Acoustic Panels as Wall Coverings in Star Trek: The Next Generation(ex-astris-scientia.org)

78 points by Kye 1 year ago | 13 comments

Star Trek TNG Captain's Chair Heads to Auction in March(blog.trekcore.com)

12 points by freediver 2 years ago | 3 comments

r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance(old.reddit.com)

70 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 17 comments

Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)(alienexplorations.blogspot.com)

83 points by exvi 9 months ago | 26 comments

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970(ufoseries.com)

86 points by DropDead 1 month ago | 35 comments

Starship launch debris landed 6 miles north, residents report broken windows(space.com)

24 points by belter 3 years ago | 11 comments

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail(fabiensanglard.net)

823 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 213 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post cataloguing every computer and piece of software visible in the movie Jurassic Park, starting with an Apple PowerBook 100.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules(arstechnica.com)

496 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 343 comments

Ars Technica article on a court ruling that suspects can refuse to give police their phone passcodes, noting conflicting case law that may reach the Supreme Court.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.

Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)

443 points by jfantl 8 months ago | 140 comments

A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.