aka freamon@lemmy.world, freamon@feddit.nl, and any username from lemmon.website

This account is currently parked, and I’m using https://piefed.social/u/andrew_s

  • 57 Posts
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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: July 17th, 2023
  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Better Mastodon/Lemmy Integration?English
    3·
    4 months ago

    Lemmy doesn’t seem to get much recognition in the wider Fediverse - it tends to get bundled as part of ‘other apps’. Mastodon is much bigger, so better integration with Lemmy probably gets deprioritised below their own issues and feature requests (e.g. I was reading today that Markdown support is often requested, but the base version still doesn’t have it)

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Better Mastodon/Lemmy Integration?English
    40·
    4 months ago

    It’s partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to fediverse@lemmy.world, it’s signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When fediverse@lemmy.world sends this comment out, it uses it’s own private key to sign it. It can’t just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn’t have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I’ve made the comment (and sign the Announce).

    Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that fediverse@lemmy.world has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it’s mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

    It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: https://mastodon.world/@Flash/112095241193510662 (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via !tails@lemmon.website, but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.ml•How to download account data?English
    61·
    4 months ago

    No settings page (as far as I’m aware), but you can use the API to get everything (posts, comments, etc):

    step 1: get login token -

    curl --request POST \
     --url https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "username_or_email": "2br02b",
  "password": "YOUR-PASSWORD"
}
'

    step 2: use login token (big long string starting with ‘ey’) to get data -

    curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user?username=2br02b&page=1' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR-JWT'

    Increment page number until you have everything. source: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_user

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgtomovies@lemm.ee•How ‘The Creator’ Director Gareth Edwards Used VFX to Make $80M Look Like $200MEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I re-watched Chappie recently. I’d already read someone say that The Creator gave them Elysium vibes, and then realized - there’s a fair bit of Chappie in The Creator too. Add that to the fact that Rogue One was supposed to ‘the District 9 of Star Wars’, and it suggests that Edwards’ strange goal is to be Britain’s version of Neill Blomkamp.

    He’s already tried to re-invent VFX-led film-making once - Monsters looks like a 10M, but it was made for about half a million. The people involved in that film thought it would change the industry. It didn’t, because there’s more things going on that balloon blockbuster budgets up, until they all cost around 200M.

    As for The Creator, he may have saved 120M from the production budget, but a few million spent on pre-production script development was what it really needed.