freamon

Some UK-filmed shows (like House of the Dragon and Industry) are keeping going through the SAG-AFTRA strike, because most of their cast aren't SAG members, and they were able to film scenes with American actors up-front.

I'm assuming actors like Diego Luna, Kyle Soller and Forest Whittaker are SAG members, but I don't think they would have been able to use the same tactic, because of the way they film in 3-episode blocks (with different directors), and how much their characters are interwoven with everyone else.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1353550

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622776/

TLDR: Fluff.

From Return of the Jedi - The Empire 1 comic (one-shot issue to coincide with the re-release).

TLDR: Ben's great, more Ben please

None of Season 1's directors returned for Season 2. A leak on Reddit (from someone whose other reveals had turned out to be true) has said that Tony Gilroy had yelled at Susanna White in front of her crew. Of the three directors, it's noteworthy that she's the only one not to do any press for Andor. The reason given for Haynes and Caron not returning is that they're in-demand and had other projects, but I would question whether filming a single episode of Black Mirror really prevented Haynes from further involvement in Andor.

I'm sure Season 2 will be great, but the new directors don't all have same level of experience (especially with shooting in the UK), plus many of them will be doing without it a showrunner (although maybe that's a good thing?)

Heretical thought I know, that it'd be anyone other than Jimmy Smits, but I read that Bratt had been cast, and was wondering what his role would be. Bratt's a bit younger than Smits (but not as much as I'd assumed).

Run the "Basic Lemmy API login script" (see here) first to get value for 'jwt'

#!/bin/bash

# Basic get unread replies script for Lemmy API

# CHANGE THESE VALUES
my_instance=""			# e.g. https://feddit.nl/
my_username=""			# e.g. freamon
my_password=""			# e.g. hunter2

jwt=""			# run basic login script to get this

########################################################

# Lemmy API version
API="api/v3"

########################################################

# Turn off history substitution (avoid errors with ! usage)
set +H

########################################################

# Get inbox messages
get_unread_replies() {
	end_point="user/replies"
	www_data="auth=$jwt&unread_only=true"

	url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point?$www_data"

	curl "$url"
}

get_unread_replies

Personally, I'd use the 'jq' program to de-serialize the reply, e.g.

get_unread_replies.sh | jq '.replies[].comment.content'

My next plan is to use a script like this with a notification service like PUSHOVER, so it can ding my phone if I've an unread message

For each API method, whether it's GET or POST and end_point can be found here, and then each method has a click-through to see what parameters it can take.

#!/bin/bash

# Basic login script for Lemmy API

# CHANGE THESE VALUES
my_instance=""			# e.g. https://feddit.nl/
my_username=""			# e.g. freamon
my_password=""			# e.g. hunter2

########################################################

# Lemmy API version
API="api/v3"

########################################################

# Turn off history substitution (avoid errors with ! usage)
set +H

########################################################

# Login
login() {
	end_point="user/login"
	json_data="{\"username_or_email\":\"$my_username\",\"password\":\"$my_password\"}"

	url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

	curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$json_data" "$url"
}

login

# Make note of "jwt" from reply

This'll reply with JSON data, that includes a value for "jwt", to be used in other scripts that require you to be logged in.

Personally, I'd use the 'jq' program to de-serialize the JSON data, but I thought I'd keep the script simple for now

One Way Out: Andor Season 1

A Flawed Masterpiece - A Rogue One Video Essay

(NERD point: at one point she speculates whether Pao - the Drabatan Commando - was named after Duncan Pow [Melshi], when ackshually, he was named after Chris Weitz's son Paolo)