What's happening on the Star Trek Reddit page? Many are saying they're being banned for having opinions different from the moderators.
https://lemmy.world/post/10589583
What's happening on the Star Trek Reddit page? Many are saying they're being banned for having opinions different from the moderators. - Lemmy.World
Mods, if this isn’t proper Trek discussion, let me know please. I think I
remember seeing that this community was created from former moderators on the
Reddit Trek page. Anyone have any insight as to what’s going on over there? Just
asking out of curiosity. Here’s the post that got me digging in to it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyDaystrom/comments/193qbl0/banned_from_rstartrek/?sort=new
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyDaystrom/comments/193qbl0/banned_from_rstartrek/?sort=new]
Google Bard can now watch videos, give a summary, and answer questions about the video, including give the recipe.
https://lemmy.world/post/8802865
Google Bard can now watch videos, give a summary, and answer questions about the video, including give the recipe. - Lemmy.World
Google Bard recently gained the ability to watch YouTube videos and then answer
questions about the video. I asked it to watch a video from a maker who doesn’t
share the recipes directly in the description (though he links to it), Joshua
Wiseman, specifically the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich But Better video. I then
asked Bard to give the recipe, which it did, ingredients and steps! I double
checked it and it was perfect, including the optional mushroom powder. I then
dropped in a url of a recipe with the ingredients in volume and asked it to
covert it into grams, and finally gave it simply text of a recipe and asked it
to do the same thing. It did both okay, with errors coming from the websites it
crawled for the conversions. Insane and revolutionary, especially the video
transcription. Try it for yourself and let me know your experience.
Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous
https://lemmy.world/post/3126281
Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous - Lemmy.world
Strange New Worlds has been my favorite Trek since Next Generation, and if the
quality continues, could easily be my favorite Trek ever. But with the e.p.
wishing for more episodes per season, there’s a danger of diluting the show by
adding weak episodes that would have never made it in a 10 episode season. One
of the things I’ve long admired with BBC shows is their normally low-episode
seasons, which kept out a lot of filler that normally made it in to the
broadcast shows from the states. But streaming (and before that, cable) changed
things. Finally US based shows were able to create much lower episode seasons,
allowing the creators to tell more of the story they wanted to tell, without
stretching things out (too much), or being forced to add stories they weren’t
thrilled with in order to fill the season. (Though, even with shorter runs,
shows are still doing this. Picard season 2, for example, could have used some
trimming. So, yeah, show runners are still being forced to fill seasons where X
number of episodes were ordered before the story was fleshed out. Maybe it just
seems more evident in serialized shows.) I can’t help but think a longer season
of SNW would be a “more is less” scenario. I’d much rather see Paramount create
another Trek show that’s mainly episodic, that’s been shown the same attention
to quality that SNW has received.
Talk me out of using countertop induction cooktops (with outlets for both higher powered commercial and lower powered household devices) as my burners vs having a built-in cooktop.
https://lemmy.world/post/2293702
Talk me out of using countertop induction cooktops (with outlets for both higher powered commercial and lower powered household devices) as my burners vs having a built-in cooktop. - Lemmy.world
Besides not being ascetically pleasing, what’s the downside of strictly using
countertop induction cooktops, both commercial and household varieties, as my
burners? If I go for the individual cooktops, I could easily replace them
individually if they break or if technology or features improve, plus I can put
them away for when I need more countertop space. I do use my current built in
cooktop as “counter space” during gatherings, but I’m always leery of doing this
for safety reasons.
