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This post is less about the episode, but a continuation of my posts in the 80s TV community, about how much I love Data and he's one of the best characters on TNG.

This particular episode is so amazing, with him narrating his day, and all the situations he has to navigate as a sentient android. I believe also, at least as far as I've noticed so far, it might be the first glimpse into his love for cats.

I just think his character is so wonderful. What's also wild to me is, here in the late 80s and early 90s, we had a character whose whole story line is basically teaching people that it's okay to not be neurotypical. It's okay to be different.

In short, Data is great.

Since the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran began, Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones in retaliation at Gulf countries. Iranian officials say that they are attacking U.S. military bases and American interests in the Gulf countries, not civilian targets. Our reporter Vivian Nereim talks with Katrin Bennhold about how migrant workers have been affected.

What a charming young fish he is!

I recall Linus saying that x86 won the position it is in not because it was technically superior, but because "that's what everyone had at home" and is even now still gradually pushing out the entrenched mainframes without really trying or any kind of focused or concerted effort.

TrueNAS is probably the newest OS I have introduced into my "home lab", and by using it for my personal infrastructure I have come to know it well from a functional perspective. Not only its value, but also it's limitations.

While I can't say that I would ever be in such a position, I know that I could unreservedly recommend TrueNAS to a small business for their onsite infrastructure, which (depending on their size and risk tolerance) would likely come with a complete purchase of official hardware, software, and support... but I guess my point is that the skills and trust directly translate from the "community version" to the corporate which just lags a bit behind.

I think that might be a good model for corporate-backed open source software. IntelliJ follows the same pattern... nothing really hindered, broken, or missing... but 'more' or 'with support' is available.

In contrast (though, not in sharp contrast) is Red Hat's RHEL operating system. I used to see this pattern everywhere, where all the devs used CentOS but the production machines were RHEL for the production, support, etc.

Then RHEL ate CentOS, so now everyone is using Rocky Linux on their workstations, often even building binaries on Rocky to deploy on the RHEL servers (bad form), but Red Hat continues to be a antagonistic against Rocky and friends with legal maneuvers... even if it is the feet that they are unknowingly standing upon.

For example, RHEL might have a CLI tool to list the contents of a repo (assuming your subscription is up to date), and I've looked it up before so I could do it again and I suppose I could learn it if necessary, but... I could get the same information by pointing my web browser at any Rocky mirror for a far easier way to discover what packages and versions are in a rhel release.

Tiny things like this bit of frictionless service (for which Rocky and the community is paying) and newcomers playing with Rocky Linux, are a direct benefit the position of Red Hat & RHEL (just not a monetized one)... which they actively fight against.

I need to buy some kind of sun protection glasses and I'm having a hard time deciding between those three options. I'm interested in your experiences, especially if you tried all of them.

You are legally required to consume some form of pie today.

AI infrastructure is rewriting the rules of the NAND market.

Enterprise SSDs are now the top priority for manufacturers as hyperscale AI deployments push storage demand to new highs.

Prices are surging, supply is tightening, and procurement strategies are changing.

Here’s why the NAND market is entering a new era—and what it means for enterprise buyers.

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/nands-new-power-dynamic-enterprise-ssd-demand-reshapes-supply/

#AIInfrastructure #EnterpriseSSD #NANDFlash #DataCenter #Semiconductors #StorageMarket #AIHardware #NANDPrice #NANDPriceSurge2026 #DRAM #DRAMPriceSurge #technology

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52281289/26608912

They called me a transphobe, again, based on the previous shadow ban for asserting that "dude" is not a gendered term. And all they could back it up with are hypotheticals about an isolated comment I made years ago.

Poop that woman in jail!

And also, what a terrible UI! It looks like someone put a bunch of div tags in a jar and shook them around!

Intel has officially launched its Arrow Lake Refresh (Core Ultra 200S Plus series), featuring the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus. After the initial Arrow Lake launch struggled to win over gamers, this "Plus" refresh aims to reclaim the gaming crown. Intel is reporting a 15% boost in gaming performance over the previous 200S models, achieved through increased efficiency core (E-core) counts, a 900MHz boost in die-to-die speeds to reduce latency, and aggressive pricing—specifically the $199 Core Ultra 5 250K Plus—that directly undercuts AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series.

They wanted to introduce an non-native species internationally:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/25278185

And I fought against it, and now they banned me:

https://lemmy.ca/u/qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org

And these are the serial abusers who did it:

@smorks@lemmy.ca @otter@lemmy.ca @TruckBC@lemmy.ca @Shadow@lemmy.ca @mp3@lemmy.ca @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca

They have a history of abuse: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52210561

In imperialist pig dog Yankee land lays the path of the pleb, our whole society is a grooming session by the pdfile capitalist trans-international elite. Socialism for the rich, unions for the dogs and scraps for the rest. Every pop culture reference is a distraction from our problems and a catharsis for the gaping wound that is the void of any real way of life, as we occupy and claw for our meaningless positions in the hierarchy of obfuscated barbarity. It is an inversion, where the leader is a follower and the follower is a leader that is dead, if there is a hell, it is inside your head. In the web of lies they flood the zone that's why no one knows what's going on, plebs join their tribe and that's where they'll hide in their prideful ignorance as the Minotaur chases them through the superstructure of tyranny and then they cry victim. There is a reason why bad things happen and it is a business model. Can’t have winners without losers. In the dog pile only one idiot comes out with the ball. This is a land that is an empty vessel. This is a land of unimportant things.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/hegseth-claim-iran-trump.html

Days into the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said confidently that the leader of the Iranian covert unit that had planned to assassinate President Trump had been “hunted down and killed.”

“Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh,” Mr. Hegseth boasted last week.

But Mr. Hegseth did not identify the man. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has clarified or provided additional details.

U.S. officials privately acknowledge that the story is complicated.

U.S. officials and others briefed on the intelligence said Mr. Hegseth was referring to ​​Rahman Makdam, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was targeted last week in an airstrike.

And officials say Mr. Hegseth’s statement that Mr. Makdam led the unit that plotted the assassination is somewhat overstated. Mr. Makdam has overseen that unit as part of his broader responsibilities, and has been involved in other repressive acts in Iran from his job inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps special operations division. But officials said there was not intelligence placing him in a direct role of plotting to kill Mr. Trump.

Aides and allies of the president say that Mr. Trump does not like to discuss the assassination attempts on him, but that Iran’s efforts to kill him were a factor as he considered military options against Iran.

Israeli intelligence gathered the original information that Iran was plotting to kill Mr. Trump and passed it to the United States, according to people briefed on the information.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/antifa-protesters-terrorism.html

A group of young protesters accused of being members of the radical left-wing movement antifa were convicted on Friday of an array of charges, including supporting terrorism, after taking part in an armed assault last summer on an immigration facility in Alvarado, Texas.

The guilty verdicts, which came after a three-week trial in Federal District Court in Fort Worth, were in many ways a victory for the Justice Department. It was the first time that terrorism charges had been successfully brought against purported members of antifa.

The jury returned the verdicts on its second day of deliberations, convicting eight of the nine defendants of providing material support to terrorists, riot and conspiracy to use an explosive. The jury acquitted most of the defendants on charges of attempted murder.

The episode in Alvarado at the heart of the trial unfolded after nightfall on Independence Day last year, when a group of about a dozen people arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, the Prairieland Detention Center, dressed in black. Some began to vandalize the property, spray-painting graffiti on a guard shed and car, and damaging a surveillance camera, prosecutors said. Others set off fireworks in what they later described as a “noise demonstration,” hoping that the immigrants detained inside the facility would be encouraged by the spectacle.

All the while, one member of the group, Benjamin Song, a former Marine reservist, stood guard at a distance armed with an AR-15-style rifle. And when Lt. Thomas Gross of the Alvarado Police Department responded to a call for help at the facility, Mr. Song yelled, “Get to the rifles!” and opened fire, prosecutors said. Lieutenant Gross was struck by a bullet above his collarbone as the rest of the group fled.

Two months after the attack, Mr. Trump signed an executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization,” a label that does not actually exist under U.S. law. He also issued a sweeping directive known as National Security Presidential Memo 7, which ordered a whole-of-government approach to going after antifascist groups.

The memo greatly expanded the definition of domestic terrorism to include a list of political beliefs traditionally protected by the First Amendment — among them, “anti-capitalism,” “extremism on migration, race, and gender” and even “hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion and morality.”