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Jenna Ortega is going to be in a new film called Klara and the Sun.

Her film Beetlejuice 2 will be in the cinema 6 September 2024.

Both bits of news just shared by Jenna's mother.


#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #KlaraAndTheSun

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Though I guess the joke is that it isn't going to be called Beetlejuice 2, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice...
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Apparently it's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 A.D. in full, according to this Deadline article. And this is the article about Klara and the Sun. Jenna plays a robot designed to prevent loneliness and when she finds that a little girl has a mystery illness goes on a quest which causes her to learn about human love. This sounds great!
#JennaOrtega #Beetlejuice #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice2024AD #Beetlejuice2 #KlaraAndTheSun


Stephanie Leonidas is filming a new film called Marching Powder. She just posted photos from the set.

IMDb says her film A Very Venice Romance was released last year (it doesn't list as available for me) and 5lbs of Pressure is still to come.
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder



Miranda Cosgrove just announced that her film Mother of the Bride will be on Netflix globally on 9 May!


#MirandaCosgrove #MotherOfTheBride


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Ah yes, the Greek god of exercise and transportation: Bicycles.
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I'm also a fan of the Greek god of programming art, Demoscenes.


Copied my followed tags into a "Followed tags" channel and copied my followed searches into a "Followed searches" channel. This works quite well. I think this is going to be useful. Channels maybe a quite powerful new Friendica feature.

It's starting to feel like tumblr again, except tumblr would occasionally just delete all tags alphabetically after 'k'.

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Also thanks to Samsung's smart-select text extraction feature of the s-pen, otherwise this would have been a lot of typing.


@Tuta
I notice a difference in my mails shown to me in the Linux desktop app and the Android app. The former shows only one mail, the latter shows all mails that checking via a browser shows. I've checked that the filter is set to 'all emails' for all.

It seems related to the 'local data' setting which for both apps is on the default of one month and all missing mails are older than one month. So I've changed this to 366 days for both clients.

However, the old mails still do not show up in the desktop app. Is there another filter I'm missing?

How can I use the desktop client to see all mails I can see via the browser?

@Tuta
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Cold you report this to support via email? Then the tech team can look into this!

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No you misheard me, I don't use Discord I use this cord.

Holds up a string attached to two plastic cups

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This, about RAM, is a much misunderstood bit about monitoring resource usage.

Also: cpu usage. When someone comes to me with 'panic, panic, your application is using 100% cpu', I'm like 'great, call me when it doesn't', for then there's a bottleneck elsewhere.


I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much faster

this is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!



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Some good nuggets of wisdom in there. Being polite, without exception, has paid more dividends than anything else in my experience. And it costs nothing.


Not sure what improvement this new 'night posting' icon is on Mastodon...

I don't think the old term 'unlisted' covered what it does (as it does more than unlist a post), but the current terms and icon aren't much better.

(I'm still thinking 'real unlisted' posts have a purpose)



"Heatwave"

That's the title of this Roswell episode.

The episode has a theme of temptation and giving in to desire and this opening scene with Shiri Appleby captures it so well in the non-obvious way.

That box is tempting...

But why resist?
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell

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Photos from my tv, so quality and framing are not original. Also Mastodon people are not going to get it, not having images within the post.

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!Friendica Support
Recently I started following a prolific account that advises Mastodon followers to put them on a list and then exclude the list from the normal timeline. I wanted to do something similar in Friendica using circles, channels and channel frequency settings.

I added them in a new circle. That works fine.

My normal timeline is 'Latest posts', but I can't create a channel based on that. There is however 'Network' which I think is similar, so I used that. It seems to use 'Latest creation' sorting instead, but that's ok for now.

I set the account's channel frequency to never show in a channel (last option). They still show in their circle, so that's great.

I found I have to go to 'Settings' -> 'Display' -> 'Timelines' to actually enable the new channel for it to show up. Now I can see the new channel, great!

But, the prolific account still shows in the channel, so my experiment failed. Could this be because they always use reshare (boost) to fill their feed and maybe reshares aren't taken into account when applying the channel frequency?

How else can I achieve this?

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@Michael Vogel
Ok, thanks for the reply. So it also wouldn't work for Friendica groups, I guess.

I've thought of another work-around: creating a new account on my server and follow them from there. Then switch accounts to see that timeline. My normal saved hashtag searches should surface anything I want to see under my normal account.

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We handle groups differently in channels. There is the search time group:... especially for them.


Artists have placed an artwork in front of my flat and it's one of those things where you'd accidentally and without intending any malice ask the artist when they are going to finish it.
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They placed two more pieces and I think it may be finished now.

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Hard to believe Norman Rockwell predicted the internet

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For many years, DSL/Cable routers by German company AVM, sold under the Fritz!Box brand, did some internal dns tweaking so that when you typed in fritz.box it would lead you to the config page of the router in your network. Now, years later, there actually is a .box TLD (Top Level Domain) and AVM forgot to register the fritz.box domain. Someone else did. And activated Certificate Pinning (HSTS). #Oops

UPDATE 2024-01-27: Their dns entries are flaky ATM, sometimes there, mostly not.

#oops
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If you accidentally visit the “real” fritz.box outside the home network, you can’t use that domain inside the home network anymore to access the router admin interface: the “real” website has HSTS enabled and the Fritz!Box of course doesn’t have a valid certificate for the domain.
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hahaha the amount of fuckery by avm.
Well sure, they could not have known back in the day that .box will be a tld some day. But they could have changed the setup when it became available and they could not register it themselves
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uhm sorry, no. The idea to use some tld that does not exist was a bad idea to begin with and exactly the reason why .home.arpa was introduced back in the days. this mess is a result of hanging on to a fancy idea that was probably never changed for marketing reasons or some other stupid internal company politics.

They even made it extra hard to change this! Failing to grab the official domain just adds to this. Many did see this coming for years. I did.

Same for .local for different reasons

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@bekopharm @cy agreed that it was a bad idea to begin with, but AVM's use of fritz·box predates RFC 8375 (even most if not all "new" TLDs), and ICANN frowns upon the use of "private" (i.e., unregistered) domains for good reasons. (They don't have any say in what the IETF does with .arpa, though.)

What I request from AVM is to make the domain their DHCP provides configurable while keeping the DHCP and DNS of the Fritzbox.

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@woelfisch even without that RFC was it only a question of time. Really anyone working in this has seen this coming.

AVM may be huge in Germany but international? cmon. Am Deutschen Wesen mal wieder, oder was?

Yeah, the ability to change this is long overdue. It's possible afair by downloading the config, set it there, recalculate the totally secret checksum and re-upload the config.

Or at least it was. I didn't keep taps. Using my own service for DNS ignoring this for years.

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@bekopharm oh, it isn't (wasn't? I haven't dealt with any other home routers for quite some years...) only AVM doing that.

IIRC the whole thing started when .local was hijacked for mDNS in 2000, which was used by numerous home router vendors previously. AVM (foolishly) decided to use .box instead, though they should've registered a dedicated second-level domain under an existing TLD.

But hey, I bet marketing just loved "fritz·box"...

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I believe you can remove your browser's knowledge of hsts by removing all data it knows of that site. Also you can install your own certificate on your router to make it valid, or just mark the router's generated certificate as valid. The latter you would need to redo after each restart of your router I think.
#FritzBox

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Two girls see themselves on screen, except it's not themselves, but the other girl who is completely identical. They didn't know they were twins. It uncovers a long running scandal in Georgia. Story by BBC News.

Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video - bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68…

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US people: reminder that Miller's Girl, a film with Jenna Ortega in the lead role, is in your theaters tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good one!

For people in NL like me, we wait until 14 March.
#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl


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Morena Baccarin ('Firefly', 'Gotham', 'Deadpool') will guest star as a Sheriff's Deputy in an upcoming Season 2 episode of CBS drama "Fire Country" which will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off series in which she would be a regular.
#MorenaBaccarin #FireCountry #CBS #ParamountPlus #Television #Streaming

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I have the boxset of The Shannara Chronicles, another one of these series they keep disappearing from the streaming services. It features two absolutely great actresses: Ivana Baquero and (from season two) Melise. Both are utterly cool here, which is sort of what this show is about.

Ivana was the little girl in Pan's Labyrinth and also as an adult she impresses a lot. Melise is an actress and singer who previously played 'rock chick' Lucy Stone in Big Time Rush. I was playing one of her songs just today.

Starting my rewatch of the show now.
#IvanaBaquero #Melise #TheShannaraChronicles

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From the makers of Wednesday apparently, I didn't know that. It does mean that getting a premonition is signalled by the actress suddenly and violently looking up to the sky.
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It is set in a time after our time, when nature has mostly recovered from us and everything is overgrown with lush forests. The story starts in the Kingdom of the Elves and with a premonition showing the end of times and the destruction of all life.

It takes a while to establish the main characters, in fact you're introduced first to some Elf characters that will not be that important in the long run.



A long time ago I saw the tv series Roswell and loved it. I started watching it for Shiri Appleby, who I knew from Xena, but would probably have watched it anyway. Shiri is nowadays besides a great actress also a great director. She was amazing in Unreal and the episodes she directed were the best.

Starting a rewatch of Roswell now from my boxset.
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell #NowWatching

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I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. After that, things got really weird.


Love story openings like that.

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It's nice to see what a really great lead actress brings to a series. She not only plays her role very well, but she also captures the audience and sets the tone. I think she makes Roswell the warm and interesting show it is.

That her role would be the lead wasn't that obvious. The series is about aliens hiding in Roswell and she is just a human. But I think it works out well, to have human Liz as point of view.
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell



Just watched Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski and Amanda Plummer in Hotel New Hampshire; so great having these three talented actresses in the same film!
#JodieFoster #NastassjaKinski #AmandaPlummer #HotelNewHampshire


Going to see Emilia Clarke. Not in person, she will be on a big screen. The Pod Generation is finally arrived in my country (NL). Release this Thursday, but prereleases all over the country this week.

Looked great in the trailer and it's always great to see Emilia.
#EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration

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So many people in reviews annoyed that the film raises questions but doesn't provide answers and I'm annoyed at those reviews. Firstly, films don't have to provide answers, you can think for yourself, after the film explored the concepts. Secondly, I think this film does provide the answers, just not in an obviously hammered home way where the plot literally gives the answer, but the conclusions the film makers draw are clear from how it affects the characters. I didn't know film watchers had gotten so lazy.

Also there's a mid-credits scene about the big tech aspect, so don't go running to the toilet just yet.



The limbo state packages reach after you order them is still weird. The shop says the package service has picked them up. The package service says the shop still has them. This is an unavoidable state within the delivery process and can take days of no change, even for next day delivery.


More India Eisley, now in Kite. I know nothing of the anime it's supposedly based on...
#IndiaEisley #Kite #NowWatching
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Based on the kind of story you'd expect this film to be cheesier than it is. Instead, India Eisley acts her character Sawa so realistically, it's as if a real-life young assassin with amnesia has stumbled upon the film set and is trying to make sense of the clues she finds, hell-bent on exacting revenge on things in her past she can't quite remember. Some other bits of the film may live up more to the original expectation.

I disagree with the blu-ray cover image's suggestion that she doesn't play the lead character. But big names and all that.
#IndiaEisley #Kite



Should just put the backspace in my password already.

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If you heard the headlines at the end of last year about Binance and Changpeng Zhao being charged by the DOJ, here's a LOT more detail on what they did, and what this may mean for the company going forward.

youtube.com/watch?v=YW7Oe8-RVi…

#Crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #ChangpengZhao

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@jonquass adsense doesn't have a "crypto" category so it's a bit of a guessing game which ad categories to block to get rid of these -_-
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I figured your audience would mostly not click them, so if anything it seems like a waste of the crypto advertisers money. It's still a financial win for Google anyway.



Sometimes, remembering to strike a task from my to do list, is its own task.


uspol, fascism, trump

Quote shared in an attempt to add a content warning. This is an interesting, and scary, read. Explaining why fascists think they are democratic.


Trump can claim he’s for democracy, and he can accuse others of fascism, but it’s been his own rhetoric and beliefs that put him in a fairly textbook fascist category.

theconversation.com/why-some-p…
#USPolitics #Election #Politics #Trump


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Last weekend Jenna Ortega's film Miller's Girl had its festival premiere and 26 January it will have its theatrical release. Good news is that we in the Netherlands don't need to wait too long this time: Thursday 14 March it will be in our cinemas!
pathe.nl/film/27023/millers-gi…
#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl

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Absolutely great acting and a really interesting film too. So many things to think about...
#IndiaEisley #LookAway
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Such mixed reactions to this film when I check afterwards what people write about it. Really a love it or hate it thing. The difference seems to be that if you expect this teenage horror to be a teenage horror, you'll be disappointed since it's a psychological film with great cinematography instead.


Jenna Ortega has been nominated in the People's Choice Awards, as 'The Female Movie Star' and 'The Drama Movie Star'. Both for her role as Tara Carpenter in Scream VI.
votepca.com/

As people we can vote for our choice once per day per category. They have many (many) more categories...



I've read news that despite being on streaming, Wednesday is going to be released on disc as well. Season one will apparently come out on 26 March.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
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@feld Also that, yeah.
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People who are Good At Explaining How Others Are Using Mastodon Wrong tend to overestimate the demand for that service.

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a HACK to quantify #demands? Ask #Mastodon Administrators. You’ll learn very quickly what is in demand.


The Silent Witness episodes (Flight part 1 and 2, 19x03 and 19x04) where Abigail Hardingham guest starred were on tv again recently and I'm watching them now. I am again reminded what a brilliant actress she is despite being hardly known. Unlike other guest roles in this series, hers is really a leading role and she's taking us through all the twists and turns of the story.

May I also recommend her in Nina Forever, a horror film with a difference.
#AbigailHardingham #SilentWitness



I'm doing a rewatch in honour of Dafne Keen's birthday last Thursday. The Acolyte is not out yet and Ana is still not showing anywhere on streaming in my country, so it'll be an episode of His Dark Materials. Episode 1x05 is the one I like to watch. Where Dafne shows that Lyra being brave doesn't mean she isn't scared.


#DafneKeen #BirthdayRewatch #HisDarkMaterials

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Dafne Keen is such a good actress. A lead character can be made to look cool by writing cool things for them to do, but that's not the trick here. With Dafne's Lyra it's pure acting. It's interacting with other characters, the emotions, the frustration, the drive. And I'm also noticing that she has chemistry with every character she interacts with, not just Will but also Lee, Ma Costa and the leaders of the Gyptians.


Today's Dafne Keen's birthday. Happy Birthday Dafne!

Normally I celebrate by (re)watching something, but due to family things today and work things tomorrow, that's going to be Saturday.
#DafneKeen

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Corina Bradley will be in a new tv series called Hotel Cocaine. She plays the character Valeria. It will be released this summer.
#CorinaBradley #HotelCocaine

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First use of the #CorinaBradley hashtag, by me but maybe by anybody on this platform. Will not be the last time I suspect...

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@Bob Young :verified: The company I was working at was doing certifications of PCs, upgrading BIOSes, putting Y2K thumbs-up stickers on units as they proceeded.

Our ERP was a homegrown one from 1980, running on the mainframe. We knew it would be ok, because it used *one* digit for the year and it had managed the 89/90 transition just fine. 😃


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✨ Happy New Year 2024.
With this illustration, I would like to wish you a calm and peaceful New Year.

#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt

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Happy New Year, I just discovered Pepper & Carrot recently, read through it, and I really like it. Keep going!