambitious alternative projects that went nowhere.

At the same time there were various levels of propaganda on either side, at the bottom for one it was the free world about to nuke dem damn commies, for the other it was the civilized peaceful humanity about to squash decadent anglosaxon zionists. But note how both variants imply there is good in the other side, just suppressed because they are possessed by evil.

So - not so strange. People perceive that friendliness as something new and the current hostility as something old, sometimes that’s not true. In some sense our time is more chauvinist than 60s and 70s, not less.

I could watch TOS, TNG caused me anxiety for whatever reason, watched some DS9.

TOS - nice and cozy, it’s old minded, but well meant mostly. I’m a Star Wars person. Also liked Babylon V and Stargate SG-1.

TNG - seen very little of it, get bored because of not tracking what even happens there and what’s the purpose of those scenes, but I have understood that there’s maybe something smart there somewhere.

DS9 - I didn’t like it, really seemed to involve a lot of virtue signaling and identity politics. I don’t like the former because it’s all signals and no action, I don’t like the latter because you are disadvantaged if you don’t fit well to a stereotype of some protected group in some dimension, and nobody really does, except for brainless activists. Spherical libertarian ethics in vacuum or even spherical Marxist ethics in vacuum would fit me better, but as we all know, these are mostly represented IRL by idiots.

So - DS9 is bad. It’s a paper model alternative to Babylon V with vaguely Trek-ish ideas, except Babylon V is much deeper (but also inconsistent and generally nuts, which is fine, the universe is too). It’s too morally sterile as compared to TOS and TNG.

Haven’t seen any of other “old” Trek.

Haven’t seen any of the “new” Star Trek, if it’s similar to the “new” Star Wars, then nothing of value was lost.

The point is … I agree complaining about “woke” in Trek is strange, but it’s strange for any sci-fi to be honest. These people probably think Heinlein wasn’t “woke”, but I’m almost certain he would be hated by them if he lived in our time. He did references to jungle law, human predatory nature and the idea that some human society developments are degenerate, but all these things are more specific than just mentioning them, for a real discussion about humanity.

I myself prefer to keep good ass IRL

Of course it’s Israeli.

So someone makes a state-of-the-art, pretty directly optimized by one criterion only, means of textual encrypted communication. To avoid MITM and various attacks, ya knaw how it goes, and centralized because users are dumb and will sometimes shoot themselves in the leg.

Where else would you expect to originate a company making a voluntary MITM addon for that, for those who didn’t get that Signal was even trying to prevent them from shooting themselves in the leg.

But leaks are good. Someone leak Putin’s family and their acquaintances in EU leadership and European royalty and such, please.

BSDs are “Unix of Theseus”, so they are the closest.

Solaris is a direct continuation that didn’t have a rewrite of anything after any litigation.

But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

On NT you mean, and no, W2K was a consumer system.

RPi is not a microcontroller.

What is built into pretty much everything around us is GnuLinux.

Many things, but far from that.

I’ve read an article on his site which was a transcript of this speech, and got my thought after it, so - actually my comment is a result of that.

It’s no use, AI won’t, for example, check texts for gematric (cabbalistic numeric references) hidden messages, and try to match those to gematric messages in the context. And even if it will, it won’t look for recursive gematric messages. We are safe.

Yes. I’ll add to this that when I look at prices of hardware, it’s not even an option. Buying an iPhone would be equivalent to buying a good laptop, except you just can’t do much work on a PDA. When excluding actually doing work, as a tool for the job it’s equivalent to something 4 times cheaper.

And in addition to that it has disgusting elitist advertising, relies on sweatshops for production, and isn’t even fully usable without company’s permission to run this or that.

I wanted one when I thought they look very cool.

If we see that, then it’s already burning.

It seems like there’s a large proportion of people who don’t seem to actually care whether they have an accurate understanding of the world or not?

They are choosing tools obviously not fit for the job of finding out truth. Social media and other places where you can silence with authority or numbers those you don’t like. Of course they don’t.

They’d probably murder you if they could get away with it.