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Lone Kellermann & Rockbandet, "Før natten bli'r til dag" (1978).

Found this second hand the other day. It wasn't exactly in my want list, but a handful of the songs are imprinted on my cultural bone marrow — and apart from a scuffed sleeve corner and a dusty disc it was in remarkable condition.

Oh no, I've become one of those collectors who will buy any decent looking vinyl to sate the hunger! 🤣

The Body, "No one deserves happiness" (2016). Clear vinyl marbled with pink.

[edit: obviously it should be "challenge" in the title 🤦 Too late to change it now]

Recently, I've been met with error messages trying to listen to bandcamp songs and playlists. At least once a day I see a notice about a captcha that needs solving, with the options "Solve/Retry/Open in browser".

The first throws a "webpage not found" error; the second just hits the same brick wall; and for some reason the third option gives a system popup that "No apps can perform this action"...

Any known workarounds?

I'm not kidding, it doesn't feel like we had a years-long pandemic in between...

Fingers crossed Jo Martin will be back on screen before another five years pass!

✅ LineageOS
❎ Google Apps
✅ F-droid
✅ Antennapod
✅ Voice
✅ Fossify apps
✅ Kvaesitso launcher

I'm not gonna lie, this "dumb phone" is awkwardly close to how my daily driver has looked for the better part of a decade.

Sorry if this is off topic, I don't mean to stir a shitstorm. I just seem to hear barbs about Pixelfed developer dansup's online behaviour every now and then, but no one ever comes out and make clear what the trouble is.

I guess it's a legitimate complaint that he holds out on open sourcing projects, and keeps them close to his chest rather than distributing workloads. Given he's currently developing Pixelfed and Loops and a messenger called Sup, I can understand the worry that he'll hit a figurative wall and take all projects down with him...

So I found this open letter just now as I were trying to get to the bottom of it, and I genuinely can't tell if this is what people have been growling about?

The above link is to the "appendix" where the anonymous authors appear to show receipts for the behaviour they flag. In shorter form, from the letter itself:

dansup, the maintainer of Pixelfed, Loops (which NLnet helps fund), and FediDB, among others, is a dangerous force in the fediverse community. With a follower count of over 22 thousand, he has repeatedly shown himself to be hostile to fellow FOSS fediverse developers, have a lack of care for open-sourcing his work, and be in favour of injecting the fediverse with advertisements. He has also proved himself to be prone to conspiratorial thinking, regrettable public statements, and embarrassingly public meltdowns.

Somebody tell me what is going on here?

[edited for typos]

If you start the third episode of "Nightmare in Eden" at 23 minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve, the clock on the screen changes from 20:24 to 20:25, and Romana presses a button on the spaceship's dashboard to set the midnight bells tolling.

When the Tardis lands in the horrors of World War I, the Doctor uncovers a threat spanning galaxies and history itself. But this time, saving the day might doom the Doctor forever.

These are my thoughts on the colourised, re-cut version of the War Games serial released on December 23 2024: https://bw.artemislena.eu/tardis/wiki/The/_War/_Games/_in/Colour/(TV/_story). It had been edited down from 10×25 minute episodes to one 90 minutes special, with new material added in, including score.

Surprisingly enough, the cuts for (much shorter) airtime worked quite well. Some parts of the plot were lost, and people were inexplicably saved from certain pickles to appear unharmed — but that was to be expected. I enjoyed the edit more than I thought I would. There were more exterior shots added than strictly necessary, and I guess they were often used to disguise cuts. They did seem a bit too frequent in the second act, but that could be just my preference.

The colourisation was pretty loyal to the colour film of the time, I thought. Especially for the genre and target audience. Quite bright, but with all the earth tones required for the initial World War One setting. The recovery of 16mm location recordings made some scenes stand out even crisper than they ever looked on screen!

I did have issues with the hamfisted way the War Chief was retroactively confirmed as an earlier incarnation of the Master, with the much later Saxon Master’s theme inserted into the soundtrack, and a sound effect of a beginning regeneration after the War Chief’s demise. That seemed an unnecessary indulgence of old fanboys’ head canon.

The reason to race through most of the serial, of course, was to get to the Time Lord trial and the Second Doctor’s [edit: previously unseen] regeneration into the Third — canonically eliminating another ambiguity from the Whoniverse that had until now allowed for ample Season 6B theorising.

The trial had some fun, 21st century additions that I rather enjoyed — if you know you know, I'm not going to spoil those — but the added regeneration sequence (pasted from this fan video) didn’t just fill a gap where fans’ imaginations had run creative for 55 years. It also gave us an absolutely atrocious CGI rendered closeup shot of “Jon Pertwee”.

Is anybody happier and better off that we have this new end to War Games? I doubt most viewers are more than indifferent to those superfluous, dreary last minutes. And I’ll definitely remember season 6B fonder than I will this ending.

Thoughts, fellow viewers? Did you watch this hour and a half more charitably?

Just putting this question out here, as my family xmas traditions revolve around movies. Sure, food and presents, but movies before and after.

Now, christmas themed monster and horror movies in general? I can name lots, but no kaiju films come to mind. And I know christmas isn't a culturally Japanese thing, but maybe some cinematic elements were adopted via osmosis from Western culture?

So, allowing for the tiny fact that Santa isn't going to turn up to help Godzilla defeat King Ghidorah, and there likely won't be scenes of kids fighting around the christmas tree — what do you think is the christmassiest of kaiju movies?

Probably on the lighter side of "piracy", but as this is currently the only Kodi addons community on Lemmy (that I can find), I thought it was worth the shot.

I've been using the Youtube add-on with Kodi for years, partly to access trailers but also to share videos from my (Android) phone, using the Newpipe app. Until of course Google decided that you need API keys to access Youtube — and I got rid of my Google accounts way back, so that's not an option.

I've installed the Invidious add-on as well, but I can't get it to work in the same way that the YT add-on did. Now, I know Google are doing their worst to trip up Invidious instances as well, but the issues might also be due to poor configuration on my part...

So my question is basically in the title — is there any way to use Youtube on Kodi without API keys? I've tried searching online but it seems that, unlike me, most people are fine connecting a Youtube account to their home media centre...

Any advice or just links to tutorials are much appreciated!