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4 votes
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Heathrow Airport installs anti-drone system to detect threats
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AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates—some people are convinced Apple’s latest earbuds worked better at launch
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DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Use this, not that: Positive swaps for the New Year
This is a bit of a sibling topic to the one about changing habits for 2020. Rather than looking at habits specifically, I want to look at "swaps" that people can make. What's something someone...
This is a bit of a sibling topic to the one about changing habits for 2020. Rather than looking at habits specifically, I want to look at "swaps" that people can make.
What's something someone could change out for a better alternative?
A swap should be recommended if it is,
- more ethical,
- more sustainable,
- heathier,
- or just overall better in an individual or collective way.
Importantly: the swap should be both feasible and sensical, and should be something that is relatively easy to do. This isn't about making huge lifestyle changes but about taking what we're already doing and making it better.
Please give your reasoning for your swap, as well as any important caveats. Mentioning specific brands/companies is fine if that's an important part of the swap. Also, swaps can be for anything so don't feel limited to consumer products. Feel free to give good food/service/app/software/store swaps as well!
See my post below for an example, if the setup I've given here is unclear!
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Tagging: "poem" or "poems"?
Simple question. For people's original poems posted in ~creative, should they be tagged "poem" or "poems"? "poetry" is the broader category, and includes discussions about poets and poetry in...
Simple question. For people's original poems posted in ~creative, should they be tagged "poem" or "poems"?
"poetry" is the broader category, and includes discussions about poets and poetry in general. However, when someone posts their poem, should that be tagged "poem" or "poems"?
The tagging guidelines say (or used to say - since I re-organised the Docs pages, I can't find this reference any more) that tags should be plural. That indicates that "poems" is the better tag. But the post contains a single poem, which makes "poem" the better tag.
Opinions?
EDIT: In the end, I went with the popular choice. When I looked at the tags used in ~creative, I found over a hundred topics tagged "poem" and only four topics tagged "poems". It seems that most people naturally choose "poem" when posting a poem, so I standardised the few differently tagged topics to use "poem".
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The Good Place S04E11 - "Mondays, Am I Right?" discussion thread
Chainsaw Bear!
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Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after 'barrage of attacks'
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Frequency scaling on Intel CPUs when using AVX-512 instructions
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I used to be an anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s what finally changed my heart and mind.
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How bad is the environmental impact of shipping/delivery?
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than...
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than picking them up from a store near you?
I'm specifically interested in two situations:
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If I'm buying a specialty, zero-waste product that's not available in stores nearby, which is worse: having it delivered directly to my house, or having to drive a good distance in my own car to get it? Are the two roughly comparable, or is one considerably worse than the other?
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I use a service called PaperBackSwap that is sort of like a big, distributed, online used bookstore. You give away books from your collection to people who request them, and for each book you send out you can request one to be sent to you. I like that it's putting books in the hands of people who specifically want them (as opposed to donating them or selling them to a used bookstore where they might be shelved indefinitely or pulped), but now I'm sitting here wondering how bad it is for that single hardcover of mine to travel halfway across the country. On the other hand, the book is getting reused, potentially multiple times if it then gets requested by others after that. Should I be considering this good reuse, or a waste of resources?
Outside of those two, I'd welcome any primers on the topic at large, as well as any best practices with consumer goods that I can start putting into place. I've already done a lot to find plastic-free alternatives to a lot of what I use, but I don't know if I'm trading one ill for another by getting them from places that have to send them from hundreds of miles away.
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DWeb SF Meet Up-- January
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Weird indexing
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Brazilian culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Göebbels
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The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2019 (Pt. 1)
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Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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Norwich City striker Teemu Pukki has been named the Finnish Athlete of the Year at a special ceremony in Helsinki
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Books and long-reads on technology history
I like reading about the development process of technology products (software and otherwise), even when I don't understand the tech bits. Maybe due to their open nature, it is not hard to find...
I like reading about the development process of technology products (software and otherwise), even when I don't understand the tech bits.
Maybe due to their open nature, it is not hard to find detailed articles, mailing list answers, and interviews that go deep about FOSS. But I also have an interest in massively successful/unsuccessful products with large, rich and sometimes convoluted creation process. So things link Linux, Windows (all versions), Mac OS, the iPhone, iOS, Android, etc.
My interest is not necessarily in biographies or accounts that deify so-called technology geniuses, but rather in narratives that don't shy from the nitty-gritty details of the technical/creative processes while also addressing the human/personal side of things.
It also doesn't need to be educational at all, I just realized these stories are enjoyable reads.
Any suggestions? ;)
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Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector
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In France, an iconic restaurant loses its third Michelin star — pushing national strikes and Iran off the front page
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When we give in to manufactured internet wars
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Is the USA evil?
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HBO won't pursue second season of 'Watchmen' after creator bows out
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Limit the number of posts from a particular site?
Would it be possible to limit the number of posts that are shown on the home page pointing to a given domain at one time? There have been a few times I've come to Tildes to see what's new and...
Would it be possible to limit the number of posts that are shown on the home page pointing to a given domain at one time? There have been a few times I've come to Tildes to see what's new and there are 5 or 10 posts that all link to different pages on the same site. I think this would help increase the amount of variety in the stories that are showing and make the site more interesting to users.
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NASA wants to grow a Moon base out of mushrooms
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Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to September
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What is a good free alternative to Wordpress that requires little coding?
I have basic notions of HTML and CSS, but nearly zero JS knowledge. I can perform simple customizations and I know how to follow instructions. It is not my intention to create anything from...
I have basic notions of HTML and CSS, but nearly zero JS knowledge. I can perform simple customizations and I know how to follow instructions.
It is not my intention to create anything from scratch (so the platform should have plenty of free themes), nor do I want to become a webdev or webdesigner. This is not a technical project for me, my main concern is the content.
I currently have a blog that uses Wordpress with a purchased theme. It's good enough, but a bit slow to load. Besides, simpler platforms might be easier to understand and manipulate.
This alternative would also need to be FOSS and easy to self-host.
As a plus, it would be awesome if I could manage the blog/website from within Emacs/Org Mode.
Any ideas?
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Mark Blyth - So can we have it all?
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The Virtues
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Norway's government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria
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Voters second choice candidates show a presidential race that is still fluid
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Oslo to introduce electric ferries from next year – five newly-built electric boats will ply their way around the Inner Oslofjord
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Train driver's view: "Stormy" winter conditions on the mountainpass (Bergen Line, Norway)
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Iceland's tourism revolution
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A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail
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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology
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Gay man who protested against Drag Queen Story Time dies by suicide
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay. Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event. The following...
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay.
Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event.
The following day, he was found dead at a local railway station, having committed suicide.
He has formerly campaigned against same-sex marriage.
His family have released a statement.
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Putin has suggested a bunch of constitutional amendments. Here’s what he wants to change
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Simon Kjaer says it's a dream to play for AC Milan after Sevilla loan move
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David Bowie - It's No Game pt. 1 (1980)
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Sweden could revive its night trains to Europe, agency finds – Malmö to Cologne is proposed as the first route for sleeper trains
7 votes -
The smallest Discman ever made - was smaller than a CD
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The case for being a medical conservative
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
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The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is out of preview and available for download
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Should public transit be free? More cities say, why not?
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Close your open tabs - Sometimes, information overload has its limits
14 votes