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Three days to go until we can marvel in the brilliance of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday on Netflix. Here a clip on their Instagram.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
instagram.com/reel/ClMSn2NqYoy…

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It's grating, whether it's in real life or as now fictional, when some organisation congratulates itselves on its diversity and it's all white guys and one woman.

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I like that in this extremely old tv series they sometimes write a story where they're trying to find 'the big bad' leader of a crime organisation, passing the secretary many times while investigating their office, ignoring her because she's a woman, then only to find she's the criminal mastermind after all.

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Looking ahead for a moment, next year’s UN climate summit will take place in Dubai in November/December 2023. (And as many commentators are pointing out, given #COP28 will be hosted by an oil state, the United Arab Emirates, it is difficult to imagine much progress on a phase down of fossil fuels.) #COP27 (Guardian blog)

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Imagine shouting in the void on another field where no one hears you, then the Glastonbury festival moves in there too with all its noise and still no one can hear you.


literally cannot describe what it's like being one of these people who were on mastodon before nov 2022. Imagine if you were chilling in a field with like 20 other people and then suddenly the glastonbury festival swarms in


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literally cannot describe what it's like being one of these people who were on mastodon before nov 2022. Imagine if you were chilling in a field with like 20 other people and then suddenly the glastonbury festival swarms in

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I hope COP27 will reach some actual results, rather than an excuse to wait until the next one. They're currently in overtime, but seem to have an agreement on a damages fund. Great, but proper action to limit fossil fuels are needed.
#ClimateChange
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I feel the COP27 has been a failure. We need to stop using fossil fuels, yet this agreement almost seems to do the opposite. The damages fund is a good thing though, even if it is low on detail.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #COP27

BBC News - Climate change: Five key takeaways from COP27
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ…



I don't have experience running a Mastodon server, but I notice they are under heavy load at the moment and have much delays. I have experience running a Pleroma and a Friendica server for myself. Based on that, I think if you are going to run a small server for a group of friends or family, please use Pleroma instead. For more users, especially those you don't know personally, you may need the extra moderation tools Mastodon has, but else Pleroma is much lighter. You can also consider Friendica, especially if it's only a personal server.

For costs it should be under €10 per month, maybe €3, depending how you set it up. I have in the past run Pleroma on a €3,50/month node while connected to a busy relay.
#FediAdmin

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We'll get season three of His Dark Materials on 5 December, so the interviews start coming. Dafne Keen is interviewed in Marie Claire about finding the character, how the word 'need' was key in season one and the dirt in this season, and about playing the more grown up Lyra this time. Great photo shoot too.
#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials
marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen…


The iCarly (reboot) season two episode "i'M Wild and Crazy" reminded me of this back story, since they're playing the same game in the episode and Carly is also 'the good one' (or as she feels in the show, the boring one).
#iCarly #MirandaCosgrove
imdb.com/title/tt18375774/


Another week, there were more people there for the live, including the guy who plays their father in the show (Patrick Warburton). They were playing a game of Never Have I Ever, and when the question came up of sneaking out of the window to go to a party your parents had forbidden you to go to, all eyes turned to Mia since her image is a bit of trouble personified (I can't speak for the real her of course). But she never had done that. Slowly they saw that only Miranda had her hand raised, having ever done that before, causing him to say in his deep booming voice: "No! Not the Good One!", which incidentally is literally a line from the show.



I had no idea Anjli Mohindra was also in The Peripheral! Did I forget she announced it, did she not announce it? Probably the former... There's so much news to remember. Anyway, I'm already watching it because Chloë Grace Moretz is the lead and it & she are great.
#ThePeripheral #AnjliMohindra #ChloëGraceMoretz

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The Wired interview with Jenna Ortega, the one where they do the autocomplete questions. About upcoming projects, her first film and learning to play the cello.
#JennaOrtega #Wired
youtu.be/xXvgT-AgLAo


Yay, I've reached the Mia Serafino episodes of the iCarly reboot! (That's season two). I know her from Crowded where she played Stella, and from Miranda's Instagram because they remained friends ever since.
#iCarly #MiaSerafino #MirandaCosgrove


It's such a confusing post by the YouNetflix account on several media, and confusing many people already, I'm not going to share it. Basically they posted a video with a bunch of dates and now people are thinking those are the dates the episodes are going to come. Reasonable thought. But those are the dates for various teaser clips. S4 part 1 will be 10 February, part 2 10 March. Why is this important? Because Amy-leigh Hickman is in that season!
#YouNetflix #You #AmyLeighHickman

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And let's be honest. Many white 'liberals' and 'progressives' feel like they have some ownership of the fedi and can dictate what the culture is rather than being amenable to it changing as the user base grows and diversifies.

Many white people feel like they can very rudely make demands of people they don't know and expect people to acquiesce. And that's just unearned entitlement.

There are always growing pains when any platform has gains that have just happened over the last couple of weeks. We need patience, care, and understanding to let the culture grow organically.

What we don't need is white people bitterly complaining that their fabricated view of the world is changing because reality is no longer deniable.

Drink some water and shut the fuck up. You're not in any danger. LOL, you're just a bigot. You'll be fine.

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I've seen it being framed as the newcomers are strangers in a foreign land but in reality we're all in international waters


So scared I got that shitpost joke wrong, I checked it before and after. I think I've got it correct...



crossposting policy
When I reshare a Twitter post from my own feed there, onto this fediverse account, it's only things I would otherwise have posted here anyway but this way it saves me typing it twice. It's not something unattended at all (as proven by the manual resharing), just somewhat lazy. I also leave out stuff that's not fitting for the fediverse.
#CrossPosting
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Great interview with Jenna Ortega, where she talks about Wednesday, creating a character and working together with Tim Burton.
(They fixed the link!)
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix

highsnobiety.com/p/jenna-ortega…


JENNA ORTEGA FOR HIGHSNOBIETY FRONTPAGE 143 hsnob.co/1or5c
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#feditip Don't just track down all kinds of Google Docs links with accounts for a subject of your interest, also have a look at #trunk where you find lots of subjects together. (Opt-in of course)
communitywiki.org/trunk


Tsk at reviewers that are surprised that Wednesday Addams is so brilliantly played in the new tv show: it said so right there on the information you received, it says "Wednesday Addams - Jenna Ortega". That's a synonym for "brilliantly played".
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday


Everybody has their own way to look at films and tv shows, either focusing on the story, the director, the meaning, etc. For me it's the way the characters are written and acted.

So I've arrived at the later episodes of House of the Dragon and have a later seasons of Game of Thrones deja-vu. Maybe the characters after the time jumps can be interesting but since they're totally not consistent with the characters as they were before, I'm not into it. It's like Alicent and Rhaenyra have switched bodies, Freaky Friday style.



Actually 'Van Gogh' is pronounced 'Van Gog', but with the letters pronounced as their actual letters rather than as English.

(Regarding previous reshare: sounds close enough...)



What is it called in English when you collect paper (newspapers, etc) for recycling? We call it 'old paper' (oud papier) so I tend to refer to advertising materials as new old paper.


Feel like starting a site about film and dvd releases, but from a purely Dutch perspective only, so I can just say 'not available' on all of them.
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Then after a long adventure involving a vpn or handbrake bypass, change that to 'mostly not available'.
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Yes, it's not all '42' and 'life, the universe and everything' in thhgttg references.

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My heart goes out to all those system admins who were thinking "wow this is kinda neat" and are suddenly holding a piece of communication infrastructure other people are intent on depending on.

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I don't like selfie filters, but won't blame people for what society made them do.


#PeerTube has a neat opt-in mechanism in place to alleviate the fediverse ddos problem of popular videos: it's what they call redundancy. Servers that opt-in can share the load on new, trending or popular videos. Your browser, when playing a video, will fragment by fragment decide which server to get the content from, giving a smooth stream no matter what the load. The only extra requirement is that the original server is still online.

BTW, offloading storage and serving via cdn are also really easy in PeerTube, so you can go that route as well.



#feditip To open a thread, click the date or time of the post. Depending on the platform you're on (true for most, including Mastodon) click the date or time again to open the thread on the original server. Only then you get a proper view of the posts in the thread.

Do this before replying. Someone else may have responded already!



There's a skill to taking selfies that I'm too old for to possess.

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For anyone doing reports / research on the #fediverse, I'd like to inform you that I've been involved in many media interviews over the years, and have managed to save most of them to my #PeerTube channel @deadsuperhero

Here is a brief thread of the ones I think might be most useful.

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@deadsuperhero This interview on Adam VS the Man was filmed during my time at #Diaspora. There were only a few federated systems in the network, and ActivityPub did not exist yet. This is insight from the early days: spectra.video/w/neFJran3cQn1EV…
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This one is from "Steal This Show" from about 2ish years ago when #Mastodon started getting big, and other platforms started taking off. This was in light of Gab and Kiwifarms launching their own instances: spectra.video/w/6ctrbMEuvteRPP…
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I've saved the best for last. This is the unedited full interview for MontrealSauce with @sikkdays and @pauldl where I go deep into the history and rationale about why this stuff is important.

spectra.video/w/hsaCxCPa1nKw5t…

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@kai Yeah, it's wild to think that one of my first interviews was 10 years ago!


I still love how Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone played opposite each other in Clueless, essentially rotating their characters opposite each other, like one of those fairground teacups. Not unlike Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls, which actually features those teacups. Still miss Brittany.
#Clueless #BrittanyMurphy #AliciaSilverstone #DakotaFanning #UptownGirls #MovieBowl


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if you want a basic understanding of how the fediverse network actually operates, ariadne.space/2019/07/13/feder… is still very relevant

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most of the risks described here are mitigated by telling mastodon to use authorized fetch mode. please turn authorized fetch mode on, for your own good.

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There's an at least 20% chance that somewhere out there is a company with a button that literally says "What are you even doing? Don't fucking press this button!", but the programmer that labeled it that way left a decade ago, running the business requires pushing the button every day and nobody has prioritized even relabeling the button.

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One of the first business applications I wrote, when I was 19, had an error condition that would output "This can't be happening ..." on the console.

It did this often during everyday operation and after several years at the company I still hadn't gone back to check why it was in fact happening.



When I see some php-based projects that don't just work but work well (e.g. Wordpress, Friendica) and consider the scope of the functionality they try to achieve and the characteristics of the language, I'm wondering how are these even working at all? Must be some magic(*).

(*) talented open source developers

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Php seems to me the wrong language to run the web on, yet most of the web does. Purely on characteristics of the language, something like Elixir or Go, maybe Java/C/C++, would be a logical choice. Yet it's all php, or python for those who want to be more modern.
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It isn't just characteristics though. I guess 'ecosystem' and 'familiarity' are a thing too.


Apparently if I quote-share a post and add a link, the link preview gets presented as part of the shared post.

And if the shared post has an abstract (content warning) that's different from the one on my post, it will be used on my post anyway...



Birdsite

There's a meme going around Twitter that I thought was quite funny, essentially it's people saying things 'before it burns down', like wishing followers a merry Christmas. But then I saw this BBC story and it can really all crash on Monday... Apparently after Musk demanded employees to work long hours or quit, most have quit.
BBC News - Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
bbc.co.uk/news/business-636723…


@The research fairy I thought it was the first and you just got exposed to a meme going around there today, but then I saw a BBC story where they quote someone who says that it could fall down by Monday. So I guess it's the latter...




Single point of failure

vs

Single point of fixing things