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@ haverholm @kbin.earth

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Just no.

  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode

    watching the first 10 minutes of Starfleet Academy makes me want to bury the whole franchise

    These are shows that historically have taken a couple of seasons to grow their beard, and you're judging them on (parts of) their pilots? Maybe you're just not as much into Star Trek as you think.

  • Trill Symbiont Lifespans

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  • Very good writeup! Beyond the face value that, yes, we are told on screen that Newsome is actually playing a 1000+ years old Dax, you made it make sense 🙂

    Since we're in the DS9 lore here, I need to address your suggestion that

    the reason most symbionts choose to not live to 800 years is that they get bored

    Would you say that perhaps the Trills who expand their life spans beyond 800 are teaching their cells new mitochondrial tricks? Please, don't let this leak to the soulless minions of orthodoxy that try to suppress the truth 🤣

  • Starfleet Academy is Anti-Star Trek [NERD RANT]

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  • At face value and current watching experience, I'd say that's a hard disagree. But then I can't be arsed watching some rando with a webcam circling around their actual point for several minutes, and would love a one sentence summary beyond that "let's you and him fight" title.

    From the video description:

    I care about great stories for kids and the new show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was made by people who don't understand Star Trek at all or what makes it so interesting to young people. And old nerds like me.

    Personally I'd say that about Strange New Worlds — and speaking as one old nerd to another, I realise I'm fairly alone with that opinion — but unlike this youtuber I've had three full seasons of that show to form my opinion, rather than four episodes of SA.

    Oh wait, the video was published on 18 January, she actually judged it only on the first two episodes...

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Argh! 😰

    You're right, I didn't dig past a first glance, and I missed [counts fingers] some 60+ years worth of copy/pasting...

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Looking good. I have to ask, considering what I have ahead of me — that newsblog going back to 2022, are those all Hubzilla-native posts, or did you import the older ones from another CMS?

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Ooh, thanks! That didn't turn up in my searches. Are you involved with this?

    I'll try to get by with my rusty schoolbook German, and browser translations if needed 👍

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress

    Ouch! Thanks for that assessment. As much as I've favoured Hubzilla in my considerations lately, I've gotten a similar impression going over their docs. I just needed someone else to put their finger on it.

    Bonfire — yeah, our timing is off as far as their development goes 🙂 But I think/hope we have time to wait it out before Wordpress realises their "AI" plans(?)

    I could reach out to Bonfire, but imagine someone like you would have more cachet with them? Plus, knowing open source development, users asking for/wanting a thing doesn't necessarily translate into developers changing their focus to that. But it's worth a try!

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03: “Vitus Reflux”

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  • Yeah, Vitus is the masculine form of vita. It just isn't a Latin word but a name formed from one. There are similar examples of modern names derived in the same way, which ancient Romans wouldn't recognise as words, but might well interpret as descriptive adjective names.

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • I was hoping for advice on the list I'd gathered, but you're not making it shorter, Julian 😄

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Thanks for the heads up! It's a rollercoaster with Classicpress, but good to have it back in the race.

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Thanks for the offer! I'll bookmark this and put it forward to my co-admins. I'll have to look into Wagtail myself a bit, too. 👍

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Okay, this just isn't what I started the thread for, as I made quite clear in the text you claim to have read.

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Our first priority will be to migrate the site as fluently as possible to whatever CMS we transition to. Archiving it as HTML and starting from scratch with a new platform — that's a last ditch effort, I think.

    [Edit: I tried to cover the WP fork subject here]

    Hugo as a longterm solution isn't going to float with some of our users, I'm afraid. I can vividly imagine somebody turning the old site into a single "Hello world!" page given that kind of permissions.

    We will need strictly limited access for contributors, and a clear, friendly input field for text...

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • maybe go for a combination of them

    This is a very practical solution... until somebody (I suspect me) has to maintain three or more installs instead of one 🙂 But you're right, this could very well be a way to solve the "one size fits none" conundrum.

    As for using a WP fork — the point about the ActivityPub plugin breaking compatibility with ClassicPress makes me wary of this approach. And AFAICT ClassicPress is one of the more reliable WP forks out there? In the long term, I mean.

    I'm fine with switching my personal browsers if/when one or the other FF fork turns to the dark side, but I wouldn't want to hop this site between different WP forks the same way...

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  • Thanks for the suggestions! I realise preserving URLs is perhaps the tallest order here, and that we may have to set up redirection to the new ones.

    Failing that, archiving (a static version of) the site could definitely be an option. Considering the long history of the site though, our first choice is continuity over an abrupt break.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

  • Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

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  • Fine, cool. Now, clearly you didn't read past the first paragraph or post title...

  • Fediverse @lemmy.zip
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • I enjoyed these more than I thought I would! Most of my own thoughts after watching have been broached here already, but there was one thing that interested me in SAM's interactions with the EMH Doctor:

    Didn't he seem visibly shaken when asked about the Protostar crew, like he knew something SAM didn't? I don't recall the conversation exactly, but could this be a backdoor to giving the Prodigy storyline some closure down the line on Academy?

    I'm theorising in part because after "Those old scientists" I could definitely imagine a similar animation-to-live-action crossover. We already had a Brikar walking around on campus, and I'm fairly sure Ella Purnell could pull off Gwyn on camera 🙂

  • Opening Netflix tonight

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  • And here I thought this was a USpol comment.

  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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  • People who do calligraphy or draw (professionally as well as recreationally), you can also make your own pen nibs from soda or beer cans 👍

  • Official Season 3 Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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  • Ugh, enough with the James Kirk already. This show has such a nerd hard-on, they're contradicting the original series just to crowbar very specific pet TOS elements in.

    1. In "The menagerie", pt 1, Kirk explicitly states he only met Pike the once when he was made Fleet Captain.
    2. In "Arena", Kirk first meets "a creature apparently called a Gorn". He has no idea what they are, nor does Spock, McCoy, Chapel or anybody else who (according to SNW) met them before bother to give him advice.

    Not that it matters, it's clearly a completely different species from the alligator Xenomorphs in the current show.

    Twice already they've concocted absurd time paradoxes so that Kirk could become vErY iMpOrTaNt to SNW crew without breaking canon, but by now they don't seem to care anymore.

    I'm at a point where I'm watching current Star trek once only for the occasional, non-TOS related character moments, and then never again. I could live with the Disco Klingons, but this is utter bullshit.

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Happy International Worker's Day to everybody who celebrates the ongoing struggle for equality, freedom and reform!

  • raspberrypi @lemmy.ml
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Problems connecting new external drives to RPi4B; gives mount/unmount loop on different USB port.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

    fokus.cool /2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html
  • Newpipe @lemmy.ml
    haverholm @kbin.earth
    bandcamp

    Daily CAPTCHA Challenger?

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    "How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software"

    www.howtogeek.com /how-i-made-a-minimalist-dumb-phone-with-free-software/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    haverholm @kbin.earth

    "A recounting of dansup's hostility towards FOSS maintainers and the ecosystem at large" — wait what?

    dansup-open-letter.github.io /appendix/