It’s only downhill from there for Discovery.

The exact opposite is true for Lower Decks, I hated it in the beginning, but it ended up being my favourite show in 20 years.

still it is concerning, that any program can know about the sites I visit

As other noted, that’s the case in Linux, by default all processes are equal, so if your shell process can access a file, the Firefox process can access that file.

But there are in fact many ways to sandbox processes and prevent exactly what you are worried about. One way is to install applications via Flatpak (or Snap), that can limit what files the app can see, while still running as your user.

If there is an app you need and don’t trust that’s not available as a flatpak (or snap), there are ways to sanbox it manually. It does require some tinkering, but people can help you on !linux@lemmy.ml

I don’t really need the encryption

In this case I’d say, LUKS is an overkill and just complicates your life. Try to think of a worst case scenario and what you are trying to protect against. Full disk encryption protects you against someone physically and clandestinely tampering with your server to compromise you by altering your OS, I’d say most selfhosters aren’t at risk of this (I do use LUKS on my laptop, because if I’m not available to decrypt the drive then there’s no reason for it to get decrypted). My approach to the server is to have encrypted directories as needed. For example the SFTP directory, the logic being that some of what’s there may be sensitive, so encryption at rest prevents leakage after the drive is eventually disposed of. But my Git repos (including private ones) and calendar aren’t encrypted at rest. Other services (e.g. Matrix, Borg, Vaultwarden) provide E2E so don’t really need further encryption.

Exposing stuff to the internet shouldn’t be that scary… I haven’t had any incident so far in 8 years. Yes, you see plenty of illegitimate access attempts in the logs, but if everything is properly patched, it should be OK.

I don’t like reboots or parallel universes so not disappointed.

Vaultwarden isn’t actually susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, since the passwords are encrypted and decrypted on the end device. But some relevant metadata do go over the connection so it’d better have TLS.

I think your meant BlueTooþ

I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.

Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.

You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!

2/10

Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.

Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”

“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.

Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)

the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.

I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).

That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.

I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: https://youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10

About Culber:

he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.

So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.

Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.

Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.

Understatement of the century

I think they are not very good at doing funny by themselves, but can do it with outside help. For example, the crossover with Lower Decks was good. In this episode, the only saving grace was Patton Oswalt (Doug), he was just hilarious!

4/10. It was 30-35 minutes too long.

I think exploring the idea of the Federation as an imperialist power is interesting, but done very poorly here. Thinking back to DS9 and how it dealt with moral questions. Beto is such a random character, exploring this from his perspective feels so meaningless.

The plot was interesting, the format was bad, I’ll go with 5/10 for this one, so just an OK episode…

I get that they are doing a lot of “experiments” with this show, I don’t think it was a successful one. Too much focus on nonsense.