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It's the Matrix, but for locusts
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‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ finds sea of green to finish No. 1 in Deadline’s 2022 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
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The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
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Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding US trial
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Yep, it’s slow: How a potential strike and industry pivoting has Hollywood at a standstill
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My 10 Gb/s Router
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2FA not working?
tildes.net isn't accepting my 2FA codes on login. I used a recovery key and disabled 2FA, but now I can't re-enable it for the same reason (I generate a code with the new secret key given but it...
tildes.net isn't accepting my 2FA codes on login. I used a recovery key and disabled 2FA, but now I can't re-enable it for the same reason (I generate a code with the new secret key given but it gets rejected). I've checked on other sites and it doesn't seem to be a problem with generated 2FA codes on my end, leading me to believe something may be misconfigured on the server (maybe the tildes.net system clock is off or something?).
Anyone else experiencing this?
Edit: Still not really sure why I couldn't get it to work initially, but after giving it some time the problem went away.
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Martin Scorsese locks ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ run time - 3 hours, 26 minutes
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What are your favorite non-service apps?
Everyone uses and knows about social media, YouTube, Netflix etc. But what about the hidden gems on the App Store that aren’t trying to squeeze as much money and attention from you as possible?
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (April 2023)
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.
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‘Galaxy Quest’ TV series in works at Paramount+
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ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus believes avatars are the future after greeting one millionth attender at the group's hit show, Voyage
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This is Patagonia | Hard first ascents in unforgiving mountains
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students' moods – some experts are heavily skeptical of the approach
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Spotify breaks down the mapping tech behind its algorithm | The Tech Behind
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Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in molten glass
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I saw the face of God in a semiconductor factory
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Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
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Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul.
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George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
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Kenyan player expelled after pretending to be a woman to win lucrative prize
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Focus Features nabs Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke caper comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls,’ plans fall release
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Forget the Pokédex, our brains contain a ‘rich cognitive map’ of Pokémon
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World's Strongest Man vs. wood chopping champion (Basque rural sports)
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Stink beans - All about this smelly fruit (raw, cooked & fermented petai) | Weird Fruit Explorer
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After 2 years of working full-time on my open-source project (Mockoon), I have been accepted to the GitHub Accelerator program!
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This never-used nuclear fusion machine is a feat of design
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Steam Eastern Games Fest
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The Gostok (interactive fiction)
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Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year – will sunset on May 5 as it aims to focus on music discovery
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World Chess Championship 2023 thread - Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren
Anyone else following the world chess championship? Background info (feel free to skip if you're already familiar with this): After reigning champion and world #1 Magnus Carlsen declined to defend...
Anyone else following the world chess championship?
Background info (feel free to skip if you're already familiar with this):
After reigning champion and world #1 Magnus Carlsen declined to defend his title, the winner of the Candidates tournament 2022, Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi (world #2), faces the second place finisher in the Candidates, China's Ding Liren (world #3). The championship match takes place over 14 games from April 9-April 30 in Astana, Kazakhstan. As of today, April 13, the score is even at 2-2 after 4 games.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (aka "Nepo") won the Candidates tournament in 2020-21, which was split in two due to covid. He proceeded to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the title in late 2021. Both players performed with computer-like precision for the first five games. Game six became the turning point, when Nepo made a serious blunder which allowed Carlsen to eventually convert the game to a win in what would turn out to be the longest game in world championship history, lasting more than 7 hours and 136 moves. After this grueling loss, Nepo's play seemingly collapsed, allowing Carlsen to take a comfortable win with games to spare.
However, Nepomniachtchi would bounce back to win his second Candidates tournament in a row in 2022. When it became clear that Carlsen would not defend his title, the runner-up of that tournament, Ding Liren, became the second player to compete for the title.
Ding has been a top 5 player for years, with 2018-2019 being his best period yet, when he reached world #2 with well over 2800 Elo, and was undefeated for 100 games of classical chess. This is his first appearance in a world championship final, and also a first for China as a nation.
Russia, of course, has a long history of world champions, dominating the chess world for most of the 20th century. Nepomniachtchi, who is a critic of the invasion of Ukraine, competes under a neutral FIDE flag in this match.
This is only the third time the reigning champion has not defended his title since the first world championship in 1886. Bobby Fischer famously disagreed with the match regulations proposed by FIDE, chess' international governing body, and refused to defend his title in 1975. He subsequently retired from competitive chess and didn't re-emerge until the 1990s. The other instance was Alekhine in 1948 -- he had died two years earlier. (There was also a time in the 1990s when the reigning champion, Garry Kasparov, broke with FIDE and organized his own world championship, but I won't get into that complicated story here.) This is the first time a world champion has continued to play competitive chess while refusing to defend their title.
Nepomniachtchi comes into the match ranked as the world #2 (2795 Elo) while Ding is #3 (2788). The abdicated king of chess, Magnus Carlsen, remains #1 (2853).
How to watch
If you want to watch live, the time zone is a bit unfavorable to European and American viewers, as the games start at 3PM Astana time (11 AM Central European summer time, 2 AM Pacific). You can follow the games without commentary here: lichess chess24 chess.com. There's several streams with grandmaster commentary available. FIDE has an official broadcast, but my favorite is chess.com's coverage, which features commentary by GMs Anish Giri, Daniel Naroditsky and David Howell.
For live computer analysis that's stronger than what you can (likely) get from running a local instance of Stockfish on your own computer, check out Sesse (which is just Stockfish running on a decently beefy server setup).
If you want shorter after-the-fact recaps, there are several Youtube channels catering to differing levels of chess skill, including:
- Powerplaychess (GM Daniel King)
- FIDE (GM Daniil Dubov)
- Gothamchess (IM Levy Rozman)
- Agadmator
- Chessnetwork
And probably at least a half-dozen more.
Who's your favorite to win it all? Does the fact that the clearly best player in the world refused to compete make the whole thing uninteresting to you? Will Nepo crumble again like he did against Carlsen, or will Ding's inexperience with world championship matches be his undoing?
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Megathread #5 for news/updates/discussion of AI chatbots and image generators
The hype continues. Here is the previous thread.
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The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster | Trailer
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Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen?
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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The end of computer magazines in America
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Adam Savage's advice for pricing freelance work
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday
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Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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The city that fell off a cliff
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Can Burning Man pull out of its climate death spiral?
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The reasons behind France’s pension protests
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Dispelling common myths about bed bugs
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