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10 votes
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Mourners bury slain teen in France as 45,000 police are deployed to quell fifth night of riots
20 votes -
UFC Fight Pass Invitational 4 results: Craig Jones, Pena, Meregali, & more
4 votes -
Golden age of medicine
18 votes -
Tell me about your experience with martial arts
This is a good time to repeat the prompt made by @0d_billie back in 2020, and I will also reuse the questions in their post. So are any tilderen martial artists? If so, tell me about it! What do...
This is a good time to repeat the prompt made by @0d_billie back in 2020, and I will also reuse the questions in their post.
So are any tilderen martial artists? If so, tell me about it!
- What do you practice?
- How long have you done it?
- How does it benefit you?
- Do you attend classes or practice solo?
- Would you recommend your martial art to a beginner?
I'm curious to know what martial ars everyone likes the most, and why!
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Fellow climbers, boulderers, and other goatlike people: how do you improve?
i've been climbing for a few years now, and am realising my mindset, patterns, etc need changing. on the other hand i want to continue to enjoy climbing as a hobby, and not treat it like a...
i've been climbing for a few years now, and am realising my mindset, patterns, etc need changing. on the other hand i want to continue to enjoy climbing as a hobby, and not treat it like a grueling workout/job/torture.
what do you do on the wall, off the wall, and outside of climbing itself (i.e. daily life) to help you improve?
18 votes -
What's your favourite ice cream flavour?
Recently went to a Baskin Robbins, and I was surprised by how indecisive I was. I ended up going with a childhood favourite of mine (cotton candy), but it was far too sweet for me now. I'm...
Recently went to a Baskin Robbins, and I was surprised by how indecisive I was. I ended up going with a childhood favourite of mine (cotton candy), but it was far too sweet for me now. I'm curious, what are your favourite ice cream flavours? What interesting combinations have you tried? Any weird ice cream flavours you've tried before?
39 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
14 votes -
Recommendations for credit cards in the USA with cashback rewards?
I've had the same secured credit card through my bank for years; I only use it for car rentals and when my debit card gets declined on international online purchases. It's very easy to maintain as...
I've had the same secured credit card through my bank for years; I only use it for car rentals and when my debit card gets declined on international online purchases. It's very easy to maintain as there are no fees and I always pay off the balance within the week; however, there are also no rewards. I know that a lot of credit cards out there have cashback rewards, and it seems like kind of a waste not to take advantage of that. But there are so many different ones that it's horribly overwhelming for me to try to research which one(s) might be a good choice. Costco has one which would have probably been an easy choice if I were able to spend more money there, but as of currently I have very little space and only hold a membership for gas.
So, do any of you lovely folks have recommendations to give me a starting point for what to look into? What cards have you used and been happy with?
ETA: I am in the US!
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Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter’s content moderation approach, and more
38 votes -
Music makers - let's hear your recent jams!
Hi everyone - newly minted Tildes user and Reddit refugee. I want to know how many of my fellow DIY amateur (or absolute pro) musicians are around, and where your recent jams are posted. What kind...
Hi everyone - newly minted Tildes user and Reddit refugee.
I want to know how many of my fellow DIY amateur (or absolute pro) musicians are around, and where your recent jams are posted.
What kind of music do you like making - what's your workflow?
56 votes -
Bank of America has $100B in unrealized losses
9 votes -
Fate of vulnerable minority looms over Armenia-Azerbaijan peace
4 votes -
Johan Kristoffersson set the pace on the first full day of competition at World RX of Sweden – home hero chases a third consecutive victory in 2023
5 votes -
Book review: 'Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk'
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Why does Johann (the father/leader of the city) in Metropolis (1927) want a revolution?
He says he wants the "man-machine" built with the likeness of Maria in order to "sow discord" amongst the workers. Maria is the one who is preaching a message of hope/faith and therefore keeping a...
He says he wants the "man-machine" built with the likeness of Maria in order to "sow discord" amongst the workers. Maria is the one who is preaching a message of hope/faith and therefore keeping a revolution at bay. For how much longer, who knows. The point is, she is giving the workers hope and preventing violence.
Why would Johann want a version of Maria that encourages a revolution (death to the machines!)? It is in Johann's best interest if the workers stay succumbed, as his bourgeoisie lifestyle is dependent on their work.
(First post, sorry if the tags are bad.)
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At 31, I'm looking to read my first romance novel. Suggestions?
Hi! Growing up a boy, I was always too afraid to read Romance. I didn't want to get made fun of or give anyone clues about the way I felt about my gender and sexuality. Besides the fact I identify...
Hi! Growing up a boy, I was always too afraid to read Romance. I didn't want to get made fun of or give anyone clues about the way I felt about my gender and sexuality.
Besides the fact I identify as transfemme, I'm also much older and don't give a shit what anyone thinks now.
Can anyone recommend me a romance novel? I wanna add the genre to my reading. Fantasy/sci-fi splashed in would be cool but not required at all.
Please tell me your FAVORITE romance novel as opposed to the "classes" or "the best". I wanna know what you like. I think that will end up with more unique and specific vibes.
Ty xoxo
37 votes -
Sidecars on the central lane: impact of network proxies on microservices
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NordVPN changes to username and password encryption cause Auth_FAIL in OpenVPN/Gluetun
Recently NordVPN rolled out an update which forced users to use an encrypted username and password combination when connecting through OpenVPN. I haven't seen any posts on this here, and it took...
Recently NordVPN rolled out an update which forced users to use an encrypted username and password combination when connecting through OpenVPN. I haven't seen any posts on this here, and it took me way longer than I want to admit troubleshooting this issue because I knew my original credentials were correct.
If you use a gluetun container for routing any of other containers traffic, you might have recently noticed a 500 Internal Service Error in your Health Status and when you check your logs you will find a AUTH_FAILED message.
Solution below:
- Go to NordVPN website and log in (using your normal credentials)
- Under accounts, services, click NordVPN
- Click "Set up NordVPN Manually" at the bottom of the page
- You will receive an email verification code, using whatever email you have set up for your NordVPN services. Type this code into the popup window.
- Copy your new encrypted credentials for your Open VPN client settings.
This is my first post, please add tags as required.
24 votes -
UK 'Bill of Rights' bill is confirmed to be scrapped
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Twitter is now forcing us to create an account. Here's another way of viewing tweets without an account.
Just replace "twitter.com" to "nitter.net" Example: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver to https://nitter.net/iamjohnoliver
108 votes -
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by Ron DeSantis
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Any Android games that are worth playing these days?
It seems like every game these days is just some idle clicker or some other lazy game that tries to peddle in app purchases. Is there anything that actually is worth playing still, for someone...
It seems like every game these days is just some idle clicker or some other lazy game that tries to peddle in app purchases.
Is there anything that actually is worth playing still, for someone that usually plays PC games?
63 votes -
600 arrested and 200 police officers hurt on France’s third night of protests over teen’s killing
35 votes -
How the pandemic hatched a new generation of transgender people
26 votes -
Courgette/zucchini recipes
For anyone that grows their own veg it's coming up to the zucchini/courgette glut season. To prepare can you give your best recipes? Anything will do salads, baking, frying, pickling... I'm...
For anyone that grows their own veg it's coming up to the zucchini/courgette glut season. To prepare can you give your best recipes? Anything will do salads, baking, frying, pickling... I'm willing to give anything a try so they don't go to waste.
20 votes -
Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (2023)
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It's July 1st, my third party app still works to visit Reddit?
Anyone else not having problems, the app I use is Infinity, I can still acsess 100% of everything, even NSFW Did reddit cave? Or they just havnt flicked the switch yet?
38 votes -
Racism in medicine - the invisible effect medical notes can have on care
34 votes -
The network of collaboration among rappers and its community structure
9 votes -
The greatest post-apocalyptic DOOM-mod I've played | Ashes 2063
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Dual-boot with a shared partition?
Hey, I use Windows 10 and Arch in a dual boot configuration. I use both of them for software development and want a shared partition to store all the projects. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as I...
Hey,
I use Windows 10 and Arch in a dual boot configuration.
I use both of them for software development and want a shared partition to store all the projects.
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as I had thought.Initially, I tried NTFS as the Linux support seemed fine. I tried both, ntfs-3g and the kernel implementation.
Besides the issue that hibernate could lock the drive - which you can disable - it periodically caused problems during compilation and other stages.Especially Rust based projects have thrown weird errors during builds, but I also had this on certain Go projects as well.
It sometimes felt like, that the NTFS driver returned the wrong files when the compiler asked for them. Unmet dependencies, missing files, etc. Usually, when the project is huge.In certain scenarios symbolic links didn't work and permissions were not set correctly - which you can fix by adding some args to the fstab mount - never got it really stable though.
I then tried to format to Ext4, and all issues were instantly gone on the Linux side.
Fortunately, there are tools such as Linux FileSystem from Paragon which promise to make it work (I even bought a proper license) - and it did for a while, until it didn't.
I once copied a bigger folder that included a bigger node_modules folder and during copy, files were missing, corrupted, the copy process hung - then crashed.
I was so desperate that I even tried out FAT32, but I quickly found out that it doesn't support symbolic links at all, and therefore breaks Git and other tools depending on it.
Is it still so hard in 2023 to have a shared partition between two OS? Has anyone made better experiences?
I really don't want to split the partitions as I sometimes work on the same project on different OSes.Thanks in advance!
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 26
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Saturday Game Jam Thread (July 01 2023)
Hey y’all, welcome back to the second weekly game jam thread. Whats a game jam you may ask. Well imagine if you locked a group of game developers in a box for box for some quantity of time ranging...
Hey y’all, welcome back to the second weekly game jam thread.
Whats a game jam you may ask. Well imagine if you locked a group of game developers in a box for box for some quantity of time ranging from a few days to a few weeks and told them to compete with each other by building something around a theme and then judging whatever each other came up with, that's a game jam.
Now you may ask why would anyone play these things besides the other game game jam entrants. I don’t know about everyone else but despite being one of the younger users on this site I can’t help but feel like I have to work very hard to find any sort of magic in my life and I keep telling myself if I just keep playing more games and scraping and scrounging at the fringes of the industry I can find the magic again and be happy for a little bit.
Its actually a little scary sharing these games with you guys. I know its unreasonable to get emotionally invested in tiny games I did not even make but it does make me happy that people are taking an interest in this thread. Here is what I have for you this week.
HeartBeat
Platforms: Windows, HTML5
Genres: RhythmDo you remember that one part in that one game that you like, during the final boss fight when the heroes theme is reprised and layers are added to the song for each stage of the boss fight and then the vocals kick in and its awesome. Here in game jam land our motto is “All killer no filler”, we like to skip to the good part and this entry from Boss Rush Jam 2023 fits the bill. Its the final boss battle of a rhythm game and features an unusual control scheme that takes a few tries to get the hang of. Let me know if this game jogs any memories of boss fights.
e-scape
Platforms: Windows
Genres: SimulationIf you talk to a gamer that has been around for awhile they will have a story to tell you about a game that they used to play that has since been shutdown. Its always the same story. They see an article out of the blue that the game they used to play just announced a shutdown date. They log in and like a traveler from an antique land, are greeted by a ghost town filled with statues of champions and kings soon to be buried forever at the command of a datacenter sysadmin.
That is e-scape, look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!
This week was both nostalgic and somber for me and that leaked into this weeks selection in a big way. I really do look forward to seeing peoples responses to this thread though and I hope to keep doing these threads for the foreseeable future.
9 votes -
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth | Reveal trailer
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What are some of your favorite "easy reads"?
I haven't read through a book in a while, and I've been trying to get back into it! I used to read like a fiend, and I've bought many books recently but could never actually fully sit down and...
I haven't read through a book in a while, and I've been trying to get back into it! I used to read like a fiend, and I've bought many books recently but could never actually fully sit down and read them, I'm always too distracted or fall asleep. The last book I read was Simu Liu's Autobiography, because it was super easy to get into and it's super relevant to me in general, but every other book I've tried to pick up doesn't seem to grip me as much.
Are there any interesting books that are easily digestible that pulled you in? Or any tips for me to try to get through my backlog of books?
68 votes -
Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized
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Any HEMA practitioners?
Started way back in 2013, but due to injuries at work I took a break until beginning on this year. Finally found a friend to start back up at it with a local school in Vancouver. Love it. I've...
Started way back in 2013, but due to injuries at work I took a break until beginning on this year. Finally found a friend to start back up at it with a local school in Vancouver. Love it.
I've done some Rapier and Smallsword, but focusing on Longsword right now. Entering my first tournament this Friday. Excited to get my butt kicked.
Anyone else practicing HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts)?
Our school is more focus on Fiore's teachings and Italian fencing, but from time to time we get other more experienced practitioners from other school to teach German, British, etc. Fighting styles.
8 votes -
Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition
26 votes -
US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what?
117 votes -
The Apollo app for Reddit closes this evening. End of an era.
Mixed feelings about it all. I think Reddit suffers from the same ‘1 discussion keeps you coming back for ten years in hope of a repeat’ that most if not all social media struggles with. It also...
Mixed feelings about it all.
I think Reddit suffers from the same ‘1 discussion keeps you coming back for ten years in hope of a repeat’ that most if not all social media struggles with. It also has excellent dogs in hilarious situations and because of the amount of users, a constant refresh of what should be a tired genre but which just dosnt seem to die.
I have enough respect for r/pics for the John Oliver death march, that I cant go back.
265 votes -
Where to find digitalized illustrations from the past such as these?
5 votes -
Real wage growth in the USA at the individual level in 2022
15 votes -
Can anyone tell what's wrong with my tape deck?
8 votes -
I always thought these old fighting game animated backgrounds were kind of awesome - I think this one is from Last Blades 2
18 votes -
Overnight (2003) - An outstanding documentary about how fame can bring out the worst in people
6 votes -
What do you use to journal with?
The recent PKM thread had me thinking about what folks are using as journaling app/portal. I do use Obsidian for my second brain right now and genuinely love it. But I find the mobile app on...
The recent PKM thread had me thinking about what folks are using as journaling app/portal. I do use Obsidian for my second brain right now and genuinely love it. But I find the mobile app on Android to be a bit clunky, if I'm honest. Seems slow to open even with very few plugins. For jounaling I've used DayOne for years. I started back when it was iOS/MacOS only, but then switched phone to Android and haven't been back. But now they have an app and web app for that. What I don't like is the somewhat goofy format it saves in and it's on their servers. They used to allow you to at least leverage your own Dropbox, but no longer.
For the past several months I've tried several FOSS options. Main criteria is that I could host it myself, supports offline entries stored in an open file format (preferably MarkDown), and had either multi platform app or a decent web app. That lead me to try these:
Memos
Pros:- Great persistent web app
- Slick UI that is light and snappy
- markdown support
Cons: - Stuffs the .md inside a database file so can be a bit cumbersome to export data
- No offline support. There is a 3rd party app that hopes to implement it
Flatnotes
Pros:- Incredibly simple
- Another easily deployed app
- Flat Markdown files
Cons: - Web app on mobile is almost unusable as in it doesn't scale well to smaller screens
- Very early development, but very likely to stay as minimalistic as it is now.
- No offline and very unlikely to ever have it
Joplin
Pros:- Multi platform apps that perform well
- End-to-end encryption supported
- Could replace both DayOne and my To-do solution (Google Keep)
- Offline support
Cons: - More database stuff instead of flat markdown files
One solution I've been testing lately is using IAWriter to write to a 'Journal' folder within my Obsidian vault on Google drive
Obsidian Vault > Journal > 2023....
for example. This works surprisingly well. Of course IAWriter is a bit spendy at $29 for Android and then more $ for other platforms as they're sold separately.So I'm curious what other people are using for just simple daily journaling, random thoughts, etc. If there's an approach I've missed I'd love to hear it. Joplin is so dang close but not having the structure of plaintext files is a no go for me as I don't want to be trapped by any one product should something happen to the development down the road. Doesn't have to be free, but I want control of the entries either on my own server or cloud storage.
46 votes -
The man who broke bowling – Jason Belmonte
21 votes -
I wrote a book. What are the site rules on self promotion?
Not posting the link here, but I'm curious what the site rules are on stuff like that. I came from Reddit, and some of the subs there are ok with promotion, some aren't.
31 votes -
How many of you feel yourselves being drawn back to Reddit for the sake of niche communities and discussions?
I'm ashamed to admit that I've been on there way too much the last couple of weeks. I had always planned to use Reddit in my google searches because google sucks without it now, but I've been...
I'm ashamed to admit that I've been on there way too much the last couple of weeks. I had always planned to use Reddit in my google searches because google sucks without it now, but I've been spending time talking there.
My niche interest in question is visual novels. There are very few places on the internet where you can discuss them. There was recently a final translation patch released for the Tsukihime Remake. I beat it and wanted to talk about it! Reddit has a Tsukihime subreddit. I don't know if there is any other English community on the internet that wants to talk about Tsukihime. It's niche enough that I know of no one in person who has that interest either. Without Reddit, where do you even look for an alternative?
I feel like I'm going continue being drawn back for similar things even if they are less niche than visual novels. For example, I wanted to talk about Final Fantasy XVI. I could have made a post about my thoughts here and maybe I would have gotten good discussion about it. Slipped my mind honestly. But I was drawn back to Reddit where there are thousands of people wanting to talk about it right this second. An alternative could have been Gamefaqs, but its a bit more toxic and I hate the style of forum (unthreaded, every post in chronological order, only way to follow conversations is with quoted text. Is there a term for that kind of forum?)
Does anyone else feel themselves feeling a similar pull?
115 votes