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  1. Comment on Tildes fundraiser June 2023: Encourage an app developer (me) to work on a Tildes app faster, by donating to Tildes (not me)! in ~tildes

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    Amazing idea! How about I sweeten the pot and add some of my own goals, if I may. :D 100 active donors: I will add individual group subscription numbers to Tildes Statistics (and maybe some other...
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    Amazing idea! How about I sweeten the pot and add some of my own goals, if I may. :D

    • 100 active donors: I will add individual group subscription numbers to Tildes Statistics (and maybe some other stats).
    • 200 active donors: I pledge to implement all outstanding Tildes ReExtended issues before 2023 is over.
    • 500 active donors: I bring back the Tildes Issue Log as the Tildes Community Log and write monthly updates about the most interesting posts and related happenings in the community.
    24 votes

  2. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    When you're in a group, in the very top right of the page there is a button called "Sidebar", tap on that and the sidebar will open. There you should see the "Post a new topic" button.

    When you're in a group, in the very top right of the page there is a button called "Sidebar", tap on that and the sidebar will open. There you should see the "Post a new topic" button.

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes down? in ~tildes

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    What's it like to grasp into the abyss? Connection timed out To drift endlessly into nothingness? Connection timed out To ask and remain unanswered? Connection timed out To walk as if you weren't...

    What's it like to grasp into the abyss?

    Connection timed out

    To drift endlessly into nothingness?

    Connection timed out

    To ask and remain unanswered?

    Connection timed out

    To walk as if you weren't snowblind?

    Connection timed out

    To see the world end?

    Connection timed out

    To fake smile in the mirror?

    Connection timed out

    Oh the Tildes is back on, nice.

    15 votes

  4. Comment on Welcome new reddit refugees in ~tildes

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    Important to note that all these permissions can be given individually, so you may be granted the permission to edit tags but not titles, etc. It's not like an all-in-one thing.

    Important to note that all these permissions can be given individually, so you may be granted the permission to edit tags but not titles, etc. It's not like an all-in-one thing.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Programming Challenge: Mini Calendar Display in ~comp

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    Great job! The way you got there is pretty much the same way I did it: Spoilies Set the start as the first day of the week (for the first column), calculate back to the previous month (for the...

    Great job! The way you got there is pretty much the same way I did it:

    Spoilies

    Set the start as the first day of the week (for the first column), calculate back to the previous month (for the first row), and finally loop de loop up 6 * 7 days.

    Thanks for participating!

    2 votes

  6. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    There isn't, though it is possible to cobble something together by parsing the HTML and formatting the HTTP requests the way Tildes expects if you really wanted to.

    There isn't, though it is possible to cobble something together by parsing the HTML and formatting the HTTP requests the way Tildes expects if you really wanted to.

    8 votes

  7. Comment on AlbumLove recommendations thread: June 2023 in ~music

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    I really ought to get Pendulum and The Prodigy's discographies in my library one of these days. Another CD I was loaned during that time was this compilation album that had Invaders Must Die on...

    Take me out of heeeeeereeeeeeeeeee

    I really ought to get Pendulum and The Prodigy's discographies in my library one of these days. Another CD I was loaned during that time was this compilation album that had Invaders Must Die on it, what a song.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on AlbumLove recommendations thread: June 2023 in ~music

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    Somewhere back in my early teens I had an Xbox 360 and a friend had loaned me a CD, NERO's Welcome Reality. So I put all the music on my Xbox and while I was dying to zombies in the original Nacht...

    Somewhere back in my early teens I had an Xbox 360 and a friend had loaned me a CD, NERO's Welcome Reality. So I put all the music on my Xbox and while I was dying to zombies in the original Nacht der Untoten map in COD:WAW, I was gaining the appreciation of listening to entire albums.

    I love Welcome Reality because it was my gateway into music enjoyment that I'm sure will stick with me for the rest of my life. And it's still a damn good album too, even with the astronomic rise in electronic music since then.

    If you don't want to listen to the entire 1 hour album, UKF Mixes has a 13:11 long mix that's pretty good.

    December the 1st, 2808.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on What are you looking forward to? in ~talk

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    The Tildes Statistics graph bout to explode tomorrow. I just looked at ~tildes.official and there's over 200 new people since yesterday holy moly.

    The Tildes Statistics graph bout to explode tomorrow. I just looked at ~tildes.official and there's over 200 new people since yesterday holy moly.

    20 votes

  10. Comment on What are you looking forward to? in ~talk

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    Perhaps tomorrow ARestedPhilosopher will awaken. /noise

    Perhaps tomorrow ARestedPhilosopher will awaken.

    /noise

    16 votes

  12. Comment on The ideal backend language to write web apps in 2023? in ~comp

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    That Awesome COBOL list only links to projects in Go, I don't think it's legit. They search and replaced Go with COBOL, a few instances of "cobollang" and broken links (that get fixed by replacing...

    That Awesome COBOL list only links to projects in Go, I don't think it's legit.

    They search and replaced Go with COBOL, a few instances of "cobollang" and broken links (that get fixed by replacing cobol with go) definitely gives it away. :P

    3 votes

  13. Programming Challenge: Mini Calendar Display

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    It has been a while since the last time we did something like a programming challenge, so here's one for ya. The life story of the author before you get to the recipe I've been working on a little...

    It has been a while since the last time we did something like a programming challenge, so here's one for ya.

    The life story of the author before you get to the recipe

    I've been working on a little "today" website, showing what day it is, if it's a significant date for holiday/independence/... reasons, and one of the things I wanted was a small calendar display that showed the full month and days in each week. Like how XFCE's Clock plugin does it.

    So I got to figuring it out and after finishing it up I thought this could be a nice little programming challenge. It has one input (the date) that can be in any of the rows and columns, and it's up to you to figure out all the rest.

    Here's how mine looks in about 250ish lines of TypeScript (TSX technically) and SCSS.

    The Recipe

    Make a mini calendar display that shows all the days of the current month and at least one day of each adjacent month. So for example for May 2023: the 31 days in May, the 30th of April and the 1st of June should at least be visible.

    It can be in any language with any method of rendering; simple text, TUI/GUI toolkit, web-based, raytraced in some game engine, nixie tubes, whatever.

    Bonus Points

    • Highlight the current day name in the first row, if you're including day names.
    • Highlight the current day number, wherever it is.
    • Highlight the current week row, wherever it is.
    • Differentiate the days of current month and the days of the other adjacent months, wherever they are.

    Some Tips

    The week number

    If your programming language of choice doesn't have a built-in way to get the week number, like JavaScript doesn't, this website may have you covered.

    Testing

    Make sure to test multiple different input dates, I thought I was finished with my display until I tried some other dates and noticed that there were still some bugs left to squash.

    Starting

    If you know what the first day in the calendar should be, counting up is as easy as "one two three"!

    Weeks

    If you use 6 weeks in the display, you will always have enough space to fit all the current month's days and the minimum 1 day of the adjacent month's too.

    Showcase

    If at all possible and with at least a few entries I will try to run all the submissions myself and create a little showcase website for it.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes Pop-up Book Club: Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in ~books

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    I finished playing through the 3 original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (and had some fun in Anomaly too) a month ago so I may as well check out the original source too. Count me in. :D

    I finished playing through the 3 original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (and had some fun in Anomaly too) a month ago so I may as well check out the original source too. Count me in. :D

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? in ~food

  16. Comment on Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers in ~tech

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    The noyb post about this. Noyb (none of your business) is the organization that has been fighting this for a decade.

    The noyb post about this.

    Noyb (none of your business) is the organization that has been fighting this for a decade.

    11 votes

  17. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I just happened to be listening to Northlane's Quantum Flux and it reminded me of your comment, so here's another few to add: August Burns Red's Majoring in the Minors reminding us to not obsess...

    I just happened to be listening to Northlane's Quantum Flux and it reminded me of your comment, so here's another few to add:

    2 votes

  18. Comment on BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable in ~tech

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    It only prevents future redirects from happening, it doesn't refresh.

    It only prevents future redirects from happening, it doesn't refresh.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable in ~tech

    Bauke
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    You can also toggle redirecting globally using a keybind (by default Alt+Shift+R, configurable in your browser's extensions settings). cc. @AugustusFerdinand, feature request added :)

    You can also toggle redirecting globally using a keybind (by default Alt+Shift+R, configurable in your browser's extensions settings).

    cc. @AugustusFerdinand, feature request added :)

    3 votes

  20. Comment on BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable in ~tech