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Tonight's repeat of Liz Bonnin's Wild Caribbean on BBC Two is I think the one with guest Trinidadian biologist Laura Baboolal in the segment where the T&T Field Naturalists' Club treks through the jungle looking for monkeys. I may have spent some time before I found the correct spelling of her name, while I could just have switched on the subtitles... She seemed like an interesting person, passionate about nature, as you can also see on her twitter feed (from which I've copied this photo). Anyway, sometimes I notice these random people on tv from the other side of the world, that I likely never will see again. If she ever gets famous Jane Goodall style, I have posted proof I noticed her before...

I liked that this nature trek and the scientists leading it were almost all women without any explanation given, just like we've seen so many science things with only men also without any explanation.

All episodes of this series are interesting though!

Laura in a forest sitting on a tree

I watch a lot of British tv. Despite that I still keep thinking to myself that they're getting in on the wrong side of the car. And in a way, they do.

Episode 2x04 of London Kills has a guest role for Klariza Clayton. It's so great to see acting that's a cut above, and to see her of course. It's still a 'girlfriend of/wife of' type of role, but done well.
#KlarizaClayton #LondonKills
#KlarizaClayton #LondonKills

The oppression of women in Iran needs to end and I'm glad this has been recognised by awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Narges Mohammadi. And I like the gesture of the prize being received by her children (since she is in Iranian jail) and that there was a symbolic empty chair between them.

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east…

Three people, one handing the document representing the prize to the two 17yo children (twins, a son and a daughter) who are beaming with pride

The children are sitting in chairs listening to a speech over headphones, an empty chair between them

#NobelPeacePrize #NargesMohammadi

Teenage children of jailed Narges Mohammadi accept her Nobel Peace Prize

In a speech smuggled from prison and read out by her twins, Narges Mohammadi denounces "tyrannical" Iran.
By Francesca Gillett (BBC News)
#nobelpeaceprize #NargesMohammadi

I know 'ngl', 'smh', 'til', but I never know what the abbreviation 'ig' means. Something about Instagram I guess.
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I also know 'cf', 'eg', 'cs', etc but that's a completely different generation.

A film and tv account, from the US: Successful show xyz has been renewed for a tenth season!
Me, a European: I have never heard of it, it is not on here.

There are essentially four major highways in my country going south (in my perspective of south and major) and two of these are closed southward this weekend due to planned roadworks. The two middle ones (A2, A27). You have to go either all the way west (A16) or all the way east (A50). Don't know who planned this.

It's going to be so quiet here in the south...

My servers should now be dual stack, finally supporting IPv6 next to IPv4. Nothing broke, weirdly. All tests, e.g. with testmyipv6(.com) succeed.

Soon I'm going to have to make some servers IPv6-only, since the old addresses start to cost money. That should break things I guess. The average ActivityPub server will not be IPv6 ready I suspect. It seems DNS64/NAT64 is too expensive to enable, so if it is too much of a problem I'm going to have to run a forward proxy.

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Yeah, way too many instances are IPv4 only, especially the ones hosted by a provider. The big ones, and the ones with a tech background, tend to support IPv6.

I just watched Nimona on Netflix with the voice of Chloë Grace Moretz. Firstly Chloë is really good at putting character in the performance using only her voice. Secondly: it's a really good story!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #Nimona
#ChloëGraceMoretz #nimona

Watching Gunpowder Milkshake with Karen Gillan on Prime Video. There's another actress who plays the younger version of Karen's character (seems hardly necessary) and it struck me as funny if that would be the same family member (cousin, niece?) who played the younger version of Amy Pond in Doctor Who. But it doesn't look like it. Interesting film so far though.
#KarenGillan #GunpowderMilkshake

Prime Video: Gunpowder Milkshake

In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman.
app.primevideo.com
#karengillan #GunpowderMilkshake
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It's very stylish and fun! The younger version is played by Freya Allen who later became well-known for playing Ciri in the Witcher adaptation!

Can confirm that there's no hint of returning to before the time jump in the House of the Dragon season 2 trailer. Watched it for you.

Today's Doctor Who took a while to get interesting, then it really did. Don't be put off by the bad cgi, though.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho

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Doctor Who - The Wild Blue Yonder
For a moment I thought they'd run into Marvin, at the end of the universe... But no, it was a completely different robot, and at the edge of the universe.
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found it pretty enjoyable. I think that people are spoiled with a Next Great Thing every week... Sometimes what you need a good old simple plot well developed

What is this habit of making such chopped up edits of videos, even with good intentions?

#MentalHealth #EmiliaClarke #WithWomenInMind

It's Doctor Who minus 57 minutes. Not enough time to watch a film, so I should do something sensible like make dinner.

Volume 1 of Dove Cameron's first album Alchemical is out now, if you live in Friday-land. Other parts of the world wait a few hours.
tidal.com/album/331401278
#DoveCameron #Alchemical
#DoveCameron #alchemical

Jenna Ortega is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in her case far under 30.
forbes.com/profile/jenna-orteg…
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30

(Actually they have many sub-lists, but I'm going to ignore that)


Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega on the 2024 30 Under 30 - Hollywood & Entertainment - Jenna Ortega has been acting since she was a child: She got her start as a young Jane
Jenna Ortega (Forbes)
#JennaOrtega #Forbes30Under30

Google could do a 'Wrapped' of 'Your best friends of the past year', based on bluetooth and wifi proximity, similar website visits, bookmarks and searches, video viewing habits, whether you are in each others phone contacts, and all the other stuff they know about you.

Google/Instagram/Apple should do a 'Wrapped' of the subjects you most talked about with your friends and colleagues while your phone was near.

First impressions of Windows 11: what I like or can deal with is that much hasn't changed, what I dislike is the things that have changed.

Last day of our Gandi free mailboxes that came with our domains. Just over eight hours until they become one of the most expensive email providers without even allowing a custom domain.

Tip: tutanota(.com etc) allows three custom domains for around half their price, ideal for mailboxes that don't need imap.
#Gandi #TutaNota #Tuta #email

#email #tutanota #gandi #tuta

Google should understand that if I search something, sometimes I do not want to buy it. Maybe I already have it and want to find information about it.
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Google has become useless as a search engine.

Can we get AltaVista back?

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@feld Thanks, I've bookmarked it. Though for being a 'search client' rather than 100% using their own index, the price is a bit high. I suspect they can lose access to the data any moment. Luckily their AI/LLM costs extra, so you can just not pay that to avoid that.
@feld

When actual directors start doing fantasy castings... Alert me when you've done the actual casting and leave my notifications alone until then.

Doctor Who - The Star Beast
After all these years, I'm finally me
-- Rose


#DoctorWho

#DoctorWho

Just found that the Disney+ app is broken on Chromecast and only old school casting to it works. I hope I still get it in 4k, since I wanted to rewatch the Doctor Who episode like that. Apparently it has been broken for weeks already, that's how often I use my subscription, or how small their library is.
#DisneyPlus
#DisneyPlus
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I had tried many times during the day, including restarting the chromecast, before posting this. However, after complaining it now suddenly works again. Yay!

If like me you use an app like Series Guide to track the tv episodes you've watched and which you still have to catch, you may like to know that the people at tmdb, trakt, etc, unlike imdb, are listing the Doctor Who series that started today as a new show rather than series 14 of the 'original reboot': themoviedb.org/tv/239770 . So you have to add a new show to track, then find today's episode under specials (because they count next year's series 15 as number 1).
#DoctorWho

Doctor Who

The Doctor and friends travel from the dawn of human history to distant alien worlds. And everywhere they go, they find adventure, terror, fun, chases, joy and monsters.
The Movie Database
#DoctorWho

No spoilers but I really liked this episode.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
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Doctor Who
I like how we have characters back, between the events, instead of just events and talk.

Today is the day of the new Doctor Who, this evening on BBC1.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
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And later this evening Doctor Who: Unleased will also be on BBC1, for those who are blocked from watching BBC3 where I believe it is first shown. This is the behind the scenes thing.

Don't normally share my Wordle result, but this one is quite something:

Wordle 887 2/6

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#Wordle

#Wordle

Humanity first.

Instead of 'Own people first'. After all, all human beings are our own people.

There was some kind of 'five for the price of two' deal on shampoo. I'm only a single person with not a lot of hair, so when I next need to buy it we'll all be using cyber-shampoo or something.

New reading material arrived!

On paper, because who has ever heard of tools and devices with which one can read html.

Photo of two magazines on my table, both with Jenna Ortega on the cover. One is Elle, 'The Impact Issue', with tag line 'A star in bloom', the other is the UK version of Harper's Bazaar, 'The Awards Issue', with tag line 'Courage and conviction'.

#JennaOrtega #Elle #HarpersBazaar

#JennaOrtega #elle #HarpersBazaar

Why are so many people in several countries nowadays voting for extreme right wing parties? Do people think it doesn't hurt to vote for parties that want to hurt people?
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And when foreign media talk about one of the parties in my country as 'populist', you can just read that as right wing extremists.

No point watching, or even making, Scream 7, now that Jenna Ortega will not be in it due to scheduling conflicts.

deadline.com/2023/11/jenna-ort…

Wednesday season one took eight months to film, she's doing season two soon, so there's just no time fitting in a seventh Scream. Apparently this was already being discussed before the strike began.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #Wednesday


Jenna Ortega Not Returning to 'Scream 7' Due To 'Wednesday' Schedule

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega, who was a lynchpin draw in getting Scream VI to the horror franchise’s best opening grosses ever at $44.4M stateside, $67M global, isn’t expected to return for …
Anthony D'Alessandro (Deadline)
#JennaOrtega #scream #Wednesday

Finestkind with Jenna Ortega, 15 December is getting close. On Paramount+.

Character poster of Jenna for the new film Finestkind. She's looking into the distance, contemplating something.

#JennaOrtega #Finestkind

#JennaOrtega #Finestkind

Happy Birthday, Jodie Foster! She turns 61 today. To celebrate I'm watching Nyad, a new film with her which is available on Netflix.
#JodieFoster #Nyad #NowWatching
#NowWatching #JodieFoster #nyad
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It's based on true events, which isn't a film genre I like, but it's worth a watch anyway I think.

And yet one can never underestimate the power of denial
-- Samuel


#Sanditon

#Sanditon

I dislike that Gandi (the domain, email and web hosting provider) still hasn't responded to my support question, over a week after I sent it. I have already sent a follow up. Weren't they supposed to be one of the good ones?

If only their imposed hard deadline of 30 November wasn't looming, I wouldn't care that much.
#Gandi

#gandi
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@feld I heard. Considering my options now, though domains is not my immediate concern. Them going from free email to the most expensive, is...
@feld

Second time this week that a Dutch word I didn't know the English translation for, when I looked it up didn't seem to have a translation. Seems we have exhausted the English language.

For the sport 'korfbal' we get no further than 'korfball', with 'korf' being the Dutch word for 'basket'. I guess 'basketball' was somehow already taken.

Then today I forgot to run cold water over my boiled egg, which supposedly makes them easier to peel. We call it 'schrikken', a homonym for the word meaning 'to scare' but with a different conjugation. Turns out the internet thinks none of the English speaking people made up a word for that? ('Shock' is the closest but apparently not really used in this context)

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A couple of years ago there was a news item about a new Dutch dictionary being presented, I think to some royal person. The dictionary was different in that it attempted to be almost, but not entirely, complete. It comprised several volumes over all the shelves of one or more bookcases. We have many words.

(We also cheat by combining words together to make new words in a way that English doesn't)

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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
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"The meaning of Liff" is hilarious reading, for pointing at concepts that are very well defined but that no word exists for.

1 February 2024 could see a large increase in IPv6 usage. From that date, Amazon (AWS) will charge for using IPv4 and it's going to be quite expensive. Until now it has been essentially free.

Each server you run typically needs one IPv4 address. The price for this one address will be comparable to the price of running the server itself, essentially doubling the cost of running a Friendica, Pleroma, etc server.

I think IPv6 will still be free.

The solutions like NAT and Elastic Load Balancer are expensive. The NAT service (for outgoing connections) only becomes cost effective over ten servers. ELB (as an Application Load Balancer for incoming connections) only over five servers; but in that case you still need a NAT as well, and you would need to allow Amazon to manage your SSL certificates.

Other solutions: set up a single reverse proxy (nginx) for all apps including an outgoing proxy, setting up an Instance Connect Endpoint for your private (ssh) needs, or just finally switch to IPv6.
#AWS #SelfHosting #IPv4 #IPv6

#selfhosting #aws #ipv6 #IPv4

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