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1 vote
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Tildes Minecraft Survival
Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 1.21.4) Bluemap: https://tildes.nore.gg Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html Tildes website extension (shows online status & location):...
Server host:
tildes.nore.gg
(Running Java 1.21.4)
Bluemap: https://tildes.nore.gg
Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html
Tildes website extension (shows online status & location): Firefox (Desktop and Android) - Chrome
Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMCPlugins and Data Packs
Data Packs:- Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
- Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
- Armor Statues [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Bat Membranes [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
- More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Wandering Trades [Vanilla Tweaks]
Plugins:
- Bluemap - Adds a live 3D web map
- Clickable Links - Makes http URLs in chat clickable (only for registered players)
- CoreProtect - Records all block/container/mob changes (Anyone can look up changes with
/co inspect
) - EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
- Hexnicks - Enables Tildes usernames to be displayed
- LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
- Nerfstick - Allows survival use of the
minecraft:debug_stick
item (requires admin to spawn in) - Rapid Leaf Decay - Increases the speed of leaf decay by 10x
- WorldEdit - Used for occasional admin stuff
- WorldGuard - Prevents unregistered users from changing anything in the world
The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
13 votes -
Stremio is an impressive program
This post will talk about piracy. I won't provide any links or direct instructions. That said, if a mod or admin thinks there is something inappropriate about talking about that stuff, feel free...
This post will talk about piracy. I won't provide any links or direct instructions. That said, if a mod or admin thinks there is something inappropriate about talking about that stuff, feel free to mention this in the comments and I will remove any inappropriate details as soon as I can.
Like many Latin Americans, I am a long-term pirate. I have pirated stuff with floppy disks, with CD-ROMs, through IRC, FTP, Kazaa, Napster, Soulseek, websites, and torrent. I have also purchased several illegal media from street vendors. The whole idea of traditional piracy is to get the files I want for me to own, which is why I made a Plex server for myself.
Stremio is a challenge to all of this. It is much easier to setup than Plex and basically requires no maintenance. It is a program that allows me to stream video content from a variety of sources, legal or illegal. It took less than 30 minutes to set it up on my computer, and I know that it exists for both of my TVs. I am using it with the Torrentio addon.
Stremio changed my viewing habits much in the same way paid streaming services did. I am more spontaneous in my choices. I have watched Doctor Who from 2005, ER, Tiny Toons Adventures, Animaniacs, The Twighlight Zone (original), The Magicians, Blackadder, and Falling Skies (alien TV show with Noah Wyle!). Playback sometimes takes a little while to start, but went it does it rarely stutters, even on old or less popular shows. A paid debrid service should improve on that. I am now considering removing most of our extremely expensive paid streaming services and replacing them with Stremio. Money is tight and, when added up, they make quite a dent on our budget!
One bad thing about Stremio is that it is basically a leech. It does not seed the torrents. I am considering getting Real Debrid as it seemingly reduces the strain on torrents via caching.
Right now, my only concern with changing everything to Stremio is that my wife will probably dislike choosing between multiple sources for an episode, and some episodes come with bad subtitles. That would require minimal effort to solve, but might still be too much for her.
Anyway, I am very impressed by Stremio. It is so good, in fact, that I am half-jokingly worried about the police knocking on my door.
Just kidding, that doesn't happen around here.
49 votes -
Superman | Sneak peek
7 votes -
The Naked Gun | Official teaser trailer
20 votes -
I'm rate-limited to one comment reply every two hours
I understand that Tildes implements rate limiting for replies to comments in order to discourage excessive back-and-forth debates or arguments. My current rate limit is one reply every 2 hours....
I understand that Tildes implements rate limiting for replies to comments in order to discourage excessive back-and-forth debates or arguments. My current rate limit is one reply every 2 hours. So, if I reply to a comment on one post and then try to reply to a comment on another post, it tells me I have to wait 120 minutes (minus however many minutes since my last comment) until I can comment again.
Is this the normal rate limit? If so, don't people find this... limiting?
8 votes -
Artificial incompatibility - a rant (Dell notebook)
As per title this is inspired by my recent problems with a Latitude 7320 notebook. I can't use my desktop right now and so wanted some cheaper nb for normal usage and eventually settled on this...
As per title this is inspired by my recent problems with a Latitude 7320 notebook.
I can't use my desktop right now and so wanted some cheaper nb for normal usage and eventually settled on this model due to being able to get it at an acceptable ratio of price to age and seeing it as compatible on Ubuntu, not noticing the disclaimer until later.
The problems started right after installing Fedora KDE - the nb was running at absolutely abysmal performance and this problem affects several models.
Running passmark I've got above 2000 on cpu, on Windows I had 11000. The cpu was throttling to 1500Mhz and lower for no reason. Switching a BIOS setting of power management to "ultra performance" got me to twice the score.
Eventually using throttled from github for various Lenovo and Dell models and thermald I was able to get to twice that again, still a fifth less than on Windows. Also the repo has potential of security concerns due to how it works, also potential to just stop working due to them later.
Mainly I'm posting this to just say that there is zero legitimate technical reason why this should happen, it works on Windows and on Dell tampered Ubuntu images. The hw is fine but for some reason someone somewhere decided to artificially limit the hw for whatever reason.
Right now I am still indecided if I should write off the several hours I've spent on this and return the machine to play the dice with some other model.
6 votes -
M3GAN 2.0 | Official trailer
10 votes -
Denmark's Maersk buys Panama Canal railway – deal loosens US control of train link at a time when Donald Trump is seeking to ‘take back’ trade waterway
3 votes -
Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club (Live from the 67th Grammy Awards, 2025)
4 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
7 votes -
What if we made advertising illegal?
79 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
15 votes -
Igorrr - ADHD (2025)
6 votes -
Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (April 2025)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
25 votes -
Skrillex - FUCK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3 (2025)
10 votes -
Only fifty-six people have beaten this Pokémon game
15 votes -
Tip to tip: Crossing Japan with no map
13 votes -
Firefox now supports native vertical tabs in 136.0 release
41 votes -
Recommended podcasts by experts in their fields?
I have been listening to the PreHistory Podcast, written and produced by an actual academic archaeologist. I enjoy the rigor and specificity but i’m having trouble finding similar content I like,...
I have been listening to the PreHistory Podcast, written and produced by an actual academic archaeologist. I enjoy the rigor and specificity but i’m having trouble finding similar content I like, especially without the promotions and ads and fan service. I know that in the age of social media personalities such dry content is hard to come by.
I particularly enjoy ancient history, but feel free to offer other podcasts that feature people who have mastered their discipline and have found clear, effective, and even entertaining ways of sharing it. Thanks!
16 votes -
The ARC-AGI-2 benchmark could help reframe the conversation about AI performance in a more constructive way
The popular online discourse on Large Language Models’ (LLMs’) capabilities is often polarized in a way I find annoying and tiresome. On one end of the spectrum, there is nearly complete dismissal...
The popular online discourse on Large Language Models’ (LLMs’) capabilities is often polarized in a way I find annoying and tiresome.
On one end of the spectrum, there is nearly complete dismissal of LLMs: an LLM is just a slightly fancier version of the autocomplete on your phone’s keyboard, there’s nothing to see here, move on (dot org).
This dismissive perspective overlooks some genuinely interesting novel capabilities of LLMs. For example, I can come up with a new joke and ask ChatGPT to explain why it’s funny or come up with a new reasoning problem and ask ChatGPT to solve it. My phone’s keyboard can’t do that.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are eschatological predictions: human-level or superhuman artificial general intelligence (AGI) will likely be developed within 10 years or even within 5 years, and skepticism toward such predictions is “AI denialism”, analogous to climate change denial. Just listen to the experts!
There are inconvenient facts for this narrative, such as that the majority of AI experts give much more conservative timelines for AGI when asked in surveys and disagree with the idea that scaling up LLMs could lead to AGI.
The ARC Prize is an attempt by prominent AI researcher François Chollet (with help from Mike Knoop, who apparently does AI stuff at Zapier) to introduce some scientific rigour into the conversation. There is a monetary prize for open source AI systems that can perform well on a benchmark called ARC-AGI-2, which recently superseded the ARC-AGI benchmark. (“ARC” stands for “Abstract and Reasoning Corpus”.)
ARC-AGI-2 is not a test of whether an AI is an AGI or not. It’s intended to test whether AI systems are making incremental progress toward AGI. The tasks the AI is asked to complete are colour-coded visual puzzles like you might find in a tricky puzzle game. (Example.) The intention is to design tasks that are easy for humans to solve and hard for AI to solve.
The current frontier AI models score less than 5% on ARC-AGI-2. Humans score 60% on average and 100% of tasks have been solved by at least two humans in two attempts or less.
For me, this helps the conversation about AI capabilities because it gives a rigorous test and quantitative measure to my casual, subjective observations that LLMs routinely fail at tasks that are easy for humans.
François Chollet was impressed when OpenAI’s o3 model scored 75.7% on ARC-AGI (the older version of the benchmark). He emphasizes the concept of “fluid intelligence”, which he seems to define as the ability to adapt to new situations and solve novel problems. Chollet thinks that o3 is the first AI system to demonstrate fluid intelligence, although it’s still a low level of fluid intelligence. (o3 also required thousands of dollars’ worth of computation to achieve this result.)
This is the sort of distinction that can’t be teased out by the polarized popular discourse. It’s the sort of nuanced analysis I’ve been seeking out, but which has been drowned out by extreme positions on LLMs that ignore inconvenient facts.
I would like to see more benchmarks that try to do what AGI-AGI-2 does: find problems that humans can easily solve and frontier AI models can’t solve. These sort of benchmarks can help us measure AGI progress much more usefully than the typical benchmarks, which play to LLMs’ strengths (e.g. massive-scale memorization) and don’t challenge them on their weaknesses (e.g. reasoning).
I long to see AGI within my lifetime. But the super short timeframes given by some people in the AI industry feel to me like they border on mania or psychosis. The discussion is unrigorous, with people pulling numbers out of thin air based on gut feeling.
It’s clear that there are many things humans are good at doing that AI can’t do at all (where the humans vs. AI success rate is ~100% vs. ~0%). It serves no constructive purpose to ignore this truth and it may serve AI research to develop rigorous benchmarks around it.
Such benchmarks will at least improve the quality of discussion around AI capabilities, insofar as people pay attention to them.
4 votes -
Jet Lag: Schengen Showdown | Trailer
31 votes -
Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025
50 votes -
Bodega cats make New Yorkers’ hearts purr, even if they violate state food safety regulations
8 votes -
The dangers of vibe coding
18 votes -
We finally know why ancient Roman concrete was so durable
20 votes -
Disney’s ‘Tangled’ live-action movie hits the pause button
7 votes -
What lesser-known alternative would you recommend as a substitute for something more popular?
Anything goes: foods, software, products, bands, websites, appliances, movies, programming languages, travel destinations, etc. The point of this topic is twofold: To surface some interesting...
Anything goes: foods, software, products, bands, websites, appliances, movies, programming languages, travel destinations, etc.
The point of this topic is twofold:
- To surface some interesting alternatives that could use more exposure.
- To highlight some of the issues with the currently popular option(s).
Let us know your best “more people should know about this!” swaps, and sell us on why they’re better than the well-known option.
44 votes -
Bikes in the age of tariffs
6 votes -
Do you have games that you play (almost) exclusively?
I was reading the recent post about strategy games, and I'm still astonished to see for how many hours (at least hundreds, often 1000+) people are playing these. I'm guessing that in these cases,...
I was reading the recent post about strategy games, and I'm still astonished to see for how many hours (at least hundreds, often 1000+) people are playing these. I'm guessing that in these cases, all your gaming time is exclusively taken by that single game.
So, do you have (or did you have) games, or series, like that? Do you play solo or multi? What compels you to spend so much time on a single game? How do you feel about it?
38 votes -
Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021
10 votes -
Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
17 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
2 votes -
Considering going with an ambidextrous mouse if anyone has recommendations
My current mouse is a Logitech Lightspeed G502, it works fine and aside from double click issue which I brought to a store to fix, no issues with it but it was my friend's prior mouse before he...
My current mouse is a Logitech Lightspeed G502, it works fine and aside from double click issue which I brought to a store to fix, no issues with it but it was my friend's prior mouse before he upgraded to a newer model.
As for why I want an ambidextrous mouse, on the rare occasions I want to use my left hand to navigate instead of right.
I used to use a chinese MMO mouse that honestly was not bad but its software was fairly garbage(Rebranded Red Dragon mouse iirc) so I don't mind Chinese mice as clearly being a brand name mouse doesn't mean much, just want something that is good and lasts a while, since I'm not that big on mice.I want these qualities in a mouse.
- Works wired and with a 2.4GHz dongle
- Either rechargeable batteries or replaceable works
- High DPI
- Not a "lightweight" mouse
- Has a few programmable buttons
- On chip storage for programmed buttons/DPI/etc
- Available worldwide
Bluetooth as a 3rd option would be neat but not something I'm looking for in particular.
Rechargeable batteries are supposed to provide better longevity afaik, but the buttons or the mouse itself will probably die before the battery.
I use 8200 DPI on my current mouse pretty much in both games and in desktop... with mouse acceleration,
I only lower it on the rare occasions I use something like GIMP.
Not a fan of these perforated light mice or super light mice, I used to put weights in my previous wired Chinese mouse but I'm using the G502 without weights currently. I am willing to compromise on this if there are no options however.
On the G502 I only use 2 buttons regularly, and they are to switch to the left or right virtual desktop, the rest of the buttons have a function but they get rarely used (Except Windows+Tab to show all virtual desktops).
On chip storage is good when I switch platforms (e.g. PC/Windows, SteamDeck or Linux, Mac) and in case I want to completely drop Windows and not worry about needing software for the programmable buttons to work.
Worldwide availability because I don't live in the US or most parts of Europe.
Not aware if Logitech has a mouse that does all what I need, the free scrolling wheel is cool and gets used, but they got a history of switches that die too fast.
8 votes -
Ai 2027
7 votes -
How have US food prices changed? Our tracker can give you a sense. (gifted link)
13 votes -
Real Page inc. sues California city officials over ban on rental price algorithms
19 votes -
Introductions | March 2025
The previous introductions thread was waaaaay back in June of 2023, figured it might be time for a new one, eh? This is a place for new and existing users to post an introduction with a few fun...
The previous introductions thread was waaaaay back in June of 2023, figured it might be time for a new one, eh?
This is a place for new and existing users to post an introduction with a few fun facts about themselves. You will find the post box at the bottom the page. Maybe say "Hi!" to someone else you see while scrolling down?
If you like, you can also write something about yourself in your profile. See "Edit your user bio" on the settings page. Anyone who clicks on your username will see it in your profile. (It appears on the right side of the page.)
You can find out more about how to use Tildes in this topic: "New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here!.
Some sample questions you *could* answer (but not required!)
- How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us?
- How did you choose your username?
- What are your interests? (This could be music, tech, art, video games, board games, books, anything!)
- A/S/L (the standard old school intro for an old school kind of forum, but not required!, we value our pseudonymity around here!)
- for those born post 1998: age/(sex|gender|identifier|pronouns)/location
- Example: 27/nb trans woman (she/her)/USA or 54/M/USA or 907/Timelord/Gallifrey
- You don't have to follow the structure, or include it at all!
- for those born post 1998: age/(sex|gender|identifier|pronouns)/location
- What do you do? This could be in your spare time, for work, your passions.
- Do you want other users to PM you from this thread?
- Give us a fun fact or link, if there is anything to know about tilderinos, we value knowledge sharing!
Here is a template if you need something to kickstart your intro
**How long have you been on Tildes? How did you find out about us?** **How did you choose your username?** **What are your interests?** **A/S/L (age/(gender|pronouns|identifier)/location)** **What do you do? This could be in your spare time, for work, your passions.** **Do you want other users to PM/DM you from this thread?** **Give us a fun fact (or a link!)! If there is anything to know about tilderinos, it's that we value knowledge sharing!**
51 votes -
Humble Choice - April 2025
April 2025's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tomb Raider I-III Remastered 76 90 /...
April 2025's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tomb Raider I-III Remastered 76 90 / 85 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum DREDGE 82 96 / 95 Win, Mac ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Aliens: Dark Descent 89 86 / 88 Win ❌ Unsupported 🎖️ Platinum 1000xRESIST 89 97 / 96 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Nova Lands 80 84 / 91 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Diplomacy is Not an Option -- 85 / 85 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Distant Worlds 2 81 -- / 88 Win ❌ Unsupported ⬜ Silver Nomad Survival -- 88 / 95 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
13 votes -
What's an atypical thing you do that you'd recommend to others?
You do it, and it's against the grain -- outside the norm. But you like it, or think it's worthwhile. In fact, you'd recommend that more people do it, so that it can shift the grain or become the...
You do it, and it's against the grain -- outside the norm.
But you like it, or think it's worthwhile.
In fact, you'd recommend that more people do it, so that it can shift the grain or become the norm.
What is it, and why do you recommend it?
64 votes -
Amy Hakanson shows us the sixteen stringed, thirty-nine keyed nyckelharpa
5 votes -
Thundermail (by Mozilla): a Gmail, Office 365 rival
37 votes -
Val Kilmer, film star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, dies at 65 (gifted link)
47 votes -
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | Official teaser
3 votes -
South Korea seizes record two-ton cocaine transport on foreign ship on east coast
8 votes -
Looking at the next 24 to 36 hours of severe weather and flooding in the Mid-South [US]
11 votes -
Eastern District of Texas strikes down Food and Drug Administration’s final rule regulating laboratory developed tests
13 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
5 votes -
Request recommendation: temp controlled teapot
Hello, as the title implies, I am looking for a temp controlled teapot. I own an ember mug and have to say, it is one of my favorite purchases/splurges. For those that do not want to click on the...
Hello, as the title implies, I am looking for a temp controlled teapot.
I own an ember mug and have to say, it is one of my favorite purchases/splurges. For those that do not want to click on the link, this is a temperature controlled mug that holds a hot temp for liquids in a mug wirelessly. It does this with quite good precision IMO, have not whipped out a thermometer to check accuracy.
I have been looking for some time for a teapot that could do the same. The requirements I have are that no plastic or otherwise health adverse heat volatile materials come into contact with the heated water, and I would like it to be a teapot, because I like the ritual of pouring the tea out of the pot. I want to be able to steep and pour the tea from the same temp controlled vessel(I don't mind heating water and then pouring it into the temp controlled teapot), so I'm not looking for a temp controlled kettle, necessarily.
I think last time I looked I ended up on pages showing things like this set up, which I'm open to, but would like some guidance or reviews, if possible.
Thank you!
Bonus, what are your favorite mint teas or other teas that have a sensory experience outside of temp?
EDIT: On the same website I linked, I forgot to direct people here. Has anyone ever used a teapot warmer like the ones on that website?
14 votes -
What is the optimal way to convert an RPG book to a text format?
An RPG book is a book containing the rules and setting for a tabletop RPG game. Like Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, Worlds Without Number, Star Trek Adventures, etc. The fact that they are...
An RPG book is a book containing the rules and setting for a tabletop RPG game. Like Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, Worlds Without Number, Star Trek Adventures, etc.
The fact that they are rarely in text format always puts me off reading RPG books. I don't want to diminish the importance of art, but importing printed RPG books is prohibitively expensive, and reading huge PDFs on a laptop is not a good experience for me.
I also find it unpleasant to navigate the complicated design of these books. They're distracting.
I have a 6.8" Kindle Paperwhite but reading RPG PDFs on it is awful. RPG books have lots of art and complicated layouts. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to make an RPG into text. I was seriously considering just copying the text and converting it to markdown myself (it doesn't need to be markdown, just something that I can convert into a format my Kindle understands) when I remembered chatGPT.
Copying the text and asking GPT to make it into markdown worked okay, but it missed the tables. Sending an image of a page worked pretty well, so I think AI is the way here. But I am not a GPT subscriber and I bet I'll hit a limit at some point. Also, instead of sending pages individually, I would prefer to send the PDF and get the result in text. Even if there were limitations (like only 10 pages in one go), it would be an improvement.
In any case, using chatGPT will be much better than doing it by hand. But is there an AI or other kind of PDF service that is better suited for that task, so I can reduce the amount of manual input?
8 votes