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13 votes
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Kernel Panic - The world's first cyber crime: The Morris Worm
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"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie", written and directed by Vince Gilligan and starring Aaron Paul, will be released on Netflix on October 11
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Tyranny of the Clock - Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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Anthony Levandowski, former Uber self-driving car executive, indicted for alleged theft of trade secrets from Google
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Andrés Digital - Mixtape Colombiano (2019)
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Infinity Shred - Cranemaker (2019)
4 votes -
Fairphone updates its ethical smartphone for 2019
18 votes -
Hong Kong activists booted from Montreal Pride parade after alleged pro-Communist threats
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Knights and Bikes | Launch Trailer
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Men
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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What purpose does Tildes serve that Reddit does not?
It's a question I'm sure has been asked in a better way many times before, but somehow I haven't found it in search so I'll just post it here.
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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
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Anthony Michael Hall joins horror sequel ‘Halloween Kills’
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Icelanders can't remember a hotter summer – it's nice, and worrying
7 votes -
The next recession will destroy millennials
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Northern Ireland's ex-Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty joins Sarpsborg 08 in Norway
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Aarhus on Monday introduced Viking-style traffic lights at seventeen locations in the city
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What does everyone think of Pathfinder 2nd edition?
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The International 2020 – Valve announced that next year's Dota 2 event will take place in Stockholm, Sweden
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‘Like’ isn’t a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
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Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea
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Every year, Paris holds a Grand Prix to crown the city’s best baguette – and in recent years, the winners have been bakers whose ‘origins’ are far from France
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Moving out tips
I'm moving out: in the coming weeks I'll move to an apartment in Ankara, Turkey. This is the first time I'll have a home of my own, and the first time I live in an apartment as opposed to our...
I'm moving out: in the coming weeks I'll move to an apartment in Ankara, Turkey. This is the first time I'll have a home of my own, and the first time I live in an apartment as opposed to our detached family home. I wonder if any of you have tips for a 25yo master's student moving out and changing city!
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
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A bad year for onions
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'Walk away': ACCC finds franchisors failing to outline rent, wages
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The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds 'sound' words predict psychosis
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I think formatting is broken inside expandable "<details>" sections
UPDATE: It is actually NOT broken, but it seems that a blank line is required after the <summary> tags for it to work. Therefore, this does not work: > Interstellar - just watch it I like this...
UPDATE:
It is actually NOT broken, but it seems that a blank line is required after the
<summary>
tags for it to work.-
Therefore, this does not work:
> Interstellar - just watch it I like this movie a lot. BUT, it bothers me that <details> <summary>spoiler</summary> a story so grounded in hard science fiction chose an unjustified book metaphor to represent a dimension that would be, for us, absolutely unknowable. I much prefer the choice made by Kubrick in *2001, A Space Odyssey*: to represent one abstraction with another, preserving the alien character of an inhuman reality. </details>
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But this does:
> Interstellar - just watch it I like this movie a lot. BUT, it bothers me that <details> <summary>spoiler</summary> a story so grounded in hard science fiction chose an unjustified book metaphor to represent a dimension that would be, for us, absolutely unknowable. I much prefer the choice made by Kubrick in *2001, A Space Odyssey*: to represent one abstraction with another, preserving the alien character of an inhuman reality. </details>
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Weathering With You film is Japan's first anime submitted for Oscar in International Category since 1998
7 votes -
Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops
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Twitch suspends popular leftist streamer after controversial 9/11 comments
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How Elon Musk fooled investors, bilked taxpayers, and gambled Tesla to save SolarCity
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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!
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Some <details> about more <small> updates (you'll get that in a minute) and general Tildes feedback/questions/comments
Similar to the last topic, I've got some more minor updates to let everyone know about. It's also been quite a while since we had a general feedback topic, so let's do that today as well—feel free...
Similar to the last topic, I've got some more minor updates to let everyone know about.
It's also been quite a while since we had a general feedback topic, so let's do that today as well—feel free to ask any questions or give feedback about Tildes overall.
Here's what's been happening:
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@Algernon_Asimov's major reorganizing and rework of the Docs is now live on https://docs.tildes.net. A decent number of changes needed to be made to be able to support having the pages in categories/folders, dealing with some formatting changes, redirecting old urls, etc. Some of these changes have started being integrated back into the wiki on Tildes itself as well (and I'm still gradually working on it). For example, the pages in the ~tildes.official wiki are somewhat organized into the same folders, even though the UI doesn't handle it very well in a lot of places yet.
If you want to help edit the Docs at all, all of the pages (except site policies) are available in the ~tildes.official wiki, and I'll review and transfer any edits to the Docs site. If you don't have access to edit the wiki, send me a message and ask and I can give you access to edit (and you can edit the other groups' wikis too).
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Some new HTML-exclusive formatting capabilities are available when writing posts:
<small>
: lets you write a section of text in a smaller font. Good for "side notes" and such, and much better than using superscript, which some people were doing previously to get that effect.<details>
and<summary>
: lets you make "expandable" blocks in your comments. This is useful if you want to do things like hide a large block of text or code and let people expand it if they want to read it. @hungariantoast used it immediately in his comment here, if you want to see an example. The current state of it isn't great for use for spoilers (but probably better than just writing them in plain sight), but I may make an adaptation of it specifically for use for spoilers.
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There's a new site theme available, "Zenburn". It's a fairly low-contrast, and used to be one of my favorite color schemes. I had to do some work on one of my old sites that was using it last weekend, and it reminded me how much I liked it, so I added it. Here's the official screenshot of the vim color scheme for it, if you want an idea of what colors it uses. You can change the theme on the settings page if you're logged in, or there's a dropdown at the bottom of every page if you're logged out.
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@deing has added a small warning to try to let people know when they're about to reply to an old comment or topic, since it seems fairly common for people to accidentally "necrobump" old threads without realizing. For now, the warning shows up when the topic/comment is over a week old. I set that threshold based on pulling out some stats and seeing that only 1% of comment replies and 2% of top-level comments were replying to anything that old, so it should be quite rare for anyone to see anyway.
Other than that, I haven't forgotten about the new group proposals and should be adding some new ones this week. I wanted to finish some backend changes to the group system first to help with that, and it's... gotten more ugly than I was expecting. Sorry for the delay, hopefully soon though.
Let me know if you have any thoughts about any of those changes, and as mentioned, feel free to use this topic for general feedback/questions as well, since I'm sure there are some things that people want to give feedback or ask about that might not feel like they're worth starting a thread in ~tildes for. As usual, I've also topped everyone back up to 10 invite codes, which you can get here.
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Transgender and gender nonconforming people say they have been pressured to expose their genitals during TSA searches at airports
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USPS Leaving International Mail Union Set to Disrupt U.S. Elections
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The great battle of fire and light
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What are your favorite movies of 2019 so far?
Since we're fast approaching the second half of the year, I think it's a good time to look back on the first half, to the movies that came out this year and to share our favorites. I'm giving my...
Since we're fast approaching the second half of the year, I think it's a good time to look back on the first half, to the movies that came out this year and to share our favorites. I'm giving my favorite 10 (though in no particular order) but if more or fewer stood out to you and you want to share all of them, feel free! Blockbusters, indies, comedies, dramas, whatever stands out to you from 2019 so far. Don't feel pressured to write anything but the title or a basic synopsis if you don't want to.
- Apollo 11: Okay, I know I said this list isn't in order, but this one is definitely #1. It's history in motion, and its images and editing will surely be seared into my mind as the way I think of the Apollo launch.
- An Elephant Sitting Still: Technically came out in 2018 in some regions, but has a 2019 release in my country, which is the order I'm organizing this list in. A beautiful and heartbreaking journey into universal pain and suffering and catharsis in the tiniest things. At nearly 4 hours and with an oppressively melancholy tone, I struggle to recommend it to everyone and anyone, but if the description interests you, definitely give it a look.
- The Farewell: Hilarious and sad, often in the same moment. My love of this may well have been colored by my experiences as an immigrant under very similar circumstances as its main character, but it's an interesting look at differing cultural philosophies of the worth of the individual on their own versus their relation to society.
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco: A layered critique of gentrification and the personal individual obsessions that keep us from truly seeing it and other issues in our world as they happen. It's filled to the brim with things to say, sometimes to a detriment, and some of the screentime spent just showing the sad beauty of San Francisco could've been used to further flesh out some of its ideas, but I still found it extremely compelling all the way through.
- John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum: I think the John Wick movies get a little more bloat on them every entry(much like their titles, actually), but the action only seems to get slicker. I still like the balance of the world, character work, and action in Chapter 2 the best, but while I think 3 drags itself down into its lore a bit too much, its setpieces are still top of the line. I find Keanu endlessly killing people left and right to be incredibly cathartic. Should probably talk to someone about that.
- Burial of Kojo: This doesn't say "Netflix original" on it, but it does seem to be distributed by them in all the countries I checked, so I don't know what's happening there. Regardless, there's a good chance you'll find this on Netflix in your country. I'm willing to admit this movie is heavily, deeply flawed. It overtelegraphs many of its plot points repeatedly, for one. But I also think it is filled with a gorgeous charm. It's light fantasy and grounded fairy tale feels half Tarsem and half Guillermo del Toro, and I was captivated from beginning to end.
- Booksmart: I find the new crop of female led high school movies (Booksmart, Edge of Seventeen, Eighth Grade) to be far more relatable and interesting than the dozens of high school movies of decades prior. It feels like the hands of the filmmakers is more on the pulse of the struggles of modern kids. Booksmart is very much a heightened comedy compared to the other examples I mentioned, but it is great at it. It's hilarious, even if there's one scene in particular that goes on forever. The comparisons to Superbad are mostly warranted, and I still lie awake at night, sad at the fact that I saw this opening night and the theater was mostly empty.
- Dear Ex: The Netflix revolution of every indie movie ending up on streaming services and leaving the theaters to the blockbusters isn't quite happening at the speed originally anticipated, but it definitely seems like more and more of my favorites of the year end up being a streaming original. Dear Ex is a Netflix film about different people grappling with the loss of one man, and it shows the power of the individual to connect the lives of the people they love, and of the many tools we employ to try to get over losses in our lives.
- High Flying Bird: Yet another Netflix movie. Steven Soderbergh is one of the people who can make a bearable heist movie in this day and age imo, and he lends that gift to this to make a movie where the heist isn't money or jewels, but the basic rights of human beings being trampled on by a system that creates middle men to suck up money, leaving the real workers with pennies. It's shot on an iPhone, and there are moments where that seems like a limitation, but honestly, a lot of it looks really impressive.
- Ash is Purest White: This is Jia Zhangke well within his comfort zone, looking at the strain put on human relationships by the passage of time and the everchanging effects of globalization and shifting national landscapes. The World(2004) (aka Shijie) is still my favorite of his, and it is definitely an idea he's explored before, but his ideas and commentary on it have never failed me to keep me enthralled all the same.
I have a list of all the 2019 movies I see that I consider "good" here (29 films at the time of writing this) if anyone wants to take a look at all of them.
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Suggestion: Spoiler Tag on comments that collapses them
I don't know if this would be only an option when you are creating a comment, or added to the list of tags like "Exemplary" and such, but an option to have a "Spoiler" comment tag that collapses...
I don't know if this would be only an option when you are creating a comment, or added to the list of tags like "Exemplary" and such, but an option to have a "Spoiler" comment tag that collapses the comment but doesn't affect ranking might be a good edition to the "What is your favorite media/What have you consumed recently/Recommendation threads." It's also something that the site already supports, and most importantly, looks atheistically pleasing to me compared to highlightable Spoiler Script.
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Life after reading "The Uninhabitable Earth"
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Asus announces ZenBook Pro Duo - Dual screen laptop
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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PewDiePie surpasses 100m subscriber mark on YouTube
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World of Warcraft Classic's game director Ion Hazzikostas reflects on the genesis of the idea, its challenging development, and the importance of a unified community
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We tried to do vanlife right. It broke us down.
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A tourist infected with measles visited Disneyland and other Southern California hotspots in mid-August
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I'm not a robot
7 votes