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11 votes
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Remastered versions of GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas releasing on consoles and PC later this year
16 votes -
On smarm
3 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.
5 votes -
What did you do this week?
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
7 votes -
Coca Cola and soda consumption growth in India
9 votes -
Identity fraud: On the rhetorical weaponization of identity
4 votes -
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
13 votes -
Anyone seen Tether’s billions?
9 votes -
Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
27 votes -
In dry California, some buy units that make water from air
5 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
5 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?
2 votes -
"The Hiring Post" - How to hire exceptional engineers
11 votes -
Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
2 votes -
A bitcoin mining power plant secretly set up shop in Alberta. Now it's being forced to shut down
5 votes -
First malaria vaccine approved by World Health Organization
16 votes -
GM announces Ultra Cruise, enabling true hands-free driving across 95% of driving scenarios
12 votes -
Twitter testing prompts on Android and iOS for 'intense' conversations
@Twitter Support: Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We're testing prompts on Android and iOS that give you a heads up if the convo you're about to enter could get heated or intense.This is a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation.
4 votes -
Take a look inside Steam Deck
33 votes -
Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
12 votes -
‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
5 votes -
In Nyaya philosophy only some debates are worth having
8 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!
3 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
6 votes -
Bob Iger’s long goodbye
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Hollywood battle lines emerge in simmering vaccine war
6 votes -
Copenhagen confirmed its reputation as a global dining destination after its top eateries finished first and second in the 2021 World's 50 Best Restaurants awards
6 votes -
Searching for Mr. X - For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
4 votes -
What’s driving the huge US rent spike?
11 votes -
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
27 votes -
Yorushika - Howl At The Moon (2021)
2 votes -
The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked
42 votes -
More details about Facebook's October 4th outage
10 votes -
UN report warns of global water crisis (floods and droughts) amid climate change
7 votes -
US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
9 votes -
At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church
13 votes -
The third coming of Bobby Fischer?
6 votes -
ChessCoach – A neural network-based chess engine capable of natural language commentary
3 votes -
100% CPU: my fault?
9 votes -
Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
15 votes -
Don’t be surprised about Facebook and teen girls. That’s what Facebook is.
12 votes -
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
11 votes -
Smoke alarms, deadly differences
7 votes -
Windows 11: The Ars Technica review
26 votes -
Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate – Battling with Sora – Nintendo Switch
12 votes -
Four things I liked in Q3
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What's something about yourself that you had to face?
We tell our self stories of who we are to build a narrative, motivate us, make us feel good, etc. What's something you learned about yourself that didn't sit well with you once you realized it?...
We tell our self stories of who we are to build a narrative, motivate us, make us feel good, etc. What's something you learned about yourself that didn't sit well with you once you realized it? How'd you react to the feeling/behavior?
I'm not sure if this is my imposter syndrome/anxiety speaking, but I've had to face some not nice things about myself that I personally think I have strong data for. I don't think it's weak to admit an insecurity or flaw. I have flaws, I'm allowed to vocalize them. I think, maybe, I can also vocalize how in over my head I am to try and "fix" or improve it. I think facing my own music is a way I can take my behaviors into consideration when I approach specific situations.
For example, I'm a pot head, I know I have trouble with my marijuana usage/depend on it to get out of my low moods; so, when I'm ready to quit or slow down, maybe it isn't best to drive that route home where that dispensary is/ try to avoid looking at that billboard (among many other things I can do to get to the root cause of the low moods).
I have other flaws that are related and unrelated. What I'm saying is that I know myself, I'm not invincible just because I'm aware of my short-comings. I try my best to consider my short-comings while approaching specific situations. But they are short-comings nonetheless; something that will always need to be considered, maybe to varying degrees depending on my experience with it.
25 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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What's your smart home setup?
Does anyone else here have a smart home setup? I've been building mine over the 7 or 8 years now in fits and starts. At first, it was smart lights in an apartment and then grew to include smart...
Does anyone else here have a smart home setup?
I've been building mine over the 7 or 8 years now in fits and starts. At first, it was smart lights in an apartment and then grew to include smart door locks. I bought a house and it now remotes, motion/door sensors, light switches, and more.
After trying all of the platforms you can think of (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Homekit, Homekit + Homebridge, Home Assistant, and more), I settled on Home Assistant earlier this year. As I've bought stuff over the years, I've tried to get things that support more than just one platform to avoid being too locked in to one ecosystem. Apple's Home platform is nice, but I can't use it if I want to switch to an Android phone.
Like many of us, I've had some free time during the pandemic, so I put some work into getting Home Assistant up and running. It's definitely not for the average consumer. It requires quite a bit of manual editing of code to get it working perfectly but I've spent the past few months learning how to customize it and get things working just how I want them.
I've also been working toward replacing the few components that rely on cloud services with equivalents that can work locally, so I'm not beholden to a cloud service that could disappear eventually.
I also started automating more and more things:
- I added a Zigbee controller and a bunch of motion sensors to automatically turn lights on and off as people enter/leave rooms.
- Turn on the lights for my dogs if no one is home at dusk.
- A very nice bedtime routine that turns off all the lights in the house, turns on the bedroom TV, arms the security system and then turns on the bedroom lights and slowly fades them out over the next half hour. That last one has been great for helping me get to sleep.
- My favorite is an NFC tag hidden under the living room coffee table that I can scan. It turns on the TV and receiver, switches to the correct inputs and turns on the light strips I have around the living room. If my wife isn't home, it also turns off all the other lights in the house.
I'd love to hear what other people have been doing.
10 votes