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21 votes
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This Austrian website exposes the truth about soaring food prices
44 votes -
The unexpected climate policy that could tackle both national debt and China: Carbon pricing has the potential to become a bipartisan policy
26 votes -
Boarding planes could have been very different
15 votes -
Loreen – Is It Love (2023)
8 votes -
Monsanto hit with $175m verdict against Roundup – a string of nine- and ten-figure losses for the popular herbicide
27 votes -
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence
24 votes -
What’s a good place to see and share photography?
I miss photography subreddits. I don’t miss Reddit as a whole at all though, and I think smaller forums like Tildes and a couple Discord servers have helped bridge the gap in a lot of other areas....
I miss photography subreddits. I don’t miss Reddit as a whole at all though, and I think smaller forums like Tildes and a couple Discord servers have helped bridge the gap in a lot of other areas. But I just have not found a good replacement for r/analog in seeing other hobbyists’ film photography and share my own. Where should I be looking?
19 votes -
Just passed my PhD defense :)
Yo everyone, I'm fresh from the first good night's sleep I've gotten in awhile. I'm ecstatic to finally be finished (I took a longer road than most) and just felt like chatting with you fine...
Yo everyone, I'm fresh from the first good night's sleep I've gotten in awhile. I'm ecstatic to finally be finished (I took a longer road than most) and just felt like chatting with you fine folks.
Getting that dissertation done was a real challenge and while I'm happy I finished before George R. R. Martin finished the next ASOIAF book, I have a lot more sympathy now for him or anyone who has to write something lengthy.
Anyone else in a graduate program or recently finished? To those who have gone through the process, what'd you do immediately afterwards? I'm in the middle of a job interview process so I can't quite take a vacation, but I am planning to stick at least a full week somewhere where I travel and do nothing.
Tonight, I'm going to relax and watch The Magic Flute opera with friends which I've not done before.
142 votes -
Looking for chiptune album recommendations
Albums specifically, please! Not individual songs. I’m wanting something meant to be listened to from back to front. I thought about listing some of the favorites I already have, but I don’t want...
Albums specifically, please! Not individual songs. I’m wanting something meant to be listened to from back to front.
I thought about listing some of the favorites I already have, but I don’t want to prime the recommendations. I might jump in with some in a comment later if other people are wanting to enjoy the recommendations too.
Anyway, give me any chiptune album favorites you have. If the music sounds like a game console is having a good, meaningful, moody, or interesting time, then that’s exactly what I’m looking for!
Also, game soundtracks are fine as long as they work as an album.
21 votes -
‘It Follows’ sequel revealed: Maika Monroe and director David Robert Mitchell reunite for ‘They Follow’
8 votes -
‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ $78m breaks mold on Peacock theatrical day and date; best opening for Blumhouse, Halloween and more
20 votes -
Immersive Labs "Haunted Halloween" Challenges 2023
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share that Immersive Labs has rolled out their "Haunted Halloween" challenges for 2023. For those unfamiliar, Immersive Labs offers a platform for interactive,...
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share that Immersive Labs has rolled out their "Haunted Halloween" challenges for 2023. For those unfamiliar, Immersive Labs offers a platform for interactive, gamified learning in the realm of cybersecurity. They've been known to host challenges that test and enhance cyber skills.
You can sign up for free using code HAUNTEDHOLLOW to try it out hubs.ly/Q026LTZV0.
Now, I'm not posting this solely out of altruism. I could use some help on the 'Mirrored Mayhem' task.
Spoiler Alert: Details about the challenge below
I've managed to get the RCE. I've crafted a PNG and successfully executed remote code. However, I'm only able to find the 'webapp-token'. I'm at a loss when it comes to the 'user-token' or 'root-token'. The 'whats in the mirror?' file isn't giving me any leads either. I've also got a username/password from it but can't figure out where to use them.Would appreciate any pointers or hints from anyone who's tackled this challenge. Thanks in advance!
4 votes -
Heading to Korea for New Years - Anything I shouldn't miss?
Hi y'all! I posted a couple of months ago about heading to Japan for a solo trip, and I got some good recommendations (including a great bar crawl that I loved). And now I'm heading to Korea for...
Hi y'all!
I posted a couple of months ago about heading to Japan for a solo trip, and I got some good recommendations (including a great bar crawl that I loved). And now I'm heading to Korea for New Years!
I'll probably be doing a bunch of clothes shopping, anywhere I should head to? Especially for street/tech wear if possible, but I'm open go all fashion styles atm, getting tired of my closet!
I have a couple of the big spots, a palace and a temple for sure. I'll be in Seoul for 3 days, and Busan for 3 days (including New Years!)
Bonus question, if you know any tattoo artists around the area that you trust, I'm open to getting a new tattoo too!
Edit: I have a ton of Korean friends and one thing they mentioned was that Gangnam is overrated, I'll probably only go there for a couple of hours at most, unless there's something crazy that I'm missing.
14 votes -
DM/GMs, what map making tools do you use?
What tools do you use to make maps for your table? I've tried looking and I have found a few decent generators, but I'm really looking for a making tool I already have a general layout in my head...
What tools do you use to make maps for your table?
I've tried looking and I have found a few decent generators, but I'm really looking for a making tool I already have a general layout in my head of what the city/region/continent but I can't draw for shit, and I want to find a tool that makes this easy? Makes it look nice, makes it easy to add points of interest and features, etc.
What do you use?
Edit: for clarification, this is for city/region maps, not battlemaps.
23 votes -
How Alan Wake II, one of gaming's lost sequels, finally got made
8 votes -
Album of the Week #7: Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
This is Album of the Week #7 ~ This week's album is Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Year of Release: 2014 Genre(s): Post-Hardcore, Indie Rock Country: United States Length: 31 minutes...
This is Album of the Week #7 ~ This week's album is Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Year of Release: 2014
Genre(s): Post-Hardcore, Indie Rock
Country: United States
Length: 31 minutes
Listen! (Album.Link)Excerpt from The Quietus:
And damn, the boy Baldi can write a hook. While Here And Nowhere Else is a noisy onslaught that rattles along at a cracking pace, there's a real sense of fun and catchy melodies that Billie Joe Armstrong would be proud of (especially album closer 'I'm Not Part Of Me'), which will probably see the album appropriated by beer-guzzling frat boys, despite lyrically being about life on the fringes – alienation, despair, heartache. More parallels with Cobain there, perhaps. Baldi told the A. V. Club around the release of Attack On Memory that he hadn't really listened to Nirvana, pinning any similarity in their sound to a mutual love of The Wipers. However, fans of Bleach and In Utero (and anyone yearning for what might have been as the circumstances surrounding Cobain's suicide are picked apart in ghoulish detail) should lap this shit up like milk-starved pussy cats.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
10 votes -
The Network State Conference 2023 livestream
5 votes -
Six creatures that are actually real-life zombies
18 votes -
Return of the AI Megathread (#13) - news of chatbots, image generators, etc
I haven't done one of these since early July, but it seems like there's an uptick in news. Here's the previous one.
28 votes -
US cannot halt China's semiconductor advance to 5nm: Ex TSMC VP
12 votes -
Vote for "Movie of the Week" in November - Academy Award Winners
Edit: Voting closed My initial post didn't get a lot of answers, but I am taking a gamble that maybe it will gain some traction if I just start it. Every Monday I will post a topic for the movie...
Edit: Voting closed
My initial post didn't get a lot of answers, but I am taking a gamble that maybe it will gain some traction if I just start it.
Every Monday I will post a topic for the movie of the week based on the voting results. We need 5 titles for each Monday - including October 30 this time around.
Going for a voting system in the hope that people will have a little more motivation to participate than if it was just pure random. To keep it manageable I propose we vote for the next month in advance - also to keep the number of voting posts to a minimum.
It will not be free for all, but will allow votes within a very broad category.
For November it will be Academy Award Winners (in any category). Can be sound, costumes, best supporting actress, foreign language, best picture or any of them - excluding shorts and documentaries for now (we could do that as a theme later).
Rules
- Must be a winner of at least one Academy Award (Oscar) in any category
- Feature film only (no shorts or documentaries)
- Only one nomination per user
- Please only nominate if you intent to participate
Use this list as inspiration.
Five most voted nominations will be done in random order on a Monday starting from the 30th of October.
If this goes well, I will post a new voting post in the end of November.
16 votes -
Why Amarillo, Texas hit pause on proposed abortion travel ban adopted elsewhere in Texas
15 votes -
FFmpeg - Merging multiple videos containing chapters into one with chapters from originals
Hello, I have quite some technical question and my DuckDuckGo-fu seems very weak on this one. I hope it is ok to post questions on Tildes, as it is not really discussion material... but someone...
Hello,
I have quite some technical question and my DuckDuckGo-fu seems very weak on this one. I hope it is ok to post questions on Tildes, as it is not really discussion material... but someone can still learn and use whatever come from this.
I have Live Aid concert that I ripped from my DVDs and I wanted to merge the individual video files (there are four) into one long video. I'm on Linux and I'm used to ffmpeg in command line, though I do not know it that much. Each of the input videos has its own chapters and I would like to transfer those chapters into the final video as well. Preferably adding a chapter in between every input video.
I was unable to find if ffmpeg allows for something like that in a single inline command. I may have to export chapters from each input video and add them into one "chapter" file and redo times by hand on them and then use this file as "chapter" input when merging the videos, but all this is just a theory on my part.
Is there some FFmpeg expert here who has done something like that?
12 votes -
Unreal Engine 5 first generation games: brilliant visuals & growing pains
11 votes -
Why the “privacy” wars rage on
12 votes -
Swarm of earthquakes in Iceland heralds next volcanic eruption – scientists say rise in seismic activity confirms south-west region is in buildup phase
11 votes -
Matthew Perry, ‘Friends’ star, dies at 54
73 votes -
Modernizing railways for high speeds: the engineering challenges in setting speed zones
10 votes -
Trade tops the agenda as Germany’s Olaf Scholz meets Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu on West Africa trip
8 votes -
Show Tildes: how I built the largest open database of Australian law
28 votes -
Head tracking for desktop VR displays using the WiiRemote (2007)
6 votes -
How did deepfake images of me end up on a porn site?
35 votes -
The Rideshare Protocol (TRIP)
15 votes -
Nidelven Blå from Norway is the world's best cheese for 2023
10 votes -
The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, is now fully online
21 votes -
Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
18 votes -
"Did the entire media industry misquote a Hamas spokesperson?" (searching for sources of the initial hospital bombing claims)
31 votes -
Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM
31 votes -
Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story
21 votes -
Drought and salt tolerant pumpkins grown for food in Bangladesh - potential uses worldwide
15 votes -
Simulating an ocean for 100 days
10 votes -
Album of the Week #6: Moby - Play
This is Album of the Week #6 ~ This week's album is Moby - Play Year of Release: 1999 Genre(s): Downtempo Country: United States Length: 63 minutes Album.Link Excerpt from The Quietus: Abandoned...
This is Album of the Week #6 ~ This week's album is Moby - Play
Year of Release: 1999
Genre(s): Downtempo
Country: United States
Length: 63 minutes
Album.LinkExcerpt from The Quietus:
Abandoned by a fickle and uncaring industry, Play was conceived as Moby’s swansong, a final gesture of creative surrender before sinking back into obscurity. And yet it’s precisely that sense of abandon which helped it eventually shift 12 million copies. Listening to the album through that personal lens, it becomes clear that this is not mere chill-out fodder, but a wistful and valedictory piece of work, a eulogy to opportunities squandered and a life (or one chapter of it) about to end.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
16 votes -
Keith eats everything at Cheesecake Factory - Part 1 | Eat The Menu
10 votes -
Denmark aims a wrecking ball at ‘non-Western’ neighborhoods
42 votes -
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright | BFI London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk
6 votes -
Do our moral beliefs need to be consistent?
15 votes -
The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
13 votes -
Everything I know about the tech industry I learned from baseball
5 votes -
Accuracy and academic credibility of Dr Geoff Lindsey, and his proposal to change IPA?
Hi, all. I'm (sadly) not a linguist and I have 0 exposure to academic circles of linguistics. However, I'm enthusiastic about learning, especially phonetics and etymology. Recently I've stumbled...
Hi, all. I'm (sadly) not a linguist and I have 0 exposure to academic circles of linguistics. However, I'm enthusiastic about learning, especially phonetics and etymology.
Recently I've stumbled across the YouTube channel of Dr Geoff Lindsey. He predominantly calls for a change in the way we represent phonemes in IPA, and his videos are compelling and well-argued. However, as with all YouTube content, it's done in a vacuum, with only references to and from his teacher and colleagues within the videos themselves.
So far, I'm convinced of the arguments he presents throughout his videos, but I'd be keen to hear what other academics or full-time students/scholars of linguistics think about them and whether there are any weaknesses (e.g. it appears to be centred around British English). I'm also curious how well-known and/or well-respected his views are, if only for my own peace of mind. That's not to say that one needs respect to be correct, but if they have a lot of support from peers then that's good to know.
I'm not looking to stir anything up, here, but I trust that my fellow Tildelings know that already. I'd love to see discussion if possible.
Many thanks in advance.
Edit: Here is one of the key videos in which he talks about the issues with some IPA symbols.
12 votes