When Is Starfleet Academy Set?

Although the show is somewhat vague about it, Starfleet Academy is set in the late 32nd century—approximately around the year 3190, a similar timeframe to when Star Trek: Discovery‘s fourth season takes place, which had previously mentioned the reopening of the institute to a new class of cadets in its premiere. The show is, at the very least, set some time after the events of Discovery‘s third season, which saw United Earth rejoin the Federation after a century of independence, as Starfleet Academy itself—based out of the starship USS Athena—spends much of its time docked at the Academy’s ancestral home near the Presidio in San Francisco.

I thought it was obvious that the show is set after Discovery? In the fourth season the Academy reopened on the station/ship where headquarters was; Earth agreed to rejoin the Federation at the end of the fourth season (not the third), and it would have taken time to finalize Earth’s re-entry and then more time to reach a point where Starfleet Academy would move back.

Taking place almost a thousand years after what we would typically consider “contemporary” Star Trek in the late 23rd century period occupied by the likes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager

Those shows were all set in the 24th century. I really don’t trust the accuracy of this article.

Being a fascist is a choice. Being LGBTQ is not.

Now, third-party games can offer premium in-game items and effects, with developers pocketing 37% of the proceeds — temporarily doubled to 74% for 12 months.

Epic, the company that has been fighting Apple over app store commissions, intends to leave developers who create games inside Fortnite with just 37% of the money they bring in.

This bit from the IGN report linked in the article highlights the bullshit of microtransaction pricing:

Steal the Brainrot’s 4,900 V-Buck “Present Rot” bundle has also come under fire — not only for its price, but for it being advertised as a limited-time discount on its usual 5,400 V-Buck cost. One of the constraints Epic Games has placed on third-party microtransactions is a 5,000 V-Buck upper limit for any individual item — meaning this item’s saving is discounted from a price that couldn’t actually be sold.

They design graphics chips; they don’t manufacture them. Nvidia designing memory wouldn’t help with the RAM shortage when all the manufacturers are already running at capacity.

It’s too hard to tell real CSAM from AI-generated CSAM. Safest to treat it all as CSAM.

Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.

Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.

This is a followup to their Screw it, I’m installing Linux article in November.

Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything to do with Linux, mind you. It just meant I didn’t install it on my desktop until Sunday evening.

Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?

Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on “certified” Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google.

The requirement is that developers submit their own personal identity details to Google, not users’ personal identity details. It’s explained on the linked site:

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
Providing government identification
Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
Listing all current and future application identifiers

This is about him yelling at staff? I thought the headline was about the yelling meltdowns he has on TV.

This is the article, and I don’t see anything that points to a different obstacle. So yeah, I guess it’s fair to assume they meant Palestinians.

Linked from the Linuxiac post:

Mozilla’s Phabricator revision D277804

The proposed change just stops setting middlemouse.paste to true by default, and there are comments suggesting tying it to GTK’s corresponding preference.

GNOME merge request: Disable primary-paste by default

People that know about this functionality and really love this functionality can easily override the setting.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

Not mentioned in the OP is that both discussions include a setting to enable middle mouse button paste for those who want it; it will just be off by default. Everyone calm down.

This renaming happened for the Office app a while back, but now they’ve applied it to Office itself? It is April 1st already?

I don’t see any mention of why there might not be enough space. Ford doesn’t seem like the type to have had the government do a lot of hiring; has the provincial government let go of some office space since WFH started?

Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.

The deal didn’t close until about August. You can blame the upcoming stuff on the Ellisons, but SNW seasons 1-3 have nothing to do with them.

If Trump has a problem with the Kennedys I can think of a Kennedy he could fire…

The hack affects all Condé Nast entities as well

It doesn’t affect Ars Technica:

The hacker also says that they will release an additional 40 million records for other Condé Nast properties, including our other sister publications Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more. Of critical note to our readers, Ars Technica was not affected as we run on our own bespoke tech stack.

Aren’t those election conspiracy theories basically government policy these days?