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  1. Comment on What are your favorite genres/themes of music? in ~music

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    I think there could be a distinction made between rap rock and nu metal, as far has you're willing to distinguish between rock and metal. The lines are blurry obviously, but isn't nu-metal a genre...

    I think there could be a distinction made between rap rock and nu metal, as far has you're willing to distinguish between rock and metal. The lines are blurry obviously, but isn't nu-metal a genre that emerged in the 90s? I'd consider that fairly recent wrt most other genres.

  2. Comment on What are your favorite genres/themes of music? in ~music

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    For anyone who likes the rap + rock mix, I'm going to have to recommend Dangerkids - Light Escapes For me it's such a hit or miss genre I find—but when it's a hit, it's so good.

    For anyone who likes the rap + rock mix, I'm going to have to recommend Dangerkids - Light Escapes

    For me it's such a hit or miss genre I find—but when it's a hit, it's so good.

    2 votes

  4. What are some startup scripts you have on your daily driver?

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    In the everlasting quest to customize my laptop and make my life easier, I'm looking for any ideas for startup scripts to run on user login. Personally, I don't know how to write bash scripts yet...

    In the everlasting quest to customize my laptop and make my life easier, I'm looking for any ideas for startup scripts to run on user login.
    Personally, I don't know how to write bash scripts yet and unfortunately I won't have time to pick it up on the side in the near future seeing as how I'm swamped between my studies and work—nevertheless, it's always nice to see how others might have under the hood for future tinkering :)
    I'm currently running i3-gaps on Arch Linux. I have a few programs that I like to run inside i3's config file (Polybar, firefox, file manager, Thunderbird) every time I start i3.
    The problem that I seem to have is that I lack imagination. I don't know the potential of what else I could be doing with startup scripts, so I'm turning to Tildes to see what you guys might have.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Turkey information thread: AmA you're curious about Turkey in ~talk

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    W.r.t Turkish coffee, do you guys drink it with or without cardamom added? In Lebanon you can find either version in the store. Ouzo sounds extremely similar to arak. We usually serve it in the...

    W.r.t Turkish coffee, do you guys drink it with or without cardamom added? In Lebanon you can find either version in the store.

    Ouzo sounds extremely similar to arak. We usually serve it in the same ratio you described, but it's usually enjoyed with barbequed meat. I find it compliments it very nicely.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What are some old (20+ years) anime series that stood the test of time? in ~anime

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    There's this slice of life anime called Maison Ikkoku. It talks about a university student going through some struggles, living in a communal home. I remember watching some episodes as a kid, and...

    There's this slice of life anime called Maison Ikkoku. It talks about a university student going through some struggles, living in a communal home.
    I remember watching some episodes as a kid, and decided to give it another go last year. It was really good. As far as slice of life animes go (and I don't usually watch slice of life), I think it's the best one and definitely hold it in high regard in general.
    The ending left me satisfied, though I can't say why without revealing a big spoiler. The fact that it was written in the 80s gives it a nostalgic vibe, and the animation is quite good, it gives it an authentic feel.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through? in ~life

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    I sleep from 9-10 to 12:30 and then from 3-4 to 8. Definitely doable but I don't see why you would do it if a straight snooze works for you. Two cups of coffee tops throughout the day if I need...

    I sleep from 9-10 to 12:30 and then from 3-4 to 8. Definitely doable but I don't see why you would do it if a straight snooze works for you. Two cups of coffee tops throughout the day if I need to. On the weekends I splurge a bit and wake up right before noon. The thing is I wake up naturally at 12 for some reason if I hit the bed early, so it's more of an inconvenience since I can't do much outside the house at those god forsaken hours of the night.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Some <details> about more <small> updates (you'll get that in a minute) and general Tildes feedback/questions/comments in ~tildes.official

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    Oh, I didn't mean the reply notification, I agree that it shouldn't do that since it can stifle discussions a bit too much. I meant: the new comment marking that is available under a user's...

    Oh, I didn't mean the reply notification, I agree that it shouldn't do that since it can stifle discussions a bit too much.
    I meant: the new comment marking that is available under a user's setting page that displays how many new comments have been submitted on a topic since the last visit. Have it muted for any ignored post, I.e no "(X new)" next to the number of comments.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Some <details> about more <small> updates (you'll get that in a minute) and general Tildes feedback/questions/comments in ~tildes.official

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    I don't know if this was mentioned prior, would an "ignore" button that hides away individual posts or (my preference) just prevents them from jumping up in our feed every time a new comment is...

    I don't know if this was mentioned prior, would an "ignore" button that hides away individual posts or (my preference) just prevents them from jumping up in our feed every time a new comment is submitted when sorting by activity be possible? It would also disable the new comment notification in the case a user has it enabled and visited the discussion section already.

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole in ~society

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    Your argument can also apply to W.K. He's extrapolating a lot based on a small paragraph the son wrote about his father. It could have been written in a time of frustration, anger or argument and...

    Your argument can also apply to W.K. He's extrapolating a lot based on a small paragraph the son wrote about his father. It could have been written in a time of frustration, anger or argument and does not necessarily represent their relationship.

    Why are you taking Andrew's words about a specific interpersonal conflict and applying them to unrelated circumstances?

    Because Andrew himself wrote them in a way that presents his words as general truths.

    The world isn’t being destroyed by democrats or republicans, red or blue, liberal or conservative, religious or atheist — the world is being destroyed by one side believing the other side is destroying the world.

    This is a pretty blanket statement to make, and honestly, to me, sounds like something people say to give the appearance that they have a deeper understanding of the world past all the colors and flags without bringing anything substantial to the table. The truth is, our environment is being destroyed, wars are being waged and some sides are more aware to the harm being done while other sides are either turning a blind eye, or worse: completely causing or enabling this behaviour. Some sides are more guilty than others in placing us in the current mess that we're in.

    The author of the anonymous letter seems to think that his father holds some opinions that will lead to some actions that are detrimental to their surrounding and society. He wanted some advice about how to have a more comprehensive and productive discussion with his father, in order to try to make the father see how his son perceives his view of the world wrong and hopefully, according to the son, turn his father into a better person.

    W.K went on a tangent, ranting about the current polarization of the world and attempting to draw statements that, honestly feel half baked. To quote one and counter one of them:

    So we must protect and respect each other, no matter how hard it feels. No matter how wrong someone else may seem to us, they are still human.

    Respect is not a fundamental right. Respect is earned and lost. Respect can be justifiably lost based on opinions an individual holds and actions done.
    Humans by definition are humans. Humans are animals too. Humans can be harmful, directly or indirectly. Some humans are intentionally harmful, there is no reason to feel a need to protect humans that mean one harm or not to view them as anything other than a threat.
    This is just one line. Many of his lines are written in this style, giving the impression of them being hard truths about the world. Throughout the body of his reply, he makes no mention about the author's father, or addresses the author with some context-based examples on how to approach a strained father-son relationship. The reality is that most of these statements are general enough that they are true and wrong, and have to be thought about on a case by case basis taking context into mind, but W.K did no attempt at conveying his words in such a way.

    He ends his reply by telling the author to love his father no matter what, something the author already expressed in his letter to W.K.

    Don’t feel the need to always pick a side

    Not picking a side is picking a side. If W.K is frustrated that the son is failing to see the nuances when looking at his dad, then W.K is failing to see that the world is not balanced, that by not picking a side, that by loving everyone around us, some sides, namely oppressors, will unjustly benefit more from it while others risk to suffer from it.

    I think that is what a lot of people are frustrated about in W.K's answer.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    I've been consciously avoiding using the slippery slope argument, because I implicitly trust the site admin enough not to abuse this data or implement more invasive features. It's more about the...

    I've been consciously avoiding using the slippery slope argument, because I implicitly trust the site admin enough not to abuse this data or implement more invasive features. It's more about the ratio of compromise to one's privacy vs any actual benefit it can bring. If you don't see it now, I strongly encourage you to read articles about data mining, user privacy and the such.
    The idea is: you shouldn't be forced to hand in part of your privacy unless you have to. It's akin to being forced to submit to an invasive medical examination without the ability to refuse. Sure, if we submit all 20 year old males to an anal probing, we'll catch the rare occurrence of prostate cancer, but is it worth it? And why should the rest of the healthy males be forced to submit to this examination if they wish not to?

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    So? Does Calvin Klein needs to be notified every time I wear their boxers? Not really, it's a click on another website's address. Tildes is just providing that address. Any click leading to...

    But you visited them via Tildes.

    So? Does Calvin Klein needs to be notified every time I wear their boxers?

    It's a click on Tildes.

    Not really, it's a click on another website's address. Tildes is just providing that address. Any click leading to leaving the site does not belong to it.

    not like Tildes is tracking everything you read in your browser.

    It's a start.

    to enable features of Tildes.

    Again, a feature that is trivially bypassable and one that holds no guarantees of any marginal changes.

    It could probably be deleted after 30 minutes!

    Considering a good number of discussions span several days, you're going to want to hold on to that information for at least a week. A week of clicks accumulates pretty fast.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    Very true, all it takes is a script that immediately opens and closes the link when you click on the comments button. I've given this some thought, because I sympathize with this topic. The best...

    Very true, all it takes is a script that immediately opens and closes the link when you click on the comments button.

    I've given this some thought, because I sympathize with this topic. The best thing I could think of is to try and embed the contents of a linked topic on tildes, making the user scroll down to the comments section past the text. My reasoning is based on the following:
    It is usually linked posts with clickbait titles most often that get skimmed by users wanting to participate quickly in the discussion. It is much more rare for self posts to get comments where the user does not read the contents. My gut feeling tells me it's an issue of having to momentarily switch windows and leave the main social site (Tildes) rather than a feeling of pure laziness and not wanting to read the article. So based on this, if we could trick the mind into treating a linked article as a text post, it would make the user more likely to read it. Additionally, having to scroll all the way down past the article text, down to the comments section might catch the user's attention. This goes hand in hand and extends the reasoning for placing the comment submission box at the bottom of the topic page. This also preserves Tildes' privacy policy.

    @cfabbro, you sound like you take features feedback, what do you think?

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    And I can easily imagine for a user who switches between desktop and mobile significantly, and even for frequent users in general, this effect would eventually wane off after it's past its novelty...

    And I can easily imagine for a user who switches between desktop and mobile significantly, and even for frequent users in general, this effect would eventually wane off after it's past its novelty point. Just like how those window popups asking you to sign up for a newsletter are closed immediately by a user, without any thought or consideration is given, due to their prevalence and annoyance, I can easily imagine users building a tolerance to this effect: clicking on a link, closing it instantly, and going to the comments section to read the discussion. It'll just become another trivial inconvenience on the web.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    Because it should be private by default. As a privacy by design website, Tildes shouldn't be entitled to know what sites I visit externally for something so trivially bypassed.

    I don't see a concrete reason there to explain why I need to hide the fact that I clicked on a link on Tildes.

    Because it should be private by default. As a privacy by design website, Tildes shouldn't be entitled to know what sites I visit externally for something so trivially bypassed.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    Never knew this was a thing, thanks! However I think this would still be a significant inconvenience for those of us who alternate frequently between mobile and desktop browsing. The storage would...

    Never knew this was a thing, thanks! However I think this would still be a significant inconvenience for those of us who alternate frequently between mobile and desktop browsing. The storage would be reset as well if the user decides to clear their data from a certain browser. Like you said, it's not perfect.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    It's not really a secret that we will read, however not every user reads every article posted on Tildes, and you cannot assume that everyone will read every article. Either because of a lack of...

    I didn't realise this. I see why we technically can't do it, but I still don't see it as a privacy issue. We're already on Tildes, and it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that we're going to read stuff here. That's not really a secret.

    It's not really a secret that we will read, however not every user reads every article posted on Tildes, and you cannot assume that everyone will read every article. Either because of a lack of interest in the actual topic, or a lack of wanting to visit specific domains (which can happen for a multitude of different reasons). By tracking what external links are being linked, it will be possible to track user interest across different subjects in each group, find which websites get the most clicks, etc.

    Now I trust Deimos and Tildes enough to presume that even if that feature gets implemented, it won't be used in such a way. Nevertheless, when viewed from a privacy perspective, this is quite a costly feature because of the aforementioned consequences. I really think people in general ought to value their privacy more.
    At the risk of sounding like I'm concern trolling:

    We already have lead ourselves into a semi-dystopian surveillance state by not thinking about privacy enough. From the Cambridge Analytica leak, Facebook sticking users in political echo chambers based on their left/right leanings and affecting elections, YouTube suggesting extreme videos on certain subjects, Google knowing your every location, Australia requiring some companies to implement back doors in their products, Hong Kong police using facial detection in the recent ongoing protests and China creating a social credit system... Isn't it nice that Tildes values our privacy? It's a small bubble of fresh air in a sea of tracking. Let's not cheaply squander that with something that can be easily side-stepped. If comments that are clearly written without reading the link start significantly appearing, this suggests a failure or shift in the site's culture. Why a failure? Because the site is invite only for the foregoing future, and it will be our collective fault if we invite enough users with this behaviour that it becomes problematic.
    I'll admit, I've been guilty a few times of committing this mistake on Reddit, do you know what changed my behaviour? When someone replies to me by mentioning that the article already addressed or rebuked my comment, or even quotes the relevant parts. I think that's the best way to mitigate this behaviour, because it has a certain shaming or embarrassing effect ; and replying to a noisy or off topic comment by mentioning points made in the article would be wholly on-topic.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Should clicking an article on Tildes be a prerequisite for posting a comment in the associated thread? in ~tildes

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    I appreciate the sentiment behind this topic. Someone correct me if I'm wrong because web dev isn't my strong suite, but if we are to require users to click on the link before having the ability...

    I appreciate the sentiment behind this topic. Someone correct me if I'm wrong because web dev isn't my strong suite, but if we are to require users to click on the link before having the ability to comment on a topic, wouldn't that require Tildes to start tracking and storing our clicks to external sites posted as topics? That idea doesn't sit well in my stomach.

    JavaScript alone won't store your clicks, meaning you would have to click on the link everytime you happen to refresh the page unless cookies or something else is used to store your clicks.

    Edit: And if so, seeing how easily this barrier can be circumvented, I don't think it justifies the privacy cost that it requires.

    12 votes