In this The Guardian interview the band B*Witched talk about 1998, just before they became famous, and what happened since. They recreate a publicity photo they did then.

I was a huge fan. Mainly of Lindsay Armaou. Still am. I had seen them about a year before their first single came out in something I happened to catch on video tape. I was struck.

#Bewitched #B*Witched #LindsayArmaou
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Instead of evangelising just let people be themselves and make their own decisions.

I think evangelising comes from doubting yourself after having made a choice that doesn't turn out to be very popular. You want others to also come over to your side so you don't look a fool being on your own. But just look at it from your own perspective: are you happy and getting what you wanted out of making your choice? Then that's all that matters.

I've long since stopped worrying about looking like a fool, since I do anyway. I'm always on my own in my choices.

#JennaOrtega

Gidi (@twitter)

2023-01-07 00:16:40

♲ @netflix@twitter.com:

@jennaortega thank YOU! A legend every damn day of the week

#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix season two

Gidi (@twitter)

2023-01-07 00:16:40

♲ @jennaortega@twitter.com:

Thanks to everyone who made this upcoming season possible. This has all been pretty surreal
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For season two I have some outlandish ideas. They could go full meta and have Wednesday deal with toxic fandom Wednesday-style, after doing it Tara-style earlier. But I'm actually ready for a full season of Goody Addams. Possibly flashback, possibly dual persona, but we haven't seen nearly enough of this very strong character. Or she flees along the fields and mountains with Enid, eight episodes long.

I wouldn't be a very good script writer. I'd do one idea for eight episodes long.

Hashtags do not federate. Sure, they federate, tagging along to posts that are sent to servers of followers. And though you can't subscribe to hashtags, you can subscribe to hashtags, once they happen to have arrived at your server.

But the important use of a hashtag, to create an informal space around a subject you can explore and subscribe to, doesn't work in the fediverse. If I'm interested in "# AmazingSubject" and subscribed to it, and you post your amazing take about it with "# AmazingSubject", I won't receive it. Not unless some specific conditions apply like we're on the same server, or someone on my server follows you, or someone with the right connections reshared your post, or our servers are on the same relay.

But if you need the info about e.g. flood warnings, track a news topic in your job as journalist or security researcher, support customers tagging your product, or want the latest information about your hobby, this is not good enough.

Ginny & Georgia season 2 is out today on Netflix. The trailer had a glimpse of Katie Douglas, so she's in it. But probably again with little screen time like the previous season. But knowing Katie she's going to make it count, again like previous season.

The series itself is totally worth watching, don't let my Katie focus suggest otherwise.
#GinnyAndGeorgia #KatieDouglas

Fear The Walking Dead season 7 has become available on Amazon Prime. This may sound like old news for those in other countries, but this is really how long we have to wait.

I'm now starting episode 6. So far this season of the (at least) three actresses I follow the series for, one could already be seen in a glimpse and had about one line, another had a good episode but was only in that one episode, and the other may not be in this season at all but is talked about.
#FearTheWalkingDead

Those politicians in the US should do what they do in the UK: take out the whip. What do you say? They 'withdraw the whip'? Well, if that is what motivates them.

(Points if you based on the cw already knew where this was going)

When a film starts and the first six credits are all male actors, I'm switching channels. No time for that. It happens more than 1.6% of the time.

Actually I'm also done with the superhero films with one token female character even if she's supposed to be one of the superheroes too.

It's rather scary when a rather literal writer writes something and I as a rather literal reader understand it one way, to see that most other people have a very emotional response to it, having understood it in a completely different way.

Scary because I'm afraid this could unintentionally happen to something I post.

I think I said this before: I don't write between the lines. The meaning is only where the ink goes.

I see some well meaning advice for people used to Twitter that 'here' you need to 'boost' instead of 'like' because there's no algorithm to have these likes translate into views.

Firstly, there's only an algorithm on Twitter if you wanted that. You could just as easily use Twitter with the algorithm disabled, so that's not the differentiating factor. If you chose to run Twitter with the algorithm enabled, this place is likely not going to work for you.

Secondly, you're still thinking about trying to maximise views and chasing clout. That you appreciate a post is between you and its author, no further audience is needed. Just reblog what you want your followers to see because it fits the aesthetic of your page, just send a like for other posts you appreciate so the author knows.

Happy Birthday @DafneKeen!

Today Dafne Keen turns 18, which means "Logan" is now 7 years ago. She's a very talented Spanish/British actress. Unlike Lyra, Dafne did not sleep through growing up, making the great "His Dark Materials".
#DafneKeen
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Happy Birthday Dafne!

Today Dafne Keen turns 18, which means Logan is now 7 years ago. She's a very talented Spanish/British actress who, unlike Lyra, did not sleep through growing up, making the great His Dark Materials.

Ana is not out yet where I live 😢. She's currently filming Star Wars: The Acolyte.
#DafneKeen
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Dafne Keen - Actress

Dafne Keen. Actress: Logan Noir. Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of Ana "Ani" Cruz Oliver in the television series The Refugees, and the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in the 2017 film Logan.

^IMDb

Reminder that despite your private ssh keys being nicely tucked away in the .ssh folder of your very own home directory (where no-one can get at them, right?) they still need to be encrypted with a password.

(Just read an article about a hack that claimed to be benevolent and just research but in the process uploaded the .ssh folder, likely the .aws file, etc. Interestingly, the hack is not something the user could do much against.)

Why am I getting more out-of-memory events now memory has increased? Current working assumption is that 'some process' starts up and uses memory based on ram totals, rather than ram available, thereby not taking other running processes into account. With small ram sizes this caused small memory usage spikes which were covered by the swapfile. But larger ram, under these assumptions, causes larger spikes, which with a smaller or no swapfile could not be accommodated. But I don't know whether this is right or which process it is.

One argument against running too much stuff on a single resource (server, file share, etc). It's not as easy to assign blame.

I see that for most people 2022 was a year where they could live again. Good.

(Not a complaint, just that for me 'post'-corona-times aren't that different from during-corona-times)

When you're busy creating EFS volumes and are interrupted by an email from AWS saying that an action on EFS volumes is required, it takes a while to realise these two things are not related.

(There's a new version of efs-utils you should use to avoid a race-condition. This was communicated earlier and I've already done that, but just now there was an update to the communication.)

Apparently having the worker processes of four unrelated server programs running next to those server programs on the same node is not ideal. No matter how much memory the node has, the out-of-memory killer will eventually kill the web server. It seems that the worker processes look at how much memory is in the machine and use it, not at how much memory is left unused in the machine.

I've reinstated the swapfile and changed the cron schedule of the workers to not happen at the same time anymore. That was a bit optimistic...