andrew_s

andrew_s, 22 days ago

The Wasp Factory and We Need to Talk about Kevin (both have scenes of an older child abusing the trust of a younger sibling, which really bothered me at the time).

andrew_s, 22 days ago

For remote actors, it seems to mostly rely on banned users not being very imaginative when it comes to naming subsequent accounts, and/or them not being able to leave a particular subject alone.

andrew_s, 22 days ago

A user on an instance that's different from the instance that wants to ban them (so methods like IP logging or browser fingerprinting or whatever wouldn't be available).

andrew_s, 23 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

It does, yes. When you make a post or comment, there's a tick-box with 'Notify about replies'. It's ticked by default, but unticking it before you submit means you won't get notification about replies.

After that, you can change the status using the same bell icon that you use for other people's content. To subscribe to your post, I'd change the bell from struck-through to clear, and to unsubscribe to my own post, I'd change the bell from clear to struck-through.

(edit just to see if doing so forces lemme.ee to resolve it)

andrew_s, 23 days ago

All the scene releases for this are from the Blu-Ray, weirdly enough. There doesn't seem to be an official platform to stream it from.

andrew_s, 23 days ago

'Sugar' is okay. It has a particular editing style that takes a while to get used to. Each episode is only about 30 minutes, so that makes a nice change. He's just told someone that he has a secret, and if it's not "We're all aliens", I'm going to be disappointed.

I think I'm going to give up on 'The Sympathizer'. I've realised I've little tolerance for an actor playing more than one part. Robert Downey Jr. has just shown up as his third character, and it's not he's particularly known for being a chameleon. I find it gimmicky and distracting.

'Taskmaster (UK)' is on tonight. Yay!

andrew_s, 24 days ago

Have you been playing with language settings? This post is in 'Akan', but your previous posts are a mix of 'English' and 'Undefined'.

If you've removed 'English' as a language you understand, the posts from 3 hours and 3 days ago won't be visible to you.

andrew_s, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

I think it's typically hidden by UIs for privacy reasons, but you could see it via something like:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location <a href="https://sopuli.xyz/u/cyrus" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://sopuli.xyz/u/cyrus</a> | jq -r .matrixUserId
or
curl --header 'accept: application/json' '<a href="https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/user?username=cyrus'" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/user?username=cyrus'</a> | jq -r .person_view.person.matrix_user_id

As the other comment says, backends hook into Matrix if someone uses the 'Send Secure Message' option to contact you (I don't think that option shows if you don't both have a Matrix ID).

andrew_s, 24 days ago

The meme is riffing on the criticism that Star Wars has become too self-referential. That modern Star Wars are inspired only by earlier iterations of Star Wars, rather than the more diverse list of inspirations for the original film. It's not a comment on the quality of the PT.

andrew_s, 23 days ago

The lead dev is Rimu - which isn't on LW's admin list.

andrew_s, 24 days ago

From the long-distant past, I can still remember choosing 'Secrets and Lies' as something to watch when I was living with house-mates. I didn't know anything about it, just that it was highly regarded by critics. Everyone in the house hated it, it was an awkward experience watching it, and I get vague second-hand embarrassment even thinking about that film.

I should give it another chance sometime, but of Leigh's films, I think Naked is the only one I've liked (but I wouldn't have wanted to watch that with other people in the room either).

andrew_s, 25 days ago

PieFed (which'll let me subscribe to this post), Matrix, and Mastodon (using the phanpy web client)

andrew_s, 25 days ago

Not sure why your post was removed when this post (to use a similar example) wasn't. Not providing a reason is, at the very least, self-defeating, because you then have to deal with the not-unreasonable follow-up question as to why.

From what I remember, I think this place ultimately exists because of the mod at the other place being a bit opaque.

andrew_s, 26 days ago

Looks interesting - I imagine there's lot of uses for this. I currently use ngrok to tunnel from 443 to a local server, which is good way to test fediverse apps, but I wouldn't be able to use bore for that (because it only assigns random public ports above 1024, and doesn't deal with the SSL end of things)

andrew_s, 26 days ago

There's some that have done extra to get the best out of young performers.

Examples would be: Room (2015) with the director making things into a game (like 'who can scream the loudest?'); and Close (2022) where the director worked with the kids for ages before even introducing a camera.

A counter-example would be Gran Torino (2008), where the young actors aren't particularly good ('cos Eastwood is more of a "you get two takes, and if you haven't got in 2, you haven't got it" kinda guy)

andrew_s, 26 days ago

!askmbin

It won't show any posts if you're joining from a remote instance 'cos MBin returns empty outboxes for their magazines, but there's only one post there atm anyways.

Lemmy will probably error when clicking that link, so just wait a bit and refresh.

So this comment has one link, and two paragraphs about how it might not work as expected, but - other than that - yay Fediverse!, I guess, ha ha.

andrew_s, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Well it's good to see that - unlike Lemmy - Reddit users have found a way to bash Windows without using pre-transition images of Elliot Page. So they've got that going for them, at least. (I'm assuming this post is also poking fun at Reddit, for being riddled with ads)

EDIT: Apologies, I shouldn't have made this comment. I'll leave it up, so the replies have some context.

andrew_s, 27 days ago

It was two, fwiw. They were also upvoted, and engaged with (which is what the trolls want, of course). I shouldn't have made that comment - it's a sign that I've been on my phone too much this morning. I'll amend it, and then go out for a walk or something.

andrew_s, 27 days ago

Sorry. It's from me being too online. Must. Put. Phone. Down.

andrew_s, 27 days ago

The City & The City (China Mieville) is a book I remember being captivated by. Not sure what happened to my copy (think I must've donated it during some purge or other), but - yeah - it's something I want to read again at some point.

My favourite SF author is Iain M Banks, which I was surprised to not see on your list. I think my favourite book is another bit of Scottish Sci-fi: Learning the World, by Ken MacLeod.

andrew_s, 27 days ago

He's mostly known for the 'Culture' series of novels. His writing was a reaction to how dystopian sci-fi had become, and so the Culture depicts a Utopian society with no money, no work, super-intelligent machines and a human lifespan of about 400 years. The stories mostly come about from their meddling with other civilizations. They can be read in any order - the nerdiest one is Excession, which I like a lot. He wrote non-culture sci-fi too (of which I'd recommend The Algebraist, nommed for a Hugo in 2005).

andrew_s, 27 days ago

His Bio does include 'software engineer', and he's worked at Microsoft before from here. I get the sense that the problem that people have with Mastodon is that they've subbed the PRs, but they've not been approved. For example, there's apparently a 12k line PR for Groups that the main guy isn't keen on.

It can be tricky getting your own code into other people's projects - the maintainers need to have a lack of ego that can be difficult to achieve. Generally, developers react better to code, than to ideas about code, but you want to convince them to look at future code, and not waste your time creating it, by floating the idea first, so you can end up in an impossible situation. Subbing big PRs only for them to be dismissed by a maintainer is what causes people to rage-quit the project altogether (for Lemmy, see Tesseract UI, and the 'bulletintree' guy)

andrew_s, 27 days ago

Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that's paginated), so that's the other reason their posts don't show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it's generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it'd ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.