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Disabling link previews on Pleroma after the thing the other day, made me realise how little I miss it. When doing the same on Friendica just to check, I notice that here it's a user setting, not an admin setting. The link preview, that is; the oEmbed setting is in the admin interface and uses an allow list.

New platform idea: Stir Trok, where you record short First Contact videos introducing your species.

More Artificial Confidence than Artificial Intelligence.

I'm getting way too good at knowing how long to put a cold cup of tea in the microwave to make it properly hot again. Sign of how often I'm forgetting to drink it.

When it says people are typing, I'm assuming they do so with the same rhythm the three dancing dots animation is suggesting.

Upgraded to the new Friendica 2023.05 that just came out, since I wasn't expecting it. And releases that come out when you're not expecting them are best not missed.
#Friendica
#Friendica

This series has characters named 'Raven' and 'Octavia of the Sky People', so you'd think it would really be my thing. But I'm into season 3 of The 100 now (it will leave Netflix at the end of the week, so I'm not going to make it through all seven seasons) and it's so-so. The Good: it has Alycia Debnam-Carey in it and some strong female characters. And a properly created language. The Bad: it's all very militaristic and the very talented Genevieve Buechner is completely underused. But what gets me the most is the way main characters can commit massacres and that the story steps over this rather easily.

website of a swedish furniture company: you can easily repair small scratches by painting them!
me: ok, so what's the colour code of the paint I should use?
website: we do not give out our colour codes since they are a trade secret.

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Happy birthday to Miranda Cosgrove!

Here's one of the pics she posted on her Instagram, I'm leaving the photos of the birthday cake, her mom (because of mother's day) and of baby Miranda for you to find over there.
#MirandaCosgrove

Miranda sitting cross legged holding a plate with a large green coconut-like fruit with a piece of cutlery in it, wide-eyed and sticking out her tongue
#MirandaCosgrove

The new season of iCarly will come out on 1 June on Paramount+. Miranda just posted the trailer! And it also features Mia Serafino, so that's extra good.
#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly #MiaSerafino
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#iCarly #MiaSerafino #MirandaCosgrove

Finished a can of Pringles, spread over two days. Instead of one.

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.
A heron or heron-like bird in the grass next to a path and a metal fence, stretching its wings.

I didn't know a woman could be so beautiful
-- George


#QueenCharlotte

#QueenCharlotte

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.
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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.

Whose hand is this?
-- Picard


#StarTrekPicard

#StarTrekPicard

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

#atprotocol #at

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
#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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The Pocket Report on TikTok

Episode 179 | Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Situationship #politics #scotus
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#ThePocketReport

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.
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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

#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)

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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

#YouNetflix #AmyLeighHickman #you
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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.
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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

#YouNetflix #JennaOrtega #AmyLeighHickman #you

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
Amy-Leigh posing with many (11) of the You s5 writers. All smiling. I can't read the notes pinned to the board behind them, I think they are still blank. I have some ideas if they want them.
#YouNetflix #AmyLeighHickman #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.

Thwarted by a pop-under, yet again.

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
imdb.com/title/tt8772262/


Midsommar (2019) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

2h 28m | 16
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