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18 votes
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Netflix to Stream Evangelion Series, Death & Rebirth, End of Evangelion Films Spring 2019
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Stuff In Space
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The embroidered computer
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So what's up with Voat?
hey all! i think this is my first ~talk post, 👀 nice place ye got here! so, i got to thinking about social media sites a few days ago (whilst trying to brainstorm a sideproject that isn't a social...
hey all!
i think this is my first ~talk post, 👀 nice place ye got here!
so, i got to thinking about social media sites a few days ago (whilst trying to brainstorm a sideproject that isn't a social media site) and i got to thinking about Voat.
it seemed like an interesting idea at first, a nearly literal copy-paste of old reddit meant a system that i was already used to, but i'd also be early enough to get whatever username i want, and they even have a cute little goat!
and then uhh
reddit got rid of a lot of hate-communities
and they all went to voat.
now - i guess that's fine. if they want to all exile themselves into their own corner of the internet, i can't stop em
but my question is like - what about the people behind Voat? obviously there's people running the site, there's investment money involved, and they have to know that their site is the front-yard above-ground pool with green water of the internet, right?
i tried looking for some interviews of the founder - but i couldn't find anything.
any of you lot know what's goin' on with voat? what are your thoughts on the site itself? its longevity?
30 votes -
Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger
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Venezuela opposition leader swears himself in as interim president
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Why incels are a 'real and present threat' for Canadians
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When YouTube red-pills the love of your life
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Ian Lance Taylor: “Go intentionally has a weak type system, (…)”
Recently, Ian Lance Taylor, one of the most productive contributors to Go and, IIRC, the original author of gccgo, has written a very interesting comment on his view of the language: (…) Go...
Recently, Ian Lance Taylor, one of the most productive contributors to Go and, IIRC, the original author of gccgo, has written a very interesting comment on his view of the language:
(…) Go intentionally has a weak type system, and there are many restrictions that can be expressed in other languages but cannot be expressed in Go. Go in general encourages programming by writing code rather than programming by writing types. (…)
I found this distinction, writing code vs. writing types, very insightful. In my experience, in a language like Rust or (modern fancy) C++ the programmer is constantly forced to think about types, while when I program in Go or C, I almost never think about them. Types are, in fact, almost always obvious. It is also interesting that languages like Haskell and Idris explicitly expect the programmer to program with types.
What do you think?
9 votes -
Virtual subway train journey (Binaural audio. Wear headphones) ASMR
8 votes -
Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights
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Filtering specific users
Currently, we can filter posts based on topic tags, is there any chance we could get the same based upon users? Preferably for comments and topics. There are times when I might be interested in a...
Currently, we can filter posts based on topic tags, is there any chance we could get the same based upon users? Preferably for comments and topics. There are times when I might be interested in a sub-tilde group, but for one reason or another, not a specific user's content in that group. Is this a bad idea?
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Fake news is more likely to be shared by older people — but we don't know why
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Your own "main" user page (both topics and comments) is now paginated - this will be extended to everyone soon, so last warning to do any history cleanup
Things have been really quiet for the past few weeks. I've been pretty deep into server-admin-type work trying to get the site ready to be publicly visible, and while I have a decent understanding...
Things have been really quiet for the past few weeks. I've been pretty deep into server-admin-type work trying to get the site ready to be publicly visible, and while I have a decent understanding of that side of things I'm definitely not an expert, so I've been doing a lot of reading and experimenting that hasn't really looked like much happening from the outside.
I'm pretty happy with the state of everything now though, and I'm intending to make the site publicly visible (but still requiring an invite to register/participate) sometime next week. Part of that will be making some changes that have been overdue for a while, and catching up on merge requests and other things that have been getting backlogged while I've been in server-admin mode (and I apologize to all the people that have submitted those that I've been neglecting).
So this change is one that I've said is coming for a long time: your "main" user page is now paginated, and you no longer need to select "Topics" or "Comments" to be able to look back through older posts. For the moment, this is still restricted to only your own page, but on Monday, I will be enabling pagination on all user pages. So this is the final warning that if there's anything in your history you'd like to edit or delete before people can easily look back through your history, you should do it in the next few days.
I'm still considering whether to add any options for restricting the visibility of your user history, but I think it's really important to stress that anything like that will always be a false sense of privacy. I know for a fact that at least one person has already fully scraped all the comment threads on the site, and probably already has the ability to look through everyone's posting history if they want to (and they could easily make that data available to others). Once the site is publicly visible, scraping everything will be even more common, and it simply can't be prevented. If you post things, it will always be possible for someone to find them.
That being said, one thing that I am considering is making it so that logged-out users won't have access to pagination on user pages (similar to how it is for everyone else's user pages right now). It's still a false sense of privacy, but it at least lowers the convenience a little and means that someone will have to get an invite to be able to dig through anyone's history easily (though there's still the possibility that someone scrapes all the data and makes it browseable/searchable on an external site). Anyone have any opinions on whether it's worth doing that, or should I just let everyone look through user pages, whether they're logged in or out?
And since I haven't done it in a while, I've topped everyone up to 10 invites again, so please feel free to invite anyone else you want before we get into the public-visibility phase.
Thanks - please let me know if you have any thoughts about user histories or if you notice any issues with paginating through your "mixed" history (since it was a bit weird to implement and I'm not 100% sure it's correct).
80 votes -
Climate, conflict, and forced migration - an empirical study of the causal path from climate change to violent conflict and asylum-seeking across 157 countries from 2006-2015
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Any advice on getting rid of intrusive thoughts?
Sometimes when I am thinking, these bad thoughts come into my mind, specifically images. I would rather elaborate not elaborate what the images are but they are all connected by a single object. I...
Sometimes when I am thinking, these bad thoughts come into my mind, specifically images. I would rather elaborate not elaborate what the images are but they are all connected by a single object.
I have tried meditation, and while I feel at peace for a few hours after meditating, the thoughts haven't really left long-term or gone down in frequency. Maybe I am meditating wrong. I am blindsided every time the thoughts appear.
Anyone have any experience with this?
30 votes -
Film composer Michel Legrand dead at 86
5 votes -
Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money to increase revenue
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
15 votes -
Jean Wyllys: Gay Brazil politician will not return over death threats
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Mexican workers are engaging in wildcat strikes at the border
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The Beatles: The strange history of Sexy Sadie
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“Most startups,” [Dan Lyons] writes, “are terribly managed, half-assed outfits run by buffoons and bozos and frat boys.”
9 votes -
How I abused 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change (Google, Microsoft, Instagram, Cloudflare, etc)
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A woman showed me her tattoo tonight
So I was at a concert this evening and when it was over and people were leaving the concert hall, I went up to a guy and said that I thought the tattoo he had on his neck of the band's logo was...
So I was at a concert this evening and when it was over and people were leaving the concert hall, I went up to a guy and said that I thought the tattoo he had on his neck of the band's logo was really cool and showed dedication. He simply nodded and said thanks, and then his mother (or girlfriend, I have no idea) poked my shoulder and showed me an identical one. It was in sort of between her breasts, but also underneath them. So she had to pull down her top and show a not insignificant amount of cleavage to show it to me. All I could say was "wow, very nice" with a stupid smile on my face. She just laughed and walked away, and it made my night!
Was a pretty good concert too by the way. Behemoth are an amazing band! :)
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey to change controversial DLC
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Inside the great Italian-Australian Prosecco debate
Inside The Great Italian-Australian Prosecco Debate The EU and Australia fight over prosecco and parmesan naming rights In Vino Veritas? The Dubious Legality of the EU’s Claims to Exclusive Use of...
6 votes -
Earth's magnetic pole is wandering, lurching toward Siberia
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GLAAD announces the nominees for the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards
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Brazil dam collapse: Several killed and many missing in Brumadinho
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Greek lawmakers ratify Macedonia's name change, ending nearly thirty-year dispute
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A journey through love with Richard Brautigan
so i've just recently learned about this guy, and his work is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. i'm admittedly crazy poorly-read (is that the antonym to well-read?) when it comes to... well,...
so i've just recently learned about this guy, and his work is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.
i'm admittedly crazy poorly-read (is that the antonym to well-read?) when it comes to...
well, anything besides self-help books released up to "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" by Mark Manson.
and his work has been concise and just fucking accurate enough for me to enjoy.
so i present you all,
a journey through love, with Richard Brautigan.
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Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they're
lined up for blocks, so I'll
go to bed with you. They won't
miss us.
in this first stage, we see that little Richie's met himself someone special, and off they go arm in arm to live happily ever after.
Romeo and Juliet
If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.
and here we see something that, personally, i found surprising from a poet who got his start in the 50s.
this piece emulates the incendiary, passionate, limitless love that some of us have been lucky enough to experience in the early years of our lives. the love where it's the both of you against the world. the love where the most mundane tasks seem incredulous solely because they're done together. the love that i have only seemed to find in life, through trauma bonding.
their love is powerful. their love is radiant.
I Feel Horrible, She Doesn't
I feel horrible. She doesn't
love me and I wander around
like a sewing machine
that's just finished sewing
a turd to a garbage can lid.
their love is over.
the crass yet poignant imagery somehow simultaneously flashing feelings of uselessness, self-loathing, and loss.
you are here.
Haiku Ambulance
A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?
the sheer stoicism here is inspiring to me.
this is the mindset that i want - and don't have the emotional energy to cultivate.
were Brautigan still around and kickin' today, i'd buy the man a shot of the best whiskey i could get with $7 and thank him for emulating the exact mindset i want, need, and desire
in four lines.
it's simple - the green paper is a fraud, illusory. from afar or even from near with a quick glance - the green paper is another leafy green of the salad. a leaf of lettuce, a bit of cabbage. even if you press your face into the bowl and smell, the paper will smell of salad and nothing but.
it falls onto the floor, you pick it up to throw it away. you notice the texture inapropos with more roughness, and frailty than a leaf of a vegetable. you test it - you tear it.
it was paper.
it was not the spinach you'd desired.
it was not real.
it was not what you wanted.
regardless of the time you've spent preparing the salad, chopping your veg, blending your dressing, tossing it all, and fixing it for presentation,
if you throw this paper out - it will be no loss, and your salad will only be better for it.
a green piece of paper fell off the wooden salad bowl.
so what?
Love Poem
the piece that brought Brautigan in to my attention in the first place.
It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.
resolve.
clarity.
peace.
the earlier bleach has gone unsipped. she has come, she has gone. he has suffered, he has grown.
and now, he is at peace.
his world back to...
normal.
this has been a journey through love with Richard Brautigan.
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ganz allein Glühwein.
I'VE GOT red wine nicotine fresh chocolate chip cookies the plaid heated blanket that keeps me cuddled up in the recliner that doubles as my bed. I'VE GOT red wine daydreams moving to a different...
I'VE GOT
red wine
nicotine
fresh chocolate chip cookies
the plaid heated blanket that keeps me
cuddled up in the recliner that doubles
as my bed.
I'VE GOT
red wine
daydreams
moving to a different city with a different scene
i wanna meet new friends,
try codeine
find love or find drugs to console me
I'VE GOT
red wine
thin skin
pink like your soft cheeks when they're sunkissed.
haulover beach, you were naked
on a trip,
and you screamed, and you screamed, and i hate it.
I'VE GOT
red wine
ain't shit
except seven little boxes full of bullshit
old love notes kissed with red lips
seven boxes of evidence you didn't mean shit.
I'VE GOT
a lotta bit of lethargy
all my energy drained.
i remember the day where you looked at my eyes
and you said "babe since you met me you don't look the same"
you looked at the bags,
(beat.)
and you said "that was me"
(beat.)
and of course i dismissed it
said babe don't be silly
i envisioned us happy and said that "you make me complete."
I'VE GOT
red wine
white lies.
red wine.
red wine.
GOT.
red wine
no time.
it's time.
lifeline.
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Subnautica's standalone expansion "Below Zero" will be available in Early Access on PC starting January 30
6 votes -
Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations
15 votes -
Defy Media shut down while owing its creators $1.7 million
5 votes -
Amplitude Games: Endless series free weekend
7 votes -
Development update on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch (development rebooted, Retro studios hired)
13 votes -
Factorio Friday Facts #279 - Train GUI and modern spitter
6 votes -
Anoushka Shankar - Voice of the moon (2005)
4 votes -
For CDC, US shutdown is no joke
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Nintendo Switch - Indie Highlights 2019
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Freddie Robinson - Off the Cuff (1973)
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Old topics with new comments don't show "(X new)"
I have the "mark new comments" option enabled. Most of the time, it works, displaying "(X new)" under any topics which have had new comments posted since I last looked at it. However, if the topic...
I have the "mark new comments" option enabled. Most of the time, it works, displaying "(X new)" under any topics which have had new comments posted since I last looked at it.
However, if the topic is old enough, this "(X new)" notification does not display. The topic is sorted to the top of my feed, because I'm using activity from all-time as my default sort. But it doesn't show "(X new)". I know it has new comments, or it wouldn't jump to the top of my feed, but I'm not seeing that notification.
I don't know how old is "old enough" but it's definitely longer than a month. The topics this is happening to are 3 or 6 months old, but it doesn't seem to happen for topics which are only a few weeks old.
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Thai cave rescue heroes named 2019 Australians of the Year
6 votes -
US President Donald Trump ally Roger Stone arrested on seven charges in Robert Mueller inquiry
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Toadbollock, Dustiberd and Lytillskyll: historian on what names can tell us about everyday medieval life
3 votes -
Alan Alda has a podcast about communication... and its excellent!
4 votes -
Venezuela crisis: Russia condemns bid to 'usurp power' from Maduro
7 votes