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49 votes
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The inability to count correctly: Debunking the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's calculation of the cryptographic security level of Kyber-512
25 votes -
Humble Choice - October 2023
October's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB The Quarry Deluxe Edition 79 85/80 Win...
October's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB The Quarry Deluxe Edition 79 85/80 Win Unsupported Gold Metal Hellsinger 79 97/97 Win Playable Gold Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes 73 94/88 Win Playable Platinum Rebel Inc: Escalation N/A 88/83 Win Mac Playable Gold Spirit of the Island N/A 78/71 Win Verified Gold Lords and Villeins TBC 36/77 Win Playable Platinum A Juggler's Tale 71 100/95 Win Verified Platinum Mr. Prepper TBC 75/82 Win Playable Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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What are your favorite no-refrigeration, no-microwave lunches?
I’m not a child, but I very often eat peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. They’re quick and easy to make, and I can leave them in my bag until lunch and then just eat them as-is. With banana...
I’m not a child, but I very often eat peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. They’re quick and easy to make, and I can leave them in my bag until lunch and then just eat them as-is. With banana slices inside, it’s a decent meal. I also prefer not eating meat, so it gets points for that too. But it’s not particularly exciting, not particularly well-balanced, and I frankly feel a little childish eating it.
The problem is that I very often have no refrigeration and no means of re-heating. I used to just have leftovers for lunch, but room temperature leftovers usually aren’t the most appealing.
For those of you who don’t buy lunch out, what do you do? Any recommendations for something that’s still tasty after sitting in a bag the whole morning?
35 votes -
Silent Night | Official trailer
8 votes -
Trip suggestions for a week in New York?
I’m going for a week in October with the whole family, so wife and kids aged 11 and 15. So far we are planning on seeing some shows off Broadway, doing most of the typical tourist things like...
I’m going for a week in October with the whole family, so wife and kids aged 11 and 15. So far we are planning on seeing some shows off Broadway, doing most of the typical tourist things like Central Park, Governor’s island, Times Square, the museums. We’re going to be staying in Hell’s Kitchen at a hotel. Anything off the beaten path that’s worth checking out?
Edit: OMG the floods, what have I got myself into?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-rain-flash-flooding
13 votes -
Raspberry pi zero w for running pihole (or home web server) - anything good/necessary accessories?
Hey, I thought folks on tildes might have some personal experience here. For context - I'm not stuck on the raspberry pi zero, and I'm open to alternatives. I'm looking at it because it's...
Hey, I thought folks on tildes might have some personal experience here. For context - I'm not stuck on the raspberry pi zero, and I'm open to alternatives. I'm looking at it because it's inexpensive ($15), which is my limiting factor right now.
I am curious to play around with pihole to block ads network wide. I'd also love to be able to run a web server to host my website. After some precursory research, I learned that raspberry pi zero w is a good option.
My question is - are there any other things that are good (or necessary) to purchase to go along with it? Asking because I am going to have to buy it online (one of the authorized sellers), and since I'm going to pay for shipping, I only want to make one purchase. So, if there's other things I need to get, I'd love to know.
Alternatively, if you have personal experience with an alternative device, I'm all ears. (P.S. I realize I could just run pihole on my laptop, but I don't want to do that, as I'd need to keep it running 24/7...) I did see some alternative devices (orange pi, for example). But they were all much more expensive ($40 + rather than $15 for raspberry pi zero w)
16 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump heading to trial in seven civil and criminal cases: A calendar of dates and what to expect
56 votes -
Meta Quest 3 convinced me to love VR by downplaying the metaverse
5 votes -
Allergy study on 'dirty' mice challenges the hygiene hypothesis
11 votes -
US FEMA and FCC plan nationwide emergency alert test for Oct. 4, 2023
27 votes -
Without a college degree, life in America is staggeringly shorter
21 votes -
Why games are too big
11 votes -
The war on stolen content
37 votes -
What happens in The Dark Knight [2012]
20 votes -
What game, in your opinion, has the best graphics?
Completely ignoring gameplay, which game do you think has the most amazing graphics? Which game do you look at and it makes you question how far technology has come? Or maybe which game has such...
Completely ignoring gameplay, which game do you think has the most amazing graphics? Which game do you look at and it makes you question how far technology has come? Or maybe which game has such effective art direction it completely sucks you in?
For me, it's Horizon Forbidden West. I just went back to the DLC after taking a break from it. I forgot just how good it looks! I swear it looks like every grain of sand is modeled, and the character models are insane.
20 votes -
The football ground with a steam railway running through it
10 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
4 votes -
Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that.
18 votes -
How do you keep track of your subscriptions?
We recently had a big thread about all of the subscriptions we find valuable. This is a follow-up to that: how do you keep track of and manage your subscriptions (if you do at all)? I’d love to...
We recently had a big thread about all of the subscriptions we find valuable.
This is a follow-up to that: how do you keep track of and manage your subscriptions (if you do at all)?
I’d love to have a sort of one-stop subscription management tracker where I can toggle things on and off and it can email me when something is coming due soon, but I’ve yet to find something like that I love.
If anyone has any tips, tricks, or pointers, I’d love to hear them!
20 votes -
Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font
18 votes -
Walt Disney Pictures in-house VFX workers vote to unionize under IATSE
32 votes -
Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta
12 votes -
Poverty, not the poor - a systematic analysis of the relatively high stable rate of US poverty using multinational data
21 votes -
Priscilla | Official trailer
3 votes -
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
40 votes -
Modern controls are needlessly convoluted
Now the topic may be inflammatory, so let me walk it back and say "in some cases" - let me explain; Just got me this gamepad and I absolutely adore it - for folks not wanting to click on a link,...
Now the topic may be inflammatory, so let me walk it back and say "in some cases" - let me explain;
Just got me this gamepad and I absolutely adore it - for folks not wanting to click on a link, think of it as a fancy SNES pad.
I got it as a fightpad and for that it is marvelous - and while I have no intentions of playing a 3d action game with it, I booted up some 2d indies and platformers to take it for a spin ... and realized that apparently, 6 buttons + dpad just aren't enough anymore.
Since when do you need to have a light and hard attack as separate buttons? And need an analogue stick on top of the dpad to navigate through inventory? The amount of "simple" games needing to use all the buttons on the modern controller - without a viable alternative - is ridiculous.
Yes, there are some workarounds but just wanted to vent.
I'm installing some random titles from my backlog (I have 800+ on my backlog through bundle deals, giveaways, etc.) and it's a crapshoot, not in my favor.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Edit: Yes I realize the modern controller is standardized to the "two sticks + pad + 4 face buttons + 4 shoulder buttons" design; what I'm saying is that while for some game that design is essential, a lot of other games use up all the buttons without a baked-in viable alternative, or worse yet, use buttons for the sake of using buttons!
25 votes -
With its glaciers, fjords and craggy mountains, Southern Norway is jaw-droppingly beautiful – and nature leads the region's chefs who draw on the local bounties
6 votes -
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
9 votes -
Edison Motors: Meet the British Columbia lumberjacks who set out to build a hybrid electric logging truck
16 votes -
What is your experience with foldable phones?
Do you own foldable phone? Do you like it? Do you want to change something in it? Will your next phone will be foldable too? Please write a comment.
42 votes -
Spain fines 'Big Four' consulting firms for 'marathon' working days
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Getting older and nostalgia - what do you miss?
I recently turned 36 and found a sense of nostalgia sending me down a rabbit hole, mostly around the "old internet" of my childhood. I know "old" is subjective, but for me, it was the time period...
I recently turned 36 and found a sense of nostalgia sending me down a rabbit hole, mostly around the "old internet" of my childhood. I know "old" is subjective, but for me, it was the time period of like 1998 to 2005 - my middle and high school years.
AOL had just really brought the internet to the masses. I remember the mad rush of trying to log in to the Nickelodeon chatrooms and messaging my friends on AIM. Up until AIM shutdown a few years ago, I would log on every once in a while to my old account and just look at the usernames - recognizing friends, and trying to place others.
I had a group called "Pokemon" on my account, which sent me searching to find anything on an old Pokemon Battler bot for AIM that was by a developer, "CoolKid". I got to the point where I was beginning to think it was something I made up, before finally turning up "SuperPokemon! by CoolKid" on archive.org. I wonder whatever happened to the developer, as nothing about them remains on the internet, but I wish I could thank them for all the fun times I had with my friends.
Which then led me down to thinking of some of the online friends from my past. In retrospect, I wasn't as careful as I should have been online, but I never had any bad experiences - everyone was super nice and helpful in the little communities I found myself in. I've only been here a few days, but tildes reminds me of that time in my life.
Curious to hear from others: What random hits of nostalgia do you have you had lately? Is there some random, highly specific thing from your past that you miss, like my AIM Pokemon battler?
56 votes -
Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?
6 votes -
New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer
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Fresh Album Fridays: Animal Collective, Armand Hammer, Wilco and more
Good morning ~ This is a thread to discuss new album releases that have arrived on our doorstep this week. Feel free to share albums and EPs that have caught your eye and interest! Discussion...
Good morning ~ This is a thread to discuss new album releases that have arrived on our doorstep this week. Feel free to share albums and EPs that have caught your eye and interest!
Discussion Points
What are you looking forward to listen to?
Have you listened to any of these releases?
What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past?Why Friday?
Most (but not all) new LPs release on a Friday, as labels want to give the release a full week of sales before entering the charts.
~~ Feedback on the format welcome!
15 votes -
Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
9 votes -
Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
9 votes -
Inside the world of 3D sound
3 votes -
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
72 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
17 votes -
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends-- finding more like this with NLP
23 votes -
The making of the Burger King games
19 votes -
Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
26 votes -
Major League Baseball's 2023 postseason matchups are set
10 votes -
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous 300 year old Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
59 votes -
NFL revises gambling policy to toughen ban for players who bet on own team
9 votes -
App-based guitar or piano learning?
I already play piano and guitar to some degree but never got to learn what I really wanted to play which was blues music. I see ads here and there about “learn to play following this app!” and was...
I already play piano and guitar to some degree but never got to learn what I really wanted to play which was blues music.
I see ads here and there about “learn to play following this app!” and was wondering if people had any experiences or recommendations for app-based learning?
15 votes -
The secret weapon [leaked credit data] hackers can use to dox nearly anyone in America for $15
32 votes -
Added context to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about trading liberty for safety
23 votes