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Odd, why would Paramount be using a Let's Encrypt certificate and why does my phone say it's not a recognised Let's Encrypt certificate? While it perfectly accepts others...


I remember the time when these birds were so scared of humans, it was rare to see one and then it was from far away. Within my lifetime they evolved to not mind human beings at all.



Watching Queen Charlotte since it's a Bridgerton story after all. But after being disappointed with series two and already knowing none of my favourite characters are going to be in it, it's going to be difficult to get into it.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

At least Eloise was mentioned, that is something.

So far I think the character of young Queen Charlotte is very interesting, but I dislike that she doesn't match at all, writing-wise, with the older Queen Charlotte we already knew. At least young and older Lady Danbury match very well, allowing the actresses to really sync their performances. A lot of it is Lady Danbury's story, and King George's as well.



Skipping adverts as a subscribed user on Amazon Prime Video takes about as long as watching them, but I still skip them out of principle.

Ok, so you can skip them and they are at the moment only adverts for their own programs, but I think as a paying subscriber to their streaming service I should only get the stream I'm clicking the start button on.



There's this shop I need to go to and it has different closing times on different days of the week. The only constant is that when I look it up, it closed five minutes ago.


I like that at Anne Boleyn's coronation, King Henry was not allowed to be present. Though there are rumours he peeped through a window.


In trying to find out why a new version of a thing uses so much more resources, I've come across an interesting new data point. When I turn it off, the warning that it's off doesn't appear and the things it was supposed to be doing, are still happening.



I'd wish they didn't put all these 'rumoured' films in imdb, or all these appearances 'as self' on tv talk shows.


So this site documenting the AT protocol has a frequently asked questions section, but no way to ask questions. I'm suspicious.

That FAQ explains why they couldn't just use ActivityPub, by listing a couple of things missing in it. These things happen to be the exact things the Zot protocol does have, while Zot has existing implementations that do interoperate with ActivityPub. They couldn't have looked long.
#AT #ATProtocol



This Saturday the interesting Chloë Grace Moretz film Greta is on BBC One: 23:40 UK time, 00:40 CEST. Of course I have it on DVD already, but if you don't you can catch it.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Greta


Typically me on my day off: I forgot to eat breakfast! It's 5pm. So I guess the nuts and cheese I was snacking in front of the tv was brunch.


New The Pocket Report:

The issue isn't that a Supreme Court justice has friends. It's that a Supreme Court justice has sugar daddies.


#ThePocketReport
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I worry how it's getting normalised that Russia is targeting civilians and residential buildings in its war in Ukraine.


Reminded of the time I wrote a small useful utility that nicely ended with an exit(), which later got incorporated into a web application because it was so useful and which took me an embarrassing amount of time to debug why the server always 'crashed' after clicking my new button.


When changing output resolution on a chromecast, selecting ok in the menu does nothing no matter how many times you do it, until you also hit cancel, then it sticks. Just now found out that just doing cancel twice, no ok, also succeeds in changing the resolution.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

I have to keep doing this kind of thing because my tv and chromecast have a dodgy handshake.

When I switch them on, the tv and chromecast will negotiate resolution, hdr settings and colour encoding and agree upon which to use based on the best available modes. Following this agreement my tv will do one thing and the chromecast another.



Google: please send us all your second factors for our hungry cloud
Me: no


I feel long running sci-fi series, whether it's Star Trek or Doctor Who, are harmed when their stories start to cater to nostalgia. Just create new stuff, like you used too.


But when you wake up, the dreams are gone and the world is still real
-- Adele


#BehindHerEyes

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Checking whether I've done today's wordle already since it's the new one in a few minutes and I'm not going to lose my current streak yet again just because I forget a day. I'm at 65 on the English one and 29 on the Dutch one. Luckily I did apparently do it already. (I very often fail on the film frames one but it's fun to try that one too)


I've started watching Star Trek: Picard. I understand it gets better in season three. I'm making my way now through season one and I guess I have to endure that to get to the good bits. It seems such a waste of a high budget and really skilled people making those sets, effects and filming and acting it, which is all good, while the story is just not there; I'm getting final season of Game of Thrones vibes.


These wave attacks are similar to World War One tactics,


It's horrible that these things are happening again.

(This is regarding the Russian war in Ukraine)

in reply to Gidi Kroon

From this BBC News article, but it's not its main point:

BBC News - Ukraine war: Bakhmut defender remembered by comrades
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65…



Rewatching the Amy-Leigh Hickman episodes of You season four, which if I remember correctly means that I can skip some of part one, but that in part two it really kicks off.

Episode 4x01 has a nice scene introducing Nadia. Episode 4x02 has several scenes including her doing the explaining thing. Yes, Nadia is very much like Ellie with regard to her place in the story.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You

in reply to Gidi Kroon

Episode 4x08 changes the story quite a lot in a way that I can't say because of spoilers. But Amy-Leigh Hickman's Nadia is an important part of it. She's no longer an observer.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

Episodes 4x09 and 10 are where the Nadia situation gets really intense. If you want a quick rewatch of Amy-Leigh Hickman in You, episodes 8 to 10 of season four are it, the same as for a quick rewatch of Jenna Ortega in You season two, you'd also do episodes 8 to 10. Though I would recommend the whole part 2 (episodes 6 to 10) here.

It's clear to me (or my imagination) that this Nadia storyline in part 2 was intended as an Ellie storyline until Jenna Ortega was not available, stuck in Romania doing Wednesday. Amy-Leigh Hickman is the only actress I'd trust to take over such a big thing and she does so amazingly.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You #JennaOrtega



This whodunit makes the interesting point that vegetarians are unlikely to be the correct suspect.


This is what I like, actress in the writers room. Here Amy-Leigh Hickman visits the writers room for You season 5. She isn't even confirmed yet for that season, but I take this as a very positive sign.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You


Now that I've removed most of the wallpaper, I understand why I couldn't track the source of the draught: the previous owners had quite literally papered over some significant holes in the wall.



Saw Midsommar on Netflix. It's not quite a traditional horror film despite some gruesome scenes, but it relies more on what people do and why rather than on shocks. It doesn't really convince me because that 'why' aspect is not clear enough and because some of the themes I had already seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. It didn't help that Netflix didn't have English subtitles, including on the Swedish dialogue, and that the beginning of the film was filmed so dark that I still don't know what happened.

Some reviews I read afterwards mention some more troubling aspects of the story and they could be right. Some also mention the film being way too brightly lit and that's totally not the film I saw.
#Midsommar
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Rewatched Last Christmas for Easter, it's such a nice film to watch more than other Christmas films. Emilia Clarke plays screw-ups with such warmth, it shows her talent that this is the same actress who did Daenerys in Game of Thrones.
#EmiliaClarke #LastChristmas
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in reply to Gidi Kroon

I so love the sound of her voice, her singing comes out so much better in musicals.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

More Dove Cameron, not just as in new episodes with Dove Cameron in it, but also more Dove Cameron per episode.


The top seven news stories in the BBC news app are all about the same event, about some man who used to be president of the US, who I thought we wouldn't need to hear about anymore. Can we stop pretending he's important?

in reply to Gidi Kroon

18+, even in the Netherlands, and it starts with a full house of content warnings.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

That's still the comment I can make about it without spoilers: it's so beautifully filmed. A different film that's really worth a watch. Thomasin McKenzie is amazing.
#LastNightInSoho #ThomasinMcKenzie
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Last Night In Soho (spoiler)
This film is a whirlwind, where Eloise's mental state is essentially filmed such that we see the film from within her own mind, making you feel the panic and her screams to get out of the nightmare that started as such a beautiful dream.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

And now I'm watching a film where Anya Taylor-Joy, plays a character called Thomasin, for optimal intertwinedness. (The Witch)


Adding Easter to my calendar, it asks to invite required attendees. Tempted to put jesus christ and see whether he'll come back from the dead.

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Just rewatched Léon and it's an amazing experience to see Natalie Portman put in such a great performance at 12 years old.
#NataliePortman #Léon
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It's weird but a lot of great actresses had really great films around that age already:


  • As mentioned Natalie Portman was 12 during filming Léon
  • Jodie Foster was 12 in Taxi Driver and got an Oscar nomination; the lesser known but maybe even better performance in The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane was in the same year
  • Chloë Grace Moretz was also 12 in Let Me In where she did a very complicated character very touchingly
  • Ivana Baquero carried Pan's Labyrinth at 11
  • Dafne Keen was 11 when she drove everybody in Logan to up their game
  • Alexa Nisenson was 11 when she put in a multilayered performance in Fear The Walking Dead. That's a tv series, but her performance is on a par with the above


Obviously they've done (or will do) great stuff later too and some like Chloë and Jodie did even earlier, but these are all goosebump performances.

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Omg how can I forget Dakota Fanning. Maybe because it's actually too obvious. By that age she already had a whole film catalogue with very worthy performances and a SAG award nomination (at 8). As standout example I choose Uptown Girls, where she's the equal to top talent Brittany Murphy and she played a kid who acted like she's a grown up. She was 9. They had probably the best chemistry ever in film. I love that film.



I have this memory, maybe an incorrect memory, that for at least two Natalie Portman films after Léon, her character was still carrying around that plant until they finally ceremoniously planted it in a garden.
#NataliePortman #Léon



Just watched The Limehouse Golem because it has Olivia Cooke in it. The film takes a little to get going, after which it delves more into the background of the actress that Olivia plays in this film. I liked it. There's some commentary about the plight of women and how they are often ignored, as well as a Victorian depiction of how as a celebrity actress she isn't treated as other people.
#OliviaCooke #TheLimehouseGolem


Watching yet another British whodunit series and wondering whether these police inspectors ever get to drink the tea that invariably gets made for them.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

ever wonder if there's an episode where neighborhood sweet granny poisons the tea of an unexpecting police inspector?
in reply to Matti Järvinen

@Matti Järvinen There must be, but I can't remember one...

There's an episode where the person investigating pretended to get poisoned to out the killer, but that wasn't tea.