Don’t disagree. Sometimes though a relatively straight cover of something people like but in a more modern style can work well too. Bond films are maybe an example of that.

Glad to help!!

I suppose pointing out MS also owns linkedin isn’t the talk down you’re looking for?

If you’re a dev, this along with GitHub, and your employer using teams, is a pretty severe panopticon.

I have no idea about threads and personally don’t want to. You may find a fair amount of lemmy instances blocking threads though, compared to mastodon instances at least.

The whole contractors thing is almost always a corporate grift. If someone is a contractor, everyone will know. If it’s unclear, it’s likely a grift.

As I say in my comments, the community only needs to be tagged first of all tagged entities.

Putting it on the first line isn’t necessary and can be annoying as it will occur in the title of the post on lemmy.

The main issue you’re likely to run into is that lemmy only respects the first “at”-ed entity, whether community or masto user.

I made a brief guide here: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

What’s more, is it is posted to the test community on lemmy.ml, so you can find there too (link: https://lemmy.ml/post/1142168). A few people replied so you can see the whole federation thing happen too.

It is really the only way to fuse the two systems (posting from masto to lemmy), so please do this as much as you can!

I mean yes, totally. I haven’t seen it, yet, but will likely be going to the cinema for this one.

But, to just throw an idea out there … covers of and homages to songs are normal and sometimes awesome in music, and fundamental in live music.

So maybe the same isn’t so bad in film, especially if they’re not done badly, as it seems to be here.

Maybe “the problem” is more the lack of properly original works, the copious unashamed cinematic universe slop and faithless reboots?

In the same way that Bond films and Disney films find ways to manifest and apply to each new generation or era, why not other classic forms?

Something I’ve picked up on is the ability to just watch whatever you want whenever you want.

Now with streaming services dominating, depending on how you use it or how much you pirate, watching any arbitrary film can become a hastle.

With video rental shops, you could often just go in and get it (provided it was a decent place and the film wasn’t too fringe).

I’ve recently found an old local rental shop near me, still going, and have felt the convenience of it. They’ve got a good collection and everyone I’ve gone in with a particular film in mind, they’ve had it. Apart from the walk, it’s easily faster and more convenient than online services. And more fun too … browsing a large collection of DVD/bluerays is awesome.

and Harris and Walz are on the cusp- 1946-64 is the range in the US)

Well, I think that’s missing the forest for the trees. If people at the older edge of cusp have been dominant, then shifting to the younger edge, ~15-20 years younger, is still a step change.

Obama kinda marked the beginning of it, but is best viewed as an aberration. His opponents were silent gen (McCain) and old-boomer (Romney, 1947). And the next two elections after him were, in birth years, '46 v '47, '42 v '46. IE, over 6 candidates in 4 elections, Obama was the only one not born before 1948. Both Harris and Walz being born in '64 feels like a step change (where apart from Palin, I don’t think VPs were ever typically much younger)

But remote development is a killer feature to me and they seem to be prioritizing it.

Which is definitely interesting and cool. (Also, before this AI “moment”, their main selling point, along with taking graphics more seriously, and rust I suppose).

All good!

If it helps, I don’t live in the Northern Hempisphere, so I had to think a bit each time.

Not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere, or call autumn “fall”, or, AFAICT, use the seasons over specific months as much as the US.

Prepare yourself:

Clinton, Trump and Bush Jr were all born in the “summer” of 1946.

Since 1992, 32 years ago, there has been a presidential candidate from the summer of 1946 for 7 elections (trump 3 times now) or 28 years worth.

Additionally, H Clinton was the “fall” of 1947, Romney the “spring” of 1947, Gore the “spring” of 1948.

Obama, McCain, Kerry and Biden are the only exceptions to the core Boomer generation of a 2 year window dominating presidential elections for ~35yrs.

With Biden and Kerry kinda being older boomers, born in ~1942/3 and Obama a young boomer at ~1960. Harris and Walz (and Vance too) mark a generational step change to X-gen and millennials

Are we really THAT car centric now that it’s this normalized to be like “fuck my living room, fuck my TV, fuck my couch, I just wanna sit in my car all day?”

Yes … that’s the problem.

To be fair though, I imagine there’s a lot of people just enjoying their own mobile private space away from others. But yea, this is the problem, we’ve dedicated so much of our city’s space to cars and roads, that the car can be kinda all we have left. And then it’s infectious. Sure it might be nice to hang out in your mobile space near a park or the beach … but then there’s a car park for all of the cars … taking up space which could just be more park land or beach front.

Am I correct in thinking that television at lemmy world has no moderators? (And only bots are listed)??

No worries!

If you’re interested in learning rust (I’ve certainly enjoyed) feel free to try to do so in the community. We’ve just about gone through the main course now, but I can very much see another round starting if people are interested.

The whole idea is to treat contributing as a group learning challenge rather than something onerous and hard.

Otherwise, if you’ve got sql/DB experience, that’s often just as relevant AFAICT (as is the case across the fediverse). I’d bet that if anyone sorts out a good query or schema someone else could integrate it into the code base.

Did the hobbit trilogy burn him out? I only saw some of the behind the scenes stuff about how the lack of planning and rushed production all caught up with him at some point, and it certainly seems like the sort of thing that could just irreparably burn someone out, especially with the general reception (and shall we say final quality) of the films.

Saw them live recently … great show!