[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Dairy cows and beef cows are different breeds. There’s hardly any overlap worth mentioning. For the purposes of these kinds of reports, they might as well be different species.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

This is a large reason why I dreaded Apple making iOS apps a priority for the Mac. Everything wrong about the mobile model becomes a first class citizen.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I dunno… I mean Flat Earthers were a bunch of trolls… now look where we are.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

But why not just reverse the polarity of the primary power coupling?

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I got the book too! Did you have any luck de-dacting the Rubber Ducky Room pages?

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, it is Larson. Being baffling is kinda his thing, unintentionally anachronistic or not.

That said, so long as Dr. Who is still a thing, folks should maintain a (distorted) understanding. Sort of like those 3D printed save icons.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox on iOS uses WebKit.

I think you’ve inadvertently narrowed down that the issue is an extension you have enabled for Safari. Since it’s not the website itself.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Custard’s last stand

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Huh… never knew that tidbit.

It’s easy to imagine if that reality had come to play, we’d get the Tom Paris treatment… but I can’t help but wonder if we might’ve gotten a Captain Brahms.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Well… when Teddy Roosevelt failed to gain the support of the Republican Party, he formed the Progressive party and republican voters were split between him and Taft, leading to Woodrow Wilson gaining the presidency.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Q’s involvement is from the computer game Star Trek: Borg. It’s a fun, if mostly linear, Choose Your Own Adventure type game shot on the Voyager set.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

I could be convinced that the search engine itself isn’t profiling me.

But if by virtue of loading the ad, the advertiser gains my IP address, MAC address, and a fingerprint based on things like my installed fonts, then that’s not really privacy in any meaningful sense.

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