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I'm getting into Sanditon a few series late, but episode one of series three did a good job of getting everyone up to speed including late joiners. Now I'm starting episode two and it's as if I missed another year.
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The lead role of Charlotte in Sanditon is played by Rose Williams. I may not like how the scenes are edited and filmed, but she is certainly the good thing about this series. I'll keep watching it.

Here some photos of her from Imdb.



I think the Dutch national women's volleyball team did really well over the last couple of weeks, despite the result. They were playing with a very much junior team due to injuries etc among the usual players and they grew during the tournament. Some new players really stood up to compensate for the missing (fitness of the) top players. Once everyone is back, the coach is going to have to make some difficult decisions, born out of luxury.


Twitter exceeded my rate limit of the amount of adverts they can show me.
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Meanwhile, it took me a while to notice that Twitter's new rate limits are about how many posts per day you may see (600). I first read it as limiting people to writing 600 posts per day and thought 'that's not so bad, though some people will have to limit themselves'.
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Also, supposedly the amount of Twitter posts you can see without an account is zero, which they say breaks the Twitter embed functionality. So far that seems untrue, I can see the embeds just fine on my own site even in an incognito window. E.g. this one where Chloë Grace Moretz answered my question.

gidikroon.eu/2020/01/07/9456/



When I removed the wallpaper from the bedroom walls, I found the walls to be quite uneven, too much to paint over. I finally applied the material that is supposed to smooth it out (don't know the English word and neither does Google) to half the wall, since the remainder I can't reach yet. I'm not that happy with the result, it's still a bit uneven.

It's drying now so I have time to think about it.




What is the magic word?

sudo

No, try again.

-s $SHELL

Yes, thank you.




Thwarted an attack by a five-legged spider. I may have not counted the amount of legs properly while I was being uncool and jumped away.


'paranoia' => false,

😁

An interesting stroll through the default settings of this software.



We seem to be finding out that having two armies within one country is too much. See Sudan, Russia.


It's a good habit to, before you click the shutdown button, scan the menu to see whether it also has a disconnect button.


Defrosting something by putting it in the microwave, putting the microwave in the 'off' mode, and then forgetting about it for a while.


Debian 12 still not released on AWS... 😪


Very very soon, maybe in hours, I will be two Debian releases behind instead of one, as Debian Bookworm gets released. Good that I made a note even yesterday to do something about it. Not so good that I tend to ignore those notes.



Still not over the fact that the Yellowjackets' jackets are blue.
#Yellowjackets
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Also don't know how there are so many guys in this girls soccer team.


SPOF: very good for performance.

My sites are so much faster now that I introduced a single point of failure. Can highly recommend.

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It also gets rid of $30 on my Amazon bill. The storage I was using may be only 6 dollarcents (using intelligent tiering) and accessing the data normally only around one dollar (a month), but I had an extra $30 cost because I was using an inefficient setting and was too lazy too figure out how to access the data properly.

(Something was doing more than 100 metadata calls per second to NFS, likely directory listings or date checks, and I still don't know what. Only figured out it's something in php, even after I set opcache to only check every 15 minutes. This is just above the allowed throughput baseline, so I set 'elastic throughput' which scales throughput automatically, but you pay for that too.)



Two titbits from yesterday's Tudum, Netflix's fan event, that I gather from clips posted:

Wednesday season 2 is going to introduce another Addams Family character. Many people have asked for Cousin Itt to appear, but the cast say they don't know yet who it will be. Also, from the fact that the cast announcing this was Jenna, Emma, Joy and Hunter, you can guess their characters are back.

You is going to be the final season, as announced earlier, and there was no news. Just the suggestion that Joe is going to face (an) opponent(s) related to the many loose ends. The clips to illustrate these loose ends included Jenna Ortega as Ellie. My favourite story would be where Ellie and Nadia team up to take Joe down.
#Wednesday #You #Netflix #JennaOrtega



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"How many visitors does your site draw?"

"Some". "Oh, do you mean with or without the bots?"

"Without"

"Then none"

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There's this one bot that is now at page 8 of a tag on my profile, while I think I only ever made one post with that tag. Another is trying to find whether there is any update to the page that is an overview of posts I made in 2021.


I'm at that point in the rabbit hole where I am disappointed in some widely used software.
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I mean, how does mod_cache, or varnish for that matter, not take into account the Accept or Content-type headers when caching something?

I mean "I want the html at this address", results in "here have this json because someone before you asked for the json". They are like "the server should have sent an Vary header". Yeah, but what if it doesn't? Shouldn't the cache, as the thing that is taking over serving content, serve the right content according to standard specifications?

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And why doesn't the Location directive in Apache's config match with a path like you'd expect? So if you were to add a Vary header to the path /friendica, you can't because it's subject to rewrite rules. You would have to match /index.php?pagename=friendica. But that doesn't work for me either, probably due to the query string. I can only add the header to the whole site, like this:

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        <Location "/index.php">
            Header merge Vary "Accept"
        </Location>
    </IfModule>

and

        CacheQuickHandler off

and then finally mod_cache serves the correct content types. With a much larger cache.

BTW, the same problem existed on profiles and posts, that are served machine-to-machine as json and to a browser as html, but sometimes from the same address.



I'm going to switch off some things/services/servers to investigate a thing. Some outages will be there.


The internet has a clear answer to my question how one would horizontally scale Wordpress and Wordpress-like applications: don't.


I found that switching between other distributions can better be done in a separate partition. One extra thing to do, though, is that some OS's like Ubuntu only autodetect other OS's like Windows and show these as options in the bootloader screen, but they don't do the same for other Ubuntu-like OS's like Kubuntu. So to get the options to boot into either Ubuntu or Kubuntu (or others) if you have both installed, you need to add the following line to /etc/default/grub and follow the instructions to run update-grup:

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

EDIT: forgot that I may need to run the following too afterwards, from the OS to be considered the main OS:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64-signed




Very very soon, maybe in hours, I will be two Debian releases behind instead of one, as Debian Bookworm gets released. Good that I made a note even yesterday to do something about it. Not so good that I tend to ignore those notes.
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Still only one... Though you may think that Debian 12 has been out for some days now from the shear number of people using it, when I look at the cloud images 11 is still the latest. Either something wrong with me or with the cloud.


So ActiveState has changed the licensing on their products from free to paid, including for old versions, including those you had downloaded and installed before they blogged about that change back in 2021. Other than that blog post they didn't inform anybody of that change. I'm not even sure you can change licensing conditions after someone has installed your product and accepted the license conditions.
#ActiveState




This streaming service in my country that shows Paramount+ content and owns Paramount+ content because they are Paramount+ (plus Showtime so Paramount++ really) now says that they hope this Paramount+ show will also come to this country. What do they mean hope? Surely they know? Since it's their content. It's not like they need to license it from anyone.


Interesting how the Netflix video to announce this year's Tudum event (17 June) says there's also going to be an announcement about Wednesday. Weird because season 2 was already announced and it hasn't even been written yet.

Also they suggest an announcement for Queen Charlotte, which I thought was a one season spin-off of Bridgerton.
#Netflix #Wednesday #QueenCharlotte



I started watching Yellowjackets, since there are at least three actresses in that show that I think are really good: Christina Ricci, Ella Purnell and Juliette Lewis. So far, after one episode, I'm not really feeling it. I think they're trying to introduce too many characters covering both the teenage girl soccer team and their adult versions many years later. Especially the adult lives are for the moment just not interesting. And the soccer team doesn't even seem to have eleven players!


What people like to do in replies, in decreasing order: writing their reply, reading the post they're replying to, following links to the information they're writing about. Don't let receipts get in the way of an opinion.


Finally watching Prey on Disney+, I am really slow at going through my watchlist. Pre-opening title we already have the twist that this tale which follows these 18th century indigenous people in the Americas also seems to involve spaceships and monsters. We'll see what it turns out to be.

The main character, a girl who wants to become a hunter, is played by Amber Midthunder and is super cool.
#Prey #AmberMidthunder

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Gidi Kroon
@feld Yeah, I really liked it. It's a bit more random than intended when you're not aware of the predator franchise...
@feld


Today, 1 June, iCarly S3 is out on Paramount+. This is one of the photos Miranda posted on her Instagram about it.

I checked a bit early, over here they clearly don't think it's today yet. While it's 20 minutes past midnight already! (And why is my service saying it will actually disappear in 18 days?)
#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly



It was a juggling laptops and glasses kind of day. Laptops because some come with more restrictions than others, glasses to be able to read what I was typing.


Authorised fetch / http signatures really gets in the way of efficient response caching / cdn, doesn't it?


Making a website with just one page, which just says "503 Service Unavailable". Then it can be fedi-ddos-ed without making any difference.


The first twelve days of each month are the most dangerous.

(Was reminded again of Americans writing their dates wrong)

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@Hank G ☑️ I also write it out like you say on forms, but I use 20230531 virtually everywhere else...


Peertube now supports remote runners for the transcoding jobs! That's the one thing I was missing, I had no idea it was in the pipeline... (I had looked into adding it myself, but found it required substantial changes to how jobs are configured, which looks like they now did).

If only I wasn't on an old Debian version which blocks upgrading...



Messed up media storage on the dev node so much all files have been inaccessible. That's why it's a dev node I guess. Now I get to practise restoring the database, which is also a good thing.
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That restore went smoothly. It even immediately re-imported the rss feed posts that had happened between the backup and now.


I'm that weird person who when making a test post in a DM to myself, I still enter the alt-text on the image... Something to do with not trusting that I selected the correct switch to make it a DM...