Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 3

@glitzersachen No worries. 😀

Pokemon Go killed my battery last year, and the battery I replaced it with is still almost as good as new.

This happens in all browsers. The ordering platform that almost all the restaurants here use changed something about a year ago; Before then they ran smoothly. It was one restaurant at first, and then the others followed. Some restaurants have their own systems and they're stlll good.

#ResidentAlienS4 !!!!

#ResidentAlien

My six-year-old phone is powerful enough to play 3D games and Pokemon Go, but I need to get a more powerful one that doesn't need a whole minute or more to open the online menus at restaurants.

There's at least one restaurant where the menu doesn't come up at all. My wife's phone from four years ago opens all of these in seconds, no problem, same browser.

@notclacke You just summed up the problem with the MCU and other franchises.

Nobody wants to rewatch a dozen previously released movies and series to enjoy that one new movie.

Taking my laptop and headset into the bathroom, because it has thicker walls and I won't need to scroll past literally dozens of Bluetooth devices to find the one I want to pair with.

How many languages are spoken in "John Wick: Chapter 3"?

I found some posts out there with answers like "I think I heard some Indonesian, some ...", but not a proper nerdy post that states with confidence and receipts how many languages there are.

Here's my own useless "I think I heard ...":

- English, of course
- His Ruska Roma family speaks Belarusian or Russian, I'm assuming they made it interesting and switched between both
- Folks in Casablanca would speak Arabic and/or Berber
- His big fan Zero speaks Japanese
- People online said Zero's minions speak Indonesian

@strypey It's big and empty, compared to China. That doesn't entirely work as an excuse though. Mostly US infra is a policy failure rather than a natural consequence.

@tbaldauf @Br3nda @AccordionBruce

@lizzard Similar gap between two given cities, but the two US cities have 500 k people each, while the two Chinese cities have 5 M people each.

@strypey @Br3nda @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

Season 4 was great as well. Each season adds a new layer to the lore.

#StrangerThings

A comment on the internet said: "I'm not much if an IT person. Could someone explain this in nautical terms?"

I had to respond, of course, having once been a sailor myself.

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

You know that you are working in a bank when:

This week's changes to the SonarQube standard configuration is 18 points related to Cobol.

The movie is dedicated to the memory of Tony Todd.

Franchise fans know him as William Bludworth of FD1, FD2, FD5 and now FDB, horror fans know him as a bunch of other characters.

As a Star Trek fan, I know him as Old Man Jake in DS9 and Worf's brother Kurn in TNG, and I just learned he was also the Moclan ambassador in honorary Trek series The Orville.

69 is not a fair age to die. It was stomach cancer, and he was already dying as he committed to playing a part in this movie honoring his previous work. He passed away in November last year, soon after performing for this film.

We thank you, Mr. Todd. ❤️😥

We watched "Final Destination Bloodlines".

It's billed a horror movie, but what I experienced was a splatter disaster dark comedy and I absolutely loved it.

If you don't mind people being mutilated in the most excruciating ways and you appreciate brilliantly-written unreliable foreshadowing and hilariously lampshaded foreshadowing, this film is a must-see.

Not a single minute passes without the movie teasing impending doom. Characters are close to dying in event after event, but then they don't, but then they do, but in a surprising way, or it's an unexpected person that dies.

The comedic timing is impeccable, the deaths are overkill and overly complex in the campest ways, the plot (yes!) is creative and interesting.

Now I want to watch the previous five films! This sixth film was 100% possible to enjoy without them and they're all semi-independent, but this one is a celebration of all of them, supposedly chock full of references to them and is a soft reboot/retcon that ties them all together nicely.

#FinalDestination #FinalDestination6
#FinalDestinationBloodlines