I mean, while the ownership of the franchise is legit concerning and I am worried about where it’s going with the end of LD and PRO, at least SNW has managed to get in some good ones, especially Ad Astra Per Aspera and Pelia bluntly calling Star Trek “the whole no-money, socialist utopia thing”.

There’s certainly been some gaffes, and I’ve been driven a little nuts by the relationship stuff going on in S3, but there’s still strong stuff in that show for now (granted, I’ve only watched up to S3 E8 so far). At the very least, it got some last words in before we possibly hit a dark age for while.

SNW Ad Astra Per Aspera for the win!

Young man, I see profits are down, I said
Young man, workers leaving the ground, I said
Young man, 'cause you’re in hoo-man town, I said
There’s no need to be un-Ferengi
Young man, there’s a person in town, I said
Young man, when you’re short on latinum you will
See him and I’m sure you will find
Miserable days and bad times

It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
He’ll do everything young entrepreneurs fear
You can’t hang with other Ferengi boys
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
It’s time to get probed by Brunt F.C.A.
You won’t have shirts to clean, you won’t have a good meal
Your bank account is gonna reel.

(These days, I normally wouldn’t want to reference Village People, but this parody just works so well that I had to forget my political rage for a second and just get it out of my mind.)

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I need to play with HomeAssistant more. My last bit of hesitation was I was struggling to find a replacement for the announcement and intercom functionality, which is half of what my family uses Alexa for.

It looks like it got announcements with the “broadcast” intent in February; for the intercom, there may be a plugin. This seems like it might have me covered on the intercom front: https://github.com/JoeHogan/ha-intercom

Perhaps I’ll mess around with it again once the semester’s over; a lot of my family would really like to jump the Amazon ship and certainly be willing to try it if I give them the option.

But have it be slightly implied he’s an El Aurian, Lanthanite, or something like that.

Meanwhile on startrek.website, blissfully mostly unaffected other than being unable to access a few other Fediverse servers:

At least my Canvas isn’t out again. It was fun to chill during the AWS outage, but the rest of the week was quite stressful as I worked to catch up.

Also, I find it really funny you commented on my 3 month-old comment.

Michael J. Fox and JG Hertzler have secretly been the same person all along… somehow. I don’t how; how does spacial scission thrown together with some other sci-fi stuff sound?

Yes. In fact, almost every XFCE component can ran on Wayland now. At this point, they’re just a few bugs to hash out and figuring out what they’ll actually use for the compositor.

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

From what it sounds like, there will be a somewhat usable Wayland release in late 2026 alongside X11, and I imagine we’ll get a more polished release in late 2028.

I haven’t used Nautilus in ages, so I can’t say for certain, but Thunar is a more traditional-feeling file manager. It feels more like an older version of the Windows file manager but with tabs, while Nautilus seems more Mac-like.

They also messed up the DS9 theme; it drove me nuts when they sped it up and added that horrible drumbeat that doesn’t stay synced up the whole song.

Reminds me of when a client walked in to the help desk I work at the other day with a 2015 Macbook Pro still running El Capitan. I upgraded her to Monterrey - it’s been EOL for a year, but it’s better than sending her away with El Capitan. Monterrey is the best I can do since OCLP would be outside our policy.

My rare non-OC, but contextually relevant.

That’s precisely why secure boot and TPMs exist - the TPM can store the keys to decrypt the drives and won’t give them unless the signed shim executable can be verified; the shim executable then checks the kernel images, options, and DKMS drivers’ signatures as well. If the boot partition has been tampered with, the drive won’t decrypt except by manual override.

The big problem is Microsoft controls the main secure boot certificate authority, rather than a standards body. This means that either a bad actor stealing the key or Microsoft itself could use a signed malicious binary used to exploit systems.

Still, it’s at least useful against petty theft.

TPM sniffing attacks seem possible, but it looks like the kernel uses parameter and session encryption by default to mitigate that: https://docs.kernel.org/security/tpm/tpm-security.html

That joke’s so funny, it’s making me a bit wheezy…

Didn’t Debian drop i386? Are you running Debian Bookworm?

Personally, Super Star Trek is my favorite terminal game.

puts on a fourth, solar-system scale tin-foil hat The Taelons from Earth: Final Conflict are actually using their skrill to puppeteer Talosiankind into puppeteering Vulcankind into puppeteering humankind to remotely fulfill their agendum, as of 3 years ago when they came. Among this pupeteering chaos, William Boone is searching for the truth… until he gets killed off, upon which weird half-human alien baby who instantly grows into an adult, who I think then searches for the truth? I don’t know much after that - masochism can only get you so far in that series before you turn it off.