Handles @ halm @leminal.space

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I dunno, over the course what, six months? A year? And since there's been an influx of Twitter users they're probably frantically liking every old follow/er they see to recreate their network.

Also, on Bluesky likes influence the algorithm more than it would on the fediverse, so who can blame them for gauging the ecosystem?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It's been running for years without problems.

That, and she doesn't still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic...

The Tales of the TARDIS ones? Yeah, I watched them, like, once. I prefer the full length (or even extended) versions, and I don't think the brief, new segments added more than a bit of nostalgia.

I also think they were edited more lightly than the big colourised event versions of Daleks and War games? I guess the difference lies in the cost of colourisation being measurable in minutes of runtime.

Oh, seeing that colourised photo of Wendy Padbury, Patrick Troughton, and Frazer Hines is very cool!

As I just wrote in another comment, it's the runtime I'm worried about. The Daleks was shorter than The war games in their original playing time, and that got mangled in last year's "feature-length" colourisation.

Anyway, I think 200-250 minutes is a perfectly acceptable length for a feature these days? 😛

these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience

Are you kidding me? Yes, at 10×25 minutes War games is long, even for the period, but it is also a well paced and cohesive story as it is.

You can probably shave 5 mins of each episode to lose the title sequence, credits, and overlapping cliffhangers — but that still leaves more than twice the 1½ hour playing time they edited it down to.

I understand the BBC could only reasonably colourise so many minutes, but why then pick a story that arguably in its most basic form is longer than they can pull off?

Plus the Android app on f-droid.

Cool. Now use the data to get them all blacklisted on dating sites, that should reestablish some semblance of balance.

Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle... 😆

For sure! That's why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it'll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.

Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the "female box", while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.

Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn't make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?

Who hurt you?

greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer

Oh, right. I see.

That's subtle these days?!

Can confirm.

They're like Cylons

THERE ARE MANY COPIES

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

I'll be honest, I never tried. Seeing that there are projects working independently to bring Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch to Android, I'd guess no? Plus I know you can run any distro in an emulator within Android systems, but that feels more like a curiosity.

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

I think Fedi Garden does a good job of making it accessible, but I still think that curated list needs updating.

None of the automated find-me-an-instance sites have really convinced me, but I have an okay niche server for my interests, and if that folds I'll probably host a GoToSocial instance just for myself...

Yeah, but tech journos are so far up Big Tech's cloaca that they can't imagine any platform emerge without a business plan™. Couple that with their unreflected admiration for anything they're told is The Next Thing and you have the gushing bit you quoted.