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16 votes
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Video game devotees are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, says research
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European Court of Justice annulls sanctions against Russian billionaires
8 votes -
AI and the end of writing
11 votes -
Looking for free or cheap places to learn some SQL and XML
Im looking for places online to explore SQL and XML as a beginner without spending a lot of money and without a lot of performance pressure. Can you help?
17 votes -
Amid marijuana legalization, a civic problem lingers: that smell
35 votes -
'I was born intersex and doctors tried to erase me. It's important to speak out' - an interview with Raven van Dorst of the Dutch rock-metal band Dool
40 votes -
From FedExCup glory to PGA Tour struggles – what's gone wrong for Viktor Hovland in 2024?
2 votes -
Human brains and fruit fly brains are built similarly – visualizing how helps researchers better understand how both work
7 votes -
‘Heroes’ reboot in the works from series creator Tim Kring
16 votes -
Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak (2024)
2 votes -
Volvo is celebrating its 97th birthday with the opening of what it calls "World of Volvo" in the company's hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden
7 votes -
Linux Distro Recommendations
I know this can be a bit of a heated debate sometimes, and with so many choices people will have their preferences. I wanted to hear some noob-friendly suggestions for me and some friends. What...
I know this can be a bit of a heated debate sometimes, and with so many choices people will have their preferences. I wanted to hear some noob-friendly suggestions for me and some friends.
What distros would work well for an old laptop repurposed as a glorified Chromebook (web browsing, Netflix, emails, etc) with some light Steam 2D indie game usage? It would be borrowed by less tech savvy people.
What distros would work well for gaming desktops? Either current high end desktops or desktops that are a few years old.
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Six badass librarians who changed history
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How to make kanelbullar / Swedish cinnamon buns
6 votes -
Rio Grande Valley organizations suing Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to protect sacred tribal land from Elon Musk's SpaceX
16 votes -
California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
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Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast
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Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
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What AI tools are you actually using?
On my work system I mostly tend to use the Bing Copilot to help me quickly write emails and statements to prepare a document.
41 votes -
South Africa recalls cough syrup sold in at least six countries
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Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong to hand power to successor Lawrence Wong on May 15
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Hilary Cass' NHS report is rife with debunked theories and falsehoods
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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Homicides are plummeting in most American cities
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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.
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New Music Fridays: Lizzy McAlpine, Lo Moon, and more
Note: I noticed we haven't had these threads since March 22 I believe, and I miss them, so figured I'd copy from a prior format and start one for this week. @TooFewColours started most of the...
Note: I noticed we haven't had these threads since March 22 I believe, and I miss them, so figured I'd copy from a prior format and start one for this week. @TooFewColours started most of the prior ones so shoutouts to them. I also don't want to duplicate any work/posts- so let me know if you have any issue with this. Tossed in a few extra links as well.
This is a thread to discuss 2024 releases that have recently arrived on our doorstep, or been announced for the future. Feel free to share albums, singles, EPs or reissues that have caught your eye and interest, or share your thoughts about any new music that you've had the chance to listen to this week.
Discussion Points
Is there anything you've been looking forward to listening to?
Any releases that have surprised you?
Have you listened to any new music recently? What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past? How does their latest work compare?Links:
Pitchfork - Out This Week
AllMusic - All New Releases
Stereogum - New Music
Shreddit Release Tracker
New Metal and Hardcore Releases - Lambgoat
Heavy Metal Album Release Calendar - Heavy Music HQ
Upcoming albums - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives12 votes -
Mass shooting in Chicago leaves one child dead, ten other people injured in Back of the Yards
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Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
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How to make a time capsule
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
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.
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Duty to Warn's John Gartner breaks down Donald Trump's cognitive decline
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‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit
25 votes -
Good news against Dengue
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We made and distilled the 1886 Pemberton Coca Cola recipe from 'Glen And Friends' then taste tested the results with Glen
7 votes -
World Nature Photography Awards 2024 winners
29 votes -
Where will people commune in a godless America?
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Nintendo 64-style platformer Corn Kidz 64 releases for Switch on April 19
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Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good
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Iceland's digital election website made it so easy to run for president that scores of people ended up throwing their hats in the ring by accident
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New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn
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Burden of stroke attributable to nonoptimal temperature in 204 countries and territories
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Creating an official politics group?
So this topic is something that could very easily just be bothering myself, but I figured I’d share before unsubscribing to ~misc. If this is the wrong group, I apologize, please feel free to move...
So this topic is something that could very easily just be bothering myself, but I figured I’d share before unsubscribing to ~misc. If this is the wrong group, I apologize, please feel free to move it to the correct location. I will also preface this by saying I only really view Tildes occasionally, and am not the most active user, so those two things might be contributing to this.
I am wondering if creating an official Politics group would be beneficial to Tildes. I’ve noticed that the majority of recent posts in ~misc is mostly regarding politics. I don’t want to necessarily just unsubscribe from ~misc, in case something non-political and interesting to myself ends up getting put there, but if that’s the solution I’m more than happy to do it.
I just figured that with the amount of activity going on there fairly regularly, either a dedicated ~politics group or a sub group (maybe ~misc.politics or ~news.politics?) would be better? That way other users similar to myself could unsubscribe to that instead of unsubscribing to the much broader ~misc group.
I personally do enjoy the way that Tildes is setup, and don’t see any bad interactions in those posts. It’s definitely more of a personal thing.
That said, I don’t want to make people think that I’m telling them how things should be run, merely throwing my two cents out there, no matter how worthless they are.
Thanks to everyone for posting, and to the mods/admin for keeping everything running smoothly. This really is a solid community!
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webtoon-dl: a cli for downloading webtoons as pdfs
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Elon Musk’s xAI seeks up to $4 billion to compete with OpenAI
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Kagi recently changed their dark mode, fix inside
Since I know quite a few tilderinos use Kagi (far higher percentage than the standard population) I figured this might interest some of you. Kagi pushed out a new Dark theme that is not dark. It's...
Since I know quite a few tilderinos use Kagi (far higher percentage than the standard population) I figured this might interest some of you.
Kagi pushed out a new Dark theme that is not dark. It's possibly even worse than Googles non-dark official Dark mode.
Here is a CSS fix you can throw in your custom css section in settings that I whipped up for some people in the Discord, should be useful.
:root { --custom-bg-color: #090c10; --search-result-gap: 20px; --search-result-gap-mobile: 10px; --app-bg: var(--custom-bg-color); --search-result-title: #fff; --primary-visited: #aaa; /*! --quick-search-bg: #000; */ --color-search-input: var(--custom-bg-color); --result-item-title-border: rgba(255,255,255,0.25); --search-result-date-bg: rgba(255,255,255,0.15); } .__sri-time { font-size: 12px; border-radius: 2px; margin-right: 3px } .__sri-desc { padding-top: 3px; } .__sri-title { margin-bottom: 5px; } .__sri-url .__sri_url_path_box { margin-top: 0px; } @media screen and (max-width: 1300px) { .search-result, .sri-group { padding-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; margin-bottom: var(--search-result-gap-mobile) !important; } }
This fixes the colors, padding, and some other general weirdness they introduced. They also don't follow their own variable specs so I introduced two new ones in there so you can modify to your liking (namely padding between links on mobile and desktop).
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How do you organize your phone's home screens and apps?
I've noticed that my phone's home screens have become a bit cluttered and figured it's about time to clean it up. So I tried searching online and found tons of recommendations and suggestions, but...
I've noticed that my phone's home screens have become a bit cluttered and figured it's about time to clean it up. So I tried searching online and found tons of recommendations and suggestions, but figured I would ask users here if anyone has any tips for productivity or efficiency, or just something that works for you. Might give me some good ideas to try out, and hopefully can benefit anyone else reading this thread.
Do you have tons of home screens or just one with a ton of folders? Do you use many widgets or not at all? Do you organize apps by how frequently you use them? Or how similar the apps are to each other? By color of the app icon? Or something else entirely?
Seriously, any help/suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.
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US biotech executive sentenced to seven years in jail for COVID test fraud
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What's the best way to avoid scams when being paid by strangers on the internet?
Ugh. Scammers are everywhere, and I know I'm getting them in my inbox and junkmail, but I need a way to know who I am wasting my time on and who is a real client. My current client doesn't seem to...
Ugh. Scammers are everywhere, and I know I'm getting them in my inbox and junkmail, but I need a way to know who I am wasting my time on and who is a real client.
My current client doesn't seem to speak in the usual way (for example saying "you have replied to me perfectly" in response to me asking "Please let me know if this works for you or if you wish to negotiate"). They want to pay me via a cashier's check. I just now told them I only accept PayPal payments (that is what I've always used). Waiting for a response now.
So my question is, which of these would be the most secure method of payment to use over the internet, with strangers, where contact is via email?
PayPal
Wire transfer
Cashier's check
Other (write in comments)19 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
25 votes