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A map of Every European City

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In the half second before reading anything, I legitimately thought it might have been a place I visited once.

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The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice.
The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message.
The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station.
A washing machine tweets: "anyone need to do a loadโ€ every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time.
The replies are filled with Al thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia.
Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion.

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Weird how much stops working if a computer runs out of disk space, but also weird how much of an ActivityPub server keeps going on regardless. Like it receives and shows posts fine, but fails to load preview images; also existing accounts work fine, but looking up new accounts suggests there are network errors...


I saw Deadpool & Wolverine this evening in the cinema, and the first film this morning to see what it is about. Can't say I'm a fan of the franchise. But Dafne Keen is in this one, so that is enough reason. Her role is small-ish, but not nearly as small as I feared. And if you've seen Logan back in the day (now that is a film I like), there's some nice touches where this film refers to that one.
#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine

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10,000 Maniacs
Our Time in Eden

How good was it?

All the good

(Also the first CD I ever bought ๐Ÿ˜Š) #music

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This Friendica server is now fully updated to the previous version and run all its post-update tasks. Will start the upgrade to yesterday's new version later today; this may take several days during which either the maintenance screen is shown, or the pages just blank out. Or be much faster, who knows...
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And it is updated. Not weeks, apparently. I didn't time it, but it was some minutes, up to half an hour.


Friendica 2024.08 is just released. That's great, but I only updated to 2024.03 last week and it's still running the post update actions...
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Upgraded a test server that was already on 2024.03 and which has a very small database. Yet it gave the PHP 'white screen of death' (i.e. it crashed with an error) for several minutes. After a while it automatically came back and is now ok. So, need to panic if you get this error:

Reveal/hide
2024-08-17T20:11:26Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception Error: "Call to undefined method Friendica\App::getLoggedInUserNickname()" at /***/src/Module/Home.php line 54 {"exception":"Error: Call to undefined method Friendica\\App::getLoggedInUserNickname() in /***/src/Module/Home.php:54\nStack trace:\n#0 /***/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\\Module\\Home->content()\n#1 /***/src/App.php(682): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#2 /***/index.php(55): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#3 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"66c103ee0c55f","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"81689d","process_id":1696336}
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This server made it from postupdate version 1507 to 1544 a few days ago, but it is still there. It needs to reach 1550... Now running it as a foreground process instead and the database cpu usage suggests it is really properly doing something.

Checking the information page of other people's servers and I'm not the only one still at 1544...

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I hope this email finds you no matter where you try to hide.

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The film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega has its release date in my country, NL, on Thursday 5 September, one day ahead of the US. Tickets are available from today.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice


Jenna Ortega is promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Mexico and just posted this red carpet photo.
#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice
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Dafne Keen getting a reminder on her phone from Disney+ that Deadpool & Wolverine is in the cinema... She knows, Disney, she's in it.


Waiting for the time when companies will fall over each other to claim that there's zero AI in their products.


I like this! Promotion of the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (in cinema 6 September), posting Astrid's three moods:


  • cozy spooky
  • hauntingly spooky
  • otherworldly spooky





#JennaOrtega #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #Beetlejuice

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If you're running a single-person Fediverse server, it might seem weird to publish rules for your server as you're the only person on there. However, it's still a good idea to publish server rules!

Admins of other servers may be trying to decide if they should federate with you, and published rules help them do that. (This is especially true of admins that use allowlists to decide federation.)

Here's a brief guide:

โžก๏ธ fedi.tips/should-i-publish-somโ€ฆ

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SelfHosting

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I'll translate your post:

"If you're running a single-person Fediverse server, you must explicitly state your ideology so that you can be blocked if your content is close to right-wing or conservative discourse. To do this, you need to say that you oppose transphobia, homophobia and any other form of discrimination.

It doesn't matter if you say things politely, you support Nazis and you're not welcome, and word will probably spread to add you to all the block lists. Even if you have never said anything, you are guilty by default and will have to prove your innocence before you can interact with us.

PS: If you are against capitalism and cryptocurrencies, you will score points."


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Periodic reminder that websites aren't "forced" to give you those annoying cookie consent notices.

They only need to annoy you if they want to track you/make money off of you/do anything else that goes beyond the reason you're visiting the website in the first place.

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Jackdaw* looking for food.

Camera: Canon EOS R10. Lens: Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm. Servo AF, subject tracking with Animal and Eye detection. Cropped. f/6.3, 1/1000, iso 500.

*I think

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Fear The Walking Dead 8x08 "Iron Tiger" spoilers

It's so amazing that Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) is back for this episode! Her acting abilities are chilling, this suddenly puts the whole thing on a new level again.

It's the final season and they're wrapping up storylines and characters. Some favourites are already gone. I knew that going in this season. And is it believable that Charlie did what she eventually did? Yes I think so, this was already signalled in the first season she was in.



Reminded that the BBC once replaced a guest that didn't show up with a 'tub of lard', which was just asked questions as normal. That's still a valid idea.


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Bee

Nom. Nom.

Camera: Canon EOS R10. Lens: Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM. Servo AF, subject tracking with Animal and Eye detection. Cropped and downscaled. f/7.1, 1/500s, ISO 320, 150mm.

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"The presidentโ€™s proposed code of conduct would specifically forbid the justices from participating in activities like those of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who embroiled the court in controversy over the past several years, including receiving undisclosed gifts, participating in political activity and ruling in cases where they or their spouses are interested parties."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/โ€ฆ
#SCOTUS #Bribery #Corruption #RobertsCourt

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Further things I learned in photography today: ducks, like humans, are very skittish when they have a black barrel pointed at them. They don't quite panic, but they do swim the other way. Also, dragonflies are really quick.
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:-(

Posting on Instagram and Pixelfed both failed, in different ways. Instagram flatly refuses, Pixelfed corrupts the photoset. Maybe trying a single picture?

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Ok, single picture on Pixelfed worked, can't post the set I wanted. Instagram finally succeeded when I copied the photos to my tablet first. So if you want to see some other pictures of my walkabout, here's the insta link: instagram.com/p/C-GmSPHo8Tn/ , or maybe wait until I start a photo blog or something.


Siena Agudong's film The 4:30 Movie will be released in the cinema 13 September!
#SienaAgudong #The430Movie
instagram.com/reel/C-AtuJKJxpVโ€ฆ

Maybe the European title will be 'The 16:30 Film'... ;-)



The film Issac, where Dove Cameron plays Cassi, which has its release date 'coming soon' for centuries now, has its release date coming soon ('the next announcement') but also has a new title: Love Me Dead. They also say that the release is going to be worldwide!
#DoveCameron #Issac #LoveMeDead
instagram.com/p/C-DSJLypDoE/


I was photographing with my zoom lens for a while but now Mr Bird wants a word.

(Cropped and scaled down for the socials. Canon EOS R10, Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm, ISO 320, Av f/7.1, Tv 1/320, Fv priority mode, Servo AF, Animal Subject Tracking. Yes, I should have increased the shutter speed, I forgot.)
#Photography

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Miranda Cosgrove has a new film coming up: The Wrong Paris for Netflix. Obviously it involves her character wanting, no needing, to be in Paris, France, but finding herself in Paris, Texas.
#MirandaCosgrove #TheWrongParis
deadline.com/2024/07/miranda-cโ€ฆ


Emilia Clarke's film The Pod Generation is now on Amazon Prime in my country, but under a new title: "Baby to Go". I really liked this film when I saw it in the cinema, I dislike that new title.

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no no, not a teams meeting, it's a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it's under "all mail", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you're using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you're on workspace for business, it's under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can't use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi


To add your IMAP account to Outlook, we need to sync your mails to the Microsoft Cloud.


You what?

Since I didn't even ask to use Outlook, that seems like a no from me.

(The 'Learn more'-page says that this even applies to Gmail. You have the let Microsoft copy your whole Gmail inbox, all your mails, onto their servers.)

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So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.

Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.

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My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:

Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.



Framed #865
๐ŸŽฅ ๐ŸŸฉ โฌ› โฌ› โฌ› โฌ› โฌ›

framed.wtf

:-)

#865
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The preview image you maybe see is not of today's film, weirdly.
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People should stop reading reviews, including letterboxd and IMDb, and just enjoy watching films.

Really, people who make themselves 'reviewers' are just part of the anti-enjoyment brigade.



So afraid that at some point someone is going to suggest AI for reviewing documents, reviewing source code, regression testing.

...

Somebody already did, didn't they?




In-camera upscaling

This is such a depressing thing to hear. Why does everything get infected with AI?

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I have link previews turned off and I'm a very literal person, so it was only after thinking that all the praise in the thread fitted with Norah Jones too, that I realised it was a misspelling...


Nora Jones just did Tiny Desk. ๐ŸŽถ

Here's the link for you.

youtu.be/6jYtRQ2tHGg?si=mDNaGGโ€ฆ



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fedi meta

three things that Usenet had that could stand to be revived, in my opinion:

* topic-centric organization. you go to soc.politics.us to talk about us politics, you go to alt.folklore.urban to talk about urban folklore, there's an expectation that you keep the politics out of the folklore group and vice versa. hashtags try to do this but don't really succeed.

* subject lines. functionally the same thing as a content warning but because it's the default, always prompted for and your newsreader only shows you subject lines until you click into a thread, people get way less dogmatic about it in both directions.

* proper two-dimensional threading and thread management. i've seen some third party fedi clients attempt two-dimensional thread *display* but not the associated management features, like "ignore this subthread".

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re: fedi meta

we have a subject field, it's always been here. It's called the summary field. Gargron hijacked it and turned it into the "content warning" field against the wishes of literally every other project that speaks ActivityPub

I've attached a screenshot showing you the raw JSON of your post.



BBC:

America will definitely get a new president - either the astonishing return of the criminally convicted Donald Trump or it its first ever female president.


Some there will see that as choosing the lesser evil, and I'm not sure which way they will go.

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