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18 votes
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Chinese woman in Beijing goes on one hundred blind dates per year
29 votes -
Front-of-package protein labels on cereal create health halos
7 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
6 votes -
Hawaii-born sumo champion Akebono Taro dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Japan
10 votes -
ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying
9 votes -
Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
7 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?
3 votes -
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
33 votes -
Twitter replaces twitter.com with x.com without user consent. Bad implementation invites an influx of Phishing attacks. (german source)
48 votes -
With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
17 votes -
How do I sell a car?
Found a few threads on buying cars and I'm reading though them. Looking for advice on how to sell one. Should I? I've got a GM vehicle that's just under 10 years ago, but I don't like it. It's got...
Found a few threads on buying cars and I'm reading though them. Looking for advice on how to sell one.
- Should I?
I've got a GM vehicle that's just under 10 years ago, but I don't like it. It's got so many more tiny things wrong with it than my previous cars (20 year old corolla, driven into the ground; 15 year old caravan, totalled; 30 years old Buick that gave up the ghost).....I feel like I already got the "best" years out of this GM vehicle and it's all going to be downhills from here. Am I being irrational and should I just keep driving it until it's irreparable, even if the repairs feel more and more frequent and surprising? Essentially I don't have any confidence in this vehicle and I would like to get rid of it and try again with a Honda or Toyota.
- How?
If I'm selling it, how do I lose less money doing so? Dealerships feel like snake pits to me. Craigslist/Kijiji/Facebook? Do locations matter? Can I sell a car to a dealership in a different province?
15 votes -
Applejuicification: why the fruit is found in so many mixed juices
31 votes -
Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
15 votes -
O.J. Simpson dies at age 76 after battle with cancer
12 votes -
The Triple-i Initiative 2024: A new gaming showcase
15 votes -
Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud
33 votes -
Don’t set up wildcard DNS records for GitHub Pages
18 votes -
Why large language models like ChatGPT treat Black- and White-sounding names differently
10 votes -
Eclipse plans
Surprised there's not really a thread yet, so I'll start it. What plans have you made for today's eclipse? I know people have traveled from all over the world to see it. We happen to live in the...
Surprised there's not really a thread yet, so I'll start it. What plans have you made for today's eclipse? I know people have traveled from all over the world to see it.
We happen to live in the path of totality so no travel needed. Actually even less travel than we thought. We were going to go to a parking garage at a nearby mall, but it turns out we have a pretty good view of the sun from our backyard! We also went to grab fast food as a treat and saw a bunch of people walking to the nearby park.
How about everyone else?
25 votes -
The Pong horror movie | Red Letter Media animated
8 votes -
Wooden fence building recommendations
My wooden privacy fence was blown over in a storm (Houston, TX), any recommendations for the best way to rebuild? Currently thinking of Shadowbox, fence hanger brackets, three rails, with a...
My wooden privacy fence was blown over in a storm (Houston, TX), any recommendations for the best way to rebuild?
Currently thinking of Shadowbox, fence hanger brackets, three rails, with a rot/kick board.
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A discovery among the mummies reveals a sick, sad truth. Parasitic worms plagued these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
8 votes -
'The Sympathizer' review: HBO series from Park Chan-wook shocks you
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Tildes Minecraft Survival - World downloads
It's been fun! See you all this summer for the server's 1.21 revival! Here are the downloads by dimension (use a torrent client): Overworld:...
It's been fun! See you all this summer for the server's 1.21 revival!
Here are the downloads by dimension (use a torrent client):
- Overworld:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0b285293d2cddba1b90ba14cae88d2d2eaa43505&dn=tildes.zip
- 1.46 GB - Nether:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:112ca439b384dd4e6029d205edac8bdd8681e2ca&dn=tildes_nether.zip
- 76 MB - The End:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5cec4b31fe351681c85de4866cd21819fbd1c092&dn=tildes_the_end.zip
- 44 MB
29 votes - Overworld:
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Joker: Folie à Deux | Official teaser trailer
15 votes -
With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, 'City of Heroes' lives again
53 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?
6 votes -
Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil
7 votes -
Tildes Book Club - We will be discussing Piranesi the third week in April
Thanks to everyone who discussed Cloud Atlas and to those who attempted to read it and to those who read along at home. Piranesi is significantly shorter than Cloud Atlas. I hope you will join us...
Thanks to everyone who discussed Cloud Atlas and to those who attempted to read it and to those who read along at home.
Piranesi is significantly shorter than Cloud Atlas. I hope you will join us in reading and discussing in a month.
33 votes -
In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft?
16 votes -
Tildes is changing the way I use and think about online engagement. How about you?
I'm used to browsing places like reddit, mastodon, kbin.social and midnight.pub. If I'm lucky I can find something lighthearted, witty or interesting. But there's a lot of outrageous posts as well...
I'm used to browsing places like reddit, mastodon, kbin.social and midnight.pub. If I'm lucky I can find something lighthearted, witty or interesting. But there's a lot of outrageous posts as well as personal ramblings that make the effort feel like a slog.
I was slow to get into Tildes because I didn't find much "quick hit" posts, such as a good topical quip. I also wasn't as sure how to navigate to places I might want to post. But I did find it very easy to engage with existing posts.
It's in these existing posts that the transformative stuff happened for me. On other sites, long-form posts were often not in my interest or self-indulgent. But I found myself taking my time here, perhaps guided by the thoughtful comments that I saw already beneath the posts. Looking back, it's like a tone was set that I respected and didn't want to diminish.
The result is that I find the other sites under-stimulating, in spite of their design. Tildes has been really good for helping me reform my internet habits. I don't have that regret of excessive internet use as much now. Thanks to deimos and everyone on the site that makes it what it is.
If I miss one thing, it's using my native language. But at the same time, my gut says that things are good just as they are.
63 votes -
The migrant highway that could sway the US election
11 votes -
Critical vulnerability in Rust's Command library allows for command injection when using its API to invoke batch scripts with arguments on Windows systems (CVE-2024-24576)
18 votes -
Ronda Rousey: ‘I never wanted to talk about concussion. It felt like a weakness.’
7 votes -
Darkest Dungeon II | Kingdoms announcement trailer
7 votes -
If we can't block users can we at least filter out topics posted by those users?
It seems like Tildes is not going to ever get a block user function. But it would be really handy if I could get a filter to auto-ignore any topics started by certain users. Would this be...
It seems like Tildes is not going to ever get a block user function.
But it would be really handy if I could get a filter to auto-ignore any topics started by certain users. Would this be something that Tildes would ever implement?
48 votes -
Streets of Rogue 2 | Official gameplay trailer
11 votes -
The Rogue Prince of Persia | Reveal trailer
4 votes -
How Chinese students experience America
23 votes -
How Finding Your Roots turns DNA research into essential TV
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I am moving to New Jersey! Anything I should know?
Hi Tildeans, Today I accepted an offer in New Jersey situated in New Brunswick. My partner and I will be moving out there likely late July/early August. We will be bringing two dogs, one cat, and...
Hi Tildeans,
Today I accepted an offer in New Jersey situated in New Brunswick. My partner and I will be moving out there likely late July/early August. We will be bringing two dogs, one cat, and one snake with us. For those that live around the area, is there anything I should know about finding places to rent (e.g. places to avoid)? We are willing to be a little bit away from New Brunswick, but I would like to have easy access to the rail line that goes through the city so I can commute in without the use of a car.
Also, what are some recommendations for places to check out when we get there? We have pretty broad tastes when it comes to art, food, outdoor activities, and all of that. Lastly, if there is anything else you think I should know about the broader East coast area please feel free to share!
24 votes -
The making of Pentiment
7 votes -
What resources are available in a modern library?
20 votes -
Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
35 votes -
Ffmpeg and AV1 for HTML5 streaming
I've been looking around online at compatibility for HTML5 browser streaming. It looks like straight up AV1 in a MP4 container is becoming absolutely fine for browser playback on devices. Is...
I've been looking around online at compatibility for HTML5 browser streaming. It looks like straight up AV1 in a MP4 container is becoming absolutely fine for browser playback on devices.
Is anyone using this on webpages yet? The sooner we move to AV1, the sooner we can have high quality video stored at smaller file sizes, which is a massive bonus.
Right now my company video hosting is purely in MP4 with H264, moov atom to the front as per the requirement, and it plays back on everything with no fallback in a straight HTML5 video container. What's the chance of switching to AV1 and not having to worry about the fallback for the most part?
Edit: I should have used a better title. I used FFMpeg for MP4 and AV1 creation/encoding. This is more about HTML5 video container code and direct AV1 file playback.
20 votes -
Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will be the country's next prime minister, replacing Katrín Jakobsdóttir who resigned from the post last week
4 votes -
Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water
26 votes -
New SimCity 4 mod gives it a fully functioning 3d camera
22 votes -
Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Developer gameplay preview
4 votes