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valorin, 4 days ago

@derickr
No dates yet, but the teaser trailer is due out in ~14 hours: https://www.amazon.com/salp/theringsofpowerseason2firstlook

valorin, 4 days ago

@ramsey @derickr

Nope! 😁

They are in a 2 year cadence for the seasons, it seems, and Amazon seems to do an all-or-nothing approach to promotion.

I'm pretty sure it's been renewed for S3 already, and possibly even further.

valorin, 4 days ago

@derickr @ramsey
I think it was always the plan. The Wheel of Time is also following a 2 year release cycle, alternating with Rings of Power.

valorin, 4 days ago

@ramsey @derickr
Oh I agree, they really should've offered the rights for the Silmarillion. Especially now that WB wants to milk their film rights for as much money as possible.

I take comfort in the fact that the Estate are involved in ROP and ROP can ask the Estate for (and have been given) permission to use specific elements from the Silmarillion.

valorin, 4 days ago

@ramsey @derickr
There is a short mention in https://www.tolkiensociety.org/blog/2022/08/does-it-matter-what-tolkien-would-have-thought-of-the-rings-of-power/

In short, the Tolkien Estate put the TV rights up for sale and Amazon won, and Simon Tolkien (JRR's grandson) is a consultant on the show. I also believe the Estate provided Elvish translators and other resources.

I don't know if Amazon got the rights before or after the show runners pitched their idea though.

I don't think the Estate have any control over the film rights, but I could be wrong on that one.

valorin, 17 days ago

The migration from Substack to Ghost has started!

Annoyingly, Substack had to disconnect Stripe, so until everything is in Ghost, everyone will appear as a "free subscriber"... 😒

It should be resolved in 24-48 hours. 🤞

valorin, 17 days ago

Subscriptions have been imported, and apart from some small issues (no Group subscription support), it looks good so far! 🤞

I'm just waiting on the OK to switch over the domain! 🤓

Annoyingly the Ghost API doesn't want to return all of my posts, so I'll need to do a lot of manual edits... but we're getting closer!

You can check it out at the temporary URL: https://securing-laravel.ghost.io/

valorin, 16 days ago

@outofcontrol
Yeah, it would have only pulled in active subscribers as part of the migration. So if you disabled everything, you wouldn't be included.

valorin, 16 days ago

Switched the domain over to Ghost, and now everything is 404'ing... 😞

This is definitely not going according to plan!

valorin, 16 days ago

Ah, found the redirects.yaml file and fixed up the redirects! Everything should load correctly now. 😅

I'd love a way to see 404's though, so I can fix up any I've missed. 😉

valorin, 16 days ago

For those following along at home, here's where I'm up to with the Securing Laravel move:

✅Post content
✅Billing
✅Domain
✅Redirects
❌Post tags
❌Footnotes
❌Post formatting
❌Group subs
❌API lexical post content
❌Stripe notifications

Mostly just tedious stuff left...

valorin, 13 days ago

The last big thing I need to fix before I can take a break and focus on other things is tags... but apparently Substack's post export doesn't include tags. 😡

I guess I'll be manually restoring 76 tags.

valorin, 13 days ago

@outofcontrol
It's too late for an import file, but I did scrape the tag pages to retrieve the list of tagged posts, and then used their API to update the posts.

So now everything is tagged. 😁

valorin, 23 days ago

My belief that this is a scam was justified when this email arrived. (I'll call them SL and ZN.)

ZN wants to use 'securinglaravel', and SL has advised against it, but ZN is just going to ignore SL's advice! 🙃

Clearly my next course of action was to rat out ZN to SL... 😇

Given my intention is to string them along, it might have been a mistake to mention the trademark and put too much pressure on them too early? We shall see how they respond. 🤔

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valorin, 22 days ago

@outofcontrol

I've received many domain scams, usually renewal scams, but this is the first of this type.

I'm kinda excited to see how far I can push it. 😈

valorin, 18 days ago

As expected, some form of payment is required to "avoid this conflict"...

Let's see what those prices are! 🍿
Any guesses what sort of prices they'll come back with?

(I've stopped redacting, as it's clearly a scam at this point.)

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valorin, 18 days ago

I also decided to poke the bear and respond to ZN. 😈

I'm curious to see what sort of fight they are interested in, and the other side of this scam.

valorin, 18 days ago

@sysop408

Good question! 🤔

The first email from SL came from a different domain to the registry, but I've just noticed the latest is the actual domain. So I think it's a deceptive sales tactic scam rather than a third party scam.

I don't think ZN is real, their email was far too coordinated with SL, timing wise. Plus why reach out to me anyway, to tell me they are going to do it?

I'm curious to see how they respond though.

valorin, 25 days ago

@mergy @bobmagicii @andrewfeeney

I'm curious about these manual steps. Is this something the distros can easily patch, or will manual steps be required?

valorin, 25 days ago

@bobmagicii @mergy @cabbey @andrewfeeney
Yeah, definitely. But in that case, you're making the choice to do manual upgrades. I'm thinking of folks who have servers they don't closely manage. A simple apt update is much easier than manual steps.