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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

  2. Tildes Minecraft Weekly

    ~games Text 268 words
    Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 1.21.11) Verification site: https://tildes.nore.gg BlueMap: https://tildes.nore.gg/map/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMC Plugins and Data Packs...

    Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 1.21.11)
    Verification site: https://tildes.nore.gg
    BlueMap: https://tildes.nore.gg/map/
    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMC

    Plugins and Data Packs Data Packs:
    • Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
    • Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
    • Age Lock [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Armor Statues [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Bat Membranes [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Cauldron Mud [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Custom Nether Portals [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
    • Wandering Trades [Vanilla Tweaks]

    Plugins:

    • BlueMap - Provides a live 3D rendering of the game world
    • Clickable Links - Makes http URLs in chat clickable (only for registered players)
    • CoreProtect - Records all block/container/mob changes (Anyone can look up changes with /co inspect)
    • DebugStick - Gives the ability to craft debug sticks in survival
    • DistantHorizons - Provides distant LOD map data to players running the client mod
    • EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
    • Hexnicks - Enables Tildes usernames to be displayed
    • hsrails - Allows for 4x speed rail travel
    • LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
    • Otherside - Fix for mob farms involving Nether portals
    • Rapid Leaf Decay - Increases the speed of leaf decay by 10x
    • WorldEdit - Used for occasional admin stuff
    • WorldGuard - Prevents unregistered users from changing anything in the world

    The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.

    We recommend you install our mod web-chat so that you can chat while in your web browser. It turns the server into an old-school chat room.

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    8 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    We’re not going to run 26.2 in the short term. But I’ll be updating to 26.1 soon. I’ll add the pack to the current server as well

    We’re not going to run 26.2 in the short term. But I’ll be updating to 26.1 soon. I’ll add the pack to the current server as well

    2 votes

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  6. Comment on For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work. in ~tech

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    I feel like people are either all in on using agents or rejecting them entirely. Why don’t more people use them in moderation? Spend half of the day fielding interrupts, and half focusing on the...

    I feel like people are either all in on using agents or rejecting them entirely. Why don’t more people use them in moderation? Spend half of the day fielding interrupts, and half focusing on the most important work? Maybe some people are afraid to ever take it slow because they’re judged by their LLM usage stats.

    Before agentic coding I heard about AI firms where you were judged by your GPU runtime every month. People would spin up duplicate jobs just to pump up their numbers. I would do the same thing to burn tokens if I was in a toxic workspace that judged developers by their LLM use.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Tom Scott: England — Official teaser for Nebula in ~travel

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    This and episode 7 highlight for me the issues with Tom Scott’s vibe that was discussed earlier in the thread. I really like his normal videos, as well as most of the other parts of the England...

    This and episode 7 highlight for me the issues with Tom Scott’s vibe that was discussed earlier in the thread. I really like his normal videos, as well as most of the other parts of the England series. But him going through his childhood memories brings the dichotomy of “imitation BBC presenter” and YouTuber into the light. He feels awkwardly stilted in a couple of these episodes focused on a region from his childhood.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Is British English actually better than American English? in ~humanities.languages

  9. Comment on Tom Scott: England — Official teaser for Nebula in ~travel

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    Was sad seeing the reminder in here that the US has recently out-done the UK in transphobia, which is really saying something.

    Was sad seeing the reminder in here that the US has recently out-done the UK in transphobia, which is really saying something.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Banksy confirms he's behind statue in central London in ~arts

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    I like the piece. The world needs blunt messages like this one.

    I like the piece. The world needs blunt messages like this one.

    18 votes

  11. Comment on I endured the Apple Watch for four months in ~tech

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    WatchOS 26 is so bad I’m selling my Apple Watch. In general the entire ecosystem and OS itself feel abandoned. Something that’s a top 10 iOS app will have major issues on WatchOS.

    WatchOS 26 is so bad I’m selling my Apple Watch. In general the entire ecosystem and OS itself feel abandoned. Something that’s a top 10 iOS app will have major issues on WatchOS.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Health Canada approves 1st generic version of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic in ~health

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    I suspect if you live near the border you’d never face any repercussions for purchasing for yourself and driving it back home.

    I suspect if you live near the border you’d never face any repercussions for purchasing for yourself and driving it back home.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance

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    He gave each person a spreadsheet showing exactly how much they need to pay each month until everything is paid off.

    He gave each person a spreadsheet showing exactly how much they need to pay each month until everything is paid off.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance

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    He’s at peace with the possibility they might not pay him back. He’s a very generous and decent person.

    He’s at peace with the possibility they might not pay him back. He’s a very generous and decent person.

    11 votes

  15. Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance

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    I have a friend that invested his savings into his family by buying their debt. He gives them an interest rate that’s lower than what a bank would give and they give him a return rate that’s...

    I have a friend that invested his savings into his family by buying their debt. He gives them an interest rate that’s lower than what a bank would give and they give him a return rate that’s higher than what the market will give. Everybody wins. Of course this requires you to have close family with debt and them to be trustworthy enough to pay you back.

    16 votes

  16. Comment on Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year in ~tech

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    Well you're not going to get away from stuff like the official app store, settings app, etc. So you'd need to enumerate the classes of apps you want to avoid. But I don't think I'm better than a...

    Well you're not going to get away from stuff like the official app store, settings app, etc. So you'd need to enumerate the classes of apps you want to avoid. But I don't think I'm better than a search engine or LLM for helping you list what's replaceable. There are a couple notable issues in my experience:

    • Apple doesn't allow for 3rd party browser engines (well, they don't allow for 3rd party JavaScript JIT engines) so every browser app is a reskinned iOS Safari
    • You can remove Apple Maps (which I have done on my iPhone) but some system functionality is hard-coded to open it and will not gracefully fall back to alternative providers. I don't think this comes up often but it's annoying when it does. For example you might tap on an address in the Messages app (which I suppose you wouldn't be using anyway) and it tries to open Apple Maps even if it's uninstalled. You have to copy the address into Google Maps manually.

  17. Comment on Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year in ~tech

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    What Apple apps are you trying to avoid?

    What Apple apps are you trying to avoid?

  18. Comment on Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year in ~tech

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    I only recently got into the ecosystem. I’m pretty disappointed with MacOS. WatchOS as well but that’s not really a necessity. Debian, and similarly well ran distros, are a big upgrade for me and...

    I only recently got into the ecosystem. I’m pretty disappointed with MacOS. WatchOS as well but that’s not really a necessity. Debian, and similarly well ran distros, are a big upgrade for me and I’m looking for a way to jump ship. But I don’t see a definitively better alternative to iOS.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year in ~tech

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    I think there’s an uncanny valley on the software integration that Apple is uniquely on the far side of. But I didn’t just mean iPhone+Mac vertical integration. I also mean they make their own...

    I think there’s an uncanny valley on the software integration that Apple is uniquely on the far side of. But I didn’t just mean iPhone+Mac vertical integration. I also mean they make their own track pads, SoCs, etc and leverage this degree of control to optimize battery life and the overall user experience.

    20 votes

  20. Comment on Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year in ~tech

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    Vertical integration. High performance and good battery life. They pay a lot of attention to the peripherals - trackpad, keyboard, screen. They don't feel cheap, even when they're $600. I would...

    Vertical integration. High performance and good battery life. They pay a lot of attention to the peripherals - trackpad, keyboard, screen. They don't feel cheap, even when they're $600. I would absolutely prefer to be running Debian but still need the computer to be well made. I'm considering the Framework Pro later in the year depending on how the M6 redesign works out.

    31 votes