A film from my watchlist is leaving Netflix, so l have to watch it now. This is what I dislike about streaming services and why they don't replace owning films.
Karen David is a great actress and singer and by all appearances a great person, who I know from Pixelface and Waterloo Road. Though in the latter case I didn't realise it was her... Because of her I watched Galavant and that was such a great experience. It's a medieval comedy musical. Also because of her I watched Fear The Walking Dead, which made me discover other great actresses and which I'm still following. People may also know her from Once Upon a Time, but I was already following that...
Now I'm watching an early film she's in: The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.
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Karen David - Actress, Producer, Soundtrack
Karen David. Actress: Galavant. Karen David is a multi-hyphenate talent - actress and singer/songwriter - who has found equal diversity in her film, television, stage, and recording career.IMDb
🥳 I'm pleased to announce that "FEP-1b12: Group federation" has just been finalized. Find the document at codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
👆 This FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) describes how groups are implemented in existing Activitypub platforms using `Group` actors. This is the fourth standards document to be finalized under the FEP process and continues efforts to help interoperability across the fediverse.
🛖 View other proposals and submit yours at codeberg.org/fediverse/fep.
#fediverse #fep #standards #activitypub #socialhub
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Happy Birthday, Chloë!
Today Chloë Grace Moretz turns 26. I'll be rewatching The Miseducation of Cameron Post to celebrate!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #TheMiseducationOfCameronPost
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr.letterboxd.com
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Tomorrow You season four starts on Netflix, with Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nadia. Apparently it starts off as a murder mystery, which is different since in previous seasons we knew exactly who the killer was... Amy-Leigh says we will be surprised by Nadia. I say we will be surprised by Amy-Leigh Hickman. She is a seriously good actress.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix
I tried to retweet the promotion, but apparently I'm not allowed to help since I've reached the maximum amount of tweets for the day. Which is apparently 0. Anyway, this time twitter is properly broken and we'll have to do with a link to the video here.
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#YouNetflix: Penn Badgley talks starting Season 4 with a murder mystery. Plus, @AmyLHickman says her character Nadia will "surprise" people! Full interview: youtu.be/hspuSElK1IU @YouNetflixTwitter
Binging all five episodes means just that I had to rewatch the final one since I remembered nothing of it. Anyway, some theories still hold for part 2 of the season (9 March) and the solution of the part 1 mystery was one of the things I thought about early on and not really that great a revelation; I guess it's all a setup for part 2. I'll be watching that!
Amy-Leigh Hickman's character Nadia is not unlike Ellie, the character that grounds the story in reality. And she's brilliant. It is what I missed in season 3.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix
Admin tip: if you see that a problem with the server is going to occur in the future, like slowly running out of resources, ignoring it doesn't make it go away. For now solved by using a less cheap setting, but I really need to figure out what is using the resources.
Also, running multiple applications on the same host doesn't help in identifying where a problem comes from.
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Keep provoking them and we'll never get any mangoes.
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Helena's "Where are these mangoes?" is such a classic line and so Helena. She follows it up in the same scene with telling an identical clone: "I met your brother. He's ugly.".
I love shows that are so character-based, especially when writers and actresses get it exactly right.
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rapunzel can be thought of as an alternative "transport" for activitystreams JSON-LD data.
the actor model, as in activitypub, is replaced with decentralized identifiers based on cryptographic public keys. those public keys can be associated with any number of petnames using WebFinger.
specifically, in the rapunzel network, messages are:
- *always* encrypted using a CEK (content encryption key) which is itself encrypted to the recipient's public key.
- sent to one or more specified ring logs in a webfinger response.
- optionally published in one or more outbox ring logs: in this case, the message CEK is encrypted to the publisher's public key. this is basically pointless from a cryptographic point of view, but the construction allows us to be consistent re: the OCAP model (e.g. access to the message remains bound to a capability, it just happens to be public)
ring logs are:
- cryptographically attested logs which can be forgetful. e.g. they can support a quota, where old data is evicted from the ring log to make room for new data.
- merkle trees in the same way git repositories are merkle trees (e.g. messages are like git commits)
- optionally witnessed by trusted notaries: this is intended for people who want to reduce trust in the ring log storage providers they choose, by ensuring that the ring log provider is serving them the same data as the witness.
there is no traditional authorization to read a ring log.
as messages appended to the ring log are encrypted to the recipient (or are public), only holders of a key able to derive each message's CEK is able to do anything useful with the ring log data.
they are designed to be stored anywhere. by anyone.
there are a lot of problems still to solve with rapunzel. collaborative reputation management is a key one.
but i have thoughts on what that might look like: ariadne.space/2022/12/03/build…
Building fair webs of trust by leveraging the OCAP model
Since the beginning of the Internet, determining the trustworthiness of participants and published information has been a significant point of contention.ariadne.space
things rapunzel (+ ipfs) is possibly good at replacing:
- "mastodon" (fediverse)
- discord
- matrix
- IRC
- scuttlebutt
- etc.
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NNS - The Name Name System
Name Name System Specification v0.0.1 Editors Blaine Cook, Fission Authors Blaine Cook, Fission Irakli Gozalishvili, Protocol Labs (tbc) Chris Joel, Subconscious (tbc) Depends On UCAN [WhoCAN] 0 Abstract The Name Name System is a dece…Fission Talk
netcat (or openssl s_client) to connect to it, and throwing together a simple bot to do something is just waaay to easy. And the client setup I have is better (for me) than anything else I've tried (in the space of chat programs).
i've looked at a few of these and the biggest problem i've seen is respecting the individual nodes' resources.
there's some inherent overhead added upon the baseline of a completely centralized system of course, but a lot of projects seem to not factor exactly /how/ much is added into the design.
see: my synapse DB was ~27GB a week ago after existing for ~2 years. my entire znc data dir is 2GB, and it ran for maybe ~3.5 years.
e.g. the CEK key is nice in theory, but if you look at matrix getting it working well seems to be very painful. and similarly, if OCAPs become an actual programmatic construct that could leak into bandwidth/disk space.
This sounds like we wouldn't need instances (as in infrastructure+moderation+blocklists) anymore, only "content neutral" infrastructure.
Sounds good. Might turn the "job" of an instance moderator more into a "blocklist curator".
And of course could decouple infrastructure support/maintenance from moderation.
(Currently extrapolating a bit, sry)
Those we know are fit for big clinics, and very hard for the professionals (including "GNU Health").
So we think "how about a social network: after all, a MR is like a blog, once you have that, you just need to analize it to know what you need, and to not know what you don't.
The concept of "consent and autonomy" is at the root of our service, so I think "maybe this people have what we need".
¿Do you think this would be the case whitg rapunzel?
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A young boy has to deal with a bully at school, his mother being ill, a strict grandmother and the annoyance of a monster telling allegories, all the while learning some life lessons.
I didn't really feel this film, maybe because the monster was not very convincing as either a monster or a storyteller. Felicity was as feared not in it enough for my liking.
Scream VI–Jenna Ortega’s next project is sequel to last year’s horror hit
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday series #previews #movies
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Scream VI–Jenna Ortega’s next project is sequel to last year’s horror hit
Last year Scream, the fifth movie in the horror series, delivered goofy slasher horror fun with all the right beats, proving once and for all the franchise is here to stay, joining the big moneymak…borg
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@borg.com 🪐 fyi She has smaller films coming up to and already filmed: Finestkind, Miller's Girl and Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall.
I like her doing the smaller films. She can still proof herself and she doesn't need the fame.
#JennaOrtega
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I don't quite know what it means yet, but Adidas says they haven't done a new label in 50 years, but they are going to and Jenna Ortega is going to be the brand ambassador of it. That's all I know. More to be revealed. This was from an official Adidas press release.
#JennaOrtega #Adidas
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It's #WerewolfWednesday, and I have a story I really wanna share:
In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"
The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
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My opinion about nude scenes in films: against my own interests I believe that they are always avoidable and the same impressions can be achieved in other ways.
Many actresses are somewhere in their career forced to do a nude (sex) scene. The male actors hardly ever are. To me the purpose seems sales rather than art. I'd wish for films to never include nude scenes and to always use suggestion instead.
In saying who's a good actress and in buying their films I really do not care how famous they are (either way, some people are snobs and ignore those who are famous). It's just that for some people there are way more projects to talk about.
I'm now going to watch my blu-ray of Nina Forever, with Abigail Hardingham. It's a horror film, but it's the middle of the day so hopefully I don't get too scared.
I had known she was a good actress, but when I saw her in a double episode of Silent Witness I was stunned how good that performance was. I mentioned this on Twitter, years ago, and was shocked to get a thank you. Some people don't get praise all the time, even though they should.
On the cover, Abigail is the one on the right, not the eponymous ghost character.
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever #NowWatching
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever
#HelenaBonhamCarter #CareyMulligan #Suffragette
So far the parallels with the Belgian film Daens (1992) are remarkable (that one is about a moment of social change in Belgium involving a priest called Daens). A smart young woman (Maud/Nette) observes hardships while working in a factory, including the brutality, including sexually, by the male supervisor. There's a government committee that will hopefully bring about change, but their hopes are dashed, resulting in an act of great police brutality. Even down to the committee members being ushered away and the policemen being on horseback. Though I must say that Daens did all this much better and I urge people to see that film. Antje de Boeck is truly amazing as Nette.
Anyway, I'm now wondering who will go to Rome for an audience with the Pope... For surely from here on the stories must diverge.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #BadNeighbours2
When you see a very unrealistic representation of university life, it's not clear whether it's because of it being a comedy or that we are supposed to think (American) university life is like that.
Also, a group of girls asserting their independence as a sorority by doing exactly what a guy tells them to do? I hope this becomes a plot point later on...
So far, every single character is not being true to themselves, but not really in a comedic way.
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I may have written quite some articles for the student periodical in my university days, but here's me letting you in on a secret: almost all of them were filler stories like mentioned in the previous reshare by @Jason Lefkowitz. Though I didn't know the term 'bus plunge story'.
Our periodical needed to be a multiple of four pages, due to how it was printed. And even though it was laid out on the computer (wordperfect, but then laser printed and the pictures glued in by hand), there was only so much whitespace you could remove and articles you could shorten. At some point you realised you were still half a page over and you were just going to have to add content to make it to the next multiple of four.
I wrote so many totally pointless articles, quickly, after the deadline, but before the printer offices closed...
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