Quark's

This is possibly the first interview I've ever seen where he looks a little less spry than we're used to, but my goodness the man doesn't quit.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/4818729

TLDR

• From right now and until April 1st, discuss with your country's community on Lemmy about which song to send and share to the fediverse.
• On April 1st, voting will begin, where you will rank your favourite songs. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On April 8th, results of everyone's favourite songs will be published.
• You can use [email protected] for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you'd like to stay in the loop.

Welcome to Lemmyvision !

Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).

Every country is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of "national languages only" but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that's awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists. I hope to make it a regular event, so hopefully this works well for the first edition!

Exceptions can be made for specific instances to participate if they can submit songs closely related to their center of interest, for example, someone from programming.dev asked me if they could participate and send video game soundtrack, which seems fair to me. So for example if a movie-related instance would like to submit a song from a movie soundtrack, it would be welcome.

How it works :

This post, and the [email protected] community will be open on Monday, March 4th, and I will start promoting the event on various instances and communities. From the moment this announcement is posted until Monday, April 1st, Lemmy communities from each country will try to gather its members and vote on a single song to send for everyone to vote. On April 1st, the songs will be locked in, a playlist created to allow you to listen to all of them, and communities will be invited to vote on their favourite out of every songs submitted, the voting period is estimated to last for about a week. On April 8th the results will be published, with a ranking of everyone's favourite songs!

I don't expect countries with a "small" population to be accurately represented on Lemmy, so no worries if you don't have a community and are just a small group of people, or if your country is not even on Lemmy but another platform (Kbin and whatnot), I can make exceptions, just reach out!

Regional languages are welcome as well, for example, France and Spain can submit a song in Basque, you're welcome to promote a regional language instead of a national one!

Song submission

• Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
• Only one (1) song is to be sent to represent your country.
• If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your country, or a regional language in your country.
• Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2023).
• Songs must not be international hits (I'll update on how this is evaluated).
• Verification will probably require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it's a community (not a single person's) decision.

Voting

• I have one month to figure out a way to make voting fair and set up a way to prevent potential cheating (multiple votes per person and whatnot), I'll send updates in this community once I find a satisfying solution, but don't hesitate to make suggestions.
• It will probably require to mention your Lemmy account and which community you associate with to make sure votes are genuine and can be verified
• Results will probably take the shape of a percentage so that voices from "big" countries will not weight more than others.

On Federation

I don't discriminate based on instances, if your account is not on the same instance as your community, that's totally fine. Additionally, if you're on another Fediverse/Activitypub platform and would like to participate, and you're able to federate with your representing Lemmy community, you're welcome to join us, I'd just like to keep organization within Lemmy so it's easier to track participations.

Where to submit songs / votes

Probably right here in this community, I'm going to weight the pros and cons of submitting through a simple thread, or set up a form to use. Will update, but if your community is faster than my decision-making, it's okay if you submit your song by making a thread here!

Would you like to help?

Although I have the motivation to handle things, I'm probably underestimating the amount of effort needed to make this work. If you'd like to help with the organisation of this event, please feel free to reach out, I'd love to have as many people as possible involved!!

Salutations. After lurking around and reading posts for a few weeks, I have just created an account on this instance. Mostly, the experience has been good, but I am having one major issue: Shaka when the walls fell with two-factor authentication. When I press the button in my account settings, I receive the error couldnt_generate_totp. When looking in the Javascript console, I found the following occurred every time I pressed the button:

POST https://startrek.website/api/v3/user/totp/generate 400 (Bad Request)

I received a 404 when navigating to that URL. Is the API for generating TOTP keys not set up on this server? I am concerned about any count where I am unable to properly set up two-factor authentication, and I would be pleased if this difficulty could be rectified. Anyhow, glory to the houses of all involved in maintaining this server as an alternative bastion of Star Trek discussion on the internet.

Paramount’s CFO Is Focused on “Getting the Most Out of Every Single Dollar We Invest in Content”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramounts-cfo-content-investment-deals-streaming-1235844185/

@quarks

I just noticed today that old.startrek.website isn't loading properly. The fact that zero people have said anything to the admins makes me wonder if anyone's using it at all. So speak up if you are! I will be happy to fix it for you, but otherwise may just uninstall.

EDIT: It's fixed, we'll leave it for now

http://old.startrek.website/

It'd be nice to see Memory Alpha make the same move...

With everyone paying tons of money for streaming services, it seems like no one is taking about other options.

I watch Star trek on live TV via a Jellyfin instances connected to a HDhomerun. I can watch it in bed from my phone and since its DRM free I can record it for later. Admittedly it only is in 480p but for a display the size of my phone it looks fine.

The channel I watch it on: (H&I)

https://www.handitv.com/

If you have a normal TV with over the air channels you also should be able to receive it in the US.

You may need to clear cache/cookies for the login bug to fix itself but a "hard" refresh might do the trick too.

Also our hosting provider (and so by extension us) has been certified by the green web foundation. Neat!

Thought there may be some overlap between the F4 and Trek fandoms. I'm over the MCU overall, but as a life long F4 fan I might check this out if I hear its decent. Poster looks promising, dig the retro vibes and the team being presented as a family. Pascal seems like an odd pick for Reed Richards, but the rest of the main cast looks good. Can't be worse then the movies we've already gotten!

I'm honestly kind of thrilled, I assumed DC vs. Marvel and Amalgam would be lost to the dustbin of history.

Link to post, cool of @[email protected] to summon him.

Great archival footage and info

The reported m.o. for Allen would be to sell the Paramount film studio, real estate and IP.