Emilia Clarke's film The Pod Generation is now on Amazon Prime in my country, but under a new title: "Baby to Go". I really liked this film when I saw it in the cinema, I dislike that new title.
To add your IMAP account to Outlook, we need to sync your mails to the Microsoft Cloud.
You what?
Since I didn't even ask to use Outlook, that seems like a no from me.
(The 'Learn more'-page says that this even applies to Gmail. You have the let Microsoft copy your whole Gmail inbox, all your mails, onto their servers.)
So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.
Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.
My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:
Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.
I have link previews turned off and I'm a very literal person, so it was only after thinking that all the praise in the thread fitted with Norah Jones too, that I realised it was a misspelling...
Mitra I. Arthur | July 22, 2024“I finally made it to Tiny Desk,” singer-songwriter Norah Jones excitedly declares during her performance. Her first Tiny Desk...
America will definitely get a new president - either the astonishing return of the criminally convicted Donald Trump or it its first ever female president.
Some there will see that as choosing the lesser evil, and I'm not sure which way they will go.
Wasn't it a line in Doctor Who where the British prime minister was eventually forced to step down by one line whispered in a bystander's ear: 'doesn't she look tired?'
That was a valiant fight back that went down the wire in the final set, but it wasn't to be. Next year I'm sure.
Some photos I found of her, from earlier matches. Also this match we saw her focus, and her smile, and it's so great to see both in the same person... #JasminePaolini
AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.
In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:
🇩🇰 15,2% 🇫🇮 15,1% 🇱🇺 14,4%.
What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.
The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
I found I have an ancient pc speaker set that I used on a previous pc at least 25 years ago. In trying to see whether it could be connected to modern pc's, I discovered it also has a digital(!) input. I never knew...
I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
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I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
That Linux laptop was probably a really good buy at the time. 16GB memory, i7 cpu, 500GB ssd storage, but a shared video card. Only the storage is probably too small for serious dual booting.
Why do companies like Adobe think advertising that their products contain AI is a good thing? It's all over their website. While I would consider it a positive feature if the software doesn't contain AI.
That's nice, the week after next the trains won't be going in my city because they figure it's holiday, nobody is going to miss them, time to do some repairs. Also that week, the fair will be in my city, which traditionally is one of the really popular ones in this region, where a lot of people come from all over to participate in the fun.
It's one of those 'why didn't I think of it' things. I was wondering how people trying to use a tripod to take a self portrait would focus the camera properly. I was considering all kinds of convoluted solutions involving tall things like maybe a broomstick to stand in for me while focusing. Then on the internet it says: take your camera off the tripod, go stand where you want to be and focus on the tripod... Yeah, that is indeed simpler...
I am reminded of the time when a volleyball coach substituted his whole team in one go when they performed abysmally. There are six substitutions allowed per set and six players in a team. The set continued with essentially the b-team without the coach watching on, because he took the main players to the side and used that time to tell them what's what.
I think people can guess what match I'm watching if I say that that was a really great goal. Well aimed, hard, precise, unstoppable for the goal keeper. Shame it was in our own goal.
I hope people are enjoying seeing Hotel Cocaine, because when I just checked it is not out yet. I sort of suspected that, that it would be one of those US only things, but the good news is that JustWatch actually has a card for the series saying that it is not available on any streaming service, rather than just denying its existence as normal, so that usually means it's upcoming. #HotelCocaine
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
It’s always been like that to a degree. It starts with an about page and a tagline that are not you. But the new user experience with guiding people through changing it sucks and needs work and is just … not getting it 🙄
@Mika E. But that's the thing I don't get. It used to do that for new empty sites. I've tried this with two (test) sites, both of which already had content. These new default texts just get inserted into a live site which already has content. And I didn't find a way to change it before activating the theme; you used to be able to do that in the preview before activating.
@Jos Velasco In the documentation at https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/twenty-twenty-four/ they list four templates for which you can switch alternative patterns. Especially the blog home and the index templates have patterns with texts you will not want to keep (others are search and archive). I think all these are live before you can change them.
I see what you mean. I will see if there is a discussion with the Theme’s team. In the meantime, it is handy to use the “Edit Site” link from the corresponding template you want to edit to access it quickly.
WordPress 6.3 will make site editing several clicks faster for users who are moving from the frontend to edit the corresponding template. When you click the “Edit Site” link in the admi…
I remember there are plugins to switch themes based on the user, so admins can make changes before switching to a theme for the public, but since the templates are essentially content, they don’t seem to work without affecting the active theme.
I suggest hiding blocks or areas you don’t need or need to be updated, using a plugin like Block Visibility, or setting a Staging site to make changes in a safe environment.
What problem does this address? Site Editor only works with an active block theme. It's not possible to edit non-active block themes with it. E.g., it's not possible to Live Preview non-active bloc...
@Jos Velasco Thanks for looking into it. I think the answer for me is that for my totally unimportant personal site I'm just going to brave it: check on a test site which edits need to be made and what they look like then quickly do them on the real site. Likely nobody will see it in the meantime. For anything even slightly more important organisations are going to need staging sites anyway and mechanisms to deploy changes atomically. Also with Block Visibility I think you're going to have to find the added blocks first to flag them as invisible, which you can only do after switching to the theme.
Or maybe I should just let go of the idea that you can easily switch themes...
Looks like the Wordpress Activitypub plugin doesn't handle video cover images in media attachments. Also, I had forgotten that it is not compatible with page caching in W3 Total Cache (another plugin) so I had turned that on. (Either it doesn't send the Vary header or W3TC doesn't respect it)
Can't you tell mobile Chrome not to reload a tab. E.g. if you are busy filling a form, or some long running process is running. That's the third time I restarted the media sync on WordPress.
I don't think so, no. I used to have that problem a lot but not since switching to firefox so it might just specifically be that particular browser, maybe try others?
This is the press junket interview about Hotel Cocaine with Corina Bradley. She says her character Valeria doesn't put up with lies, and from what I've seen in the trailer, Valeria is going to have an interesting time with that... (Uploaded to WordPress because Friendica doesn't do video) https://gidikroon.eu/2024/06/16/corina-bradley-about-hotel-cocaine/ #CorinaBradley #HotelCocaine
Was testing a new lens, the wide angle Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM. I like it. It's very flat. And I'm starting to learn that if you pay attention there doesn't need to be (much) distortion even for a wide angle lens. I.e. look at and not ignore the level meter on the display...
Photos below are unprocessed, except crop and downscale on my phone for posting. Taken on a Canon EOS R10, so there's a 1.6 crop factor (28mm has the equivalent field of view of 45mm).
Taken at the WW2 memorial at Kruispark in Best. #Photography
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Yeah, that was me clicking 'No'.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.
Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:
Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.