More issues with trakt. I'm using an app to keep track of films and tv episodes I've watched and which I have in my collection. Lately it's been giving me an error saying that the list is full, like it says I own too many DVDs. Maybe true. Turns out that the API the app uses, trakt, has overnight and without any emailing existing users, introduced a limit of 100 items you are allowed to have in your collection.
Initially they counted individual tv episodes, meaning that if you owned a box set of one tv show you may already have been over the limit. But they corrected that. Now I still have 162 shows and 182 films marked as collected (I know, I have not been keeping it complete), way more than allowed.
The solution is to pay, as free accounts have become unusable. But they have only one membership plan and it costs more than a streaming service does. 😥
This is the same service that recently was offline for several weeks because they couldn't restore backups. It's also the same service that has their 'inventory' still messed up since they swit
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More issues with trakt. I'm using an app to keep track of films and tv episodes I've watched and which I have in my collection. Lately it's been giving me an error saying that the list is full, like it says I own too many DVDs. Maybe true. Turns out that the API the app uses, trakt, has overnight and without any emailing existing users, introduced a limit of 100 items you are allowed to have in your collection.
Initially they counted individual tv episodes, meaning that if you owned a box set of one tv show you may already have been over the limit. But they corrected that. Now I still have 162 shows and 182 films marked as collected (I know, I have not been keeping it complete), way more than allowed.
The solution is to pay, as free accounts have become unusable. But they have only one membership plan and it costs more than a streaming service does. š„
This is the same service that recently was offline for several weeks because they couldn't restore backups. It's also the same service that has their 'inventory' still messed up since they switched providers for the episode data a few years ago. The same service that also doubled their subscription price recently. It's not all inspiring confidence. #trakt #trakttv
It's just chocolate sprinkles... I don't get why foreign journalists are so obsessed by it that they write this whole BBC article about us eating hagelslag on a sandwich. I had it today...
Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.
Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped. #Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard
The Windows Experience is it showing you a screen waiting for your input but when you actually try to provide that input it is like 'hang on, I wasn't ready for that'.
But, given that Tumblr has a history of breaking all kinds of stuff in various novel ways, I have just one question: what will they break this time, Tumblr, WordPress, or Activitypub?
My understanding of WordPress must be missing something.
There's this default theme 'twenty twenty four'. When you activate it, it inserts various hardcoded texts into your site. Things like "my book Money Studies is out now" and "I'm Leia Acosta, a passionate photographer". You have to use the site editor to find these and remove them. There are about four.
You have to do this on your live site, you can't customise a theme and preview it before activating, like you used to be able to. If you don't find them all, or ever did "Remove Customisations", you're site will say stuff like "A commitment to innovation and sustainability", without you knowing it.
So what if you're not called "Leia Acosta"? Or you don't have a book out called "Money Studies"? How did they think this was going to work? #WordPress
Apparently Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman have just wrapped filming The Gallerist yesterday, a film I didn't yet know they were making and which I know nothing about... #JennaOrtega #NataliePortman #TheGallerist
A new Tah 2.0 video on YouTube reminds me that I meant to mention how much I like having found that channel. She feels very real and honest. The channel is quite new, just 11 videos and 2k+ subscribers so far. When YouTube recommended it to me, I think she had only three videos; apparently YouTube knew after all exactly the thing I wanted to have recommended to me... youtube.com/@tahstory
The 2.0 refers to starting over. Apparently, she used to be a travel content creator, but that didn't feel right anymore. Now she talks about her insights in film making and storytelling itself. This is her video about starting over: youtu.be/7eE9uUU9zUY
A convergence of interests: I follow the MinuteEarth (and MinutePhysics) YouTube channel because I like how they quickly explain interesting science concepts, and I'm a fan of the actress Miranda Cosgrove because she's great. Now Miranda is on the MinuteEarth channel! youtu.be/OCfvQGj4jVQ #MirandaCosgrove #MinuteEarth
You season 5 will be on Netflix on 24 April. I don't know which characters/actresses will come back, the two I'm hoping for I didn't spot in the teaser. #You #YouNetflix
New toy: a Laowa 2x macro lens. Comes very favourably out of reviews, also for non-macro distances. It's the crop sensor advantage that this is small-ish and cheap-ish, while still being a super-sharp f/2.8 apochromatic lens. Now I have to learn to manually focus, and to use (flash) lighting. #Laowa #Macro
Glad it's winter and there are no insects about, testing out my macro lens.
Canon R10 with Laowa 65mm F2.8, either with Godox speedlite flash off-camera or the light of my Samsung phone when I had already put the speedlite away.
And it's that resource usage for training that is my problem with it, so I'm not happy about AI subtitles in VLC. I also suspect it doesn't work, but that is maybe just me.
So, here is the first concrete technical info about VLC AI subtitles:
* it uses OpenAI whisper model. * you'll have to download that bit separately [1]. * vlc will use that on your computer, so it is not using the paid for API version.
So still using all the water and power to train models, and to run on your computer when you watch something that need translation.
Temple of Poseidon is one of the most important monuments from the Golden Age of Athens. It is perched on the edge of a cliff, located 70m above the sea, located at Cape Sounion š¬š·
Built in 5th Century BC, the temple is in the typical Greek hexastyle - featuring six doric columns on the front portico. 16 out of the original 38 columns are still standing today, and they were 20ft tall.
Looks like Google did a not so nice thing. The Google Authenticator app no longer will generate the codes for some items, including Google's own account. This happened after they offered to backup all items to their cloud in case you lose your phone; if you don't do that, their app will break itself like this.
Two-factor authentication is about 'one thing you know and one thing you have'. The first thing is your password, the second thing your phone. The generated codes on your phone prove that you have your phone. Backing up the app in your Google account renders the latter useless and puts you back at one-factor authentication.
Of course you can and maybe should backup the secrets stored in the app. But that must be on 'something you have' and not somebody's cloud. #GoogleAuthenticator
My dishwasher was like 'hold my beer' and didn't hold its water anymore. Meanwhile my tablet seems to be fixed for now by uninstalling the TikTok app (it literally caused the display to flash, have interference, etc).
Insider trading tip for people trading in Samsung shares: both my tablet and phone are showing near-end-of-life signs and I may soon need to be buying new ones. With the insane device prices nowadays, this sure is going to raise their shares.
(Just to be clear, the above is obviously sarcasm. I have no inside knowledge. Just a consumer.)
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