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6 votes
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A pragmatic guide to Climate Change
19 votes -
Mother Mother - Verbatim [2007]
2 votes -
sometimes in life its enjoyable to take a step back and realize that everyone is a protaginst in their own little world.
I notice this from time to time. That mailman? He probably is holding this job to feed his family. Same with the 40 year old man at your local grocery store. Its just mind boggling, the scale and...
I notice this from time to time. That mailman? He probably is holding this job to feed his family. Same with the 40 year old man at your local grocery store. Its just mind boggling, the scale and scope of this world; we retreat into our own little world at times yet the world is not small, its huge.
also i spelled protagonist wrong oops
21 votes -
Duumu & Stereo Cube - Couch Dreams (2017)
3 votes -
General plans for the week
As mentioned last week, I've stopped making the official Daily Discussion posts, but I'd still like to have this general weekly one on Mondays to talk a bit about my overall intentions for the...
As mentioned last week, I've stopped making the official Daily Discussion posts, but I'd still like to have this general weekly one on Mondays to talk a bit about my overall intentions for the upcoming week.
This week, my main focus is definitely going to be working through more open-source-related tasks, especially reviewing the open merge requests that people have contributed. It's been great to see people diving right in and contributing significant features already, there's some really exciting stuff in there—username notifications, post saving, 2-factor authentication support, and even more. So I want to try to get through reviewing most or all of those in the near future (and deploy some when they're ready).
Beyond that, there's still a fair amount of documentation and other things related to the open-sourcing that I'd like to do, and (as mentioned last week), I've now got most of the work for user-page pagination done but haven't quite had a chance to finish it up yet. There are also some company-side things that need attention, including looking into applying for some grants that I should be eligible for now that the code has been open-sourced.
I think we also need to bring in another significant-size group of users fairly soon. Some people have been giving out invites on reddit in /r/tildes and other locations where the site's been brought up, and I expect we'll also do one of the official invite threads this week too (which tends to bring in a lot). To help with that a bit, I've given everyone 5 invite codes again (you can get them here), but if you have some way that you'd like to invite more people through and need more codes, just send me a message and let me know.
40 votes -
Moe Shop - Pastel feat. Snail's House (2017)
8 votes -
How and why people 'microdose' tiny hits of psychedelic drugs (_includes results of Reddit group survey_)
11 votes -
Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers
14 votes -
Trump and allies seek end to refugee status for millions of Palestinians
7 votes -
Plastic food pots and trays often unrecycleable
6 votes -
Is the "obesity crisis" a disguise for a deeper problem?
6 votes -
Just got my first tattoo
12 votes -
'Insulting': Women's footy pioneer Susan Alberti slams proposed shorter AFLW season
4 votes -
Rezz - Certain Kind of Magic (2018)
4 votes -
Alberta privacy commissioner to investigate use of facial recognition software on Calgary malls
9 votes -
Special message from Michael Torpey: Game show dedicated to helping student loan borrowers
4 votes -
A new wave of hardline anti-BDS tactics are targetting students, and no one knows who's behind it
6 votes -
The NRA says it’s in deep financial trouble, may be ‘unable to exist’
8 votes -
What do 90-somethings regret most?
7 votes -
What do astronauts read on the ISS?
5 votes -
Thailand's cave boys leave Buddhist temple, but stay out of spotlight
5 votes -
The curfew myth
5 votes -
The rumors are true - Fortnite on Android doesn't use Google Play
20 votes -
Migration of sub-tags/communities
Was asked to post here about this: Is there a plan for migrating sub-tags (or top-level groups too)? The scenario I'm thinking of is that things may either fork, or change their name unanimously....
Was asked to post here about this:
Is there a plan for migrating sub-tags (or top-level groups too)? The scenario I'm thinking of is that things may either fork, or change their name unanimously.
Let's say a tech product changes its official name from XX to be YY, Would there be a way to migrate
~tech.XX.stuff to ~tech.YY.stuff?I can't say that this will be a common occurrence, but may affect historical usefulness of the tagging system, as people looking for things in the past won't be able to easily - plus it may divide communities once existing (do they keep posting in the old tag or the new one?).
For now, this isn't too important as @Deimos (from what it seems?) is in charge of creating new topics and presumably modify them too, but for the future (according to this) we may start having user created groups pop-up.
Cheers,
3 votes -
Water scarcity stirs debate over who owns Brazil's rivers
7 votes -
Scientists aren’t impressed with New York Times’ new story on climate change
17 votes -
Walter Jehne: Restoring Water Cycles to Naturally Cool Climates and Reverse Global Warming
5 votes -
Battle of the Schedulers: Linux's CFS vs FreeBSD's ULE
7 votes -
Google open sources "Filament is a physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS"
9 votes -
How planting trees and grasses can help stabilise farmland in a changing climate
10 votes -
Zager & Evans - I Am
4 votes -
San Diego researchers measure the highest ocean surface temperature in a century
6 votes -
Stars of the Lid - Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Part 2 (2001)
4 votes -
Looking for a good YouTube series? I can not recommend "The Bush Bee Man" enough.
5 votes -
More tech jobs in Toronto than in the Bay Area
7 votes -
The rise of the sci-fi novella: All the imagination, none of the burden
12 votes -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - part of my scifi-horror review series
10 votes -
Obi-wan remembers the truth
3 votes -
Spotify user requests GDPR data, gets 250 MB of extremely detailed data, down to the headphone brand.
@steipete: Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
34 votes -
Reddit servers breached; full backup from 2007 (including hashed+salted passwords) obtained by attackers
77 votes -
Disney sold streaming/broadcast rights for Star Wars movies to Turner in 2016 and may not be able to offer them on its own service until 2024
5 votes -
How do you pronounce "NES"? Nintendo throws a wrench in the debate
15 votes -
Foodora announced on Thursday it would stop operating in Australia by the end of August
2 votes -
England/India First Test so far
Urgh, this is not amazing cricket so far. There's been some good play in parts but overall it feels fairly scrappy from both sides. How many catches have the English slips dropped so far? (mind...
Urgh, this is not amazing cricket so far. There's been some good play in parts but overall it feels fairly scrappy from both sides. How many catches have the English slips dropped so far? (mind you, the Indians dropped a few this afternoon too)
My cricket coach at school was a delightfully gnarly old Yorkshire dude who would repeatedly drill into us "catches win matches lads, catches win matches" before making us do more catching drills.
I feel like I've been defending Cooke's performance for too many years now, I can't believe we don't have someone else who can open the batting reliably. He doesn't need to hit out, just stay in. On the plus side, Sam Curran seems to be finding his feet. He's only 20 but I feel like he could go far. He might have saved this match for England today.
OK, so I started writing this post while watching the highlights, just as England's second innings finished and now, just a few minutes later India are down five wickets, 84 needed to win, and England's bowling attack are on fire. It's all got very interesting all of a sudden.
Non-cricket fans - the Test format is the one you guys generally seem to particularly baffling/frustrating. It's a five day match where nothing can happen for hours on end, and the game can end with no winner.
6 votes -
Respect for flags and other national symbols
So, I am currently attending a big scouting event in Europe and there are people from over 50 different countries. And I have noticed, that quite a lot of them are acting (at least for me) in a...
So, I am currently attending a big scouting event in Europe and there are people from over 50 different countries. And I have noticed, that quite a lot of them are acting (at least for me) in a very disrespectful manner towards the flag. Starting with the smaller thinngs, most people have flag tied on a rope between their tents (the flag is tied in top left and top right corners). In my opinion, it should only be tied on the left side, while the right is hanging freely. But I can kind of understand that, because the flag is much more visible, it's easier and nicer to do it this way. However, it gets worse. Earlier today, when it started drizzling, I saw some people using their flag as head protection. And, in my opinion the biggest sign of disrespect, when we had the opening ceremony, there were people laying their flag on the ground and sitting on it, not caring who steps on it or anything.
What are your thoughts on this topic? Is this just me overreacting? Or do you think this is a serious problem?
12 votes -
Searchers are combing ponds and taking to the air to look for University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts
3 votes -
History of the BASIC Engine
6 votes -
Psychological language on Twitter predicts county-level heart disease mortality
3 votes -
Fatboy Slim @ British Airways i360 for Cercle
3 votes