freamon

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] freamon 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hi Admin,

Turns out this was being worked on by lemmy.ca at the same time I was noticing it - they were sending everything 3 times because they're running 3 containers, so maybe you're running 2?

It's fixed for them now, as discussed here

[–] freamon 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, well I only got one copy each of your Subscribe / Unsubscribe / Subscribe actions, so that's good! Many thanks.

[–] freamon 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've turned logging back on, so I'll let you know once someone from lemmy.ca interacts with [email protected]

[–] freamon 9 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Flippin' eck. Seeing a familiar Lemmy post on there, clicking it and seeing the whole thing render instantly was a bit of a shock after getting used to Lemmy's more pedestrian loading of stuff.

[–] freamon 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Thanks. This seems a likely answer - running 1,2 or 3 containers would explain the differences across instances. I hope it can be resolved though.

[–] freamon 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In much the same way that I can't see "Do you wish to process [Y/N]" without thinking of "You bet your ass I wish to proceed" from Die Hard, I can't see "PC Load Letter" without thinking "PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?" (even though I sort-of know what it means)

[–] freamon 7 points 9 months ago

Regarding the 'Unresolved questions' part, the ActivityPub activity for Reports is:

{
  "actor": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/lemmy_alpha",
  "to": ["http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/main"],
  "audience": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/u/main",
  "object": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/post/7",
  "summary": "report this post",
  "type": "Flag",
  "id": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/activities/flag/98b0933f-5e45-4a95-a15f-e0dc86361ba4"
}

From this page. I imagine it's up to lemmy where this actually gets sent (in the sense that if a community has 1 moderator, it goes to 1 inbox, but if it has 2 moderators, it goes to 2 inboxes).

[–] freamon 1 points 9 months ago

Just thought I'd check it wasn't due to something at my end, so I send a Like to a community on a test instance (where I can use ngrok's Inspect utility to see the incoming traffic):

It's a bit blurry, but hopefully it's visible that they're exactly the same

[–] freamon 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think that's just a fun title. I searched for London, UK when it was set for 750 million years ago and it said something about the land not being there for it yet. As advised, I changed to a more 'recent' year and it came up.

[–] freamon 2 points 9 months ago

Can confirm. Just looked at Boost and there they all are. Pretty neat. (Boost is the only app I've seen that notifies you of comments too)

 
 
 

Three for me. Once on PC (when it was the first action RPG I'd ever played), once on Xbox (for which I even bought all the DLC, even the cosmetic stuff), and finally the Legendary edition on PS4 (which gave me the extra FPS to be able to complete it on Insanity)

 

Just watched 12 Monkeys (1996), and it's a little uncomfortable seeing Bruce Willis portray a character struggling mentally, know of his real-life problems with frontotemporal dementia. It's not the time of year yet, but I'm wondering if my enjoyment of Die Hard will be reduced, since the hearing loss he suffered on that film may have been a contributing factor.

The Crow (1994) - on which Brandon Lee died, and Rust (upcoming) - on which Halyna Hutchins died - aren't films I'd normally watch anyway, so I don't know how the deaths would have affected my decision to watch them. Conversely, Kevin Spacey is in a lot of films I like, but it's a bit queasy seeing his performances, with the suspicion that we all now know why he's so good at portraying creeps.

So do you just try to enjoy a film as a film, or does real-life events ever stop you re-watching them?

 
 

Just stopped reading about Mawaan Rizwan's new show when I got to that bit.

Mawaan Rizwan's mum?
Romesh Ranganathan's mum?
Jack Whitehall's dad?

I'm sure they'll all lovely but it seems cheap, somehow.
The only exception I'll allow is BaaadDad, because they weren't to know what they'd spawn.

 

If you've ever wondered about the idea of "Witches vs. The Patriarchy", this book is written in that sub-genre of Gothic Fiction. Set during a time when an embodiment of the patriarchy could literally just show up and take your house, it depicts the acts of apotropaic magic and more 'witchy' defences the women resort to.

Bonus: it's only a novella, so it's an enjoyable, breezy read.

 

Compared to now, when Videodrome (1983) has just popped up on the 'VPN Channel' - should be an easier, if no less surreal, experience to watch tonight.

If you're not familiar with this particular Cronenberg release, it's the one with all the visual imagery of how bodily orifices that you stick things in are a bit like vaginas, yeah? That should narrow it down.

 

Pic is from Alita: Battle Angel. I thought it was a well-chosen moment, in a strange, otherworldly film to suddenly drop this, and left me feeling hyped up for the good guys.

 
 

Supporting Evidence

Constantine (2005) - Logo swept away by the fires of hell
The Simpsons (2007) - Ralph Wiggum trumps out the fanfare
Scott Pilgrim (2010) - Universal logo rendered as 8-bit animation
Pitch Perfect (2012) - Universal theme sung a cappella
Upgrade (2018) - Studio credits read by ominous System Shock type voice
Bob's Burgers (2022) - altered FOX fanfare audio.
Spider-Men in Spider-Verses (2018/2023) - Multiversal glitches

Hypothesis

Film makers invested so much in their own product that they've got around to thinking about how the studio credits play out are dedicated to making a good movie

Criteria (edited)

Due to eligibility requirements (published separately), some films have had to be excluded. These include The Flintstones (1994), Waterworld (1995), Matrix Resurrections (2021) and Tomorrowland (2015). I am however confident that these exclusions don't affect the validity of my theory, and am confident in going forward.


Have you seen a film with transformed credits that was actually dog pops?
If not, I'll go work this up and submit it to the relevant journals.

view more: ‹ prev next ›