Bombadil was referred to as “The Hermit” before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.

Someone said if you forget it’s LOTR and just treat it as its own thing it’s not half bad.

Basically. I don’t forget it’s LOTR but I do keep in mind it’s not the Peter Jackson trilogy nor a 1:1 from the books.

I was really really hoping it was going to be about the fall of Numenor.

It is, but it’s slow burn and a something of an overall B-plot to the titular Rings of Power in the second season and the creation of Mordor in the first.

The main online gripe that I can agree with how the characters “fast travel” as plot demands. I just accept that as necessary to condense things down to a suitable runtime for a TV series.

He’s in Rings of Power which I guess counts as a derivative. I don’t want to start a flame war since a lot of people hate that adaptation, but I enjoy it for what it is.

The From field in email is pretty much on the honor system. You can put anything you want there, and the servers will happily send it.

This is why we have things like SPF (sender policy framework), DKIM (domain key identified mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) and why that message was in your junk folder rather than your inbox.

When your email provider receives a message from cheese_greater@lemmy.world, it looks up the DNS record for lemmy.world to see what IP addresses (among other things) are allowed to send email for users at lemmy.world. It compares those against the IP of the server sending on behalf of the user claiming to be cheese_greater@lemmy.world. If they match, the SPF check passes. If they don’t match, the check fails.

DKIM is also used to add a digital signature to each email originating from lemmy.world. The signature of the message is checked against lemmy.world’s public key (which is retrieved via DNS lookup). If the signatures match, the DKIM check passes. Otherwise, it fails.

Spam filters can then use the results of those to shunt the message to Junk if they don’t pass. The last item, DMARC, is an optional policy lemmy.world can configure to tell receiving servers what to do with messages that fail those checks. The most commonly used options are reject and quarantine (i.e. mark as junk)

Right timeline, wrong universe.

It’s probably an April Fool’s Day gag.

The image URL is: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/xylight-public/photon-april-fools/download.webp

Xylight is the photon dev

Civil suits do not work that way.

LOL. Based MBFC:

I noticed they similarly (and correctly) downgraded/tanked the credibility rating for cdc.gov as well.

Is there a Github for this and/or possibly a framework for the chat, leaderboard, and federated magic-link login?

I’ve thought about putting together some simple games with Fediverse login but never wanted to deal with the low level boilerplate stuff.

Thanks for a deep check and fix, especially since this was probably due to my own filtering/bot blocking. Working now :)

How does the verification work? Says it can’t verify my instance.

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.

• Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
• Default UI is not Lemmy UI
• PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)

Quite reliably, yeah. The only limitation is I can’t root my current device, so the mapped keys can only work when the screen is on. But the volume keys will wake the screen up, so I just hit it once normally then hold to mute or change tracks or whatever.

What happened in June 2022? Increased demand from returning to normal after COVID?

You can do that with KeyMapper, and I have a lot of custom actions set up with it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/

I have double-press volume down set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.

Regardless, I cannot recommend KeyMapper enough. It’s pretty fantastic.

Is anyone surprised?

Yeah, kinda. I assumed it was a $90 million ballroom with the remaining $210 million being funneled to cronies.

You beat me to it lol. I just watched Skin of Evil the other day and meant to re-make the meme again but higher res. Here’s last year’s: https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/2546762

509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.

I’ve only been to a ski resort 3 times, and two of them were in the off-season lol. They’re popular for conferences and such and yeah, hiking/biking/ziplining are usual attractions in the summer. The one time I went during ski season, I lodged the whole time and regret nothing.