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25 votes
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I feel bad about using Google products
Ever since I've heard about how Google tracks you and steals your data and all that, I've been gradually been moving away from their products. With the ones I could live without, like Google...
Ever since I've heard about how Google tracks you and steals your data and all that, I've been gradually been moving away from their products. With the ones I could live without, like Google search, maps, Chrome, etc. the switch wasn't too bad. But with the ones like Google photos, drive, home, I actually really like these products and I'm not really sure I want to switch away from them. I have so much stuff in my Google drive that I've amassed over the years. It's very easy to use and a lot of my friends/family/teachers use it. I just really like Google drive. Same with Photos. The irony in all this (I'm probably using irony wrong), is that I don't feel good using them because of all the privacy concerns and the like. I'm not really sure what I'm seeking to get out of this. Just kind of wanted to start a conversation. Do any of you have similar feelings about Google products?
40 votes -
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Renegades of Funk (1986)
8 votes -
Two more bombs found, addressed to Cory Booker and CNN in the US
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Getting Started as a Developer from Scratch
I have been interested in making the gradual career change to software development from my current humanities field. This stems from a handful of different places. Of course the pay and...
I have been interested in making the gradual career change to software development from my current humanities field. This stems from a handful of different places. Of course the pay and flexibility are strong drivers but I like the idea of a field that is somewhat of a creative expression; one where you can manifest your knowledge and experience into something tangible.
I have no experience with programming other than SQL use in ArcGIS and am hoping to gain some knowledge about the field; so anything would be helpful. Whether what to expect from this line of work, where someone with no experience should look to get started and what to expect, personal journeys, etc.
Cheers!
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Black Mirror S04E03 “Crocodile” Discussion Thread
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Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 3 - Crocodile
Architect Mia scrambles to keep a dark secret under wraps, while insurance investigator Shazia harvests people's memories of a nearby accident scene.
Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.
You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!
If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:
- How does the title relate to the episode itself?
- Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
- Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
Please rate the episode here!
4 votes -
"There's only one hockey team in all of Kenya. They had nobody to play. So, we brought them to Canada."
10 votes -
What happens when telecom companies search your home for piracy
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Solo - Open source FIDO2 security USB key
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In need of cadavers, 19th-century medical students raided Baltimore’s graves
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How a 19th-century teenager sparked a battle over who owns our faces
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Tildes can now receive Basic Attention Tokens (from the Brave browser or BATify extension)
We've had a few topics related to the Brave browser lately, and at some users' urging, I've now set up and verified Tildes to be able to receive the Basic Attention Token that it allows you to...
We've had a few topics related to the Brave browser lately, and at some users' urging, I've now set up and verified Tildes to be able to receive the Basic Attention Token that it allows you to allocate to sites that you visit often. Outside of Brave itself, there's also an extension called BATify that seems to allow you to use BAT from Chrome or Firefox.
I'm not sure if this will ever be a significant source of donations for the site, but it's probably good to have it as an option anyway.
I haven't tried Brave myself yet, so I can't endorse it personally, but quite a few people seem to like it and it just had a major update last week that made it Chromium-based. If you're thinking about trying it out, I'd appreciate it if you could download it through this referral link:
I don't know the exact details, but it should give Tildes about $5 USD in BAT for each user who "downloads the Brave browser using the promo link specific to your web site and uses the browser (minimally) over a 30 day period".
I'll add some info about this to the Donate page on the docs site as well, and if anyone that knows more about Brave/BAT than me (which is a very low bar) notices anything wrong or that I should change, please let me know.
56 votes -
From the liberty cap to the pussy hat: A history of radical objects
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Gritty, stuff of nightmares, has been officially welcomed to Philadelphia
10 votes -
WarnerMedia to shut down FilmStruck subscription-streaming service
6 votes -
The country where unwanted food is selling out
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Linux users: after finishing distro hopping, where did you land?
I've been running Linux for a little over a year now and, after a recent conversation on Tildes, I decided that I need to wipe and re-install so that I can enable full-disk encryption. Thus, right...
I've been running Linux for a little over a year now and, after a recent conversation on Tildes, I decided that I need to wipe and re-install so that I can enable full-disk encryption.
Thus, right now I'm shopping around for a distro and trying out different live environments to find something that works for me. My question isn't necessarily for right now though (my hardware is old enough that I'm definitely going to need to use a lightweight distro, which severely limits my options). It's more for the future, in that I plan to replace this computer in a year or two with something up-to-date, which means I'll be able to run any distro under the sun! Any!
So, I'm curious to hear from people who have found their "forever distro." What do you run for your everyday use, and why? Also, what's your level of technical expertise? I am very far from a power-user at present, but I'd like to be somewhere closer to that when I replace my computer.
44 votes -
Survivor of ‘60s civil rights fight can’t believe 2018’s voter suppression is so ‘blatant’
9 votes -
Why I ghosted my best friend
25 votes -
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
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Talking about identity/cultural appropriation, how to navigate life?
DISCLAIMER: The reason I’m writing it is that there are some things I’m afraid to ask IRL to not be labeled as “not woke enough” but I honestly want to learn the whys and hows of some things....
DISCLAIMER: The reason I’m writing it is that there are some things I’m afraid to ask IRL to not be labeled as “not woke enough” but I honestly want to learn the whys and hows of some things. Incidentally that’s something I think could be improved in “leftist” circles, because if people feel they can’t say things but don’t get chances to actually change their minds it’s just a bandage and not a solution IMHO (plus this whole idea that people have to be perfect and not make a single mistake is really counterproductive I think). On the other hand, I understand it’s not the job of a minority/oppressed population to educate the “other”, but at this point, my questions are mainly in the edges and all the info I see online is actually not consistent. Hopefully, I won’t say anything horribly wrong lol.
- My first “friction” is with the whole concept of cultural appropriation. I don't know if you've read the Cosmopolitan article on "don't dress your kid as Moana this Halloween". But that article pointed to another article by a Fiji woman that said it's OK to dress as Moana as long as you don't try to copy traditional garbs, etc.. I usually understand the points of view but in this case (as well as in the recent case of the qipao) it seems that even the affected people don't agree on the gravity of the thing. I've also seen discussions on whether it's appropriate for a white kid to dress up as The Black Panther (obv no blackface) and I've seen more white people saying it's "cultural appropriation" than black people saying that. There are some blatant cases like blackface, or wearing religious/spiritual stuff to a party, or using the “n” word, and it's obvious to me why shouldn’t they be done, but other cases seem to be more about “well if you’re doing this and you’re only doing because it’s cool then it’s bad”. Which I can relate to but yeah, it doesn’t feel very productive.
My usual approach with cultural appropriation and correct behavior is “I’ll do it if I think it’s not offensive and if someone complains or tells me it is offensive I’ll learn and not do it again or ask for permission” (for example I give dap to some black friends who initiated it, but I won’t give dap to a random person I just met). How do you navigate this? How do you navigate the pieces of your identity that you feel are misrepresented (and sometimes ridiculed) and how do you navigate your interpretations of other identities? Since I’m asking controversial stuff, could someone explain to me why drag isn’t offensive? Isn’t it men dressing up as women and taking feminine stereotypes to the extreme? Like, I enjoy RuPaul but I’m always wondering why people find it cool.
- Speaking of identity, what forms an identity? I mean, if I start going deep then I am the only person with my identity, and I have problems and people hurt me and I hurt people, but we usually get around it by talking, empathizing, and not assuming the worst of each other all the time. But if I look at certain pieces of my identity: I’m poor, I grew up in a violent city, I had to be ultramasculine to survive, I am a woman, I am not white, I have a disability, I have BPD, I know how to code… In each of these facets I have reasons to feel “oppressed” or “guilty”, to feel like I’m a “victim” or to feel like I’m an “oppressor”. But none of these thoughts really give me much to do about it other than masturbating to my self-pity or self-righteousness. Furthermore, whatever all the things I am I’m also a member of a society that I think has the potential to get better if we all row together. So how do we combine the fact that we are all individuals but at the same time we have all these identities that make us feel angry/sad/guilty and at the same time we’re all in the same boat? How do you deal with this?
OK I have many more questions but maybe this is enough for now… Again, I appreciate your understanding and your help!
17 votes -
The amazing fertility of the older mind
4 votes -
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! Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others'...
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!
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.
14 votes -
React is introducing "hooks" for state and side-effect management
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China suggests Trump 'can use Huawei' after iPhone tapping report
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Scenes from the new Cold War unfolding at the top of the world
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Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk - Findings from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort study
7 votes -
Dulwich Hamlet: The improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back
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The nurdles are coming: Wave of 1 billion plastic pellets heading to WA's south coast
8 votes -
I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece. What I found was alarming.
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What are the best practices for passphrase security?
This is a sort of continuation of a previous topic I posted. This weekend I will be wiping and reinstalling my computer and encrypting all of my drives in the process. In doing so, I will have to...
This is a sort of continuation of a previous topic I posted. This weekend I will be wiping and reinstalling my computer and encrypting all of my drives in the process. In doing so, I will have to choose secure passphrases. As such, I have some questions about how best to do this:
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I have three drives that will be encrypted. Is it okay to have the same passphrase for all of them, or should I have different ones for each?
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In looking up info on this topic, I came across this article which recommends something called a Diceware wordlist. The premise is that you roll dice which match to a list of 7000+ words. You then string six or more of these words together which become your passphrase. Is this a sound way to generate one?
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Rather than using the Diceware wordlist, couldn't I roll my own password of the same type using six "random" words of my choosing? I feel like that would be easier to remember, but am I weakening security in doing so?
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If the Diceware method is to be trusted, does that mean I do not need to pepper my passphrase with digits, mixed case, and special characters? Or should I add these anyway?
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I'm also considering changing over passwords on a lot of my online accounts based on this method. I like the idea of using a single passphrase as a root, but how do you modify it so that it is different for each account? Would I do something like
[dicewarewords]tildes
,[dicewarewords]spotify
,[dicewarewords]ubuntuforums
, etc.? I feel like it would be too on-the-nose, and it would make it easy to guess my other passwords if one were compromised. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of using a password manager to generate a random string for me. I'd like to still be able to login even without my password manager. -
For people that have used something like this, how do you then deal with password restrictions on sites? I know that no matter how great I set things up I'm still going to have to make exceptions for sites that that either require or forbid numbers, mixed case, or special characters, have character limits, or make me change my password frequently.
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DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own $79 stand
26 votes -
The Romanoffs - Amazon Prime
7 votes -
Last chance to opt out of #MyHealthRecord, Australians! (Deadline November 15, 2018)
7 votes -
Enterovirus EV-D68, The Main Suspect Behind an Ominous Spike in a Polio-Like Illness
5 votes -
It started as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly - the story of the "swatting" that killed Andrew Finch
18 votes -
Announcing Rust 1.30
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To all the Sims I've killed before - The iconic computer game tasked users with keeping digital humans alive. Instead, we set fires in their houses and removed the doors. Why?
15 votes -
HOI4 dev diary - Mexico
3 votes -
How curry became a Japanese naval tradition
9 votes -
CBS All Access orders two seasons of "Star Trek: Lower Decks", a half-hour animated comedy series focused on the support crew
11 votes -
New user here, I love this about tildes!
38 votes -
Civilization and its latest discontents
7 votes -
At Netflix, radical transparency and blunt firings unsettle the ranks
4 votes -
Google reveals it has sacked forty-eight employees over sexual harassment over the past two years
10 votes -
New Brunswick village angers residents with 'straight pride' flag
17 votes -
Red Dead Redemption 2 review – gripping western is a near miracle
8 votes -
Atom 1.32 Release and 1.33 Beta
15 votes -
Curbing hate online: What companies should do now
8 votes -
What’s next for podcasting?
6 votes