If I remember correctly, in Light & Magic they talk about how they came up with the design of the M.Falcon (and George Lucas wasn’t much involved). In fact, let me check… Ah ha:

Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television. Under pressure and mentally blocked, Johnston was sitting in the kitchen when he spotted plates on the counter. He imagined sandwiching two together like hamburger buns to create a saucer-like ship. The Millennium Falcon started to take shape.

The carbonite thing feels like more of a straightforward copy, though.

If there is anything I know about technology, it’s that moving everything to The Cloud is the current trend.

Currently it’s shoehorning AI into everything, surely?

But good stuff, always nice to see pointless bad ideas proved possible!

I’m talking about people downvoting from all - if you’re seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you’re viewing all then downvoting something you’re not interested in is a dick move.

I haven’t watched, but assuming it’s good I’m guessing it’s idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they’re not personally interested in.

It doesn’t help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don’t like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you’re training.

Ah, so this is the most popular cocktails on punchdrink.com - I thought the title was saying party punch was the most popular!

Edit: I think it’s top-rated, not most searched:

these are the recipes you deemed best this month

They’re all more obscure than what I’d expect to see on a populist list.

I’ve only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality’s consistent.

A great read, thanks for sharing.

I really hope this is successful, it’s really got the spirit of what made the early internet great.

I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don’t think that’s hopeful, unless you argue that we’re sensible enough to heed said warnings.

I’m curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn’t see you it mention in your post or blog, so I’m assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you’d normally use that?

I’m assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it’s an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn’t want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

I know how federation works, but look at the network inspector and you’ll see you’re pulling a lot of images from Cloudflare-proxied sites (or you’re missing a lot, if you’ve blacklisted them).

Anyway, I only meant that even Lemmy, with its anti-corporate culture, is still heavily using Cloudflare. “Only” 22% is still a lot in my book.

I’m interested as to your motives - are you doing this as a boycott, and/or to protect your privacy (or similar)? Also, are you blocking domains one-by-one, or are doing something like using firewall rules?

If you’re blocking everything that’s proxied via Cloudflare or hosted on Google, the internet must be a very small place for you. I think even a third of Lemmy is behind Cloudflare.

I guess my argument would be that you can choose/configure Linux to use many of the Windows conventions, whereas Mac has its own way of doing things that need learning.

That works too! I went with my assumption because of the phoenix being between the blue (little blue dot) and black(ness of space).

The styles you were leaning towards were giving me somewhat fascist vibes, but it also makes sense for a militarised group. I suspect that as a rebel group they’ll be more in the grey than straight good or bad, despite being (I assume) the good guys for the audience.

what you can infer of the federation based on its symbolism

Earth went through a bad patch, but has risen again and become a space-faring society. The fact that it’s called the Neo-Terran Federation means that either all of those stars are colonies of Earth, or that Earth is the power and that the other stars are lesser members (thralls? conquered?).

I don’t think these are meant to be the good guys, partly based on the phoenix styles you posted in your reply to the flag mock-up. “Federation” otherwise gives me good vibes, probably because of Star Trek’s influence.

One place I worked had a small park, so sometimes I’d go for a lap or two to think something through - the fresh air, mild exercise, change of scenery and lack of distractions wroked wonders.

@Yondoza@sh.itjust.works this is good advice

It’s interesting that the author and most others went with 403, when 426 seems to be the most appropriate.

Neither are perfect matches, since 403 is about authentication and 426 is for Upgrade semantics (i.e. the upgrade is over the same transport protocol, not switching from http to https). npm isn’t sending an Upgrade header, which is required, but I think if it sent Upgrade: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1 then that would be claiming they supported TLS on port 80 (STARTTLS style) - possible but unconventional.

At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that’s used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.

So American house ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.

I love fungi facts.