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Venom - (2018 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270797/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/venom

An alien parasite symbiote bonds with a mild mannered reporter, but it’s discoverers want it back.

An adequate movie; I liked it.



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Starfish - (2018 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700182/

A girl goes insane or maybe it’s aliens; who knows.

It had a lot of hope, but the writer changed anti-psychotic prescriptions mid-way and the movie went stupid.



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Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242798/

An accidental filmographer gets tangled in on an alien visitation which appears to have been ongoing.

It’s quite nice (but not great) for some time, but it’s ending is a huge flop. Hell, it keeps going and shifts into some sort of Disney style..



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Markor icon

Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
https://github.com/gsantner/markor
was gsantner.net/project/markor.html

A particularly powerful plain text editor

It’s a great text editor, but its todo.txt functionality is wholly unusable and won’t be fixed.

  • External storage access optional



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Umidigi Power 3 image

Hardware > Phones (Android > Android 10) >

(on Wikipedia)
was umidigi.com/page-umidigi_power3_activity.html

A fantastic mid-range phone, notable for a 6,150 mAh battery, NFC and near-stock Android 10.

  • Abandoned, as CVE-2022-0847 was not fixed.
  • Subject to the dirty Pipe security exploit (CVE-2022-0847).
  • The whole company is not recommended, as they neither update their devices nor even remove spam on their forum e.g. this.



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The Umbrella Academy - (2019 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312171/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863

A group of superpowered purchased-orphans try to save the world.

Fair at best, but not for me.


The 6th Day - (2000 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

An everyday man is caught in the crossfire of a murder, and learns that he has become a player in its coverup.

A decent enough bubblegum movie.

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