Tradesman who are on time don’t exist, do they?
Reposting: Jamie Tanna | www.jvt.me on Twitter
“A post that's partly #IndieWeb, partly #OwnYourData, but mostly about the revial of the #PersonalWebsite and just why you should have one too - https://t.co/S4Had4ylsv”
Reposting: Grant Richmond on Twitter
“I'm calling this product launch #2 of the summer. A (currently) niche #indieweb reader: https://t.co/NAuq1l7e3U
Harking back to the glory days of RSS readers, but with a more modern, social twist.
Read more about it here: https://t.co/Rk3iai1QvM”
Directed by Chad Stahelski. With Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose. After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
I enjoyed John Wick: Chapter 2, when I watched it on Saturday night. I don’t think I enjoyed it quite as much as the first John Wick. I found it felt quite a bit “grander” and was more graphicly violent than the first film, but I guess that comes with getting a bigger budget after a surprise hit. My fear that it would strip back too many layers and mysteries from when I watched the first John Wick, in trying to “world build” into a franchise weren’t entirely founded – there wasn’t any clunky or overt exposition I noticed, just some points handled (mostly) naturally in context of the dialogue. Stuff like the “rules” of The Continental, and the consequences of breaking them. How all these pieces fit into the wider picture of assassins, crime lords, and secret societies were left pleasingly ambiguous (for now).
As with the first film, the cinematography was gorgeous. The light and sound design, combined with the framing and editing were absolutely on point. At no time was I unable to follow what was going on in an action scene – something which can’t said for too many “blockbuster” films these days. The plot felt like a reasonably logical continuation of the first film, and the main character was fleshed out in nice, subtle, ways.
Sadly, I need to wait until mid-September before I can watch John Wick: Chapter 3. I didn’t have high expectations when I started the series; I expected it to be somewhat overhyped and empty. But now I’m keen to find out how the story wraps up (or not, as the case may be).
“@jackyalcine Agree, video tough. If openly licensed can use @internetarchive. Also been thinking about peertube. “
I’ve been thinking about video lately too. For very short clips (<2 minutes) I think I would self-host, despite WordPress making it awkward as heck in my experience. Anything longer than that and it’s more of a conundrum.
Could small, “collective” PeerTube instances in the vein of runyourown.social be viable? Needs buy-in from interested parties — or a benefactor — but it’s a way to spread the hosting costs around while offering an alternative to a community. /cc Jacky.
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My newest neighbours (or, rather, their “DIY Dads”) have not been endearing themselves to the street by firing up the power saws at 8:15am for the last few weekends 😑
Tomorrow at Warhammer Aberdeen is The Joust 2019, where we try to win back the record for most Knights on the table at once (currently set at 129!) I’ll be bringing along as many scions of House Payne as I can get finished… https://www.facebook.com/events/470011170417419/?ti=ia
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@rustlang has piqued my interest. Gonna have to explore it some time soon.
“A new CPU and storage are likely inside”
Finally it’s official. I’m pretty glad I didn’t cave in and buy a Switch at the weekend.
Update to add – apparently the UK will get the new model sometime in September.
Reposting: Eric Meyer on Twitter
“By 2049, #PrimeDay will be a national holiday and we’ll travel from far and wide to gather with our families and complain about how un-commercial it’s all gotten.”
Reposting: SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter
“Tweeting about trending topics is a good way to farm crappy followers that yell at you.”
Reposting: Garbage on Twitter
“I BOUGHT A BOOK BASED ON THE LIVE ACTION DORA MOVIE AND I TURNED TO A RANDOM PAGE AND LIKE-”
Reposting: Carole Cadwalladr on Twitter
“‘Here’s another way to say it: the biggest FTC fine in United States history increased Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth.’
It really is amazing. I think this might be the moment we later realise that Facebook broke the American dream
https://t.co/jcfsDajMtV”
The Lost and the Damned is the follow up to The Solar War, and second book in the eight-part The Siege of Terra series. The collector’s Edition is every bit as gorgeous as the first book. I can’t wait to get stuck in!
Reposting: Peter Dolanjski on Twitter
“"It's time to start using Firefox's solid collection of content-blocking tools" https://t.co/JQIKGpONk1”
Reposting: Dusty Smith 🥤 on Twitter
“Jason Mamoa is getting body shamed on the internet today for this picture of him on vacation bc he’s “fat now” and has a “dad bod”... and I’m officially never taking my shirt off ever again as long as I live. Not even in the shower.”
Reposting: Anil Dash 🥭 on Twitter
“Imagine using this framing for any other humanitarian crisis. https://t.co/Osimm5gqjk”
“Mozilla was nominated for an “Internet Villain” award – and The People Of The Internet were not pleased”
I wonder how much of an unintended consequence the nomination had? Speaking for myself, I turned the DNS-over-HTTPS feature on because the nomination drew my attention to it having been implemented in Firefox.
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Reposting: Parker Molloy on Twitter
“I think we know how this will play out.
Evangelical: "Trans people are an abomination! Blah blah blah! LGBTQ is evil! Blah blah blah!"
LGBTQ people: "You're bigots."
Twitter: [suspends LGBTQ person] https://t.co/Z7vytcdq25”
Reposting: Andy Bell on Twitter
“It’s wild that 50 years ago, Margaret Hamilton was writing code that was put on punch cards and then loaded up on a computer that landed Astronauts on the moon.
Now, folks use React to render a bloody blog 😂”