Month: November 2022
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: Favor The Bold
This evening I continued my screening of multipart episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine by viewing Favor The Bold and Sacrifice Of Angels (Season 6, 1997). In this episode Sisko sends a fleet to retake DS9 before the Dominion disarm the mines at the Wormhole. Although Sisko retakes DS9 the mines are disarmed and…
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: In and By Inferno’s Light
Today I continued my screening of multipart episodes of Star Trek DS9 by viewing In and By Inferno’s Light (Season 5, 1997). In these episodes Garak and Worf are captured and interned by the Dominion where they meet Dr Bashir. There is no escape outside the prison dome of the asteroid. Meanwhile Sisko assembles a…
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: The Way of the Warrior
The Way of the Warrior (Season 4, 1995/96) was the next 2 part Star Trek DS9 episode I watched today. As a child it was one of my favourites that I originally owned on VHS mainly for it’s extensive ship battles at the time. In this episode Worf from The Next Generation makes his debut…
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: Homefront
Tonight I continued my screening of multipart episodes of Star Trek DS9 by viewing Homefront and Paradise Lost (Season 4, 1996). In this 2 part episode Sisko and Odo are posted to paradise, also known as Earth, in 2372. Their task was to assist Starfleet in saving paradise from the changeling threat (the founders of…
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: Improbable Cause
This afternoon I continued my screening of multipart episodes of Star Trek DS9 by viewing Improbable Cause and the Die is Cast (Season 3, 1995). In this 2 part episode Garak’s shop is blown up. Garak becomes involved with his formers associates at the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar who have a small fleet…
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine Review: Past Tense
Tonight I continued my screening of multipart episodes of Star Trek DS9 by viewing Past Tense (Season 3, 1995). In this 2 part episode the crew are involved in a transporter accident that takes them back to the year 2024. Set in San Francisco, Sisko and Bashir find themselves trapped in a Sanctuary District. Sanctuary…
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Mastodon Vs Twitter: Moderation
I have written a short blog to explain the difference between Mastodon and Twitter when it comes to moderation and administration. Some of this knowledge is from the technical documentation. Let’s have a look at the elephant in the room… In Twitter if you find an offending or inappropriate tweet, you can report it to…
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Mastodon Vs Twitter: Algorithms and Ownership
I have written a short blog to explain the difference between Mastodon and Twitter when it comes to its algorithms and ownership. Let’s have a look at the elephant in the room… Twitter is proprietary software, also known as closed-source, that is owned by Elon Musk. We don’t know much detail in how Twitters algorithms…
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Mastodon Vs Twitter: Initial Impressions
I have written a short blog that analyses the differences I perceive. Let’s have a look at the elephant in the room… Structure: Both platforms look similar but are fundamentally different. Twitter is centralised to its own servers, owned by the richest man and funded by advertising. Mastodon is decentralised to autonomous diverse communities (fediverse)…