Once advertising has failed as an attempt to finance the web, we will finally be rid of its consequences. No more clickbait headlines. No more wholly copied q&a websites, or websites full of stub pages. No more engagement enhancing algorithms. Just content.
Another reason we should not let the receiving server resolve a link preview (so apart from the ddos that is many receiving servers at once loading from a site, bringing small blogs down): your text in the preview will be in the language of where the server is located. E.g. on mastodon.social previews are often in German.
If the client resolves the link preview, load will be spread in time and the reader gets the text in their language. If the sending server resolves the link (my preferred solution), only one request is done to the site (much fairer) and the text will be in a language the poster expects and can see.
I'm starting my dvd of Hooten & The Lady, a tv series with Ophelia Lovibond, the actress with the most British name I know. All the images of the series look very adventurous and I gather each episode is in a different location. On this first disc we get Alexandria, The Himalayas and Rome, but first: The Amazon. #OpheliaLovibond #HootenAndTheLady
Hugely charismatic, roguish American adventurer Hooten and his fantastically feisty partner in crime, Lady Alexandra travel the world, from the Vatican to The Himalayas, the Amazon to Egypt, in their quest to save the world's lost treasures.
This so easily could have been a cheap comedy with unrealistic studio shots, but it isn't. It looks quite convincing and realistic, in a dangling over great heights sort of way, and is entertaining enough to watch. This seems like a welcome addition to the pantheon of tv series, shame it's so unknown. Ophelia is great as the determined adventure seeking Lady Alexandra Diana Elizabeth Lindo-Parker (Alex). #HootenAndTheLady #OpheliaLovibond
The behind the scenes feature on episode one shows that the reason the location seems so real is because it is real. They actually are in the jungle shooting it.
This was a quite nice series. Each episode has a behind the scenes location documentary, since the locations of the stories are an important part of the show, and that things are really filmed all over the world. #HootenAndTheLady
Jenna Ortega in this Instagram reel for Adidas Sportswear, acting out the emotions watching the world cup football. instagram.com/reel/Cvt4hsnuJma… (I still can't do video in these posts...)
Uploaded the video using a separate account: [share author='Jenna Ortega fan channel (resharing clips)' profile='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/profile/jennaortegatrailersandclips' avatar='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/356510832164deee12ca2b0607770161-5.png?ts=1692331566' link='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/display/1f16c6da-9764-df65-3028-c47213496231' posted='2023-08-18 12:33:52' guid='1f16c6da-9764-df65-3028-c47213496231' message_id='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/objects/1f16c6da-9764-df65-3028-c47213496231']Jenna Ortega showing how she and her family watch the World Cup. This was part of the publicity for Adidas Sportswear, of which she's the brand ambassador.
(I finally found a way to share the video unlisted, in a rather indirect way, using another account and my PeerTube. Original link in video description.) #JennaOrtega #Football #AdidasSportswear
Sometimes I look up the strangest things. This time, driven by annoyance that films increasingly aren't distributed in my country, I looked up how much it would cost to be a film distributor, expecting it to be millions. Turns out it's free? There are different models and some expectations, but in one model you pay the production 30% of gross revenue without an upfront fee. You pay for marketing and investment in e.g. producing a batch of dvds, but what if you don't? Don't (agree to) do any marketing and just stick the file on a server, or use manufacture-on-demand.
Sure for streaming it may cost 100000 to millions per film (what I read). And sure they would expect you to do marketing. And maybe subtitles are nice. And film ratings. And packaging.
And for a production company, even if a film is still looking for a distributor in a territory, signing a single media deal for that territory would loose them the ability to later sign with a real distributor that wants to have all (cinema, dvd, digital, streaming, tv, film clubs, etc).
This photo she posted may or may not be from the same thing, but this is also about her wrapping on a film project. I don't know which one.
IMDb lists an upcoming project called A Very Venice Romance and that could be this. They say it releases next month already, 30 September. #StephanieLeonidas
Hey European & American friends who use tools and do building, repairs, DIY – are Robertson screws common in your area?
Are Robertson screwdrivers common in European toolboxes?
In Canada I suspect that 99% of people who have tools would have Robertson screwdrivers in their toolbox. At least the red & green (#2, #1) sizes. The more intrepid will have the yellow and black (#0, #3) sizes too.
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life.
Somehow we have to believe that Kenneth Branagh is the son of Cherie Lunghi (eight years difference), and grew up as children together with Helena Bonham Carter (six years difference).
Her character is more forceful than you'd expect a female character to be in this kind of role, maybe helped by having a female author. It seems to be Helena's thing: choose a role that isn't lead by events but who drives the narrative, then in her acting drive it even more. #HelenaBonhamCarter #MaryShelleysFrankenstein
I don't know anything about baseball and I don't know whether it really was a strike as someone said, but if a celebrity first throw is at least caught by the catcher, I think it's a good thing. Well done Chloë. If I were to throw it it would go in such a random direction they wouldn't be able to find the ball again.
Examples of how AI enforces stereotypes, in this Instagram reel: instagram.com/reel/CvhXQULIcfs… By London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), h/t Jasmin Savoy.
I'm old enough to remember the time when you had to phone a package delivery service to hold your package because you were going to pick it up yourself, and the person on the phone audibly climbed into the back of the truck, rummaged around until they proclaimed 'I've got it!'.
Logged into LinkedIn for the first time in months, and I feel like this says it all
First thing you see
"Do you want a new job?
A) Yes
B) Yes, but not right now"
The concept of being content with your current job, and *not wanting to career climb* seems utterly anathema to the modern corporate world, and I feel like that explains a lot about where we're at.
Another miniseries, two parts this time, with Helena Bonham Carter this time: Merlin. I like these different retellings of the Arthur/Merlin legends. And I like seeing Helena. In this she plays the witch Morgan, and they've tried with special makeup effects to make her look ugly, which is of course impossible.
Since it's such dreary weather outside, I'm watching A Room with a View so at least someone has something nice to look at outside. It's a film with Helena Bonham Carter of a long time ago. I've seen it before, but I have it on blu-ray now. It's one of her costume dramas.
Just looking through her massive list of films, I think I've seen a significant part of them. Including some of the unknown ones, some so long ago that I can't remember the plot...
This Lucy Honeychurch is really a different kind of woman than you'd expect in a costume drama, the opposite of demure. I love how Helena Bonham Carter plays her, as a true independent spirit.
Another dvd to watch: a three part miniseries which is one of the first things I saw Emilia Fox in. Not the first, but it is of long ago. Shooting the Past is about the world of photo archives. I've seen it before and it's quite interesting, mainly character based.
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
It may be about photo archives, and beautifully shows the stories even in otherwise unremarkable pictures, but it is also about loss and grief. It's very much the moment a doctor gives you a terminal prognosis and you want to just not accept it, but then in a metaphor of photography. #ShootingThePast
When I as a kid consciously started to watch films and notice the performances I liked, I became a big fan of the actresses Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jane Horrocks and Juliette Binoche. Still am, but there's not so much news about them anymore. And yes, I was very aware those are all J's. Since then I've found great actresses of other generations whose name don't start with a J, I am a big fan of Stephanie Leonidas for example. People who have seen posts of me before most likely have seen me mentioning being a huge fan of Jenna Ortega. Yes, I'm back at the J's.
Now I'm watching an old film, one of my all time favourites, with Jane Horrocks: Life is Sweet. The film is directed and written by Mike Leigh, based on improvisations by the actors during rehearsals, as is his process. Mike Leigh is probably the only director I ever followed, once describing one of his films just with 'it's about... people' because I didn't know anything more to say and later realising this is accidentally a good description of all of his films. They're about people.
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When I as a kid consciously started to watch films and notice the performances I liked, I became a big fan of the actresses Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jane Horrocks and Juliette Binoche. Still am, but there's not so much news about them anymore. And yes, I was very aware those are all J's. Since then I've found great actresses of other generations whose name don't start with a J, I am a big fan of Stephanie Leonidas for example. People who have seen posts of me before most likely have seen me mentioning being a huge fan of Jenna Ortega. Yes, I'm back at the J's.
Now I'm watching an old film, one of my all time favourites, with Jane Horrocks: Life is Sweet. The film is directed and written by Mike Leigh, based on improvisations by the actors during rehearsals, as is his process. Mike Leigh is probably the only director I ever followed, once describing one of his films just with 'it's about... people' because I didn't know anything more to say and later realising this is accidentally a good description of all of his films. They're about people.
This one starts with a panning shot across a row of houses, suggesting that the family we are going to watch is just one of many and we could just as well have watched the story of the people in the other houses. (Edit: that's not actually this one, but another one. It was long ago I saw it...)
In this preview image Jane Horrocks is second from the left, wearing 'the shirt'. Claire Skinner, second from the right playing the other daughter, is a great actress as well.
That scene between Nicola and her mother is one of the best dialogue scenes in films ever. In a sense everything in the film before that leads up to that dialogue.
Played this from my own dvd since it's so not available for streaming, rental or buying digitally that it doesn't even have a JustWatch entry (in my country). Most other films I look up there just say 'not available', suggesting they are available in other countries or were available at some point in the past.
Owning dvd's may seem old fashioned, but is still the only way.
I can't figure out how to upload videos on Friendica, but I have found out that I did figure it out twice before on this server. But then forgot. Trying to replicate what I did then I can now upload it, even select it for inclusion in a post, but it doesn't show up in the post. Even if a previous post still shows the video player...
Just watched a film called Hide and Seek which is an American remake of an Asian film called Hide and Seek, neither of which are the film called Hide and Seek that I wanted to see.
It could be a case study in how not to write a film, and as such have some merit. Still interesting enough to sit through it once, though.
I'm thinking of what moderation rules I would set if I were to set them for some microblogging server. I'd do something sensible and normal like have specific rules that only apply to replies, like: no reaction gifs, no links, no photos, no changing the topic and no evangelising ('have you tried rust/mastodon'). Each top level post is in my mind a new forum with strict rules against off-topic messages or posts that don't contribute anything new.
But more than that I would want replies to be hidden by default. With the original poster being the moderator of this microforum. Maybe able to set the no-links etc rules per post.
Also: it would be illegal to reply to a post with a link to an article, without reading the article. (Twitter is already doing something like this!)
Also: a reply should take at least as much effort as the original post. When you reply to something quicker than someone took to post it, or write the blog, you will be automatically locked out of your account for the remainder of the time.
Jenna Ortega shows her football skills in this clip for Adidas Sportswear and the World Cup. As far as I can tell it's not an edited video. But even if it is, it's fun.
Uploaded the video using a separate account: [share author='Jenna Ortega fan channel (resharing clips)' profile='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/profile/jennaortegatrailersandclips' avatar='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/356510832164deee12ca2b0607770161-5.png?ts=1692331566' link='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/display/1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822' posted='2023-08-18 12:29:56' guid='1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822' message_id='https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/objects/1f16c6da-3864-df64-445b-5ad766653822']The World Cup final is soon and Jenna Ortega shows how to do it.
This was part of a photo shoot for Adidas Sportswear, of which she's the brand ambassador.
(I finally found a way to share the video unlisted, in a rather indirect way, using another account and my PeerTube. Original link in video description.) #JennaOrtega #Football #AdidasSportswear
It has been confirmed that Scream 7 will happen, but it is not known yet whether Jenna Ortega, or in fact anyone else, returns. These negotiations will probably wait until after the strike. #JennaOrtega #Scream #Scream7
I think organising to harass is always a bad thing, even if the people doing it convinced themselves that the recipient is deserving of such treatment. That's what the other side is telling themselves too.
Did a proper way to follow hashtags on the fediverse already get established? I know of none.
I don't mean where you can pin hashtags in Mastodon or save searches in Friendica, where you get the hashtags your server knows about. I mean actually following hashtags that are 'out there' on other servers.
Link previews on the fediverse used to just take smaller sites down, now I see more and more of those sites implementing rate limiting, so I see link previews like:
and even:
We really need to do something about the fedi-ddos.
Boyfriend: "please don't use any magic" His witch girlfriend: "of course not, I wouldn't" Literally five seconds later: total mayhem due to several spells interacting.
Jenna Ortega is, or will be, filming Death of a Unicorn. As an A24 film this is not impacted by the strike (as A24 accepted the union's conditions and the union promotes people working on such projects).
I think this is good news not just because I want to see more Jenna Ortega films, and preferably good ones like A24 usually makes, but also because it provides work for all those other professions that depend on the film industry (catering, drivers, builders) and that would otherwise be impacted by the strike. #JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
An interesting aspect of the US actors strike is that if an independent film accepts the union's proposal, work is allowed there. The same goes for small studios that are not part of the producers organisation with the abbreviation that I can never get right. The idea is that this proves that the union proposal is not unreasonable as the producers claim.
The studio A24 has done just that. Not recently, already a while ago, but this means A24 films are going full steam ahead. Providing income and proving the point. And the coming years may very well be A24's years, since the majority of films out will be theirs. Quite a good consequence of all this. #A24 #SAGAftra #SAGAftraStrike
The way they migrated calckey.social to firefish.social may have broken federation with Friendica for existing (but now suddenly renamed) accounts. Trying again. At least new accounts work fine. They did send out migration messages for the old accounts, but that doesn't work on Friendica, so I have to (try to) re-follow manually.
Also when checking on the site itself I wish I'd knew how to set the UI to English rather than (presumably) Japanese.
The people who make DVDs seem to think everybody watching them is watching an illegal copy, with the amount of shaming they do. There's no consideration for the few people like me who legally bought them with their own money.
Now, again, watching the brilliance that is Jenna Ortega in The Fallout. I hope she makes many more films like this. I don't care whether they are super famous film franchises or relatively unknown indies like this, I'll watch it anyway. I'm watching it from my dvd (only a US region coded dvd is available, no blu-ray, no European disc). #JennaOrtega #TheFallout #NowWatching boxd.it/tViI
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
![Screengrab of top of a LinkedIn feed, which shows a picture of a diverse trio of people having a meeting over coffee. Under that is the question "Hi [Name], are you looking for a job right now?" with the options "Yes" and "No, but I'm open". Those are the only answers permitted.](https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/photo/preview/640/2618153 "Screengrab of top of a LinkedIn feed, which shows a picture of a diverse trio of people having a meeting over coffee. Under that is the question \"Hi [Name], are you looking for a job right now?\" with the options \"Yes\" and \"No, but I'm open\". Those are the only answers permitted.")
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