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This progress is measured in units of 100 ppm. Currently at 1.37%.


Came across a clip on the BBC that said that the new Doctor Who series will start 12 April. That will be S2 of the re-re-boot I guess.
#DoctorWho

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Got a notification from my NAS, saying it's running low on disk space. It says it has only 3.5 TB left.

(Yet weirdly Windows also refuses to copy all of today's photos onto it, saying I need to free another 10GB.)

There's a mismatch of disk sizes, though. Come to think of it, that disparity is about 3.5 TB.



Upgraded my Pleroma to version 2.9.0, that came just out today. Or actually yesterday by now, because it took longer than expected. Maybe I missed some versions, but for me the upgrade was not as simple as suggested.

In this version I also needed to upgrade to a newer Elixir version. And there were also some migrations still to run. Upgrading Elixir turned out to not be possible on an old Debian server, so I needed to switch over to using asdf to get the newer version; but that doesn't work nicely with the systemd service file... I have to figure a better solution for that later, it is late, now I have just hardcoded the paths.



> We should remove this “We never sell your data”
Why?
> Because some people define 'sell' more broadly
Like?
> Well, some people think it means "make available in exchange for something of value"
That's exactly what I think it means.
> Oh
So, that's what you've been doing?
> ...


well Mozilla has blinked

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

"You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."

Still seems probably problematic, and to be clear, once you're dead to me, you're dead to me.




So far came across these:

  • Gulf of West Russia
  • Gulf of Moscow


in reply to Gidi Kroon

Using the key emoji because she used to do that herself, referring to her most famous role.




It's just chocolate sprinkles... I don't get why foreign journalists are so obsessed by it that they write this whole BBC article about us eating hagelslag on a sandwich. I had it today...

bbc.com/travel/article/2025022…



Birds are weird...

...or when you need a wide angle lens for bird photography.

Roxy Furman made this beautiful film of her encountering pelicans and includes some incredible photos.
youtu.be/QT8HT1Kvv3E
#RoxyFurman #Pelican #DalmatianPelican #Greece #Birds



Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.

Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped.
#Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard

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The Windows Experience is it showing you a screen waiting for your input but when you actually try to provide that input it is like 'hang on, I wasn't ready for that'.


This article talks about Tumblr moving to WordPress and supporting Activitypub:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumb…

But, given that Tumblr has a history of breaking all kinds of stuff in various novel ways, I have just one question: what will they break this time, Tumblr, WordPress, or Activitypub?



Looks like the new US government found out this is still an issue with this year's theme... But they don't check these things beforehand...


My understanding of WordPress must be missing something.

There's this default theme 'twenty twenty four'. When you activate it, it inserts various hardcoded texts into your site. Things like "my book Money Studies is out now" and "I'm Leia Acosta, a passionate photographer". You have to use the site editor to find these and remove them. There are about four.

You have to do this on your live site, you can't customise a theme and preview it before activating, like you used to be able to. If you don't find them all, or ever did "Remove Customisations", you're site will say stuff like "A commitment to innovation and sustainability", without you knowing it.

So what if you're not called "Leia Acosta"? Or you don't have a book out called "Money Studies"? How did they think this was going to work?
#WordPress




Apparently Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman have just wrapped filming The Gallerist yesterday, a film I didn't yet know they were making and which I know nothing about...
#JennaOrtega #NataliePortman #TheGallerist


First stills released of the film Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega. The film will be released 16 May.
deadline.com/2025/02/hurry-up-…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
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The trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow is out and it looks great! Clearly a lead role for Jenna Ortega. Here's the trailer on her Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DFqJossIV5b…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
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The official trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow on YouTube, with Jenna Ortega being brilliant. Not surprised, just really excited to see this film.
youtu.be/hg0oFI2egfo?si=3LeuKm…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow


A new Tah 2.0 video on YouTube reminds me that I meant to mention how much I like having found that channel. She feels very real and honest. The channel is quite new, just 11 videos and 2k+ subscribers so far. When YouTube recommended it to me, I think she had only three videos; apparently YouTube knew after all exactly the thing I wanted to have recommended to me...
youtube.com/@tahstory

The 2.0 refers to starting over. Apparently, she used to be a travel content creator, but that didn't feel right anymore. Now she talks about her insights in film making and storytelling itself. This is her video about starting over: youtu.be/7eE9uUU9zUY



The advantage of procrastinating is that you get other stuff done.



A convergence of interests: I follow the MinuteEarth (and MinutePhysics) YouTube channel because I like how they quickly explain interesting science concepts, and I'm a fan of the actress Miranda Cosgrove because she's great. Now Miranda is on the MinuteEarth channel!
youtu.be/OCfvQGj4jVQ
#MirandaCosgrove #MinuteEarth


US TikTok-ers moving to triller, YouTube and Xiaohongshu ('RedNote'), not Instagram, the former offering to transfer all their videos.


You season 5 will be on Netflix on 24 April. I don't know which characters/actresses will come back, the two I'm hoping for I didn't spot in the teaser.
#You #YouNetflix


Be prepared that when soon even more of those that blame everything on others are themselves in power, it will still be everyone else's fault.


New toy: a Laowa 2x macro lens. Comes very favourably out of reviews, also for non-macro distances. It's the crop sensor advantage that this is small-ish and cheap-ish, while still being a super-sharp f/2.8 apochromatic lens. Now I have to learn to manually focus, and to use (flash) lighting.
#Laowa #Macro
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Glad it's winter and there are no insects about, testing out my macro lens.

Canon R10 with Laowa 65mm F2.8, either with Godox speedlite flash off-camera or the light of my Samsung phone when I had already put the speedlite away.


#Photography #macro #Laowa #Canon #Godox #Samsung



the only social media platform that operates out of the EU


Except for all the other ones.



And it's that resource usage for training that is my problem with it, so I'm not happy about AI subtitles in VLC. I also suspect it doesn't work, but that is maybe just me.


So, here is the first concrete technical info about VLC AI subtitles:

* it uses OpenAI whisper model.
* you'll have to download that bit separately [1].
* vlc will use that on your computer, so it is not using the paid for API version.

So still using all the water and power to train models, and to run on your computer when you watch something that need translation.

#VLC

[0] numerama.com/tech/1879712-vlc-…

[1] github.com/openai/whisper




I've been there! (It was already broken)


Temple of Poseidon is one of the most important monuments from the Golden Age of Athens. It is perched on the edge of a cliff, located 70m above the sea, located at Cape Sounion 🇬🇷

Built in 5th Century BC, the temple is in the typical Greek hexastyle - featuring six doric columns on the front portico. 16 out of the original 38 columns are still standing today, and they were 20ft tall.

#archaeohistories




Happy New Year, everybody! Here we've started already.