Tomorrow on BBC Two is going to be the repeat of last week's episode of Hannah Fry's The Secret Genius of Modern Life, that I missed. In this series she explores the amazing components and inventions that make up mundane everyday objects. I've just watched the episode about the microwave. Not only is there obvious science in generating the waves, but also using a turntable needed to be invented. Tomorrow will be about headphones. The new episode this week, Thursday, is about lifts.

Tonight's repeat of Liz Bonnin's Wild Caribbean on BBC Two is I think the one with guest Trinidadian biologist Laura Baboolal in the segment where the T&T Field Naturalists' Club treks through the jungle looking for monkeys. I may have spent some time before I found the correct spelling of her name, while I could just have switched on the subtitles... She seemed like an interesting person, passionate about nature, as you can also see on her twitter feed (from which I've copied this photo). Anyway, sometimes I notice these random people on tv from the other side of the world, that I likely never will see again. If she ever gets famous Jane Goodall style, I have posted proof I noticed her before...

I liked that this nature trek and the scientists leading it were almost all women without any explanation given, just like we've seen so many science things with only men also without any explanation.

All episodes of this series are interesting though!

The oppression of women in Iran needs to end and I'm glad this has been recognised by awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Narges Mohammadi. And I like the gesture of the prize being received by her children (since she is in Iranian jail) and that there was a symbolic empty chair between them.

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east…

#NobelPeacePrize #NargesMohammadi

There are essentially four major highways in my country going south (in my perspective of south and major) and two of these are closed southward this weekend due to planned roadworks. The two middle ones (A2, A27). You have to go either all the way west (A16) or all the way east (A50). Don't know who planned this.

It's going to be so quiet here in the south...

My servers should now be dual stack, finally supporting IPv6 next to IPv4. Nothing broke, weirdly. All tests, e.g. with testmyipv6(.com) succeed.

Soon I'm going to have to make some servers IPv6-only, since the old addresses start to cost money. That should break things I guess. The average ActivityPub server will not be IPv6 ready I suspect. It seems DNS64/NAT64 is too expensive to enable, so if it is too much of a problem I'm going to have to run a forward proxy.

Jenna Ortega is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in her case far under 30.
forbes.com/profile/jenna-orteg…
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30

(Actually they have many sub-lists, but I'm going to ignore that)

Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega on the 2024 30 Under 30 - Hollywood & Entertainment - Jenna Ortega has been acting since she was a child: She got her start as a young Jane

^{Jenna Ortega (Forbes)}

Last day of our Gandi free mailboxes that came with our domains. Just over eight hours until they become one of the most expensive email providers without even allowing a custom domain.

Tip: tutanota(.com etc) allows three custom domains for around half their price, ideal for mailboxes that don't need imap.
#Gandi #TutaNota #Tuta #email

After all these years, I'm finally me
-- Rose

#DoctorWho

Don't normally share my Wordle result, but this one is quite something:

Wordle 887 2/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#Wordle

Humanity first.

Instead of 'Own people first'. After all, all human beings are our own people.

New reading material arrived!

On paper, because who has ever heard of tools and devices with which one can read html.

No point watching, or even making, Scream 7, now that Jenna Ortega will not be in it due to scheduling conflicts.

deadline.com/2023/11/jenna-ort…

Wednesday season one took eight months to film, she's doing season two soon, so there's just no time fitting in a seventh Scream. Apparently this was already being discussed before the strike began.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #Wednesday

Jenna Ortega Not Returning to 'Scream 7' Due To 'Wednesday' Schedule

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega, who was a lynchpin draw in getting Scream VI to the horror franchise’s best opening grosses ever at $44.4M stateside, $67M global, isn’t expected to return for …

^{Anthony D'Alessandro (Deadline)}

Finestkind with Jenna Ortega, 15 December is getting close. On Paramount+.

And yet one can never underestimate the power of denial
-- Samuel

#Sanditon

I dislike that Gandi (the domain, email and web hosting provider) still hasn't responded to my support question, over a week after I sent it. I have already sent a follow up. Weren't they supposed to be one of the good ones?

If only their imposed hard deadline of 30 November wasn't looming, I wouldn't care that much.
#Gandi

Second time this week that a Dutch word I didn't know the English translation for, when I looked it up didn't seem to have a translation. Seems we have exhausted the English language.

For the sport 'korfbal' we get no further than 'korfball', with 'korf' being the Dutch word for 'basket'. I guess 'basketball' was somehow already taken.

Then today I forgot to run cold water over my boiled egg, which supposedly makes them easier to peel. We call it 'schrikken', a homonym for the word meaning 'to scare' but with a different conjugation. Turns out the internet thinks none of the English speaking people made up a word for that? ('Shock' is the closest but apparently not really used in this context)