One of my earliest memories is of playing with my Action Man and his jeep - at one point I picked up my sister’s Barbie and plonked her in the passenger seat, thinking “this is fine, I’m not playing with dolls really”. Anyway, then I stood up and cracked my head on the bottom of a cabinet door, hard enough to draw blood. As I stood there, screaming at the sight of blood on my hand, a rogue thought occurred: “This is what you get for playing with the wrong toys”

So, a sentence that little me could never have predicted: I’m borrowing a copy of the Barbie film from my Internet friend tonight, so that’s my evening sorted.

I used to use hot water for a reaction to a certain laundry powder when I was a kid. Years later, I happened to mention it to a co-worker, and they said “Oh, why didn’t you use antihistamines?”, which I wish I’d known about much earlier (they certainly helped with the reactions to the mosquito bites)

I’d never been bitten by a mosquito before, until the other day when I got ganged up on by a bunch of them. I literally looked down to see them hanging off my legs. It was only 'cos I’d walked to the city rather than the town that I encountered them, but the money I saved by going to the bigger shops was then spent on medication to deal with the irritation of their bites. So, I’m better now that the pain has gone, at least.

Speaking of bots that should have some checks built in, ha.

Bots are clients that use the HTTP API

Voyager was set up to test the app, but that doesn’t mean other clients can’t use it.

Enterprise is full of random test communities that have many been populated by bots. I don’t understand how something like https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/mels_test (to pick a random one) isn’t useful for what you’re trying to do.

I think https://enterprise.lemmy.ml is specifically for testing. It’s not typically federated with other instances, so it won’t be a problem if your bot goes crazy again.

this page also mentions https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ and https://ds9.lemmy.ml/

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Love the bump for Jabba’s addition in the special editions of Star Wars. You’ll probably need to go to https://xkcd.com/657/large/ to be able to read it.

Lots of opinions last week, not all of them good

As in not all positive, or not good takes?

David Tennant is doing sterling work as Huyang. I read that the drone is properly ancient - his tone reminds me of Culture drones at times, and “Ah, so standard operating procedure” was a great line.

I’ll limit my snarkiness to gently poking fun at the idea that the humans have to leave the room so the holograms can have a chat.

The only thing I’m not sure about is who is the host instance? My understanding is that the host instance is that which the user belongs to.

That’s my understanding too - if you’re a lemm.ee user, and you want to upload to pics@lemmy.world, then when you post, you’re actually posting to lemm.ee/c/pics@lemmy.world. This rule change means that - for the moment - lemm.ee users can’t upload any images directly when making a post, irrespective of where the community is. They’d have to use an external host like imgur.

Scorcio!

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Rolling Stone estimated that it was 80% done before Amy Seimetz left, which is still a awful lot to just throw away. I’m not sure I’d want to watch the original version, but I’d happily watch a documentary about what went wrong.

To the extent it was ever Barbie vs. Oppenheimer, Barbie has very clearly won - by twice the revenue in whichever field you want to look in.

It’s presented in the article as such, yes. It’s the find something, literally anything, nice to say first strategy by the looks of it.

Apple do seem to take some online criticism of their shows onboard. I assume this is why I’ve seen comments that season 2 of Invasion is remarkably different from Season 1.

For Foundation, things like Gaal’s redundant voice-overs are largely gone. There’s less of noticeable difference in quality between Trantor and Foundation (in that, for me, the outer planets stories aren’t as bad, but the empire stories aren’t as good).

I like the new, sweary, bantering, characters, and that Jared Harris is given a bit more to do. That said, I’ve not read the books, but even I can tell that the the radical things they’re doing with the Demerzel character are unlikely to be popular.

An interesting thing about Lemmy is that if you delete your comment, it also nukes every comment underneath it. So if you say something, and then people are giving you a hard time about it, and then you go out for a walk and are still annoyed about it, you can self-destruct and take them with you (this isn’t based on a true story of course, but if it was, I’d say it’s terrible in that it discourages engagement and deletes someone else’s actually-correct info, but it’s a good way to get over it all)

Yeah, I pasted your original URL into here, and converted it to a WEBP file (with smaller dimensions), and then re-hosted again at catbox.

Lemmy has some support for webp, although I don’t think you can’t upload them directly to an instance.

As an inline image? (very browser / app dependent of course)

You too, of course.

But, no, it does nothing for after something like this that has already happened. It was just more of a pie-in-the-sky solution to it ever happening in the first place.