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I’ve taken entire systems offline because of unexpected command expansion.

My “favourite” was “admin”, which was used as the login user, was also short form for “administer-all-port-shutdown” (or words to that effect; it was a long time ago). So if you were distracted when logging in, you could easily soft-lock the entire device meaning you’d have to then run into the DC, find the hardware, and physically power cycle it.

Absolute madness.

I’ve used Cisco for decades too. And the competition caught up with Cisco a long time ago. These days Cisco is trading on their brand (and even there, it’s often not enough).

The last large scale networking project I did was more than 10 years ago and we went with HP.

Personally I don’t want direct console access. I want a modern DevOps pipeline with version controlled config. I’ve got too many battle scares from accidental typos in IOS. I have no intention or reliving that error prone way of network management again.

That’s a very uncharitable reading of my comment when I literally said it was canon.

The “exaggerated” bit is clearly meant to highlight that Lower Decks is written to be a comedy first. So certain parts of canon are amped up for comedic effect.

The rest of your post seemed to imply that I was unimpressed with Lower Decks, and Star Trek in general, when it has comedy episodes. Nothing about my comment suggested that. I actually think Lower Decks (post season 1) was the strongest spin off in new Trek. And I even loved the SNW / LD crossover episode too.

The Pakleds weren’t as dumb as they pretended.

Yeah Lower Decks played on their stupidity. But everything about Lower Decks was an exaggerated form of cannon.

But the actual behaviour of the Pakleds was to mislead people into thinking they were harmless through playing on their own stupidity.

Now I’m not saying they were a smart race comparable to (for example) the Romulans. But they weren’t as stupid as they portrayed themselves.

There’s two when that happens.

One where the season 2 doctor replaced Crusher (because apparently the producers didn’t like Gates McFadden even though the cast and viewers did) performed the operation.

And another where Q sent Picard back in time (kind of) to undo the incident that lead to his heart getting stabbed.

The latter episode hasn’t aged well because of one unnecessary romantic/sex scene. Which is a pity because it’s an otherwise fantastic episode.

But then the TOS has its fair share of cringeworthy moments for modern audiences that made total sense in the era it was aired.

So was Oracle and Microsoft Windows.

If history has taught us anything. It’s that the measure of a successful product is usually more to do with its sales people.

Ahh. Well character encoding is the easy part. It’s the ANSI escape parsing that’s problematic. You can think of it like HTML (in the sense that it’s inlined markup with the content) but with much weirder syntax, a tonne of edge cases, and even less consistency with comparability between client.

I honestly hate escape sequences. I even experimented with building entirely new control plains for the term I’d written. But then who’s going to use it if you don’t also support escape sequences. And so you’re back to original problem again.

The one good thing about these escape sequences was that they only controlled the display. Almost everything that controlled the window behaviour (bar the window title) had dropped out of favour. But things like OSC8 reintroduce behavioural changes that can surprise unexpected users and opens the terminal to whole new forms of abuse by misbehaving input.

If you think back to the HTML analogy; how many times have we seen exploits abuse mouse click events? And these browsers have several orders of magnitude more funding in development and security testing. So what hope do we have that hobby project terminals will even come close to the same level of security despite being used to manage arguably more sensitive systems?

> If you are struggling a lot with that, perhaps you are overthinking it or trying to shoehorn in too much detail?

The opposite problem to be honest. I maintain pretty complex projects so lean towards leaving most stuff out and linking to documentation outside the readme. But I frequently get accused of underselling the project.

But you’re right that I might be over thinking things.

> When you say something is minimal, you are implying that what little you provide will also work.

No you do not. You just saying it’s got very little code and/or very few features.

Support for older browsers might not be one of those features. Which means this minimal frameworks isn’t suited for the kind of projects where that kind of compatibility is a concern.

If you look outside of CSS (and particularly web development as a whole) you’ll find a plethora of minimal frameworks that intentionally make compatibility trade offs.

> Which in this case is clearly [does not work].

That’s a gross exaggeration and you know it.

> So such frameworks utterly failing on such browsers is hilarious, given that they market themselves as minimal.

Minimal is an entirely different property to backwards compatibility.

Seems pretty average to me. What is it you specifically like?

(Curious as someone who struggles to write readmes)

My issue with the last season was that it was all gimmick and no substance. Literally the whole series was made up of filler episodes.

It’s such lazy writing.

I actually didn’t mind Academy. Yeah it was flawed and had a lot of lazy tropes. But it had an identity to it and some substance to it. Not much substance, but still something. Whereas the latest season of Strange New Worlds? It wasn’t anything. It had no substance. It had no identity. It was as if someone made a silly clip show (like the Stargate 200th episode) but instead of lots of short parodies in one filler episode, they made an entire series with each episode being one very long joke. A singular punch line stretched out over nearly an hour.

I hated the first season of Discovery. But that was still better than the season 5 of SNW. I hates the first season of Enterprise. And that was also better than S5 for SNW. And I wasn’t much keen on the first season of Lower Decks either. And even that was less goofy than S5 of SNW. And what’s worse, all of those spin offs that I said had poor first seasons ended up with excellent 5th seasons. And yet SNW started of strong and fizzled out it shallow jokes.

It honestly feels like the writers had nothing.

Though in defence to Bashir, without him you wouldn’t have Garak, who is possibly one of the best written characters in all of SciFi.

And some of O'Brien‘s best performances were counterpointing Bashir too.

I think as a solo character, he’s a little shallow. But he works exceptionally well at being an anchor for other characters to play off.

Strange New Worlds started strong. But the last couple of series was so bad for the drama. In fact one episode was a literal soap opera.

For me, that’s the best part of the TOS era.

It’s nice to watch something that highlights the best of humanity in a future setting.

Almost everything else in SciFi is dystopian. But ST is a rarity. And it’s all the more beautiful for it.