TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 10h ago • 100%

When I have company and they ask if I just moved in...

And don't even get me started on seasonal decorations.

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 23h ago • 97%

Jim O'Heir pulling a Jerry before it was cool

VOY 7x05 Critical Care

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 1d ago • 100%

When Voyager is on in the background and you're only half paying attention to the dialog....

VOY 7x02: Imperfection @ 32m58s The actual line, referring to the Grand Canyon that Seven is studying, is "Earth's biggest *ditch*. That's what my father used to call *it*."

Lemmy Apps ptz • 1d ago • 100%

[Tesseract] 1.4.16 Released

## Bugfixes ### Flairs in Post Titles It was pointed out that words in brackets meant to act as clarifying text were being converted to flairs and making some post titles hard to read. This is because the `[tag syntax]` is the same as is used for clarifying text, so there was some overlap causing that behavior. Now only bracketed text at the beginning and end of the title will be converted into a flair. This should allow flairs using the `[tag syntax]` to co-exist with all but a few edge cases of clarifying text. **Example**: `[Flair] [Flair 2] The title [of the book] goes here [Published 2022]` -> `The title [of the book] goes here` with the flair tags being Flair, Flair 2, and Published 2022. The clarifying text in the middle remains unrendered. The other bug I discovered in this area was that if the whole title was inside brackets, it would be converted into a big flair tag. Now, if there is no title text left after extracting the flairs, the title will be used as-is. **Example**: `[Jaws theme intensifies]` would have been converted to a flair before. Now it will render as text (as likely intended by the creator). ### Misc Bugfixes - [26d26798] Add error handling in case bad URL sent to `isImage`, `isAudio`, `isVideo` helper functions. - [6b99e0cd] Fixes issue where post was not being marked as read correctly on newer API versions since it was sending a single post ID instead of an array. --- ## New Features in 1.4.16 ### Can Automatically Mark Posts as Read While Scrolling Per user request, a new option and feature has been added that will automatically mark posts as read as you scroll past them in the feed. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled in `Settings -> Feed -> Mark Posts Read on Scroll` Currently, a post will mark as read when 60% of it is in the viewport for more than 1.5 seconds. ### Better Crosspost Attributions Crossposts are great from a user standpoint as they reduce clutter, but they often bury other communities since it's not easily apparent where it was cross-posted from and by whom. The link also typically takes you away from your home instance (depending on UI, anyway). Now, when crossposting, the default cross-post header has been updated to give better visibility to the original: ``` Cross posted from "ORIGINAL_TITLE" by @ORIGINAL_USER@instance.xyz in @ORIGINAL_COMMUNITY@instance.xyz ``` The title is linked to the canonical AP URL of the original post (same as before but with text applied instead of a bare link). The original user and original community links are in the standard user/community link format. In Tesseract, both of those are clickable to view the user and community profiles. Since Tesseract will automatically resolve unknown communities if you're logged in, this should give a visibility boost to communities that may go overlooked. Note that since the crosspost header info is just prefixed into the new post body, this will have no effect on old crossposts. It will also not change anything for crossposts made via other UIs nor will it affect the crosspost behavior in general since those are all based on the post's URL.  ### Sidebar Community List #### General The sidebar with the subscription list has been completely overhauled. I'm now using standard `CommunityLink` components which have the benefit of opening the community modals. The community buttons are still buttons and will take you to the community page. Clicking the community text will open the modal while clicking the button around that will take you to the community page. The inline menu buttons have been removed since all of those functions are also available from the community modals. This saves a good chunk of memory since a discrete menu is not required for each element now. The instances for each community are now also shown by default. You can disable this by turning off `Settings -> General -> Show Instance Names in Sidebar`. #### Community List Filtering I've also re-implemented the filtering of the subscription list. It is now more granular and can accept modifiers as well as take the instance into account. **Default** By default, the filter query will be a case-insensitive `contains` comparison against the community's display name (or system name if display name is undefined). It will now also accept an instance if you include it after an `@`. The instance is compared with a case-insensitive `startsWith` against the actor id of the community. - Example 1: `new` will return any community containing `new` in its display name (or name if display name is not set) - Example 2: `new@lemmy.` will return `News@lemmy.word`, `LegalNews@lemmy.zip`, etc. **Filter by Name (rather than display name)** If you want to filter the list by the community's system name rather than the display name, prefix the filter with an `!`. The instance is also accepted here if it is provided after an `@`. - Example 1: `!new` will return any community whose system name begins with `new` such as `news@dubvee.org`, `news@lemmy.world`, `newcommunities@instance.xyx`, etc - Example 2: Using the same example from above, `!new@lemmy.` will return `news@lemmy.world` but not `LegalNews@lemmy.zip` - Example 3: Can be used if you want an exact match based on the community link syntax (!community@instance.xyz) **Filter by Instance** To filter by instance, prefix the filter with an `@`. This will only show communities belonging to the specified instance. This filter method uses a `startsWith`, case-insensitive comparison against the hostname of the community's actor id. This is particularly helpful if you want to see what communities you're subscribed to on a particular instance. AFAIK, there is no way to get that info from the API. ### UI Tweaks #### Independent Preview Button in Post Create/Edit Form Rather than previewing the entire post, including thumbnail and embed metadata, you can now also preview just the markdown of the post body. The old behavior was more of an intentional choice that didn't work out well in practice / real-world use. You can still preview the entire post (that hasn't gone away); you just have more granularity in what you preview. #### Added "Fact Check" Section to Alternate Source Link Menu There are one or two "Fact Check" options available in the alternate source link menu now. - MBFC, if avaialble - SpinScore.io (shows on all links) I'm not a fan of AI-generated ~~summaries and analysises~~ anything, so I probably won't be using that, but it's an option if you want to use it. #### Direct Video Embeds Now Support Custom Thumbnails If a custom thumbnail is provided for a post where the URL is to a video, the thumbnail will now be used for the click-to-play overlay. ## Other Stuff - [7c8c96fb] Update MBFC dataset - [c6ce2213] Update MBFC removal template - [c908b886] Add option to disable automatically refreshing dates in the RelativeDate component (post/comment published/edit times, etc) - [135ed9cd] Changed animation on menus to `slide` instead of `scale` --- ### Get Tesseract - [**Github**](https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract/) - **Docker**: - `ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:1.4.16` - `ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:v1.4.16` - `ghcr.io/asimons04/tesseract:latest` **Update**: The dependency issue was my fault. I left out a dev dependency and had apparently been relying on implicit inclusion that worked up until Svelte 5 was released and vite-plugin-svelte updated for that. Updated the package.json and republished. The Docker tags should work fine for x86 (I did them on my dev machine), but the arm64 builds should be finished from the Github actions in the next 10-15 minutes. If you typically build from the repo, you should be good since I published the fix to the dependencies.

30 Rock ptz • 2d ago • 95%

I've seen multiple posts from someone trying to coin a word. Subhas has some advice for you:

S4E18 - Khonani

Old Man Yells at Cloud ptz • 3d ago • 95%

God I hate software vendors. Does anyone else have to spend a crazy amount of time toning down emails to them from "Reasons you suck" speeches to actual productive emails?

And if you're assuming the software vendor I'm dealing with was the lowest bidder, you are correct.

Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm' ptz • 4d ago • 100%

Man Sues Town for $647 Million Over Trashed Bitcoin Hard Drive

www.vice.com

> A man from the UK named James Howells is suing his local council to try to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC, currently valued around $647 million. And that’s precisely how much he’s suing them for—since he’s blaming them for his not having it. > Back in 2013, Howells’ then-partner mistakenly tossed out the hard drive along with a bunch of other garbage. At the time, Bitcoin was already worth a little bit less than £1 million—and the value of those coins has risen quite a bit in the years since.

Showerthoughts ptz • 4d ago • 95%

I used to think the plot of *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty* was absolutely bonkers until the internet became flooded with AI slop

Was getting ready this morning and the ending of MGS2 came to mind. [Plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_2%3A_Sons_of_Liberty#Plot) > It states that GW was the only AI destroyed, and that the S3 Plan's real purpose is to control human thought to prevent society's regression in the digital era from trivial information drowning knowledge and truth in the belief that humanity is too immature to handle the flow of information responsibly Though the villains in MGS2 seemed to have better intentions than the nation states / trolls that are flooding the internet today.

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 5d ago • 98%

[Short Trek] Road Trip Part 2 - Pass The Aux Cord

Figured I'd squeeze another meme out of this template. I also fixed the stock footage in the last panel. **Bonus Content**: A few of Tuvok's vetoes from the cutting room floor: - I do not own a 'Sharona' and cannot relate to the premise. - If someone is 'shot through the heart', they should seek medical attention and refrain from needless caterwauling. - It is not *that* tricky to 'rock a rhyme'. - Stick that cookie up my *what*?! Next! Edit: Re-uploaded because my first draft of Vulcan dialog was terrible. Reworked Tuvok's lines.

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 5d ago • 100%

[Short Trek] Road Trip

VOY 6x15: Tsunkatse Trying to make it through this episode by finding what gems I can (I'm not skipping any this go-round).

Fuck AI ptz • 5d ago • 97%

Parents Sue School That Gave Bad Grade to Student Who Used AI to Complete Assignment

gizmodo.com

**A Massachusetts couple claims that their son's high school attempted to derail his future by giving him detention and a bad grade on an assignment he wrote using generative AI.** >An old and powerful force has entered the fraught debate over generative AI in schools: litigious parents angry that their child may not be accepted into a prestigious university. > In what appears to be the first case of its kind, at least in Massachusetts, a couple has sued their local school district after it disciplined their son for using generative AI tools on a history project. Dale and Jennifer Harris allege that the Hingham High School student handbook did not explicitly prohibit the use of AI to complete assignments and that the punishment visited upon their son for using an AI tool—he received Saturday detention and a grade of 65 out of 100 on the assignment—has harmed his chances of getting into Stanford University and other elite schools. Yeah, I'm 100% with the school on this one.

Showerthoughts ptz • 5d ago • 72%

"Ghosts are just boneless people"

Not mine. Heard Taylor Tomlinson say it on *After Midnight*

science ptz • 5d ago • 98%

Human sense of smell is faster than thought, new study suggests

www.cnn.com

> In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with how our brains perceive color, “refuting the widely held belief that olfaction is our slow sense,” a new study finds. > ... > The new findings challenge previous research in which the timing it took to discriminate between odor sequences was around 1,200 milliseconds, Dr. Dmitry Rinberg, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone Health in New York, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study in Nature Human Behaviour.

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name ptz • 6d ago • 99%

And the award for most obnoxious "aliens of the week" goes to the Qomar

VOY 6x13: Virtuoso Condescending all around and then pull a 2024 tech bro move by training their AI on The Doctor and throwing him out. (I'm disregarding the fact that The Doctor is an AI himself)

Showerthoughts ptz • 6d ago • 96%

Vicki Lawrence is now over 10 years older than the old lady she played back in the 80s

Thelma was in her mid 60s and Lawrence is now 75 ::: spoiler Lawrence in 2024  :::

It's a Unix System ptz • 1w ago • 100%

Illegal Streams Let Criminals In

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.federate.cc/post/1318383 That command prompt.