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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Official trailer
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Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast
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Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon | Official gameplay reveal and release date trailer
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Jerry Springer, politician turned TV ringmaster, dies at 79
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Murhaf raises $230,000 selling charity flower pins in Sweden – sales skyrocket after a viral post about the boy, and a racist backlash, only brings in more money
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GM killed the Chevy Bolt — and the dream of a small, affordable EV
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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US Supreme Court on ethics issues: Not broken, no fix needed
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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?
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Finnish far right in talks to join coalition government – negotiations set to begin in early May will include the anti-immigration party Perussuomalaiset
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Black Mirror | Season 6 official teaser
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - April 27
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Official trailer
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Wish | Official teaser trailer
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Denniz Pop turned Sweden into a pop powerhouse, but then died tragically young from cancer – his peers reflect on an underrated legacy
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Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) deal to buy US video game company Activision Blizzard has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority
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Voyager engineers keep on tickin' in new documentary 'It's Quieter in the Twilight'
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I'm working on a mobile app for Tildes: Three Cheers for Tildes!
In honor of Tildes' 5th birthday, presenting a preview of this app I've been working on, called: Three Cheers for Tildes It's not ready for an alpha release yet, but have some proof it's not...
In honor of Tildes' 5th birthday, presenting a preview of this app I've been working on, called:
Three Cheers for Tildes
It's not ready for an alpha release yet, but have some proof it's not vaporware:
Pre-alpha app preview: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dZ5cDZFrpUw
Q: What devices will be supported?
Android 6.0 and newer. iOS 12.4 and newer (includes iPhone 5s and iPad Air).
Q: Who is this app for?
Mainly for people who are a great fit for Tildes culture, but have found it hard to keep up, without an app.
Maybe they visited once or twice, liked what they saw, but quickly bounced off because they're more accustomed to apps than websites. They could simply have forgotten about Tildes, without that dedicated icon on their homescreen.
Maybe the lack of an app signaled to some that the site was not worth taking seriously yet.
Or maybe they had been active for a while, and over the years gradually got tired of waiting 5-10 seconds to cold-start a web browser on their phone.
I know Tildes regulars don't particularly need an app. Those who've stuck around have clearly been perfectly fine using the website for the past 5 years, after all. Tildes does have an excellent mobile site already! That said, I'd be thrilled if the regulars tried and ended up enjoying the app, but at the same time, I'm not planning to put in massive effort to change minds and habits that don't need to be changed.
Q: I'm new to Tildes. Is Tildes the Next Big Thing? Is it going to replace <mainstream social network>?
Almost certainly not, and that's more than okay! It was never designed or intended to compete head-to-head with any major social networks. Tildes is its own community with its own way of doing things. We could use some new users in 2023 to keep things fresh, in my opinion. But the goal has never been growth at the expense of quality. I believe most of us want to keep the cozy, and manageable, community feel.
Please read the Tildes Docs if you're interested in the philosophy and policies of the site.
Q: What does the app do differently than the mobile site?
Currently: It follows native UI design patterns. It comes with a homescreen icon. It loads faster than a full web browser engine.
Planned: Easier to submit stories by hitting Share from other apps. Notifications. Content and user filtering features.
Q: Will your app have ads?
No. As long as Tildes itself is ad-free, Three Cheers will remain ad-free.
Q: Will you monetize the app some other way?
I might ask for donations, with options to send money to myself or Tildes or both.
I didn't build this app as a moneymaker per se. It's been a fantastic way for me to brush up on new (to me) technologies, and I wanted to support the Tildes community at the same time. Also to be really honest, my competitive side was fired up being the first person to release a native mobile app for Tildes.
Q: Why is the app closed source?
I don't want to open this can of tildo-shaped worms, but know I have to;
<details>-ed for length:- I am building the app on my own time, without outside assistance or funding. I'm proud of my work, and I make apps for a living, and am not in a position to give the code away for free.
- Client-side code has significantly fewer "natural protections" against copying, compared to open-source server applications, including Tildes itself. The server platform owns the user content which is protected by copyright, owns the domain name, user accounts, private messages, and so on. Client code, on the other hand, is all-or-nothing. If I gave away the code, that's everything—no "natural protections" against wholesale copying.
- From personal experience plus countless anecdotes from friends and fellow app and game developers, open sourcing a client-side app will guarantee dozens if not hundreds of clones. It would likely result in well-resourced Tildes competitors taking the code and using it for their own purposes, backfiring on my intended purpose of helping Tildes.
- The app does not incorporate Tildes' AGPL-licensed code, and is therefore not required to be open source. It interfaces with the output (HTML) of Tildes, just like a web browser does. See the GPL FAQ on the outputs of GPL'ed applications not being covered by GPL.
- My code is often ugly and I want to avoid the incessant questions along the lines of "why are you still using that old technology?" which are too common in app development.
On the other hand, if anybody is inspired to prove me wrong and build an open-source app, by all means, go for it! It would be exciting to see an ecosystem of apps maintained by different developers.
Q: Will you release an open-source SDK at least?
Maybe. I'd be up for collaborating on this. It would largely depend on whether the site admin is confident enough to tackle the increased spam and abuse that may result following a public SDK release.
Thanks for reading! I'll post another topic in ~tildes when an alpha version is ready.
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Review: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the best Star Wars game since Knights of the Old Republic
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Happy 5th Birthday, Tildes!
Hooray!
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Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world's northern-most research station – in pictures
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Next Goal Wins | Official trailer
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Trying the 10,000 calories eat and burn challenge
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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 movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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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How Somali food in the diaspora holds the history of forced migration
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A Haunting in Venice | Official teaser trailer
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K.Flay - Raw Raw (2023)
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Colorado becomes first state to pass “right to repair” law for farmers
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US lawmakers are being silenced for speaking out against anti-trans bills
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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?
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A peer reviewed paper on walkable neighbourhoods finds that walkability improves residents' happiness
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Stellaris: Galactic Paragons expansion will give council leaders tons more personality on May 9th
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Magnus Midtbø trains for a day with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt Rener Gracie
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DIY ‘90s van to modern tiny house
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‘The Flash’ dazzles exhibitors at CinemaCon: “Emotional…some people crying…the movie will have legs”
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Norway irked over Sweden's silence on rocket that plunged into mountainside in Målselv – research rocket launched from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna
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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire
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The Flash | Official trailer 2
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AT&T, AST SpaceMobile claim first smartphone-to-satellite phone call
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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?3 votes -
As it joins NATO, Finland recorded its highest year-on-year increase in military spending since 1962 – global military spending rose by 3.7% in real terms
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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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Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and activist, has died at age 96
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The Equalizer 3 | Official red band trailer
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Why has Hilma af Klint, an overlooked pioneer been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad's religion? The answer lies in the spirit world
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US economy is in a 'freight recession,' with China trade decline continuing
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Ox
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'Kraven the Hunter' is Sony’s first R-rated Marvel movie
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