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7 votes
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Here Lies Man - "Summon Fire" (Jam In The Van - Live at Desert Daze) (2018)
2 votes -
The problem with Facebook and virtual reality
5 votes -
Editing tags?
I have posted a few topics on tildes so far, and someone edited the tags on it. I looked at that person's profile but couldn't see any indication that they were a mod. I am aware of the coming...
I have posted a few topics on tildes so far, and someone edited the tags on it. I looked at that person's profile but couldn't see any indication that they were a mod. I am aware of the coming 'trysf' system, but I think it hasn't been implemented yet. My question: how does one edit tags? Is this a certain account age required?
11 votes -
Tim Cook's keynote address at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
8 votes -
Epic vinyls from Brazil with Bento Araujo (2018)
4 votes -
Dacre Stoker on resurrecting his great-grand-uncle’s vampire
3 votes -
Winners take all: The elite charade of changing the world
7 votes -
A novel way to prevent email overload
11 votes -
The US Air Force has spent $326,000 replacing broken coffee cups in the last two years
10 votes -
Feature Request: SQRL authentication
Hi, I found an SQRL client on F-Droid, it seems like a pretty good concept, any thoughts on this? Here are the docs https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm I also opened a issue on gitlab so it can be...
Hi,
I found an SQRL client on F-Droid, it seems like a pretty good concept, any thoughts on this?
Here are the docs https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
I also opened a issue on gitlab so it can be commented also there https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/304
10 votes -
Two unborn babies' spines repaired in womb in UK surgery first
6 votes -
Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life (2018)
2 votes -
Does time exist? | Andrew Zimmerman Jones
8 votes -
'Toxic Christianity': The US evangelicals creating champions for Donald Trump
25 votes -
Coinbase and Circle announce the launch of USDC, a stablecoin that is fully collateralized by US dollars
7 votes -
Explosive device found near George Soros’s home in Westchester County
22 votes -
China's hidden camps. What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang?
9 votes -
Migrant caravan faces false accusations as it crosses Mexico
3 votes -
Anybody here play Hearthstone? Have tips for someone getting into it?
I downloaded HS yesterday as I got the itch to play some card games and it seems like a good place to start. I've been following newbie guides I found on /r/hearthstone and have just unlocked all...
I downloaded HS yesterday as I got the itch to play some card games and it seems like a good place to start. I've been following newbie guides I found on /r/hearthstone and have just unlocked all heros and played one play now (and won very surprisingly)
Just curious if people have some advice about starting out/playing or what 'path' to take. I tend to stick to as much solo content as possible in card games before I jump into the PVP side and have a sort of policy of not spending money on games like this before I put in a significant amount of hours and don't get burnt out.
All of this because I've been watching a ton of Magic: Arena on twitch lately as my favorite streamer has gotten addicted (richard_hammer btw)... and figured magic might be a bit overwhelming.
7 votes -
Alfredo Rodríguez Trio: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2018)
3 votes -
Doctor Who S11E03 'Rosa' discussion thread
What did you think of this week's episode of 'Doctor Who'? Previous discussions: Doctor Who S11E01 'The Woman Who Fell To Earth' Doctor Who S11E02 'The Ghost Monument'
11 votes -
Former CIA chief explains how spies use disguises
9 votes -
Welcome to Tildes!
Welcome to the alpha version of Tildes! If you haven't read it yet, please start with the announcement post on the blog, since that explains a lot of my goals and general plans for the site:...
Welcome to the alpha version of Tildes! If you haven't read it yet, please start with the announcement post on the blog, since that explains a lot of my goals and general plans for the site: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Also check this page for some info about some of the basic mechanics in place: https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics
Beyond that, there are some other pages on the Docs site with a fair amount of information, and I'm working on gradually adding more to them.
Please don't spread this too much yet
I'd still like to keep it a bit quiet for the first little while, so I can make sure nothing explodes and pay more attention to the site instead of having to worry about who's talking about it and where. It's fine if you want to mention it to some people, but please ask them not to spread it around much as well. If you do tell people, it's probably best to send them to the announcement post as an intro.
It won't have to be this way for long - this upcoming week, I'm intending to start trying to get some more public attention.
Things that are missing, coming soon, etc.
There's still a ton missing, obviously. Some functions have been disabled deliberately for now as well, because I'd like to see how things work without them before we start jumping to too many conclusions about what we "need" and how to use the site. I hope to have regular discussions about a lot of these ideas so we can figure out exactly how best to implement some things.
Make sure to check on your userpage (by clicking your username in the top right corner or sidebar on mobile) - there are a few things in the side menu on there that are useful, like the light/dark theme toggle.
There's a post here with some specific things I'm working on in the very near future: https://tildes.net/~tildes/a/high_priority_things_to_fix_add
If you just want to experiment, please use ~test
I set up a group named ~test that's specifically for trying things out and making a mess. It's the only one that you're not auto-subscribed to when you register (so that your home page isn't spammed up with the stuff from there).
Please feel free to test things out in there, try to break things, whatever. I may periodically wipe it just to get rid of a lot of the garbage, so please don't post anything in there if you're not okay with it disappearing at any time.
How you can help
One of the best things you can do would be to just post things. Getting the initial activity going on the site will be one of the most important steps, so please just post things here (and comment on others' posts).
I'd also appreciate any feedback, posts about bugs you discover, etc. You can just post anything like that in the ~tildes group as well.
Inviting other people
If you have other people that you'd like to invite, I think we should be able to start doing that very soon. I haven't given anyone their own invite codes yet, but it's something that I can do. If there's people you really want to get in right away, please let me know and I can give you some codes or otherwise help get them in. Message me here on Tildes about it, email me at deimos@tildes.net, or send me a message through Discord/Slack/whatever and we can figure it out.
Please expect some turbulence
Please keep in mind that, for the most part, this has been a one-person endeavor so far. I'm the developer, sysadmin, designer, writer, lawyer, manager, chair of the non-profit board, etc. I'm not very good at a lot of these things.
There will definitely be some roughness for a while, whether it's awful design/UI choices, the site crashing and staying down for a while until I can get it back up, etc. Thanks in advance for your patience, it's all only going to get better from here.
I'm excited to finally be able to let people see what I've been working on. Thanks for being here at the start with me!
53 votes -
Neuralink and the brain’s magical future
5 votes -
Invictus Games: Australian Paralympic officials scout for potential elite athletes in Sydney
3 votes -
Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion dollar ad fraud scheme
28 votes -
Sarah Kliff brings transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time
5 votes -
Why there's a perfectly rectangular iceberg floating in Antarctica
5 votes -
The Southern barbecue you’ve probably never heard of: In a narrow swath of Kentucky and Tennessee, the specialty is a pork-shoulder steak, grilled and dunked in a tongue-torturing hot sauce
5 votes -
The Typed Racket Guide
5 votes -
Haiku is not Senryu!
Today I had to leave a social site group dedicated to original Haiku poetry from its members. I enjoy the format and structure, and find hard not to get whiskers flying when people violate either...
Today I had to leave a social site group dedicated to original Haiku poetry from its members. I enjoy the format and structure, and find hard not to get whiskers flying when people violate either or both. Everyone in the group was posting maligned content. Haiku is strictly about nature. Insult to injury was their improper use of structure. The first two lines are a fluid combination of thought. The third is a separate observation tied to the first two. Everyone was making all three lines what would be a single sentence if punctuation was included, like this:
land gives way to sea’s
constant struggle where they clash
yet life strives to beThis is a Hailku, as I have come to understand based on teachings and learned poets:
milky morning fog
smothers inner forest realm
doe rests peacefullyMany were posting what they must have thought was Haiku, but was in fact Senryu (theme based on human feelings and condition) :
moonlight shimmers bright
across the pond’s smooth stillness
a peace flows through meGranted, there is still international debate over the rules and intent of the Japanese art of Haiku. Most American poets agree with the 5-7-5 English language syllable count, the last line distant but related by theme to the first two lines, and that they be strictly about nature.
So look, we've all heard of Grammar Nazis, relating to nitpicking and over-zealous protection of grammatical structure in written content. In this case, I'm addressing the simplest structured form of modern poetry in use. Three freakin' lines. Seriously, shouldn't Haiku be composed correctly, like any other form of structured poetry?
10 votes -
The Midnight - Jason feat. Nikki Flores (2016)
4 votes -
Inside Rockstar Games' culture of crunch
7 votes -
Jeff Rosenstock - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) (2018)
4 votes -
Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence
25 votes -
How The X-Files invented modern television: Twenty-five years after its debut, The X-Files is that rare show that seems to exist both in the time it aired and in the present.
7 votes -
Starbucks opens first US sign language store — with murals, tech pads and fingerspelling
7 votes -
The origins of speed limits in the US
5 votes -
Kamasi Washington - Street Fighter Mas (2018)
7 votes -
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
11 votes -
I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees
13 votes -
Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia
23 votes -
Diom Futa by Cheikh Tidiane Fall, Bobby Few, Ja Maka
5 votes -
The bison returns to the Great American Plains
11 votes -
Using technology to fight counterfeit medicines in Africa and South Asia
5 votes -
Jepsen: MongoDB 3.6.4
4 votes -
At Atlanta’s rail stations, a transit-oriented soccer league takes shape
5 votes -
A look at the Android Market (aka Google Play) on its 10th Anniversary
3 votes -
China blocks website that revealed spyware and "re-education" camp monitoring
9 votes