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Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️
Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ @ kellyaster @lemmy.world
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  • Lol Zardoz was ahead of its time!

  • Yep, beautiful scene in Insurrection. Gets me every time. Thx for sharing

  • Thanks, I think so too! I can't quite describe it, something about "Space Arby's" just has a funny ring to it.

  • Oh, that's neat. I've seen that site before, but I totally missed that you could save it as a transparent png. That is a very handy tool. Thanks for the heads up!

  • no salt

    Hahahaha well played. Also, Office Space is awesome

  • I created an account at Miraheze and put in a request for a wiki, which has to be manually approved. The queue has a three day backlog at the moment, so it might be a hot minute before I can give it a test spin. That is, if it's approved.

    I'm probably showing my age, but I really miss Geocities, you know? You had all kinds of cool niche special interest sites about all kinds of things, and this would've fit right in there.

  • it's too bad he didn't drop his visor during the roll, and reach back and grab it real quick like Indiana Jones

  • Ahahahaha those beards are brilliant

  • Lol jawa21 you missed a great "I use Arch BTW" opportunity. Hmmm, Miraheze, I didn't know it existed! I think technically it might count as a FOSS implementation, as it is free and uses Mediawiki. Since they manage the hosting, there wouldn't be any direct access to the instance's code, but there's still the option to do a data export in the event of a necessary migration.

    This does look good on paper, lemme look at this some more. I'm trying to picture how this would work for this use case, and I don't see any red flags just yet. Yeah, solid so far.

    odds are that pure accessibility and low maintenance/hosting costs are going to have to be considered first a

    Omg I feel called out. Haha, the context of accessibility is slightly different here, but I'm actually the resident web accessibility expert at work. Yeah, I use a screen reader to test functional WCAG compliance for some of our products and have to make recommendations for fixes, if not fix it myself, amongst other things. I'm actually working on a presentation about it. Yeah, this thing would serve others best if it is inclusive. Aight I gotta jet, lemme get back to you on this.

    Any other thoughts that come to mind, don't hesitate to post it here.

  • This is also amazing. What a time to be alive!

  • On the other hand, the advantage of using markdown platforms (like Docsify) is that they can be hosted directly from the repo without having to be deployed on a host; yeah, hosting, I forgot to mention, can be a bear to maintain and is not something I'd like to take on or pay for. That shit can get expensive. There are wiki service providers like Nuclino that have a free tier of hosting, but they all look like they're closed source. One of my requirements is it be open source so anyone can fork it and do what they want with it (also addresses the "what if I get hit by a bus" question). The same goes for other collaborative CMS packages, I don't wanna deal with hosting.

    So something like Docsify would have a higher barrier to entry, but it's also something I am comfortable with/capable of managing. Even if we had someone volunteer to take on a DevOps role and set up & manage a deployment pipeline, there's still the issue of the hosting costs. Yeah lol, it sorta comes down to money, and I unfortunately I think I gotta draw a hard line in favor of free open source over free proprietary. omg I don't know if that sentence makes sense. I'm so baked, what time is it? Is it tomorrow yet?

  • That's a great recommendation, a wiki would definitely be easier. I was big on the idea of editing .MD files since I'm used to that, but in the interest of increasing access (kinda like what this resource is supposed to do for meme makers)...yeah, this should also be easy to contribute to. Aight, I got some stuff to think about.

  • That's amazing. They have captions and screen captures synced for the first 17 seasons? Holy shit!

  • I don't have any coding skills to offer

    Depending on how it all shakes out, this technically shouldn't be an issue from a content contribution perspective; I'm actually looking at lightweight solutions that render from markdown, which we all use to post and comment on Lemmy (and the Bad Place). But you'd likely have to sign into a code repo, set up ssh keys, and do the things developers do, and that's not everyone's cup o'tea. If this changes and if I do happen to find an ideal platform where you can just login in your browser and start editing, I'll let you know!

  • What the Voyager finale needed was an epilogue - a short bookend scene after the plot has been resolved so the audience can feel closure. TNG handled this wonderfully with the card game in Riker's quarters in its series finale, which is a satisfying, memorable bookend to a long-running show. Voyager didn't get that epilogue treatment, which boggles the mind because it's a basic story mechanism and only needed a minute of screen time. That show deserved better.