My hottake on no day in particular about 'romantic' films. In such films there usually is a male character who really likes (or will like) the female character, appreciate her idiosyncrasies, comes to realise she's exactly who he loves and needs.
There's also a female character who finds out that the male character really loves her, that she looks for someone who respects her, 'gets' her, supports her and that he is that guy.
In both cases, it's about the man. First it's the man loving the woman. Secondly it's the woman wanting someone who loves her. Her own feelings and desires don't seem to matter to script writers of romantic films.
#RomCom #HotTake
Klimaatbeleid van de VVD: zolang mogelijk de fossiele industrie in stand houden. Zojuist stemde de VVD onze wetswijziging om te stoppen met fossiele subsidies weg.
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Happy Birthday, Stephanie!
I may have some films and shows with Stephanie Leonidas... I think I already know which one I'm going to rewatch tonight.
#StephanieLeonidas
#ChristinaRicci #AfterLife
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After.Life (2009)
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.letterboxd.com
American Carnage is a film that Jenna Ortega recorded in Spain several years ago. Nothing much was heard about it for a long time, but when Jenna became more famous with The Fallout and Scream, the film was suddenly released with her prominently in all marketing. I'm not sure yet how big her role really is.
It is not available on European blu-ray or on any of my local digital services. So this is the us blu-ray.
#JennaOrtega #AmericanCarnage #NowWatching
I found that you can get dvd players that play any region discs for under €50, if you look for the unknown brands. These manufacture them region-free and sell them as such. This is perfectly legal, even if the studios don't like it.
Blu-rays is another matter. These can only be made to play discs from different regions by hardware modification. In that case you can buy a (major brand) player from a store where they modify the device before shipping it to you. This costs about €100 more than the normal price of the same model, so you end up paying €200-400. It will be region-free for dvd's as well.
But then you finally have freedom to buy the discs where you want. Especially since many films only have us releases nowadays, this was worth it.
Of course, converting it with handbrake is free...
Why a company (a film studio) would prevent you from buying their product in one market when they are never going to release it in another market, I don't know.
This includes streaming btw, we also hardly get any of the streaming releases (either subscription, rental or buy) that the us gets.
Happy Birthday, Christina Ricci!
She's 'only' 10 years and 5 days younger than me... I have seen so many films with her, but I think Black Snake Moan is my favourite. I'll be rewatching that now.
For other ideas to celebrate, this is my letterboxd list "Watch for Christina".
#ChristinaRicci #BlackSnakeMoan #BirthdayRewatch
"I done been toe to toe with the law in this town a heap of times just for being black and nearby."
Trolley Problem but pov is you're one of the people on the tracks and the lever is stuck. You can buy a place on one of the tracks, but the safe one is the most expensive one.
Also, why are people wondering why rich people don't take climate change seriously?
Some are welcoming the armageddon that's to come, believing they will be ok.
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.
#KarenDavid #TheScorpionKing2
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
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🥳 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
#ThePeripheral #ChloëGraceMoretz
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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.
twitter.com/extratv/status/162…
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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.
-- Pupok
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#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack #NowWatching
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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.
#OrphanBlack
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack
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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.
(Spoiler: it wasn't)
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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#FelicityJones #AMonsterCalls
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
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower #NowWatching
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower
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#Wednesday #JennaOrtega
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
(Photo copyright 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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