-
32 votes
-
Floor Jansen & Henk Poort - Phantom Of The Opera (2019)
4 votes -
Alan Smithee - the director who doesn't exist
I just found out about this and it's something I guess I should have known about before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used...
I just found out about this and it's something I guess I should have known about before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee
Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000,[1] it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the movie or even to acknowledge being the project's director.
12 votes -
Blitzchung's personal statement on Blizzard and his ban after voicing support for HK
11 votes -
Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
7 votes -
Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection (2014)
6 votes -
An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps
13 votes -
The moment of relief I felt was followed by guilt and yes, pity
9 votes -
The Left Rights - I'M ON CRACK (2010)
6 votes -
Steam LGBTQ+ Games Sale
11 votes -
I’m convinced we found evidence of life on Mars in the 1970s
23 votes -
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
13 votes -
From failures in Europe to Finland great, the fall and rise of the Norwich striker Teemu Pukki
5 votes -
Eighty years on, the debate over electro-convulsive therapy continues
11 votes -
MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
8 votes -
A good discussion, deleted, *again*?
I've noticed a trend (with Reddit, but I don't exclude the possibility it could be happening elsewhere) that people post a topic, then a day later they delete it. I've always been of the opinion...
I've noticed a trend (with Reddit, but I don't exclude the possibility it could be happening elsewhere) that people post a topic, then a day later they delete it. I've always been of the opinion that the best use of a discussion forum is to leave an answered topic for future posters to find. Especially when a community is hardcore anti-repost.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this, or have others come across this too?
14 votes -
The Good Place S04E03 - "Chillaxing” discussion thread
So, anyone have any thoughts on yesterday's episode?
10 votes -
Planting tiny spy chips in hardware can cost as little as $200
8 votes -
Christian right tactics to fight trans rights: seperate the T from LGBT
12 votes -
Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon mark by twenty seconds
7 votes -
Please tell me what you think about this idea for a text editor/Linux Distribution combo
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money. In the old days, my father had some kind of machine...
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money.
In the old days, my father had some kind of machine that was not a proper laptop and not a proper typewriter. It opened instantly to a text editor. As far as I remember, there was no noticeable boot time. It had a keyboard and an entry for a floppy disk. You typed your stuff, saved it to the floppy disk, probably to send via email or to print in another machine. I loved that machine.
I love these little gadgets that do one thing and one thing only. And, as someone with severe ADHD, they're often a necessity. If my Kindle had Youtube I would never read a book. If my PS4 had Emacs I would never play a game. The list goes on, but the principle is this: a lot of things are useful to me precisely because of what they cannot do.
And that is why I wanna recreate my father's crazy computer-typewriter.
Because I know how to use the command line, it really needs to be in total lockdown: I open it up, it shows a very simple text editor (with a few handy features that make it works even more like a typewriter) that I cannot configure, tinker or alter in any way. It's focused on writing (not editing) literature because that's what I need and other kinds of writing require an internet connection.
It would save and back up automatically (like a typewriter) to one or more drives at your choice.
There would need to be a few options because of different screen sizes, the number of screens etc, with an interface to make it easier.
So the idea is an ultra-minimal, kiosk-mode Linux distribution that can either go on a flash drive or be installed on an old laptop. No package management, no internet connection, no access to the command line, no configuration files, no distractions whatsoever. I wanna forget I'm even using Linux. I wanna recreate my father's typewriter/computer that he never let me touch.
How do I do this?
14 votes -
Mortiferum - Archaic Vision Of Despair (2019)
5 votes -
Meet the satellites that can pinpoint methane and carbon dioxide leaks
8 votes -
Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
17 votes -
On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
8 votes -
Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
16 votes -
SEC files emergency action and obtains a temporary restraining order to halt Telegram's cryptocurrency token offering
6 votes -
Where do you get your sense of community and belonging from?
I watched this talk with David Brooks and I was blown away. It was an eloquent talk with strong words on how we need to find our sense of community again at a variety of levels (local to...
I watched this talk with David Brooks and I was blown away. It was an eloquent talk with strong words on how we need to find our sense of community again at a variety of levels (local to national).
So I'm curious, what communities are you involved in? If you don't have a sense of belonging, where would you like to belong?
I suppose online communities would count, but I think the point is to have away-from-keyboard interactions because of the additional layers of intimacy.
19 votes -
What astronomers can learn from hot Jupiters, the scorching giant planets of the galaxy
4 votes -
‘We fear Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city’: An interview with Martin Lee, grandfather of democracy
8 votes -
‘Lore Olympus’: Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company will partner for YA animated series
4 votes -
The Homeschool Dropout - Psychosalad (The Wiggles And Slipknot Mash-Up) (2017)
6 votes -
Romantic regimes
6 votes -
Poles at the polls: Five things to know
5 votes -
Facebook’s Libra association crumbling as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others exit
11 votes -
Made in America: How four dishes with roots in other lands tell a story of immigration and transformation
5 votes -
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.
7 votes -
The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
5 votes -
Cocktails from the 1970s
6 votes -
The feminist history of ‘take me out to the ball game’
6 votes -
Bong Joon-ho’s dystopia is already here: The Korean director’s ruthless, bleak new film Parasite is the most fun you’ll have in theaters this fall
7 votes -
A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
8 votes -
Finland halts arms exports to Türkiye and condemns military operation in Syria
12 votes -
What does PewDiePie really believe? The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding
23 votes -
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
9 votes -
Denmark's gender pay gap among lowest in the world for self employed – Danes rank second in the world behind only Estonia
7 votes -
First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85
6 votes -
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
9 votes -
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX commercial crew mission in first-quarter 2020
6 votes -
A patient admitted to hospital in Sweden with a possible case of the Ebola virus has tested negative
3 votes