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18 votes
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Reddit announces "power-ups", their plan to have individual subreddits unlock features through members paying for a monthly subscription
40 votes -
Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
6 votes -
Netflix announces they are working on an adaptation of the Chinese science-fiction trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
12 votes -
Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in a jetpack" flying alongside them
17 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
10 votes -
Tiny Sprite Sheet Generator 👾
16 votes -
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
The Nokia 3310 is twenty years old today
9 votes -
Threat modelling case study: bicycles
7 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Hive mind: In the early 2000s, there was a website that tracked and reviewed open source applications. What was it?
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people...
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people who were part of it?
I asked someone to write an article for me about "review sites for open source" -- think Yelp for Software -- and neither of us can remember its name. But if you have others that you think should be included (for positive or negative reasons), please let me know.
10 votes -
Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
10 votes -
A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons
15 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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
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.
12 votes -
The eco-yogi slumlords of Brooklyn
6 votes -
Ailing Abe quits as Japan PM as COVID-19 slams economy, key goals unmet
18 votes -
Apple app review process updates
6 votes -
Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
4 votes -
Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with sexually assaulting four women
8 votes -
Exercise montage music
I'm building a playlist with that classic exercise montage aesthetic. Right now it's a bunch of new retro wave, montage tracks from Rocky, Top Gun, Rad, Karate Kid, etc. Temporary playlist track...
I'm building a playlist with that classic exercise montage aesthetic. Right now it's a bunch of new retro wave, montage tracks from Rocky, Top Gun, Rad, Karate Kid, etc.
track listing
- Robert Parker - Hardbody
- Flash Arnold - Flash Workout
- Frank Harris - Training Sequence - Orig '85
- Wishing On A Star on - Montage (From "Team America: World Police")
- Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero - From "Footloose" Soundtrack
- King Kobra - Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)
- Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now
- Carlos Knight & the Bay City Boys - Champion of My Heart
- Dennie Christian - Push It to the Limit (Scarface)
- Vince DiCola on - Training Montage - From "Rocky IV" Soundtrack
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- Cheap Trick on - Mighty Wings - From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack
- Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
- John Farnham - Break The Ice
- Robots With Rayguns - Sweat It Out
- Craig Wedren, Theodore Shapiro on - Higher and Higher / Wind
- Joe "Bean" Esposito - You're The Best
- Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone - From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack
- The Midnight - The Equaliser (Not Alone)
- SilverHawk - Pumping Iron
- John Farnham - Thunder in Your Heart
- Muscle - Feel The Steel
- Mitch Murder - Guile's Theme
- Vincenzo Salvia - Extreme Pizza Power
- Flash Arnold - The Final Chase
If you have any suggestions for tracks that maintain this aesthetic, it'd be appreciated.
6 votes -
United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House
18 votes -
Schindler's List Theme | Theremin & Piano
7 votes -
More Is Different - A critical view of the reductionist hypothesis in the sciences
6 votes -
Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
5 votes -
Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud related to "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding campaign
35 votes -
Why not ~comics?
I mean we have ~anime. I suppose there’s enough interest in comics among our users.
12 votes -
Silfra, in Þingvellir National Park in Iceland, is a crack in the earth where you can snorkel or dive between the continents – well, sort of
9 votes -
Email sucks
13 votes -
Pure Reason Revolution — The Twyncyn / Trembling Willows (2006)
5 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
21 votes -
Confessions of a former bastard cop
10 votes -
Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
12 votes -
G-Boy: Wii / GameCube Portable DIY Kit
9 votes -
Estimating software testing time: a few useful guidelines
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Musings on Tildes' topic wikis and resources
TL;DR: I did not know each individual group had wikis and I find them pretty great (the LGBT and tech ones in particular). Do they get updated regularly, are they searchable via the site-wide...
TL;DR: I did not know each individual group had wikis and I find them pretty great (the LGBT and tech ones in particular). Do they get updated regularly, are they searchable via the site-wide search, and who can contribute to them exactly?
I was looking through the "note-taking" and "productivity" tags for recommendations on a new note-taking app when I came across the extension resources wiki article in "Tech". It hasn't been updated recently but it made me realize one of the reasons why I find places like reddit useful is that the "Pinned FAQs", "Beginner Guides to <Hobby>", and "Megaposts" on reddit are an excellent source of (for lack of a better term) "peer-reviewed" recommendations and are often the catalyst for fun discussions.
I have, through my time here on tildes, discovered so many excellent recommendations even by just using the search bar and browsing threads - to the point that if say, a reddit and tildes post give me conflicting recommendations, I would trust the tildes post 9 out of 10 times. The climate of posts here are less inflammatory and the discussion on pros/cons are more calm, friendly, and thought through. I admit they have impacted my views on a bunch of things (not least of which is trying firefox as my main browser).
Are resource dumps like that something that the community here find viable in general? Are there plans for updating their implementation to be more easily accessible or is it too far removed from the discussion-based fluidity of the site? I understand that there are other places online to find information, but rarely do I find it at this level of transparency of bias and (on average) free of any bloat.
I guess I'll end this little thought stream with a thank you for all the people who post here and a curiosity for the future discussions to come. I've lurked a lot and learned a lot.
16 votes -
Unraveling the mindset of victimhood
4 votes -
Netflix: Watch free
11 votes -
CO-VIDs: Adventure Games about Jesus
4 votes -
Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo
9 votes -
Ernesto Schnack - Forty Six & 2 (Tool Cover)
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What is something your parents were wrong about? What were they right about?
Note: I didn't want to clutter up the title, but "parents" in the title and below applies to anyone who raised you, whatever their role or relation. As we grow up, our view of those who raised us...
Note: I didn't want to clutter up the title, but "parents" in the title and below applies to anyone who raised you, whatever their role or relation.
As we grow up, our view of those who raised us changes. Some of their "unfair" rules might make more sense in hindsight, for example. I'm curious for answers to the following questions:
- What were your parents wrong about?
This is something that they legitimately missed the mark on, for any reason. You might have realized it at the time, or have come to realize it in hindsight. Either way, you can definitively say it was the wrong call now.
- What were they right about?
There's probably a lot they did right, but in particular I'm interested in stuff that either seemed wrong to you as a child but you've now come to realize was the right call, or right stuff that you now realize is far more important than you did at the time.
Also, with any discussion of parenting it's important to remember that everyone's experiences are difficult and that some responses might open up about some difficult things. Please remember to be kind and empathetic in your responses!
19 votes -
If you have a mental health issue which predisposes people to misjudge, marginalise and discount you, how has that affected you?
Sometimes it's not what we look like, or where we are from. It's a label.
9 votes -
What are your favorite conlangs?
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a...
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a third.
In the meantime, I was wondering what conlangs you find to be interesting or unique?Edit - Also, do you speak any conlangs?
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
11 votes -
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
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Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
24 votes -
What was the first game you ever loved?
I'm interested in hearing about the first game you ever loved and, more importantly, what it was that made you feel that way. Don't just give me the game title, but tell me the whole love story!...
I'm interested in hearing about the first game you ever loved and, more importantly, what it was that made you feel that way. Don't just give me the game title, but tell me the whole love story!
If more than one game fits the bill, that's fine too. I'd love to hear about all of them.
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What's the most interesting/unique/strange aspect of your country's politics?
In my country (Brazil), it's probably the "Centrão". It's basically like, a dozen or so centrist/center-right/random parties who vote together as if they were a bloc for reasons which can only be...
In my country (Brazil), it's probably the "Centrão". It's basically like, a dozen or so centrist/center-right/random parties who vote together as if they were a bloc for reasons which can only be explained with corruption, which seems to be the case. (The Wikipedia article (PT-BR) straight up says that it's a group that tries to approach the executive for political favors so yeah.)
I'm not sure how we deal with the US, given how much the US has to cite as strange, but a lot of the stuff on this site is already dedicated to the US.
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What are your thoughts on piracy?
I was inspired to make this thread after seeing the very interesting side-conversation going on here. Guiding questions: Do you pirate media? If so, why? if not, why not? When, if ever, do you...
I was inspired to make this thread after seeing the very interesting side-conversation going on here.
Guiding questions:
- Do you pirate media? If so, why? if not, why not?
- When, if ever, do you feel pirating something is ethical?
- Do you have a "code" that you follow for when it's right/not right to pirate something?
- In what ways is piracy damaging, and in what ways is it beneficial?
- If you used to pirate certain things and then stopped, what stopped you?
- If you used to pay for access to certain things and then went back to pirating them, why did you move back?
This is a very broad and deep topic with a lot of different avenues to explore (different types of media, different regions, archives, pre-release content, law, etc.), so I'm interested in seeing what Tildes thinks.
47 votes