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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It sea4ches in different languages, but there is no way to force language of the results. Instead, ot tries to be “smart” and uses languages of the region. So it has the same problem Google and Bing does: giving you results in random languages outside of language region (or in multi-lingual regions), even when request is explicitly in language A.

    There is a feature request to implement this setting, but not much hope to have this soon.

    On this note, if someone knows of a search engine that allows specifying language of results, please let me know :)





  • This piece of interview with Roger Corman on Joe Dante’s work on trailers is my fawourite:

    "Were there any elements that you had to tell Dante to tone down?

    Not really. There was one memorable moment when Joe showed me a trailer for a picture just before lunch. I said, “Joe, it’s alright, but it isn’t quite as exciting as I would like it to be.” He said, “Let me work on it through lunch.” I came back after lunch, and it was exactly the same trailer, trimmed a little bit, with an exploding helicopter. I said, “Joe, that’s an exploding helicopter from a war picture we shot in the Philippines!” He said, “Well, don’t you think it helps the trailer?” It did. It was great. And I thought about it for a little while, and I figured, there’s no law that says every scene in a trailer has to be in the picture. So we left it in. After that, whenever Joe had a dull moment in a trailer, he would add the exploding helicopter."

    Src, full interview












  • If changing user-agent worked (all it does is changing reported browser and version used to the website when loading, it’s a header in http request), then it’s not a problem with the browser.

    Since they are mentioning bots, this is probably what changed. Some combination of IP address, user-agent and whatever else they have access to triggered anti-bot protection. I would assume ticket-selling website this big fights bots on daily basis, you just happened to be collateral :)


  • I missed that part about Firefox at work working. Then yes, it is less likely compatibility issue. Needs debugging.

    If you already tried disabling all addons (and then cleaning website data + refreshing page with ctrl+shift+r), it could be some setting in browser.

    If you go to about:config (type, not copy-paste) in browser, it will open many configuration flags. Flags with bold font have non-default value. If flag description sounds like it could be related, try resetting it.

    As a last resort you may try Firefox Beta or Nightly :)




  • After a few recent photo shoots, edited photos on the go on Pixel Fold, mostly in Google Photos. AI tools and basic adjustments are great (with Google One subscription) and you get ready to share album in the end. Snapseed if I need more detailed edit.

    It works, but far from perfect yet. Screen space is not used efficiently, device starts to heat up after long use of internal screen, lack of stylus.

    Looking to buy Samsung tablet, waiting for Tab S8 series to be announced to compare.