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22 votes
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court
News article: George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court Background: How does the High Court decide whether to grant George Pell a final hearing?
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What happened to the real time strategy genre
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The Dance House Helsinki – Finnish practice JKMM's newest project is set to become Finland's first venue dedicated primarily to dance and the performing arts
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2019 Ambassador of Conscience Award – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been honored by Amnesty International USA
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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Unofficial Weekly Discussion #4 - What is your most "thinking outside the box", "pie in the sky", and/or "out there" idea for Tildes?
Despite me still being a little distracted thanks to WoW Classic and somewhat absent from Tildes lately as a result, since it's been a few weeks since the last Unofficial Weekly Discussion topic,...
Despite me still being a little distracted thanks to WoW Classic and somewhat absent from Tildes lately as a result, since it's been a few weeks since the last Unofficial Weekly Discussion topic, I wanted to make sure to get one posted this week. And since it's been a while, I wanted to try something a bit more lighthearted and fun than usual to get things flowing again. So here it is:
What is your most "thinking outside the box", "pie in the sky" and/or "out there" idea for Tildes?
It doesn't matter whether you think it's really a good idea or not, it will work or not, it would ultimately have a net positive or negative effect, or how impossible it might be to implement; Let's just get the creative juices flowing and start throwing out our "craziest" ideas for the site!
p.s. Once again, let's please try to keep things positive, and keep any criticism purely constructive and friendly so as not to discourage people from participating.
Previous Unofficial Weekly Discussions:
Other relevant links:
Donate to Tildes - Tildes Gitlab : Issues Board - Tildes Official Docs28 votes -
Remove Richard Stallman
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Tildylongstockings, what’s your morning routine?
Can’t make myself get out of bed and actually go do things (like get ready for work, or leave for work, namely.) What’s the routine you have in the morning that keeps you functioning as an adult?
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Evolving AIs eating each other | With Pheromones ! [OC]
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10 Japanese board games worth checking out
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Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
19 votes -
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
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How do you handle your different online identities versus your real life identity?
I've recently been trying to confront the fact that a lot of the things I want to do online work best if they've got some connection to my real life identity (or will eventually, almost by...
I've recently been trying to confront the fact that a lot of the things I want to do online work best if they've got some connection to my real life identity (or will eventually, almost by necessity, become connected). Things like working on open source software, writing, etc. almost always seem to lead back to other people knowing at the very least your real name and probably your email address.
I know that my threat model for people going after my identity is a lot different from someone with nation-state level adversaries like Ed Snowden or various activists, but I still find it hard to decide what gets to be connected to what. Do I put my real name on my GitHub account? Do I post things on my GitHub blog to here? Should I have my real name on my Twitter account? What about the fact that some of my usernames resemble each other?
I'm not necessarily looking for advice about my particular situation, but I would really like to hear how other people have dealt with such situations and what you generally think about things like identity compartmentalization.
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Russia carried out a massive breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on US soil
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Constance Wu’s Hollywood destiny - Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans
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The rise of the electric scooter
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David Hykes - Gravity Waves
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Steam free weekend: Deep Rock Galactic
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Battle at Big Rock - Jurassic World Short
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“This has to end. We cannot say it any clearer.” A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate.
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Making sense of all the choices in the yogurt aisle
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Working in high performance computing? These are the stats you should know
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Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia
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The launch of the Sega Dreamcast
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Teddy bear fence along Copper Coast Highway poses safety risk to children, South Australia mayors warn
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Do sleep-tracking apps actually help you sleep better?
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On whose green Earth?
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Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts?
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Victorian treaty negotiations move closer as voting opens for First People's Assembly
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What’s the status on anonymous comments?
A long time ago, there was a discussion about anonymous comment posting. I’d link it if I wasn’t typing at mobile, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find. How did things about anonymous posting...
A long time ago, there was a discussion about anonymous comment posting. I’d link it if I wasn’t typing at mobile, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
How did things about anonymous posting evolve, @Deimos? Do you plan to eventually make something like this?
There are plenty of topics such as this one which would IMO strongly benefit from anonymous comments - I can definitely see much higher participation if that was the case.
Regarding the abuse, I won’t reiterate all the points made in the thread [todo: link] and purposed solutions, but what about turning anonymous posting on only in some topics, perhaps where the topic author manually turned them on? We could have them for sensitive topics while holding people accountable for their words in all the political topics.
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Teacher sues Christian School over marriage equality beliefs
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The Grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
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Oil soars after attack on Saudi plants shuts in 5% of global supply
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Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy
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"Hello, world" from scratch on a 6502 - Part 1: setting up the CPU
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Index shows least-, most-accepting countries for migrants
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Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties – sources
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Why men love war (1984)
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The awkward days of the Apple Watch are over
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Hubble reveals latest portrait of Saturn
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Is a meat-free diet really as healthy as vegetarians claim?
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Character creation and the birthday paradox
Today we had the first session of my first DnD campaign as a player. Myself and another player both showed up with clerics with a hermit background. Not only that but both of us have the deaths of...
Today we had the first session of my first DnD campaign as a player. Myself and another player both showed up with clerics with a hermit background. Not only that but both of us have the deaths of our mothers as key backstory. (We're different races, though.) The birthday paradox is at play here. Get a half a dozen people showing up with independently created characters and you're more likely than not to have two of the same class.
Still, it weirded me out, like we're copycating each other or something. I haven't been this weirded out since I found out another person on the cross country team had the same middle name as me. (I have a unique first and last name, so I'm not used to sharing a name with other people.) I'm
probablydefinitely overthinking this. It doesn't help that this is my first character and I'm self conscious about the whole thing.Have any of you other Tilda Swintons ever had a character that was similar to another player in your party? How did you react? How did they react? Have any of you had a hermit cleric with a dead mother?
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What's your cloud/syncing setup for files, pics, mail, bookmarks, etc?
So I've spent the last few days trying to sync everything up between devices, with the following thoughts in mind: how fucked am I going to be if a device gets corrupted/stolen/lost? how can I...
So I've spent the last few days trying to sync everything up between devices, with the following thoughts in mind:
- how fucked am I going to be if a device gets corrupted/stolen/lost?
- how can I easily access everything I need from a mobile device/device not belonging to me?
- how can I avoid using services from the big tech companies, and keep things open source, as much as possible?
I'm by no means an expert in the field, and I'm hoping in this thread to get a discussion going as to the pros and cons of using different services/setups, to get a general idea as to what others are doing to keep their daily lives simpler and more secure, and to perhaps see what are the future steps for me to take when I feel like playing around again.
Servers & Storage
I span up a 25GB VPS with Vultr for 'active use data', and also took out some 'deep storage'(?) from Wasabi for things which I need to keep, but not really access that much.Mail
Protonmail with custom domain. Using the ProtonMail app for mobile, and Linux ProtonMail bridge with Evolution mail for desktop.Pics/Vids
Nextcloud autoupload feature on mobile automatically uploads my pics to an 'autoupload' folder on Nextcloud server. Here, I categorise pics into folders and share what needs sharing before deleting anything I don't need and wiping the pics on my phone.Passwords
Nothing yet. Looking at getting KeyPass synced across devices.Bookmarks
Again, nothing yet. Had Firefox Sync running to connect Fennec and Firefox, but am looking for a more open approach which involves Nextcloud somehow, and allows me to tag and order things more effectively as opposed to dragging things around in the sidebar.Calendar/Contacts
Evolution calendar on desktop, simple calendar on mobile, hooked up to Nextcloud and all synced using davx5Programs and General Setup
Here, I'd like to somehow take an image/backup of my Ubuntu configs of importance and experiment with getting my setup and customisaitons replicated on another machine quickly and without taking up too much space in storage (i.e. don't need to bakckup all my files as they're already on cloud).Also, I am very curious as to whether anybody is using Syncthing across their devices? And if so, how are they finding the experience?
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[Kind Words] moonlight masochist\
I keep on my journey when the world's asleep, searching you out, like a bewildered sheep. If you'll come to my aid when you see me- with my knees bleeding red on these cobblestone streets. It must...
I keep on my journey when the world's asleep,
searching you out, like a bewildered sheep.
If you'll come to my aid when you see me-
with my knees bleeding red on these cobblestone streets.
It must be the price of my earthly sin,
that I've no food or water for nourishment
that I crawl alone, in the dark, hoping.
I am the moonlight masochist.
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So hear me cry out your name, whoever you are.
Bring me the moon, and make me your star.
Protect me like mountains and be my guard.
Help me sleep sound when the noise is harsh.
Be the hearth for my fire; the warmth for my heart.
Get me into a home, and out of the bars.
Can you hear my infantile, crying heart -
My moonlight masochist matriarch.
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I cough as I choke on the poisoned air.
No one around who seems to care -
Save for two beady eyes who approach and glare,
a thin coyote with a hungry stare.
I only hear howls in monotone
as two other dogs come sniff my throat
But at least when they carry off my bones,
I can kinda say I never died alone.
..
Hear me cry out your name, whoever you are.
Bring me the moon, and make me your star.
Protect me like mountains and be my guard.
Help me sleep sound when the noise is harsh.
Be the hearth for my fire; the warmth for my heart.
Get me into a home, and out of the bars.
Can you hear my infantile, crying heart -
My moonlight masochist matriarch.
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Israel and the decline of the liberal order: The rise of nationalism around the globe may be reflected in the outcome of Israeli elections on Tuesday
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An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic, are set to disappear in eighty years
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Disney+ reportedly will carry all that 90s Marvel animated goodness including ‘X-Men,’ ‘Spider-Man’ and more
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Brainstorm - Vietier (Wind) (2005)
3 votes