Painted some walls today. Overall it went well I think. But weird how paint so much wants to go onto things that aren't supposed to be painted, like me.
A problem is that now the contents of the wardrobe, and parts of the wardrobe, are on my bed waiting for the paint to dry so I can move it back. This is not going to happen today, so I've got to find somewhere else to sleep tonight...
It has happened often enough that I fell asleep on the couch watching tv, only waking up in the morning, so I guess this unplanned thing is going to be planned this time.
In the US they seem to have a bail-what-you-want system, like pay-what-you-want, where you negotiate your bail before you make an appointment to arrest yourself. Though this seems available only to a certain type of people.
I'm about the rectify an omission: I haven't seen Dollhouse yet, even though it stars Eliza Dushku. I'm going to watch it now. And yes, I'm going to put the disc in the player, I'm not just watching the pictures on the cover as on the photo. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
I only know popular science / scifi, but I like the tube idea. If you throw away one end of the tube really fast, like the speed of light, the tube will automatically get longer, probably allowing you to hold on to the other end comfortably. The examples in popular science usually involve ladders instead of tubes, but it may be transferable. Then, if you throw it even faster like over the speed of light (there are some people that say this is impossible, the trick is to ignore them), it will break the limit of causality and any messages you shout into one end should be encountered by you before you shouted them. Maybe with some weird Dopler effect. And maybe I'm wrong...
Hey Science, I need a tube in my kitchen so I can shout "butter, you dickhead" into it and I'll hear that two days ago when I'm standing in the middle of the supermarket thinking "what was I out of again?"
I was hoping that all the water delivered by the storm over Mexico and California and heading north, would help putting out the fires in Canada. But apparently with the storm disintegrated by then, expected to just miss the right areas and the ferocity of the fires going on, the expectation is that it's not going to help...
PeerTube tries to keep a view count on the videos, but the monitoring on the cdn shows that there are definitely more times the video files are accessed. Mostly by me, and maybe all the other requests are just bots, but PeerTube doesn't count them. #PeerTube
I really like this film. I keep changing what I would mention as my favourite film (I have a list) but a long time ago the subject of favourite film came up at work and a colleague of mine and me at the same time said Bridge to Terabithia. Which is such an odd thing to happen, as it's not even that that many people have even heard of this film...
I'd say this film isn't that much underrated, as just not rated because it is quite unknown.
I've known a girl like that once, who could make all kinds of things happen by just telling about them. Somehow she could see something, comment about it but probably twisted it somewhat towards the fantastical, and tell it so convincingly that that's what everybody saw as well. Or maybe these things really happened, I still don't know.
We may have witnessed a bodged bank robbery where the robber was running away and chased by the police, just missing his rendez-vous with the getaway driver. Or maybe there was a jogger, who knows.
Bridge To Terabithia is a really nice mix of fantasy situations and real world problems, where neither is just the backdrop for the other. #BridgeToTerabithia
You'd expect Zooey to be credited in the music section of the film, and she is. She plays the music teacher after all. But AnnaSophia is too! The music video on the extras is even her song.
It is a really sad film in the end due to the sudden twist. But this is actually autobiographical for the writer of the book it is based on, and for her son who is the screenwriter here. It was him who when 8 years old suddenly lost his best friend, which then gave the mother the impossible task of helping him make sense of it. So she wrote a book about it. And he much later made a film of it.
I should really change my profile picture. It was meant as a ridiculous form of a bathroom mirror selfie (hence the shower curtain), but it comes across as some pretentious photographer. Pretentious, moi? And also not a photographer, not more than everybody is.
Reading a question on some forum where someone asks 'what is this insect and what do I do about it' and some expert answers what kind of insect it could be and advices her to catch one and send it to some institute for better identification. I'm not sure that's the kind of 'do about it' that she had in mind.
An eye-opening thing was when back in university our club had a talk by someone from a gambling company. Without thinking it was in any way weird (that was the chilling thing) he was listing the characters they had bought in various tv shows. So yeah, even the smallest thing that's happening in your soap or series may only be there because someone lobby group payed for it. I think back to that each time some character has a sudden but unknown disease: awareness campaign.
I think these magic eye pictures may be some kind of conspiracy, 'The Emperor's New Clothes'-style, where a few people only pretend to 'see it'. Though if you're following WelshPixie you already know what it's going to say...
Cross your eyes they say... What if your eyes are already crossed? Instructions on such pictures say to 'start with your nose touching the image where the picture should be blurry', so I guess my nose is too long or my nearsightedness too strong...
Content warning for those without stereo vision: we can't see this so don't waste your time.
This may be relevant to the strike as the article points out. I think if Netflix were to create a film by replacing writers and actors with AI, we would be legally allowed to copy it.
Of the two things I was supposed to do this morning, I've done one finally this evening (the one I was actually planning to do two weeks ago) and did another one I had decided not to do yet.
“The Peripheral” has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The news comes despite the fact that Amazon renewed the show for a second season back in February.…
Reposted from Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoLLm7vMnlI/). Jenna Ortega is the brand ambassador for Adidas Sportswear, a brand new brand from Adidas.
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
Jenna Ortega for Adidas Sportswear, watching a football match on tv, cheering, hiding behind the couch, and all the other emotions. Reposted from Instagram reel by adidaswomen and jennaortega, copyright Adidas and Jenna Ortega.
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
Also interesting how part of the biopic touches upon misusing the name of famous people by publishers, then the film has Maisie Williams in a tiny role so they can use her fame.
It's one of those things that annoy me about reading an open source project describe themselves: you can be four paragraphs in and still don't know what it does.
Of course the license and stuff are also important, but why does it need to be your opening sentence?
Things that are not «features» of an app: - The license - The technologies it uses - The fact that it’s simple - The application it’s an alternative to Your app should be compelling on its own. What makes it worth using? How can it help people? Highlight those things instead!
I spent so long trying to get these photos downloaded from my camera. It insisted on first downloading the 600 earlier ones and ran out of battery twice. #Squirrel
!Friendica Support Hi, I noticed that if I'm not @-mentioned in a public top level post by someone I don't follow, but are @-mentioned in a follow-up post by the same account, I do not get a notification (not an email, not under the bell, not as a desktop popup, not via the API in Tusky). However, if I'm @-mentioned in the top level post I do get those notifications. If I follow the sender I do get the notifications, even if I unfollow between receiving the top level post and the reply. I tested this by sending from another Friendica server. The Pleroma account I also @-mentioned in the tests did get the notifications. The receiving Friendica is on the latest stable.
Is this controlled by a setting? I already tried enabling "Allow unknown people to send me private messages?" but that made no difference.
Fortunately I don't think anybody ever tags me in ongoing discussions, but if they would, I would not know about it.
!Friendica Developers Hi, I have been looking into link previews and especially why a PeerTube video preview image (when the video is linked to in a Friendica post) doesn't update on Friendica after it has been updated on PeerTube. The main reason I found was that PeerTube doesn't set any cache-control headers or expire headers on its dynamic content, just the 'etag'. I think I can deal with that within PeerTube's nginx.
But I also found that Friendica stores the parsed site info from the url in the database, for a full 3 months (in such cases), without allowing it to be evicted earlier from that cache. In fact the logic seems to be:
If parsing the site info fails, store that failure for 1 day before trying again
If no max-age is present on the cache control header returned by the site, store the parsed info for 3 months. This value is not configurable. (Also applies if
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!Friendica Developers Hi, I have been looking into link previews and especially why a PeerTube video preview image (when the video is linked to in a Friendica post) doesn't update on Friendica after it has been updated on PeerTube. The main reason I found was that PeerTube doesn't set any cache-control headers or expire headers on its dynamic content, just the 'etag'. I think I can deal with that within PeerTube's nginx.
But I also found that Friendica stores the parsed site info from the url in the database, for a full 3 months (in such cases), without allowing it to be evicted earlier from that cache. In fact the logic seems to be:
If parsing the site info fails, store that failure for 1 day before trying again
If no max-age is present on the cache control header returned by the site, store the parsed info for 3 months. This value is not configurable. (Also applies if the cache control header says something like 'no-cache')
If a max-age is present, use that, with a minimum of 1 day. This minimum value is also not configurable.
The maximum storage time in our database is therefore infinite, if a site requests this.
Removal from the database table is only done by a worker based on that set storage time.
Is this logic intentional and desired? If so, I'll just change the hardcoded values on my own site (to something much lower). If not, a configurable min and max cache time may be useful? Maybe use the 'etag' somehow? Maybe always refresh the site-info if a user puts the link in the post form?
I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the parsed_url table was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.
I've been running with these hardcoded changes for a few days on a single user instance and it works fine. The highest expire date in the parsed_url table was in the year 4044; I decided not to wait for that and emptied the whole table a few days ago.
For a single user instance it is rare to see the same post more than an hour later. But also when looking at older posts I don't notice any problems. For me there is no reason to keep the data of other sites for 3 months (without even checking for changes) and even when set to 1 hour, it is still less load on the other sites then when I would be browsing them directly as one user. I think that at least for single user instances, these can be considered as defaults as well.
Do we have any astronomy people here that can confirm this 3D model is wrong? And maybe explain how NASA of all organisations keeps showing it on their site? Or is there really a gigantic canyon running as a band over mercury, like someone tried to separate two halves, which somehow shows up in no other pictures I can find? #Astronomy #Mercury #NASA
This NASA site botched texture mapping Mercury pretty badly, and I was so so confused for a very brief amount of time. "Surely," I thought for a second or two, "someone would have noticed and written about this several hundred mile wide saggital canyon that completely encircles the planet. But what if.... aliens?"
@cjrando It's not wrong, but it IS misleading. If you check the model on the website, and zoom in, you'll notice that the edges of the "canyon" are not smooth, but stepped.
This is because the image is a composite taken from multiple photographs taken at different times of the local day by an orbiting spacecraft passing overhead. In some of the images, due to the different times of day when different regions were imaged, there are no shadows and so craters and other features look flat and smooth. In others, the shadows are long and pronounced, making the features look much taller, and more sharply defined.
In other words, there is no canyon. It's an imaging artifact. NASA would have kept it as is in order to be as true to the actual captured image data as possible. They often commission artists to paint objects when they want to give an impression of what something looks like, but that was probably not the goal here.
Full disclosure though: I wasn't involved with creating that image and didn't speak to anybody who was. My answer was an educated guess. I'm pretty confident about it being a mosaic (the stepped edges are a dead giveaway), which is why I spoke to definitively, but I might be wrong on the details of WHY the individual squares look different.
What is it that makes jokes and other things funny? Why are certain things humorous, and others aren't? Why are puns bot tedious and entertaining at the same time?
It's all to do with how our brains process these things, as I explain here.
The main story starts on the day that Princess Diana died, though that fact is not important for the film I think.
This is one of those days/nights that everybody remembers. I remember watching the BBC when they switched to a live feed of a tunnel entrance in Paris, with nothing to see and no explanation yet why. It was very eerie watching this tunnel, knowing something bad must have happened which they hadn't confirmed yet, so they couldn't say. Then slowly the information trickled out, that it had something to do with Diana, then that there had been a crash, then that the people were treated in the car due to bad injuries, then that they had been taken to hospital. All while for hours looking at a dark tunnel entrance in Paris, with nothing to see. Of course everybody hoped she would survive, but before the news eventually came that she had died, we saw the car being taken away on a truck and from the state of the car I lost all hope right then that anybody could survive that (it's miraculous that one person did, all three others died).
Ever since I bought a can of chemicals against silverfish I haven't seen the insects anymore. I haven't used the can yet, but it seems to act as deterrent.
So why did I stop using Tumblr? Back when I stopped actively using it (I still have the account), there were two main problems. Firstly it was utterly broken in varying but always original ways. It gave me the impression that people working for Tumblr didn't use their own software. Secondly they introduced terms at the time (when they were under Yahoo) that forced you to accept that everything you did was communicated to all kinds of 'partners' like Facebook, with no opt-out. The latter has since relaxed.
This caused me to look into Mastodon (at first) and I've since started to appreciate the open source nature and the ability to have different servers with different moderation that all interoperate.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •A problem is that now the contents of the wardrobe, and parts of the wardrobe, are on my bed waiting for the paint to dry so I can move it back. This is not going to happen today, so I've got to find somewhere else to sleep tonight...
It has happened often enough that I fell asleep on the couch watching tv, only waking up in the morning, so I guess this unplanned thing is going to be planned this time.
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