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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
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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
in reply to Gidi Kroon

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.



Looks like Google did a not so nice thing. The Google Authenticator app no longer will generate the codes for some items, including Google's own account. This happened after they offered to backup all items to their cloud in case you lose your phone; if you don't do that, their app will break itself like this.

Two-factor authentication is about 'one thing you know and one thing you have'. The first thing is your password, the second thing your phone. The generated codes on your phone prove that you have your phone. Backing up the app in your Google account renders the latter useless and puts you back at one-factor authentication.

Of course you can and maybe should backup the secrets stored in the app. But that must be on 'something you have' and not somebody's cloud.
#GoogleAuthenticator



I went to the Christmas market in Maastricht today. It was nice and cold and crowded. It gets dark quickly this close to midwinter.

Photos taken with Canon EOS R10 and Canon RF 28 F2.8. Cc-by.
#ChristmasMarket #Maastricht #Photography



My dishwasher was like 'hold my beer' and didn't hold its water anymore. Meanwhile my tablet seems to be fixed for now by uninstalling the TikTok app (it literally caused the display to flash, have interference, etc).


Insider trading tip for people trading in Samsung shares: both my tablet and phone are showing near-end-of-life signs and I may soon need to be buying new ones. With the insane device prices nowadays, this sure is going to raise their shares.

(Just to be clear, the above is obviously sarcasm. I have no inside knowledge. Just a consumer.)





Insider trading tip for people trading in Samsung shares: both my tablet and phone are showing near-end-of-life signs and I may soon need to be buying new ones. With the insane device prices nowadays, this sure is going to raise their shares.

(Just to be clear, the above is obviously sarcasm. I have no inside knowledge. Just a consumer.)




My 1000th Wordle today! Not a stellar performance, only in the fifth guess.
#Wordle


Spring can't come fast enough!

The trailer for the new film with Jenna Ortega is out! Death of a Unicorn, coming soon.
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
instagram.com/reel/DDuPMQQo2wv…



Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega and The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke arrived on blu-ray!

The German release of the latter has an alternative title Baby To Go, which isn't even in German. In my own country hardly any discs are released anymore, so we have to make do with these German releases.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #BabyToGo



I assume I won't see Spotify Wrapped posts from people berating others they use platforms that support right wing extremism. Right?

To me Spotify is still cancelled. I'm surprised how normalised it is again among others.