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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

A ferris wheel lights up a dark evening, many people enter the Christmas market through an entrance shaped like a present consisting of many small lights. In the background the ancient church is lit up by a red light.
Many people walk among the Christmas market stalls.
Christmassy figures in a decorative tower on top of a food stall with children playing in a patch of fake snow, and a Santa Claus figure.
A Santa Claus figure descends above the crowd looking at the Christmas market stalls.
#photography #maastricht #christmasmarket

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).

Gidi Kroon

2024-12-23 13:50:58


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.)


Varada Sethu, the new Doctor Who companion.
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#VaradaSethu #DoctorWho
Screen capture of the trailer of the 2025 Doctor Who series, showing Varada Sethu as the new companion. She's inside the Tardis, a big open space (inside a police phone box), left of the screen looking to the empty right of screen, worried.
#DoctorWho #varadasethu

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.)

"She is a Protestant, but that is not the only problem."
-- Dot

#MissFishersMurderMysteries

#MissFishersMurderMysteries

My 1000th Wordle today! Not a stellar performance, only in the fifth guess.
#Wordle
My Wordle stats today. Exactly 1000 played. Also 97% win, 5 current streak, 106 max streak, today's word in guess 5.
#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
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#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn

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

Blu-rays that have just arrived: The Pod Generation (as Baby To Go) with Emilia Clarke and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in 4k) with Jenna Ortega, the latter not pictured on the cover. Both are the German releases and photographed before unwrapping.
#JennaOrtega #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration #beetlejuicebeetlejuice #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.

AI noise reduction in bird photography: I hope all these photographers spending hours in the wilderness to photograph a bird, know that when they apply AI noise reduction to remove the noise from the bird's feathers, it instead removes the noisy feathers and inserts completely made up feathers without noise. Is it even the same bird? Why not stay home and draw a bird instead?

Wednesday season 2 wrapped filming, now we can start waiting for it to be released in 2025.
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in gothic surroundings, because when is she not.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

This video of Corina Bradley singing a cover is very beautiful, as is her voice. As far as I know she didn't publish anything like this before.
youtu.be/LmhV3gVWbKY
#CorinaBradley
#CorinaBradley
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I also love how this video is shot, with the Corina on the right doing backing vocals for the Corina on the left.
#CorinaBradley
Split video with on the left Corina's face seen from the front and on the right Corina's face seen from the side. She's behind a microphone with screen. The lighting is very cinematic. She looks very tranquil.
#CorinaBradley
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I can't add it to my music playlist due to YouTube being weird, but it reminded me of this other video on that list of a slightly more famous actress also showing her gorgeous voice in a beautifully filmed studio setting in a video for her YouTube channel.
#MirandaCosgrove
youtu.be/dAfYBOsQQY8
#MirandaCosgrove

It's around freezing outside, so it's a great time for the heating in my flat to not be working.
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It's fixed! It took a few days but it's so great to be able to be in a living room where I can raise the temperature above 15 degrees.

Glow is also in Best this year, as last year, side-Glow as it were.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm. cc-by.
#Photography #Glow2024

Saint Odulphus, or his statue, stands guard in front of the church which is brightly illuminated with many colours for the Glow festival. The statue catches some of the light. The photograph looks steeply up, the wide angle exaggerating its prominence.
#photography #Glow2024

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More of Glow in Best, with the Windmill, the cemetery and eyes at the train station. The main Glow festival is of course in Eindhoven.
#Glow2024
The windmill illuminated with playful colours, as part of the Glow festival.
In the dark, people walk over a footpath past the cemetery, itself hidden behind a green hedge. As part of the Glow festival the hedge lights up in bright changing colours and sound can be heard coming from that side. Or maybe it's not Glow, but the cemetery's ghosts acting up.
Two large glowing eyeballs for Glow, seen in context of the traditional illuminated tree art work.
#Glow2024
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I had also taken photos in Best some days earlier with my RF 50mm 1.8 lens. Nothing wrong with those results, but I haven't processed these to jpeg yet. The 50mm, on an APS-C camera, didn't allow me to capture whole buildings, yet the aperture difference of 1.8 vs 4.5-6.3 makes itself felt in the dark...

Glow Eindhoven 2024.

I tried to take some photos with my Canon EOS R10, with the RF 50mm 1.8 lens, some with the RF 28mm 2.8.
#Photography #Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

A stream of visitors of Glow walking into a tunnel, the entrance illuminated with red lights.
The bridge over the Dommel illuminated with led lights that change colour. At the moment they are green and red. In the dark, people walk by.
The ground is also illuminated while people are watching another light show. Only people's feet are shown, the ground has abstract shapes projected and drawn on it.
#photography #glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

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For the second one of these two I needed the other lens (building too big, etc).
Sign with an arrow showing the route of Glow. The arrow points upwards. Above it are the word Glow and a glowing street lamp.
Illuminated building with a light show as part of Glow 2024.

Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.

Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
#Photography #Birds

Small predatory bird perched on a branch, looking for prey.
Pigeon perched on a small branch, looking back to see where that sound of the shutter is coming from.
#photography #birds

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