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80 votes
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Intel confirms Thunderbolt 5 name, 120Gbps tech arrives in 2024
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Cult of the Lamb dev says it will delete the game on January 1
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Immersion iced coffee: A better and easier technique
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US government imposes sanctions on five Turkish corporations over dealings with Russia
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Women who were denied emergency abortions file lawsuits in three states: Lawsuits want to clarify abortion ban exceptions for ‘medical emergencies’ in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee
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The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever
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Wikipedia:Dark mode
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The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Trailer
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Economist, business professor, digital economy expert Shane Greenstein discusses the US Department of Justice vs Google antitrust case
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San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by seven feet to save it from the sea
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As Finland's presidential election gets underway, one key question looks set to dominate – whom do Finns trust to deal with Russia?
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Douglas B. Lenat - The Ubiquity of Discovery
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Tim Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009)
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Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community
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I’m designing a Pokemon-inspired piano ed. book for kids 6-10, and looking for testers
This book uses cartoon mascots assigned to three areas of music training on the keyboard: dexterity skills, reading/writing/listening, and repertoire performance. Each mascot starts off as a cute...
This book uses cartoon mascots assigned to three areas of music training on the keyboard: dexterity skills, reading/writing/listening, and repertoire performance.
Each mascot starts off as a cute lil’ dude and evolves into huge powerful creatures as the child “levels up.” My ultimate vision is a book or book series that utilizes the mascots in figurine form for prize-incentives and mascot videos to offer help and guidance for individual activities.
The first prototype will only feature the books, and I expect to finish it in the next 1-2 months.
I was hoping to get a list of potentially interested parties that would beta-test the book without cost in exchange for feedback/testimonial.
If you’re interested, please send a message through my website— https://alexgoodhart.com/lessons (you won’t see any mention of the book there, but can send your contact info through the inquiry form).
If you’ve any thoughts to share here I’m all ears! Thank you — Alex
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Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the US Senate
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Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable consumerism?
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible....
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they've done a great job with this.
Now it appears that Fairphone is due to announce the so called 'Fairphone Keep Club' on the 14th of September - a bonus program as we all know it. You buy stuff, you get points for what you buy, and when you've got enough points you can redeem them to buy more stuff.
The keep club website claims that it's the only rewards program that gives back to those who keep their Fairphones as long as possible, but judging by the listed 'challenges' it appears that the most efficient way to gain points is to simply buy new stuff.
Personally I'm a bit torn on this, due to the idealistic viewpoints I tend to judge Fairphone under in accordance with their stated sustainability goals. I do realize that is a much higher standard than the big-players in the phone industry achieve. I also get that Fairphone wants to build its brand identity and create incentives to keep customers and sell their products. But at the same time I can't help but think that in the end that program is an incentive to be less sustainable, as it ultimately provides you with those fancy points as a psychological incentive to buy the newest and latest Fairphone product.
So I wanted to bring this topic into a wider community that may not currently be as deep in the Fairphone bubble: Do you think such bonus programs will rather help spread the idea of a more repairable, sustainable approach to phones, or will it rather serve as an incentive to artificially shorten a phone's lifecycle by prematurely buying a new one? And more generally speking: Do you think advertising strategies rooted in consumerism and classic capitalistic company goals are compatible with sustainable product lifecycles somehow, despite not exactly having aligned interests?
Note that I also posted this on Lemmy. I'm interested to see how those discussions will compare.
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Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes
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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?
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Game Development Post-Unity
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Thirty criticisms that hold women leaders back, according to new research
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Adventures in public speaking as a disabled person
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Apollo moon landing conspiracy theories were early hints of the dangerous anti-vax, antiscience beliefs backed by politicians today
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The legacy of Star Trek: The Animated Series, fifty years on
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Libya flooding: 10,000 people thought to be missing after dams burst
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California announced the strongest railway emissions regulations in the US. Freight companies are suing.
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Denmark launches the Laura Maersk, the first container ship to run entirely on green methanol – will save 2.75 million tonnes of CO2 per year
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Work profile, akin to credit score?
I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your...
I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your past salary data. Unfortunately, I can’t find that comment anymore. Does anyone know what it was, or where to find it?
I find the concept to be incredibly worrying, especially as it seems like unregulated technology or at the very least operating in a gray area carved out by existing credit reporting.
(Please let me know if this should go in ~misc or somewhere else. Wasn’t sure where to put it!)
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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The crazy VW Beetles that conquered Antarctica
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US researchers employed by federal Housing and Urban Development agency propose study re comparative effectiveness of cash grants vs current system of vouchers for housing assistance
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Star Trek: Lower Decks - S04E01 “Twovix”
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Investigating how a git repository stores the old versions of files
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Is understaffing a new norm?
I'm asking this as a genuine question, not as a hot take. Where I'm coming from: My husband and I went to dinner the other night -- apologies from the waitress on being shortstaffed. A sign on a...
I'm asking this as a genuine question, not as a hot take.
Where I'm coming from:
My husband and I went to dinner the other night -- apologies from the waitress on being shortstaffed. A sign on a local store asks for patience with the lack of staff. The people staffing order pickup at a nearby department store aren't enough to keep up with orders. At my most recent doctor's appointment I spent almost 45 minutes in the exam room waiting to be seen (for an appointment I had to make over a year ago). A few hours after the appointment I went to pick up a prescription, and it hadn't even begun to be processed yet. There was only one cashier working, and she was having to jump between the in-person line and the drive-thru lane. At my job we don't have enough substitute teachers, so we're dependent on regular teachers covering classes during their "prep" periods.
This is merely a recent snapshot from my own life that I'm using as a sort of representative sample, but it feels like something that's been building for a while -- like something that was going to be temporary due to COVID but has stuck around and is now just what we're supposed to get used to. I remember that I used to keep thinking that understaffing would eventually go away over time, but it seems like it's just standard practice now?
Is this something specific to my experiences or my local area (I'm in the US, for context)? Are other people seeing the same thing?
Assuming it isn't just me, is there anything out there besides anecdotes that addresses this phenomenon? I don't want to lean solely on gut reactions, but I also can't deny that nearly every business I go to seems visibly short-staffed all of the time.
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YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Official trailer
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Ludvig Åberg outshines Rory McIlroy in stellar start to PGA Championship at Wentworth
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How flexible circuit boards, or FPCs, are made. We're visiting one of JLCPCB's circuit board factories in Shaoguang, China.
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The case for brick thermal storage
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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
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Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly Thread
Server host: tildes.nore.gg Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access. A lot of...
Server host:
tildes.nore.gg
Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.ggThe server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
A lot of builds have been completed since the last thread. What have you all been up to?
Edit: If you would like to, you can help pay for the server costs on Patreon. So far I've been paying for it myself.
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What password management solution do you use and why?
For a long time now, I have been using KeePassXC for desktops and KeePassDX for Android. I keep everything synchronized neatly with Syncthing, which can be configured to operate over your WiFi or...
For a long time now, I have been using KeePassXC for desktops and KeePassDX for Android. I keep everything synchronized neatly with Syncthing, which can be configured to operate over your WiFi or the internet through their gateways. This allows me to share a single KeePass file with another individual, provided I tell them the password.
I have a co-worker who is loving 1Password and while it looks great, something irks me about paying monthly for a password manager. I looked into Bitwarden for a "local cloud" and have seen very mixed results as well as not being sure if I could trust my own security configurations to do so.
I am primarily wondering what everyone else is using in search of something a bit more convenient (I'm not opposed to using the cloud) that has an app like KeePass that I can use for desktop apps, and not just in the browser (though I don't use that function often, truthfully).
Edit: Passkey support was mentioned in this comment and made me realize how important such support will be in the coming years. For those of you with password management solutions supporting it, how has it been?
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Timeline of the history of the web
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California passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring seven years of parts
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How can I over come the pain of losing someone you love
I just lost my mom this morning by Cancer. And now i feel pain in my heart. I cried a lot. But i can't overcome this feeling... I love my mom a lot.
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Natural compound found in plants inhibits deadly fungi
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Traders in Bangladesh used lead chromate to enhance turmeric’s appearance. Then scientists and policymakers stepped in.
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Advice on trudging through stress
I'm a long time Tildes user but I've created this separate account because I'd like to avoid connecting this topic to my normal username. I am going through a divorce that will take about a year...
I'm a long time Tildes user but I've created this separate account because I'd like to avoid connecting this topic to my normal username.
I am going through a divorce that will take about a year to finalize and I am struggling with the stress. If it were a short term thing, I would grit my teeth and bear it, but I have a full year ahead and I'm afraid I need some help in order to make it through with my physical and mental health intact.
My wife has a personality that includes "kill mode" for anyone she deems as an opponent -- whether it is another driver on the road, a customer service agent who doesn't give her what she wants, or anyone at all who she perceives as having slighted her. This is one of the reasons why we're getting divorced. I have nearly the opposite approach to conflict, and I can't handle seeing people get attacked so fiercely or so often. Now that we're getting divorced, I am the target of these attacks. For clarity, they're only verbal attacks, not physical -- there is no physical abuse in this case.
I could stiffen up and fight back whenever she starts arguing with me, but we have kids and I want to commit myself to preventing their exposure to hostilities as much as possible. But this means I have to do my best to brush off my wife's verbal abuse and maintain composure so they can have a stable dad to rely on.
Right now I'm having trouble sleeping and I am constantly anxious throughout the day. It gets worse whenever I have to interact with my wife; and unfortunately we have to interact frequently every day to coordinate childcare and logistics of the divorce. I have a tightness in my chest from being so anxious (not heart attack) and I am struggling to maintain focus on work or any tasks I have to complete. I can hold back the tears, but I really do want to cry many, many times a day.
What can I do to wade through this time period? I know there are breathing exercises to help calm down. What else can you recommend? I am trying to make sure I do eat well enough and that I drink enough water. I avoid alcohol entirely and don't take any kind of medication.
Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. And I'm sorry if this is not an appropriate forum for this question. I will delete if so.
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