Don't forget the snakes, or the blue-ringed octopus, or a number of rather nasty jellyfish...

Honestly, I'm rather glad it hasn't happened. I prefer to keep them separate. They're very different universes.

That said, if one must have a crossover, at least write it such that the Star Trek universe is a separate universe to the Whoniverse and it requires some kind of universe-hopping accident to bring the two together. Both franchises are too well fleshed out for their canons to co-exist in the same fictional universe.

I don't think Trek and Doctor Who are particularly different in their handling of timelines and universes.

Most of Trek takes place in the Prime timeline. Time-travel alters it on occasion.

Most of Doctor Who takes place in a single timeline as well, but due to the core concept of the show time-travel (and history-changing stuff) happens a lot more regularly. To get around this there's the whole concept of "fixed points" that can't be changed without serious consequences, and beta canon or extended universe explanations as to how the Time Lords "fixed" a certain continuity (the web of time). This tends to give the show a lot more flexibility in its handling of canon, but one could argue that even then there are a host of inconsistencies in New Who that don't respect the Classic Series canon (or changes that are poorly explained due to poor writing).

Both shows do deal with alternate/parallel universes from time to time, and in much the same way. Trek's Mirror Universe has equivalents in the two parallel universes in televised Who (the 3rd Doctor story Inferno and the 10th Doctor story Rise of the Cybermen). Edit: it is interesting to note that both these parallel universes depicted lack the Time Lords or an equivalent Doctor. There are, however, parallel Doctors and Time Lords that show up in the audio dramas (e.g. the alternate Gallifreys visited via the Axis in Gallifrey Series 4-6, or David Warner's Unbound Doctor in the Bernice Summerfield audios).

Both shows consequently also have methods for travelling between universes. Star Trek typically uses a transporter accident, but Discovery also has the mycelial network (can't recall if the Guardian just does time travel or more like you say). Doctor Who has the TARDIS (although requires something to go badly wrong for it to jump universes) as well as CVEs (Charged Vacuum Emboitments, or effectively tunnels between universes -- typically just the Doctor's main universe and pocket universes adjacent to it).

All that said, without being that familiar with the Lower Decks/Who crossover game, I'd be inclined to treat it as part of the main Trek timeline with an intrusion from the Whoniverse (likewise I understand the IDW crossover comic Assimilation is similar).

One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.

This pretty much proves that the US government is experiencing its worst cybersecurity breach ever.

See also https://lemmy.world/post/25293137

It should be blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention that the "Department of Government Efficiency" isn't really about efficiency.

So basically the consumer market is screwed until the AI bubble bursts and manufacturers (GPUs, RAM, HDDs, etc.) can rebalance their production lines back to the pre-AI division of enterprise vs consumer product.

Okay, this might be a non-issue: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/issues/2697#issuecomment-2403792309

To those that arrive here from any Youtube or Twitter posts, please know that disabling Recall via DISM works fine, and preserves the modern File Explorer (though some might consider this an anti-feature). CBS correctly disables it, and the disablement is preserved through reboots, just like with any other feature.

Edit: of course, the big problem here is that it's still present (even disabled) and hence malware could turn it back on without you realising. Ugh.

So he's planning to rig the mid term elections.

This is one case where I think Windows is appropriately designed for its target audience.

I didn't even register this as satire until I opened the article. The headline is just too believable.

Hopefully Newag (the manufacturer) loses this case. This is malicious design on Newag's part.

This is why you do staged rollouts of updates... not the entire planet at once.

I'm not sure if this is Johnson acting immature and throwing a tantrum because the GOP couldn't get their way, or if he's buying time to make sure they can get the nine Republicans into line before trying again.

I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified.

Oof. Kudos to Notepad++ for being up front with the details.

“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”

George Orwell, 1984.

Are there actually any US-made consumer network routers on the market? All the brands I can think of are pretty much made in Asia these days.

As the senior dev, please don't.

Over my dead body.

Also, this is laughable:

We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.

These guys don't even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.