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Comment on Tildes homepage is down? (2025-02-25 4pm UTC) in ~tildes
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Comment on Tildes homepage is down? (2025-02-25 4pm UTC) in ~tildes
Deimos Link ParentWell, that sure is ironic. I'm honestly surprised that it took this long for us to run into it.- Exemplary
Well, that sure is ironic. I'm honestly surprised that it took this long for us to run into it.
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Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech
Deimos Link ParentTag filters are still a good idea to try to cover everything, but unsubscribing from ~society will probably be the most effective. One of the main reasons for creating it was so that it would be...Tag filters are still a good idea to try to cover everything, but unsubscribing from ~society will probably be the most effective. One of the main reasons for creating it was so that it would be simpler for people to be able to avoid the constant flood of US politics.
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Comment on The Alt-Right Playbook: The south bank of the rubicon in ~society
Deimos Link ParentYeah, let me take care of it, it should be straightforward. (@mycketforvirrad @hungariantoast)Yeah, let me take care of it, it should be straightforward.
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Comment on While signing Laken Riley Act, Trump says he’ll send ‘worst’ criminal migrants to Guantanamo in ~society
Deimos (edited )LinkThis thread is being treated as some kind of weird battleground where almost all of the comments are more concerned about pedantry instead of the actual news, and people are misusing many...This thread is being treated as some kind of weird battleground where almost all of the comments are more concerned about pedantry instead of the actual news, and people are misusing many different site mechanics in order to support their side of that argument. So now it's going to be locked and removed until I have time to review what's been going on, and decide if anyone needs to lose access to some of these tools.
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Comment on Day 1: Historian Hysteria in ~comp.advent_of_code
Deimos Link ParentI've set up the scheduled topic again now, so it will automatically post every day right when the new problem releases (starting tomorrow, today's was about an hour late).I've set up the scheduled topic again now, so it will automatically post every day right when the new problem releases (starting tomorrow, today's was about an hour late).
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~books
Deimos LinkSorry, I thought that I had replied back to your message—I can post all of the comments for you tomorrow. Message me the info and a general timeframe (if it matters) and I'll set it up. (I also...Sorry, I thought that I had replied back to your message—I can post all of the comments for you tomorrow. Message me the info and a general timeframe (if it matters) and I'll set it up.
(I also removed the comment with all of the username pings so all those people don't get notified)
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I've added ~society for topics related to politics, law, policies, and similar societal-level subjects
The quick summary and important info first: I've just added a new group to the site named ~society, which will encompass politics as well as some other similar subjects. Over the next few hours,...
The quick summary and important info first:
I've just added a new group to the site named ~society, which will encompass politics as well as some other similar subjects. Over the next few hours, I'll be moving many existing topics into it, and then based on those topics I'll be automatically subscribing users who have a history of regularly participating in them (based on commenting, voting, labeling, etc.). Feel free to subscribe manually now if you already know you'll be interested, and if you'd like to ensure that you're not automatically subscribed to it by me, go to your topic tag filters page, add
politicson a line by itself, and click the save button (I'll be excluding anyone that has politics ignored). I'll edit a note into the bottom of this post later today when I've finished doing the automatic subscriptions.
Adding a group like this is something that I've been thinking about doing for a long time, but I didn't want to make any major changes as it got closer to the US election, and then I've considered the last week to be a bit of a "blowing off steam" period, where I've been more lenient on the number and quality of political topics than I normally would have. However, I think now will be a good time to add it, since we're probably going to have a lull in significant political news for a short while until it kicks up again, and this will allow the group to get established.
I've never wanted to have a group devoted to politics on Tildes, and I'm sure that a lot of the older users will be able to remember my explanations about why and find our old discussions about it. I don't think a lot of those reasons have actually borne out over the years. ~misc has effectively ended up as ~politics-in-all-but-name, and political topics are also spread over a lot of other groups (politics-but-with-a-financial-angle ends up in ~finance, politics-but-with-a-healthcare-angle in ~health, politics-but-based-on-a-study in ~science or ~humanities, and so on).
The default topic sorting on Tildes being activity-based has also ended up making these types of topics feel too prominent. In terms of number, they're a small portion of the total topics posted to the site, but there's a set of highly-active users (who are also a very small portion of the active commenters on the site overall) that comment heavily and quickly in them, which keeps them being constantly bumped back up in the activity listings.
And on the opposite side, many users clearly want to avoid these topics. "politics" is by far the most common tag that people filter out, with about four times as many users putting it in their filter list as the second most common one (to nobody's surprise, "elon musk"). In theory, tag filtering is a good solution for this, but it's not a visible enough feature and the large majority of users don't use it (or even seem to know it exists). The group system is far more intuitive for this purpose.
I could continue with other reasons for a while, but the upshot is that I believe it's time to accept that the existing approach hasn't worked out and it's worth trying something different. There are also a few other similar subjects/tags that are generally spread across other groups for lack of an obvious relevant place, so I think going with ~society as a little broader of an umbrella will be able to give those ones more of a home as well. I'd appreciate input about which other subjects you think might fit (but to be clear, I don't intend for this to subsume or replace any of the other existing groups, and especially not ones like ~lgbt, ~life.men, and ~life.women).
I expect to be busy for quite a while today figuring out which topics to move into the group and experimenting with some different possibilities for choosing which users to auto-subscribe to it, so I probably won't be replying much, but I'll definitely read through the discussion here later. I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank @mycketforvirrad again for their tireless devotion to keeping topics well-tagged across the site—it's a mostly-invisible and mostly-thankless task, but it makes doing a major reorganization like this so much more feasible than it otherwise would have been.
Edit: Auto-subscriptions should be mostly done now, hopefully I managed to select a decent set of users (and didn't subscribe many people that don't actually want to be—please unsubscribe if you'd like)
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Deimos Link ParentThat's really interesting, thanks for working on that! I'll be looking forward to seeing if it's able to fully work out.That's really interesting, thanks for working on that! I'll be looking forward to seeing if it's able to fully work out.
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Comment on Hello to Reddit folks from /r/selfhosted in ~talk
Deimos Link ParentSure, I gave you another 100, and topped everyone else on the site back up to 10. They're available here: https://tildes.net/invite Thanks for inviting people! (But definitely don't feel obligated...Sure, I gave you another 100, and topped everyone else on the site back up to 10. They're available here: https://tildes.net/invite
Thanks for inviting people! (But definitely don't feel obligated to try to use up all of those new codes, that's just so that you hopefully don't run out again)
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Comment on I am missing a neutral way to flag low-effort or potentially spammy posts in ~tildes
Deimos Link ParentJust to confirm it again officially: yes, always feel free to message me about things like that. It would definitely be better to have a proper report function, but a message does the job. In the...- Exemplary
Just to confirm it again officially: yes, always feel free to message me about things like that. It would definitely be better to have a proper report function, but a message does the job. In the end, since I'm the only person that can act on the reports they would have to be sent to me directly, so they'd really just be a different form of message anyway.
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Comment on Millions of people are using abusive AI ‘Nudify’ bots on Telegram in ~tech
Deimos Link ParentThere's no filter at all on the generated codes, so it's just been pure luck that @cfabbro's never seen a questionable one (but really, it's incredibly unlikely to generate a bad/offensive one)....There's no filter at all on the generated codes, so it's just been pure luck that @cfabbro's never seen a questionable one (but really, it's incredibly unlikely to generate a bad/offensive one). The code is here, it's just 15 random choices from uppercase letters and digits: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/master/tildes/tildes/models/user/user_invite_code.py?ref_type=heads#L57
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Deimos Link ParentPlease don't submit something like this again. AI-generated articles are low quality and often contain significant errors and inaccuracies (as @burkaman demonstrated here). They aren't an...Please don't submit something like this again. AI-generated articles are low quality and often contain significant errors and inaccuracies (as @burkaman demonstrated here). They aren't an appropriate source for news.
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Comment on BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected in ~tech
Deimos Link ParentI don't feel strongly about it. There seem to be arguments for either side, as well as prominent organizations using either (for example, Associated Press is still using "Turkey"). I'd probably...I don't feel strongly about it. There seem to be arguments for either side, as well as prominent organizations using either (for example, Associated Press is still using "Turkey"). I'd probably lean towards "Turkey" personally, since it feels a little odd to try to expect people to write the country name using a character that isn't easily accessible on a standard English keyboard layout.
When it comes to submission titles though, I think it probably makes sense to just use the same form that the source page is using. The author can make that decision for themselves, I don't think that we need to change it (and I'll change this topic's title back).
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Comment on Disney animation shake-up: Jennifer Lee exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush takes over in ~movies
Deimos Link ParentThere is custom handling (one line of code) for the shrug, because it always annoyed me: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/master/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py?ref_type=heads#L165-L166There is custom handling (one line of code) for the shrug, because it always annoyed me: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/master/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py?ref_type=heads#L165-L166
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Comment on Tildes should recognize the Gaza Genocide, and moderate accordingly in ~tildes
Deimos LinkThis thread is already quickly devolving into arguments, and I don't trust it to be unmonitored overnight. I will review your suggestions tomorrow.This thread is already quickly devolving into arguments, and I don't trust it to be unmonitored overnight.
I will review your suggestions tomorrow.
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Comment on Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least nine people and injured thousands in ~news
Deimos Link ParentI've removed that one and moved the comments over to this one.I've removed that one and moved the comments over to this one.
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Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow in ~games
Deimos Link ParentFrom the current top review on the game's Steam page:From the current top review on the game's Steam page:
The game was advertised as having 40 new levels, which at first glance is sounds engaging and interesting, until you find out most of those levels are programmer/beta/alpha stages. It's not entirely new content, but rather going through iterations until you arrive at the level as it is today. While interesting, it does feel disingenuous to advertise this as a new level. When I hear braid has a new level, I think "There's one more puzzle piece", but that's not the case. You are not rewarded with anything in game, but instead receive some occasionally insightful commentary. In total, there are around 14 actual, new puzzles.
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Overall, if you have already played the original Braid, I'm not sure you'll get much more out of it. The new puzzles are not Jonathan Blow's best, and can be completed relatively easily. They are much more reliant on timing than puzzling this time, and are not my cup of tea.
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Comment on TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough in ~tech
Deimos Link ParentSorry for the confusion, I changed the link - ArsTechnica re-posts some FT articles, but without the paywall. So when an Ars version is available, it's usually accessible for more people. The Ars...Sorry for the confusion, I changed the link - ArsTechnica re-posts some FT articles, but without the paywall. So when an Ars version is available, it's usually accessible for more people.
The Ars version does still refer to them as "Apple supplier" in the sub-title too though.
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Comment on What have we liberals done to the US west coast? in ~society
Deimos Link ParentI changed the topic to link to the original source, the archive link was https://archive.is/xknAFI changed the topic to link to the original source, the archive link was https://archive.is/xknAF
Some technical details for those interested:
Topic tags use the PostgreSQL data type
ltreeto support having a hierarchy with sub-tags and such (groups also use this). Tags are stored in the database in an array column withltreevalues. So the actual data for a topic's tags might look something like this:{programming,bugs,some_tag,parent_tag.sub_tag}.The site's code uses the SQLAlchemy library to interact with the database, but it doesn't support arrays of
ltree(or at least this version doesn't), so I had to write some custom handling for them to convert between Python types and the PostgreSQL representation. The error was happening when reading the value out of the database, because null is escaped when stored (to store the string"null"and not a literal null value), and the data looks more like this:{some_tag,"null",another}.I hadn't accounted for the possibility that a string could be escaped in the value like that. The PostgreSQL docs mention it, but almost all of these possibilities aren't valid in tags (or ltree values) anyway:
So it wasn't really anything "dangerous"—it was being stored properly, but caused an error when reading it back out. Funny, ironic (and kinda embarrassing) in the context this came up though.