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25 votes
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Netflix has signed a ten-year lease to keep Manhattan's single-screen Paris Theatre open, which it can use to satisfy the theatrical-release requirement of the Oscars
11 votes -
Katie Hill, the media, and the limits of revenge-porn laws
8 votes -
The Steam Autumn Sale is now live - runs until Dec 3 at 10 AM PST
15 votes -
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
24 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
12 votes -
Music Makers: Synth Players and Programmers
I love a good synth sound. How about you? Got a favorite hardware or software synthesizer? Tell us about it.
7 votes -
A new painting I made, yet untitled. Oil on canvas, 60x80
14 votes -
This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
8 votes -
How families eat in the Arctic, in photos: From an $18 box of cookies to polar bear stew
17 votes -
Nothing to sneeze at: $2,659 bill to pluck doll's shoe from girl's nose
6 votes -
Beat Saber developer Beat Games has been acquired by Facebook
15 votes -
Multiple Fortinet products communicate with FortiGuard services while only "encrypting" sensitive user data using XOR with a hardcoded key
9 votes -
Two months after failed moon landing, India admits Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander crashed
4 votes -
Eurogamer is publishing a series of thirty individual "Games of the Decade" articles this week, reflecting on games significant to their writers
12 votes -
Bad romance - What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump?
4 votes -
UN Environment Climate Change Report
6 votes -
Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100 unless efforts to cut emissions are tripled, new UN report finds
18 votes -
On Jay-Z, Rakim, and Black Mythmaking in America
4 votes -
Alanis Morissette isn’t angry anymore. But ‘Jagged Little Pill’ rages on.
7 votes -
People of Chinese descent have long faced prejudice and violence in France. But today a new generation is staking out its rightful place in society
8 votes -
Aurelius Capital v. Puerto Rico: How a hedge fund’s efforts to take the island territory to the cleaners wound up before the Supreme Court - with Puerto Ricans arguing in the hedge fund’s favor
4 votes -
lost
lost time like grains leaking out an hourglass lost feelings like love leaving a full heart lost purpose like a crusader without a cause all these years, feelings, purpose stolen, violated an evil...
lost time like grains leaking out an hourglass lost feelings like love leaving a full heart lost purpose like a crusader without a cause all these years, feelings, purpose stolen, violated an evil I never invited, never wanted it's not my fault, not my goal innocent yet guilty convicted more like cursed their hatred is my destiny never get back what was lost never recover who I could, maybe should, have been robbed of a life, of a happy, normal life I can't even hate them for it can't even have that comfort I'd be just as bad, repeat the cycle almost sympathetic only path, only cure, is love creamy center of a cyanide pill
9 votes -
Boneworks is a first-person shooter in virtual reality. Here's a look at a near-final version of the game before its upcoming release.
8 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
4 votes -
Like This Or Die - The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm
4 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
5 votes -
Oil is the new data
5 votes -
The history of New York City's water supply
4 votes -
Rick and Morty S04E03 - One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty
Rick and Morty explore "heist culture" and struggle with automated systems . A parody of "Oceans ##" movies, they satirize the formula of "gain a crew, do the job"
10 votes -
Members of the Final Fantasy VII Remake development team discuss their thoughts and feelings about the highly-anticipated reimagining
11 votes -
fire
This is a reflection of what building friendships and close relationships is like for me. Mental health makes everything much harder, but I keep trying. it shines and blazes such light and warmth...
This is a reflection of what building friendships and close relationships is like for me. Mental health makes everything much harder, but I keep trying.
it shines and blazes such light and warmth stories told round the hearth cold nights kept a safe distance away beauty in chaotic dancing patterns it promises everything all at once no regard for consequences or the future just passion in the moment no foresight, only enthralling abandon its wake is ash empty, cold, dead no energy never burn again it destroys what it loves what it needs not because it wants to because it is destruction guised as passion
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What are you doing this week?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week. If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week.
If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work related, I'd love to hear about them. This is a place for casual discussion about your week, past, present, and future.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this week?
7 votes -
Grok Correlation
4 votes -
Timasomo Post #4: Reflection for Week Three of Four
Timasomo FAQ What is Timasomo? Timasomo is "Tildes' Make Something Month," a creative community challenge that takes place in the month of November. It was inspired by NaNoWriMo, the National...
Timasomo FAQ
What is Timasomo?
Timasomo is "Tildes' Make Something Month," a creative community challenge that takes place in the month of November. It was inspired by NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month.
What are the rules?
Timasomo is self-driven and its goals are self-selected. On November 1st, participants will commit to a creative project (or projects) that they plan to complete within the month of November. There is no restriction on the methods/products of creativity: writing, painting, code, food, photos, crafts, songs -- if it's creative expression for you, it works for Timasomo!
Though most will be participating individually, collaborations are welcome too!
What is the schedule?
Timasomo begins November 1st and ends November 30th. All creative output towards your goal(s) should be confined to this time. This week prior to the start of November is for planning, and there will be a few days at the beginning of December given to "finishing touches" before we have our final thread, which will be a showcase of all the completed works. The showcase date is TBD and will be decided by the participants toward the end of the month, once we have a better idea of what we'll need to do wrap up our projects.
Can I participate?
Yes! Timasomo is open to anyone on Tildes! If you would like to join, post your goal here. The greater Tildes community is also encouraged to participate in discussion threads even if you are not actively working towards a creative goal. This is meant to be an inclusive community event -- all are welcome! If you are interested in participating but do not have a Tildes login, please e-mail the invite request address here for an invite to the community.
Thread #3: Reflection for Week Three of Four
Only one week left! This is your chance to wrap things up or, if you're like me, make up for lost time!
Give a Progress Update
How's it been going? Tell us where you're currently at!
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs?
With any creative process, there'll always be unexpected flashes of brilliance or unexpected fizzles for what seemed like good ideas. Have you encountered anything that didn't go like you wanted it to, or something that up and surprised you out of nowhere?
What's Coming Up This Week?
What is this final week going to look like for you?
Discussion Topic of the Week: Meta Housekeeping
This week's discussion focus is more functional than the others, as there are two main areas I want to get everyone's thoughts on:
Finish Timeline
Officially, creative work for Timasomo should end at the end of the day on November 30th, but I want to give some time for people to put finishing touches on their work and get it ready to share. How much time do we need? Should I just keep the weekly rhythm going and make the even officially end on that next Friday, the 6th? I'm open to any and all ideas here, some of which might be influenced by what we decide on the item below:
Showcase Logistics
I'd also like to hear people's thoughts on how we can best show off our work. I have a few ideas:
- One topic, where each participant posts a top-level comment with their work.
- One topic, where I post participant-submitted blurbs for each work in the topic itself.
- Individual topics for each work (posted either by the participant or me)
I like the idea of having all the works "under one roof" in a single topic, but I also like the idea of having each work being its own topic. I even think it could be neat to coordinate a "showcase schedule" where, say, only one work gets posted per day until we go through everyone's contributions. This would space out discussions rather than flooding ~creative with everything all at once, but I don't want people at the end of the line to feel cheated from their moment in the spotlight if people get sick of seeing a new Timasomo post each and every day.
Nothing's decided yet, but let me know your thoughts!
As before: best of luck to ALL participants! Let's go MAKE SOMETHING.
Meta
Suggestions
If anyone has anything they want me to add to this post or suggestions for the next one, let me know either here or by PM!
12 votes -
Why Hayao Miyazaki's animation feels alive
9 votes -
Save .org: Help stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm
34 votes -
Twitch and their abuse of power
15 votes -
Relentlessly simplify
6 votes -
Cyber Rodeo at Giga Texas
33 votes -
What Breath Of The Wild is like for someone who doesn't play games
22 votes -
Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
8 votes -
Uber has been refused a licence to operate in London, UK
17 votes -
It’s time to plan for a future beyond passwords
11 votes -
The voting on topics and comments now ends when they're 30 days old and all individual vote records are deleted, retaining only the count
This is a privacy-related update that I've always intended to implement on Tildes, and I finally spent some time on it this week. Keeping eternal records of everything that every user ever voted...
This is a privacy-related update that I've always intended to implement on Tildes, and I finally spent some time on it this week.
Keeping eternal records of everything that every user ever voted on is some of the most sensitive data that sites with a voting system have. Your voting history says a huge amount about you, your interests and opinions, and can even serve as a decent proxy for showing what times you were active on the site, what posts you were reading, and how long you spent reading the comments on each of them. In exchange for these major privacy implications, you get the tiny benefit of being able to tell which old posts you voted on (if you even go back to old posts).
So now, to match up with Tildes's general approach of deleting as much sensitive data as possible after 30 days, the voting on posts closes when they're 30 days old. After a post's voting is closed, the records of which individual users voted on that post are deleted, but the count of how many votes there were is kept. So old posts will continue showing their same "scores" exactly the same as before, but there will be no record of which individual users cast those votes.
However, this isn't a purely positive update: the main downside is that the voting does need to be closed (otherwise there would be no way to prevent people from voting again after their first vote is deleted), which prevents the occasionally useful ability to vote on old topics or comments. Overall though, voting on older posts is extremely rare, with less than 1% of the votes on Tildes ever made on something that was over 30 days old at the time of voting.
When the "delete old sensitive data" job runs for the first time after this update later today, 97% of the voting data in the database will be deleted. That's a massive decrease in the amount of sensitive data the site is retaining, and something that most sites would never consider doing, because of the value of that data for behavior analysis and ad-targeting.
121 votes -
Pre-Thanksgiving Merger Monday sees over $60 billion in announced deals
7 votes -
What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
13 votes -
GitHub Arctic Code Vault
8 votes -
Firefox UI is now built with Web Components
21 votes -
Look out for Junk Sources in Google News
8 votes