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Rings of Power: is it just me thinking that the last words Pharazon will ever hear are, “I am no man”?
in reply to Sarah Brown

I wondered that too, but apparently if they do that it'll be non-canonical
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Sarah Brown
@Ghost of Hope His nepo boy son is definitely one of them though.


!Friendica Developers

Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.

If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?

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@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :

Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)

I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. 😕

What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)

in reply to xy..

@xy.. @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan I’ve a bunch of those too. The Docker container for 2024.08 uses 8.1.29 and 512 megs.

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Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Descendant forced to accept terms.

Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.

Succession crisis -> civil war.

Civil war resolved violently.

Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.

Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.

Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.

Civil war resolved through decapitation.

Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.

Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles

Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)

Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Until the last year or so, I had believed something more or less along the lines of "England has been uniquely stable over the past 1000 years. Other countries have had bloody revolutions (France, Russia) or pulled themselves together out of fragmented parts (Germany, Italy) but England has missed out on all that, the elites here have always known how and when to soften and to give up a little power in order to avoid those excesses".
in reply to Ben Curthoys

@goatsarah Listening through The Rest Is History podcast has disabused me of this idiotic idea. We've had just as many usurpers, revolutions and civil wars as anywhere else, it's just that the English have had better marketing.
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in reply to Ben Curthoys

@bencurthoys @goatsarah Fair. I think most of that view derives from Britain being the odd one out while everyone else was doing 1848/midcentury civil wars. We wrote that up as ‘look how stable we are as we loot the rest of the world’ and it was never internally criticised.
in reply to Ben Curthoys

@Ben Curthoys lol, yeah. The Anarchy, 1st barons war, 2nd barons war, Wars of the Roses, Mary marches on London, 1st civil war, 2nd civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising. Probably missed some.

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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.

We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.

We are not the same.



My watch just informed me that today is my personal record for single day calorie burn. I can believe it. I am having difficulty moving now. strava.app.link/ak7QiUQwTMb
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

@Alexandra Lanes @gz You … you … shut up with your remarks about how I’m definitely not going to be trudging along Curbar edge in September 2025 wondering why the fuck I did this to myself.


BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.

In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

A transphobe spokesworm was later overheard muttering something about what a shame it would be if something happened to that nice Poland you’ve got there.


News coming in that a second debate invitation has hit Donald Trump.


Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of “stopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your cats” being neck and neck to be US president.


NEW! Force femmed immigrants in YOUR neighbourhood eating YOUR cat!

Trump watches some very weird porn.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

I only saw bits of it on the news this morning and switched off immediately. I really feel sorry and scared for my US friends.


Apple: “And our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”

Mobile gaming:

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in reply to Sarah Brown

but also mobile gaming:
youtu.be/Rf5pB31k3dw?si=dRuPVG…
in reply to Alan Braggins

@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.

Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.

But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.



I’m assuming the answer is, “the power would go off”

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in reply to Sarah Brown

how many hours/days would you give your current location of living, until looting and riots would start, if the power was completely down?
in reply to mxk

@mxk I have experienced a 5 day power cut before. None of that happened. People pulled together.
@mxk


Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.

My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?

I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

yes, which I have done a few times, however, and this might be due to my obtaining cheap highstreet repairs, they never seemed to last long.


Yesterday I saw a discussion about whether you can smell in a dream.

As fate would have it, I had a lucid dream last night (I have a cold. That’s probably why), so I decided to test it.

Yes, you can smell in dreams.

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Spoilers for Netflix's Kaos
Loved Kaos, but it tickled me to realise that it is basically the same plot as Jupiter Ascending, only in this case Jupiter is the baddie.


It would be justifiable homicide to off the eejit who decided to put capacitive controls on hobs, right?
in reply to Sarah Brown

Yes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with rotary knobs and other physical controls.
in reply to Ozzy

@Ozzy Can even make them waterproof by using Hall effect sensors.
@Ozzy


Long form - ADHD and suchlike
in reply to Sarah Brown

Long form - ADHD and suchlike

Sensitive content

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Long form - ADHD and suchlike
@1ngi Feeling is mutual, my lovely x
@1ngi

in reply to Sarah Brown

OK, more digging. It's failing in line 231 of /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php.

Which is this:

} catch (\Throwable $error) {
			/** @see https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/d09a881a8e9059d11e756ee59d75bf404d6941ed */
			if (strstr($error->getMessage(), "gd-webp cannot allocate temporary buffer")) {
				DI::logger()->notice('Image is probably animated and therefore unsupported', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
			} else {
				DI::logger()->warning('Unexpected throwable.', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
			}

So my suspicion was right: it's animated GIF avatars which are causing this. However, rather than fail gracefully, I'm left with a zombie worker job which seems to persist forever.

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I'm going to just leave this here for no particular reason. inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…

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Have taken the plunge and changed the physical SIM on my iPhone 13
To an eSIM. I was previously dual SIMming with one physical and one eSIM, but now I’m dual eSIM and the SIM tray is empty.


Dear menopausal cis women:

The trans women in your life evangelising HRT are subject matter experts. They are on your side. They are trying to help you.

Stop fighting them, FFS.



Behold my awesome goblet. I got it at the Silves medieval fair. It appears to be 3D printed.
in reply to So‑Called Vaughn

@So‑Called Vaughn Oh, that’s a hydrocolloid bandage. There was an unfortunate percussive issue and I lost some skin. There may have been screaming.
in reply to Sarah Brown

There may have been some wincing here as I rendered a mental picture of the percussive issue and bloodcurdling SFX


!Friendica Support Hey all. Just upgraded to 2024.08 and the list of forums/groups from the column in the left has disappeared. Is there an easy way to get this back?

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Just travelled with “Transavia”, which I found out afterwards is basically KLM/Air France (which is an airline I try to avoid) trying to do a Ryanair impression, and getting pretty much nothing right.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

ah, they're keeping the shit bits and making the rest worse? Impressive.


Welcome to this French marina. Thank you for paying us silly money to let your boat stay here for a bit while doing your hobby that will get terminally online people calling you a plutocrat who deserves to be killed by a giant murder dolphin over. Here’s what your money gets you.

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The press seems to have switched from “Trump’s brand of irreverent fascism is so sexy, we love it” to “Trump is a pathetic loser, and we can smell his fear”.

And honestly, I’m ok with that.

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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ They’re children playing with nitroglycerin coated matches, all of them.


When I am empress of the universe, one of my first decrees shall be to make the past tense of “quit”, “quat”.

Because the lulz.

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in reply to Chris Packham

@chrispackham
That's not actually irregular, it conforms to a clear pattern: Sit, sat. Drink, drank. Fit, fat.
in reply to Rebeca

@Rebeca @Chris Packham It is irregular. A regular verb in English has the following form:

Infinitive: (To) X
3rd person singular present indicative: Xs (or other standard plurals)
Gerund: Xing
Participle/preterit: Xed

And that’s it. There are some patterns of irregular verbs, but regular ones all have stem+ed as their past tense.



Tired: Americano. Who the hell even knows what that is?

Wired: Espresso squash. Does exactly what it says on the tin!

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Apropos of a conversation on Reddit, the British etiquette of offering tea/coffee three times, and refusing on the first two, thus:

Can I get you a tea or coffee?

Oh, no thank you.

You sure?

Yes, I'm good.

I'm making one anyway.

Oh go on then.

Now here's the thing: most of my social circle are geeks with some type of neurodiversity going on, and one thing we value is a straight bloody answer.

So it will go something like this:

Can I get you a tea or coffee?

Oh, no thank you.

OK.

I wonder how many thirsty tradespeople I've annoyed in my life?

in reply to Sarah Brown

Most trades people up here value a straight single question/answer.

Cuppa?
Please. Tea, one two sugar. You're a darling (I've been called darling more than once. It makes me smile).

Cuppa?
Please. Coffee, black please.

Cuppa?
I'm good for now thanks. (implied ask later).

Cuppa?
I'm good for now thanks, but I left X at home. Can I borrow yours? (Save an hour everyone happy. Tea later.)

in reply to Sarah Brown

the ones around here seem to be trained to answer very unambiguously.


Free hint: if you want to tell trans women that we have male privilege and therefore don’t understand sexism, maybe just fuck off instead?
in reply to Luci Callous Thumb

@godzero especially cis women who are delighted to finally have someone they can pay forward the misogyny they experience
@gz
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@godzero then they say “i’m not transphobic” and all the other cis people around them just somehow believe them
@gz
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I guess I move in the wrong circles because I don't hear people say that. It's awful.
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@gz someone just did on another thread. I didn’t take it well.
@gz
in reply to Sarah Brown

cis women don’t act like you perfectly understand the trans femme experience challenge: impossible


Dear heterosexual men: you’re finding bras hard to take off because they’re designed for us to remove with our right hand.

But you’re facing the other way.

Try with the left.

You’re welcome.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

I've never had that problem because fairly ambidextrous lol
What about left-handed women?
in reply to gz

@gz Left handed people get a bad deal in so many ways.
@gz
in reply to gz

I should have said "left-handed people who wear bras".


Menopausal cis women be like: “I know I could feel like I’m 30 again, but I think I’m gonna try feeling shit for a few years” 🤔

Trans women: “Why are you doing this to yourselves? Behold our lord and saviour, HRT!”

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in reply to Alexandra Lanes

@ajlanes but then without prescription is illegal too? I personally was raised paranoid of Getting Caught or Getting In Trouble.
in reply to Heather 👻

@Heather As I understand it, without a prescription it’s legal to buy them from abroad but not from the UK. It’s legal to possess them and illegal to supply them.

There are uk sites where you can have an “online consultation” with a doctor who will rubber stamp your purchase.

Finally some HRT is now available over the counter without a prescription at Boots

in reply to Alexandra Lanes

@ajlanes Boots and superdrug have age restrictions.... Not really great if you're just perimenopausal.
in reply to Heather 👻

@Heather @Alexandra Lanes It’s absolutely legal to possess oestrogen for personal use without a prescription.

Trans women do it … a lot, because doctors are arseholes to us.



Nine hours ago, due to a series of events I don’t wish to recount, I ate an entire Carolina reaper.

I now know that nine hours is how long it takes to transit my digestive tract.

I desire euthanasia.

in reply to Sarah Brown

I've been torturing myself for decades. But a big glass of milk isn't a great deterrent to heat overload. Something with milk fat coupled with citric acid helps the most. Like plain whole yogurt with lime or lemon juice squeezed into it. Citric acid breaks up the capsaicin oils bonded to your mouth and throat, milk fat coats and sooths a bit. But just pounding milk puts a big strain on your digestive system, which makes Act 2 & 3 a lot worse than they have to be.


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@Sion [main] There’s a delay attribution code EXT ANIMAL for attributing a delay to “animals not under the control of Network Rail”. This begs a question, obviously.


So I have a little holiday rental business.

One of my guests just complained that there was sand on the beach.

Give me strength.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Regrettably, there are people out there who seem to find a complaint in every activity. It is not that the glass is half-empty, it is that the glass it the wrong temperature, wrong colour, badly designed, and probably made in a country that they disapprove of.
So grit the teeth and don't get wound up when these people come into your life (just hope they move on soon).


I understand that apartheid nepo space Karen told the EU commission to “fuck your own face”.

It’s a … bold … move. Let’s see how that works out for him, shall we?

in reply to Sarah Brown

Are you replying to a Tropic Thunder quote with a Dodgeball quote?


in reply to Captain Jack Sparrow

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 Passive aggressive much? Yes I probably should get a life but it's pretty difficult being physically disabled & autistic & traumatized but thanks for highlighting that.

Really "nice" of you.

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@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 This is what you responded to. Where I'm very clearly not making a generalisation. You replied to this. This is what you've been basing your whole tirade on.

'People don't realise how corrupt the UK is because the British (let's be honest mainly English) know how to spin, minimise, evade & manipulate like no others. Even the British public has zero clue just how corrupt it is."

You engaged with me. You started insulting me. You wouldn't drop it. But please tell everyone how I'm the bully.



Remember when we thought that the internet was going to be a wonderful thing for the advancement of human knowledge instead of the Library of Babel, with Hitler as the librarian?

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in reply to Sarah Brown

I was working as a programmer on the Internet in the 1980s (before the WWW and social media). Had I known, I'd have given up and joined a monastery.
in reply to Andrew Ginty

@Andrew Ginty Also date from before the eternal September. I worked for ARM in the 90s as well. It’s my fault too.

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Does black mould cause transphobic brain worms send tweet.