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The problem with marking non-malware links as malware is that trust in such detections and warnings is eroded.


Jenna Ortega on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show last night, talking about Scream and Wednesday and the dance.
#JennaOrtega #TonightShow #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #Scream6 #ScreamVI
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You may need to kill a program if it somehow survives the execution.


I dislike that when people write 'Deadline reports that' you have to open the link to see what Deadline really reported. Can be quite different.



This was rumoured for a while, but now it's officially announced: Jenna Ortega plays the lead in a film called Winter Spring Summer or Fall. What is new to me is that she's also Executive Producing the film. So great to see her play more character roles and also that she gets more control over the process.
#JennaOrtega #WinterSpringSummerOrFall
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While with the success of Wednesday on Netflix a go-ahead for season two seems only natural, here are my completely uninformed thoughts about it: it has become clear that there can't be a Wednesday season two or any offshoot of the Addams Family universe in film, without Jenna Ortega. She's been so much the center of the success. And if I were Jenna, which I'm not, I'd want in this case to see scripts before committing. So chicken and egg... Maybe a series of independent Wednesday films are most likely.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday


Scream VI, I guess that will be the name, will come out 10 March 2023. Here is the teaser trailer released today. Some glimpses of Jenna. I'm hoping for a significant opportunity for her to flesh out her character, Tara.
#JennaOrtega #Scream6
youtu.be/pQLb4yBwxvg



The list of sites that were offline was growing and growing. Whatever major site I checked could be added to the list. So much so that I was forced to conclude that it was my own wifi that was wrong. And it was.




In its third week, Wednesday has already crossed 1 billion hours viewed and climbed into the #2 spot on the English TV Most Popular List!

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#2


It has not even been three weeks. I like their Instagram caption:


Thing issued this statement: 👊👍🤘


#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday



Currently the trakt.tv site is down due to a database crash and they are recovering from a backup. They say on twitter it's going slow due to the size of the database. I can imagine that. How slow you can see from the fact that it's already getting to two days.

So this is your reminder, also to myself, to think about your recovery strategy. Just making backups is not enough. Also, backups are a last resort because the data transfer for the restore takes so long. If you want to be online again quickly, redundant/shadow servers and/or snapshots are a must.
#trakt #sysop

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in reply to Frg-Tech

@Frg-Tech Sounds like they will have one of these 'what did we learn from this' sessions after all is done.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

LoL, indeed.

I just saw that the backup is from Nov 7th. Guh!

Of course I had just spent something in the order of 5 hours the week prior to the crash sorting out my watch history. Being new, I was making the mistake of adding prior watched items to my current timeline, vs when it was released. This might be entirely my fault 😜




I'm realising that not only the infinite-scroll is a addiction-inducing tactic of social media, but stories are as well. In the sense of the posts that stay up for only 1 day, so you can't have a few days away from a platform without missing news of people you care about.


Nice to see how everyone is having so much fun and is so relaxed on the Wednesday set. Seems to be a good place with good people. Not so nice to see Emma getting that flashlight straight in her face, I guess that did hurt...
#WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #JennaOrtega #bloopers

in reply to Gidi Kroon

Hmm, quote-share of my post didn't work so well. I can't upload the video here either...



Watching Sophie Rundle and Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack as Ann Walker and Anne Lister, inspired by the diaries of the real Anne Lister. There is no Jack in the series... I'm watching series one on HBO Max since I've already seen series two. It's set in victorian times and shows Anne Lister doing everything male landowners did in these times, including marrying a woman, the other Ann. I find I can not celebrate her too much, since she's also doing all the negative things men of that time and class did. E.g. to me she seems to have no empathy towards servants and women.
#SophieRundle #SuranneJones #GentlemanJack

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in reply to Gidi Kroon

There's so much manipulation and gaslighting by Anne Lister of Ann Walker, it's hard to describe it as a love story between the two women, which on the outside this series may suggest.

Anne is saying literally the things that in other series the sleazy male characters would say.
#GentlemanJack

in reply to Gidi Kroon

"She'll have her in Paris before you know it"


The double meaning very much intended I suspect.
#GentlemanJack



The Netflix show Wednesday made sure everybody now knows the talent of Jenna Ortega. Her followers on Instagram went from 8 million to over 26 million. So I'm wondering whether the director of Songbird already regrets cutting out her scenes.
#JennaOrtega #Songbird


I had todays framed.wtf in one go, I'm so proud. May rewatch that film (and not mention it before the day is over), I like it so much.



Just came across this performance on YouTube. This really was the music of my youth. I may have initially at high school started with liking Sting, The Dire Straits, The Smiths, but I quickly saw the light and it became all female (fronted) music for me: The Throwing Muses, The Sundays and definitely Mazzy Star. Here's the latter on a Dutch radio show doing Flowers in December. 26 years ago... I have all their CDs of the time and I also have their more recent albums as well as Hope Sandoval's solo albums from iTunes.
#MazzyStar #FlowersInDecember #HopeSandoval #nostalgia

youtu.be/nrgtUUG_rp8

in reply to Gidi Kroon

A rarely well-lit performance. Usually the recordings of their stage appearances were very dark where you could hardly see the people. The albums also didn't have her on the cover and the liner notes photos were very vague. They really wanted to keep her face out of the impression you had of the band and to let the music speak for itself.

There is a thing in the music industry where if a woman is good-looking, especially very good-looking, her music can't be taken seriously.



What I didn't like about yesterday's football world cup match between the Netherlands and Argentina was the ice hockey(*) attitude of it.

(*) my stereotypical ideas of ice hockey, I don't actually know the game itself.



Maybe when explaining the fediverse to new people, or outsiders, or journalists, we shouldn't focus on explaining multiple servers so much. What it is, is social media like twitter but run by volunteers. I think that's the important distinguishing part.

Then when they ask how it's organised, who's in charge and stuff like that, who sets the rules, then we can say volunteers can setup their own servers with their own rules. Only when they wonder stuff like that, this server thing becomes interesting. Until then, it's just details.



Why is liquorice something you always need to eat more of?


I'm sad to read that my country was one of those voting to exclude Romania and Bulgaria. Especially since it was over a supposed migration issue.

BBC News - Schengen: No EU border-free zone for Romania and Bulgaria
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63…

in reply to Gidi Kroon

EU: take the train instead of flying, to save energy.
Also, EU: don't expect smooth train trips from Greece to the rest of the EU





New music by Dove Cameron will be coming out this Friday: the single Girl Like Me.
#DoveCameron


Watching His Dark Materials series 3 episode 1 on HBO Max. The first two episodes are out now, then we'll get the next episodes weekly (Mondays US, Tuesdays NL). The UK has to wait until 18 December, but then they'll get all eight episodes at once.



You would expect PeerTube, being a video server, to be the heaviest server I run. But it's one of the lightest. The reason is that the difficult bit, playing the video, is 'totally not my problem'. Playing is done in the webbrowser of the visitor. Streaming the content is done by the object storage and cdn. None of which is on my server.


Interesting when someone posts an article link where the content covers more than the title suggests, most replies to the post reveal that people didn't read the article.


Since HBO Max has not put His Dark Materials series 3 online yet, despite it being 5 December already, here's a Dafne Keen interview about s3 in W to pass the time.
#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials
wmagazine.com/culture/dafne-ke…


I've found that Jenna Ortega's film The Fallout is called "The Life After" in some regions. This has not yet resulted in me finding an available blu-ray or dvd, however. In the US a dvd (not blu-ray) is available under its normal name and the film is on HBO Max wherever HBO Max is.
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout #TheLifeAfter



Volleyball balls are more expensive than I would expect. Proper match balls are €75 - €65. A piece. Even cheaper versions are €50. Considering how many balls are used by even an average club, that's a lot of capital tied up in that.