IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[Weary sigh]

At best, it's JARVIS from Iron Man 3 when he went all buggy and crashed Tony in the boondocks. lol

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because the law is optional in Texas.

I'm guessing the entire point is to goad someone into suing so it makes its way to SCOTUS and becomes optional or worse nationwide.

It was, yeah. But they somehow got her to come back for a cameo in Season 8 where she played Constance again.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 30 points 2 weeks ago

A database can be used to plug into any number of applications that run on top of it as well as be easily shared by multiple people and centrally backed up. Auditing, logging, and row and table level access controls, and other measures can be easily added.

Excel files (or even MS Access files) as "databases" are often just people emailing around a file or accessing it from a shared drive. You end up with a split-brain situation at best and at worst you're dealing with constant file corruption from multiple people thinking they can access it from a shared drive at the same time.

Then you get vendor lock in and are forced to keep MS Office professional licenses because Shawn created some stupid Access "app" 10 years ago which is "THE DATABASE" and no one understands how it works.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I legit enjoyed the first two seasons of AHS and then whatever season "Cult" was, but otherwise it's become something of a guilty pleasure.

Genuinely cannot believe Lange is coming back. From what I remember reading, she was done with it and it took a lot of cajoling to get her to even cameo in season 8.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To me it is the ultimate gamble with one's own thought autonomy, and an abandonment of truth in favor of false comfort.

So, like church? lol

No wonder there's so much worrying overlap between religion and AI.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • Moving the entire current site to a new host.
  • Relaunching as a new instance under a new domain, potentially on dedicated hardware.

Any reason not to combine those options? i.e. Keep the domain and instance and just move the database and services to dedicated hardware? That would provide the most seamless transition for all (local and federated users).

Good. Now let's not over-prescribe it to pushy patients suffering from the common cold.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.

On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆

server {
    listen              443 ssl;
    http2		        on;
    server_name         www.mydomain.xyz;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
    ssl_dhparam         /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 15m;
  
    ...
    
    location ~* {
      return 301 https://aarp.org/;
    }
}
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only one I didn't hate was the jingle:

🎵 "F-R-E-E that spells "free"
credit report dot com, baby". 🎵

😆

Yeah, but they should take that pissing contest out of the UX.

 

Context: I always wondered what the mural in Quark's was. Have read through the first two books of Deep Space 9: Millennium, and the novel offers two different (non-canon) possibilities. Also, it's difficult to meme from TrekLit, but I'm trying here.

Personally, it looks more like a Tholian to me but I like the implications of the alternative.

Mild SpoilerGul Dukat procured it when he was in charge of Terok Nor. It was so large, the only place it would fit was Quark's Bar, so that's where it went. Dukat was proud of it, thinking it was a slain Tholian admiral. Rom laughs and later tells Quark it's actually a depiction of Tellarite genitalia and is used to denote pleasure houses in the red light districts of Tellar Prime. Quark doesn't know who is right, but he and Rom always salute the "Admiral" as a joke.

 

Edit 4: Color correction and trying to make it less dark. I also finally seem to have found the correct slider in GIMP to turn DS9 into a sitcom (or maybe a Mexican soap opera?)

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Sneakers (1992) (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/movies@piefed.social
 

With Robert Redford's passing all over the news, figured I'd share my favorite movie of his (he's got so many, but this one remains my favorite).

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 

I literally put the title as *removed* lol.

 

US retail coffee prices surged 21% year-over-year in August, the largest annual increase since October 1997, according to Thursday's Consumer Price Index. The monthly 4% jump marks the steepest rise in 14 years. Trump administration tariffs on major coffee exporters -- 50% on Brazil, 20% on Vietnam, and 10% on Colombia -- are driving costs higher as 99% of US coffee consumption relies on imports.

J.M. Smucker plans its third price increase this winter for Folgers and Cafe Bustelo brands after raising prices in May and August. New Orleans chain French Truck Coffee has implemented a 4% tariff surcharge. Starbucks expects peak cost impacts in 2026 due to its advance purchasing practices. KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk predicts prices will exceed historical records as Brazilian tariff effects reach retail shelves.

I dunno what I'm gonna do when my stash runs out. About 6 months ago, coffee was on sale and I bought as much as I could store in the crisper drawers of my downstairs fridge. I've probably got about another 6 month's supply and am probably going to be aghast when I have to buy more 😔

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