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  • Once again, the “don’t show too much gay” policy they seem to have forced them to show a relationship through actual intimacy, in contrast to the usual “relationship=sex” that shows usually have (which we can see with most heterosexual relationships in the same show, for example). Even the doctor that is portrayed by an actor that, let’s say, likes to show his body (most of the google results are him half naked) was not sexualized stupidly like they usually would ; a positive thing, except that it’s probably only because they don’t want to “show the gay” (Book for example is always naked and fucking).

    So yeah, taken independently it’s a better relationship image than most relationships in most shows, but in the context it’s pretty horrible.


  • Saying discovery is woke with their crew split in two parts, the queer ones all packed together and then the “normal” ones, seems like a stretch.

    The gay couple basically adopts the non binary one who is in a couple with the trans one, are friends with the gay engineer, but barely even talk to the rest of the crew? Ah and sex scenes between straight people but the most the gay couple gets is sitting next to each other, brushing teeth and a small kiss (not that it’s a bad thing on its own, it forced the writing to actually show a relationship and not just a bunch of sex, which is positive)



  • The idea is to not manage programs by hand to avoid messes.

    The multiple solutions come from various needs, but it’s more of an underlying complexity of installation than a real intent to have so many.

    Ideally we would need one clean package manager that handles everything without ever having to tinker with installation paths and various methods.




  • You append to ENT a vision that was created years later to try to fix the problem. Lower decks did that, but the writers of Enterprise had no idea they would. They wrote it according to the existing vision of the orion slaves: a sexy, vulnerable woman sold into slavery. Which is, yes, very old-school.

    But they do show that orions are slavers, as TPol for example is sold into slavery. By an orion man.

    What enterprise did is keep the image of “sexy women” but added an “evil and manipulative” layer to it. While keeping them as slaves that say they are victims. How does this translate to the current world? “Sex trafficking victims, prostitutes, etc, are actually the cause of their situation and they enjoy it”?

    Even Star Trek Continues managed to do much better, showing the orion slave as being trapped into hypocritical politics but being strong willed enough to fend for herself, showing that not defending victims forces them to go to dramatic ends.

    And ENT didn’t do that just once, the writers are visibly pieces of shit so I have no doubt that the intention was absolutely not feminist. They have episodes defending more slavery (cogenitor), they have weird crap with underage incestuous sex shown pretty clearly on camera, they have a lot of crap going on. Plus all the sexist jokes and remarks all along the show. No, no one will make me believe that ENT was trying to reverse sexist ideas, they were head-deep into them. Lower decks tried to fix it but it doesn’t save Enterprise.




  • Containers are fine but docker is a pain in the ass that lazy people use when they don’t want to provide clean installation/packaging.

    How many times have I seen an equivalent of “we use a custom fork of an obsolete version of an unmaintained package, so if you want to compile it yourself good luck because we forgot how we even did it. Alternatively, you can install the docker version”…