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Requesting resources for learning Ruby
Does anyone here have experience with Ruby programming? More specifically mRuby or DragonRuby for game programming?
I came across DragonRuby as free for its 7th anniversary and I’m considering checking it out, but I have no experience with the Ruby programming language itself.
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"content": "There will be much more pragmatic resources in other comments, but if you're feeling a lack of whimsy in your life and also want to learn some Ruby, I must recommend _why's poignant guide.\n\nIt's hard to describe witho... | {
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Child-locked devices exist and it’s up to parents not to give their kids an unlocked device. The industry could help by making child-locked devices easier to set up and by making sure they don’t sell unlocked devices to kids. If you do that, no age-verification of people is necessary except at checkout when buying a de... | {
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"content": "This is the only acceptable solution to the \"problem\".\n\nThe government can ask for voluntary compliance right down to the operating system level. Microsoft, Apple, and Google will be happy to set this up. A simple c... | {
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We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online.
Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least.
On the other hand, turning the m... | {
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"content": "I hope some form of zero knowledge proof is viable for this application\n\nIt is, and the EU app mentioned in this article is already zero knowledge and open source (though it has flaws that need to be addressed as poin... | {
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I have probably already posted here abou Czech system that could be used for age verification. It's called MojeID (MyID) and is based on OpenID but actually isn't about anonymity, quite the contrary - it identifies you as who you really are. It is run by CZ.NIC - Czech NIC which is non-profit and it must be for such se... | {
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"content": "The Nederlands has something similar called DigiD. I agree the way you recommend if something must be implemented, then this is the least worst option. Honestly if any entity is going to resist the bribery lobbying of t... | {
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CGA-2026-04 🕹️🚀🧑🚀 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Space Rogue
Hello there, space rogue! It's time to dock with the mothership, put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, and report to us about your adventures.
Did you play Space Rogue? Did you uncover the mysteries of the universe? Did you conquer Hive? Did you forge... | {
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"content": "I played this for several hours, but did not get very far at all. I played the C64 version, which sounds like it was easier to set up compared to the DOS one. Saving to disk worked, and with the hacked cartridge version... | {
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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.
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"content": "Widow's Bay (2026) is a new comedy horror show that is definitely worth watching... at least so far.\n\nDirected by Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry, Mr & Mrs Smith) and written by Katie Dippold (Mad TV, Parks and Rec), and s... | {
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And I'll continue to buy older cars that I can repair myself and don't watch my every move. Not because I drive under the influence of anything, but because all this unserviceable, unreasonable, and intrusive bullshit just makes cars obsolete faster.
Nothing like being unable to rush to the hospital in an emergency be... | {
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"content": "I was shouting and swearing fixing my 2004 just last week, swearing I was going to get rid of it. But this just reminds me I need to keep it going as long as I can. Unfortunately, it's getting to the point where I'm beg... | {
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Boy, I sure do feel lucky that I have tools and knowledge to keep my old junker motorcycle driving for decades to come.
Possibly preaching to the choir here, since this is Tildes and most of us are former Redditors disgruntled with its enshittification. But this needs said:
The world does not heed the powerless. Howe... | {
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"content": "Eh, I'm good. I don't particularly care about cars. I don't want to know about cars. I wouldn't own one if it weren't required in the US. I'll just continue the strategy of \"buy new reliable car and pay other people to... | {
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Wasnt there just an article a few days ago where NHTSA said these systems are unreliable and that the tech isn't there yet? Seems like a boneheaded move but I shouldn't expect different from our administration. | {
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"content": "This law was passed in 2021 under Biden in the INVEST in America Act."
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"content": "The timeline of negotiations and its passage on Wikiped... | {
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Infrared cameras and sensors will monitor eye movement
"Oh say, can you see"
You can't buy a car any more. Only a rolling computer.
If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue),
Wait wait wait. Just how will the car measure blood alcohol level? Continuous in-cabin air testing? Intr... | {
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"content": "Wait wait wait. Just how will the car measure blood alcohol level?\n\nhttps://tildes.net/~transport/1twf/nhtsa_tells_us_congress_advanced_impaired_driving_detection_tech_isnt_ready"
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Well hmmmm.
There are multiple posts here about how scary it is that cars are/will be spying on us and we are losing freedom.
And I agree but I’m not very annoyed by all the nanny stuff in new cars. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of “Not Just Cars” so I’m getting over my “car brain” anyway. Here is my hot take:... | {
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"content": "None of this justifies further encursions on privacy. While driving is a privilege, one of the few aspects of the 4th Amendment that law enforcement hasn't found a reliable workaround for is the juridical precedent rega... | {
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Not sure how I feel about a continuation after they left the show in a pretty good place.
Hopefully it's still got things to say and isn't just a cash-grab? | {
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"content": "This is my take as well. Seasons 1-3 wrapped up arcs very well and was a very great contained story. I'm hoping it doesn't go the way of other shows that overstayed their welcome because they kept wanting to cash in. I'... | {
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How is it even financially viable to build a new gas plant right now? Utah is in the desert. There’s a lot of sun. The economics don’t make sense to me. | {
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"content": "Utah is in the desert. There’s a lot of sun. The economics don’t make sense to me.\n\nIt sounds crazy, but I think it makes sense. Look at the sheer scale - this is more than some multi-block nuclear powerplants produce... | {
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"China built 400 gigawatts of new power over the last 24 months, and much of it is powering AI data centers," O'Leary told the board, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "We're in a race with them."
Is AI is the new cold war? Am I late to the party? What's it going to take to win? What will it look like to lose? I've ... | {
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"content": "Is AI is the new cold war?\n\nIt’s an arms race, and I mean that in the most literal sense."
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"content": "Is AI is the new cold war?\n\nI t... | {
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US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump
Disney v US Is a fight I kind of want to see. | {
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"content": "One is a hulking monolith wealthier than every other nation and writes our laws. But the other is the US government, so it’s a close fight."
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I'm setting a personal theme for my Backlog Burner choices: Anything But Steam.
Nothing against Steam (I love it... mostly), but because I tend to do the bulk of my gaming there, my other libraries can feel a little bit ignored. So, for this Backlog Burner I'll be playing backlog games located anywhere besides Steam.
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"content": "That's a good idea to include non-Steam games. I have tons of games I likely received free on GOG and Epic. Might even have a console game or two that I haven't played or barely played. But I never look at them for Back... | {
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J-Chiptunator here, back with more Backlog Burner shenanigans for May 2026! This time, I'm changing things up quite a bit.
In the past, I've mostly used my MiSTer FPGA setup for tinkering and configuring cores, adjusting upscalers, trying things for a few minutes, then moving on. Not exactly meaningful playtime... so ... | {
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"content": "Cool approach. I always love to see more community involvement.\n\nFor my votes, I need to start with Donkey Kong Country. I love DKC - all three games - and if I had my way, it's all you'd be playing.\n\nStar Fox 2 als... | {
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I can't believe it's been 6 months. Since I don't think I'll be able to hit anywhere near the volume of games I did last time, I'll make it easy on myself with a 3x3 flow card. My real goal has always been to force myself to write something coherent every week anyway, so the abstractness of the flow board will hopefull... | {
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"content": "I'm taking it a little bit easier this time too. I wore myself out last November, so I plan to stick to just 1 (one!) bingo card and make the most of it.\n\nLetting abstract concepts spur on new ideas is exactly what we... | {
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I'm not participating per se, please don't include me in the ping list.
I participate throughout the whole year. Since I got my Steam Deck, actually since I got Switch Lite, I play only one game at a time. This ensures I don't add games to backlog and actually I finish the games I had for a long time. Since then I fin... | {
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"content": "If you feel like sharing some thoughts on the games you've been playing, you're still welcome to stop by and leave a comment. The Backlog Burner is very much \"play your own way\". For example, you can drop in to let us... | {
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So on a whim in the past hour I cooked up a very custom card because I wasn't in the mental space to do something regular as I have other projects I want to work on, but still want to get through my backlog. The good news is I haven't added to my backlog at least as I haven't bought any games so far this year.
Bingo C... | {
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"content": "I’m now incredibly invested in your card simply because I want to know what all of these mean! I’m excited to get answers as you play games.\n\nAlso I laughed at RNGesus Take the Wheel. Amazing."
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Are we at the point yet where we've all acknowledged the steaming cesspool that windows has become? Obviously not. Saying it as someone that would have NEVER expected to willingly prefer a Mac or OS X back when I was forced onto my first Apple device back in ~2011.
If apple forcefully reclaimed the enthusiast market b... | {
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"content": "If apple forcefully reclaimed the enthusiast market by making the hardware repairable, that would be an unstoppable juggernaut.\n\nApple provides self repair kits for their devices. Ones that are more difficult to repai... | {
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Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year
What's even more stark is the raw numbers: every laptop manufacturer is estimated to have a YoY dip, while Apple has a 21% increase from 23m to 28m. | {
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"content": "Before covid our company to buy Macs only for special roles/purposes.\n\nNow we only buy non-macs for special purposes.\n\nYou're exactly right: It's hard to overstate how huge the change has been.\n\nApple is also maki... | {
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Hopefully competitors start to learn from Apple. I forsee consolidation of the PC manufacturer market before then. | {
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"content": "How do you mean? Everything I want is the opposite of Apple's pro-bullying and walled garden corporate mentality."
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"content": "I ended up ... | {
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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 spoilers if you can. | {
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"content": "I put on Caught Stealing last night not expecting too much out of it (I planned to work while it was on in the background) but I ended up very much enjoying it, actually. If I hadn't known going in that it was an Aronof... | {
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Pharmacogenetics personalised medicine: new frontier or nonsense?
Apparently my private health insurance covers pharmacogenetics testing to find the best ADHD medication. What is it, is it legit? What's the company going to do with my cheek swabs? How do doctors feel about me going up to them and say hey internet phar... | {
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"content": "Genetic testing for predicting response to various pharmaceutical interventions is mostly about gene variants that impact drug metabolism, not necessarily drug response or likelihood of all serious side effects (e.g. dr... | {
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I love bioparks
I recently visited Albuquerque and spent almost a full day at their botanical gardens. It was awesome and made realize how much I love bioparks.
Of all the attractions a city may have, they always delight and never leave me conflicted like I feel at zoos and aquariums.
So I ask the people of Tides: w... | {
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"content": "The Singapore Botanic Gardens (official site / wiki) are really great and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's a beautiful garden, clean and well maintained, with an incredible diversity of plants and enviro... | {
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Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion
Hey, tildes - cqns here.
I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a half. Some four years ago, I finally hunkered down and cr... | {
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"content": "Check out Wikipedia's List of map projections. I assume the ones labeled \"equal-area\" are what you need, but you can read the \"Key\" section on that page for explanation of other types. The main article on Map projec... | {
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
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"content": "Talking about death warning\n\nI finally got around to rounding out a project I idly started about 2 years ago and have been slowly working on since.\n\nIt's a distributed \"Dead man's switch\". I don't have any profess... | {
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Looking for early users to try my app
Hello tilderinos,
I'd like to launch my tab manager soon and to ensure a smooth launch, I'm looking for early users who would be willing to try my app as part of the private beta.
For those who would actually need this product, I'm happy to offer one year free (or more!), but ev... | {
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"content": "Can't try it because I'm not using Chrome, but I can't see how it's different from what Zen Browser or extensions like Sidebery offer.\n\nI don't mean to say your product is useless or has no advantage over existing one... | {
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Health Canada approves 1st generic version of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic
In case you're wondering how Ozempic is generic in Canada already see here - https://tild.es/1tb2 - in short, someone at Novo Nordisk screwed up, refused to pay $450 and they lost patent protection in Canada as a result. | {
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"content": "This will go in the history books"
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"content": "So what's U.S. law say about importing those generics across the border? Are there (legitim... | {
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Health Canada approves 1st generic version of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic
Despite the excitement around the news, experts like Dasgupta say semaglutide is still a prescribed medication that shouldn't be used without health-care supervision.
Clarification: Canadians still need a prescription to obtain this, though. Sorry, ... | {
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"content": "I could be your mule. My organic-seeming body was designed in a laboratory to pass for a fit human person, and I very rarely get stopped for security checks because my appearance hits all the right markers for avoiding ... | {
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anythi... | {
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"content": "I was recently recommended and watched Frieren and Castlevania. Both of which I would generally recommend as well.\n\nFrieren was a very 'Slice of Life' style show, but still had cool action sequences and a good plot to... | {
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Networking: DHCP+VPN, LAN communication query
Preface: I know not what I talk about.
INSTANCE: A Unifi network with multiple VLANs, each with their own subnet. A Linux client that is assigned to a single VLAN, connected to the network via Wi-Fi, and running a full-tunnel Wireguard config which tunnels data to the pro... | {
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"content": "This site will likely be of interest to you: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/03/wireguard-allowedips-calculator/\n\nThe WireGuard allowedIPs drawbacks are well-known, so someone's created a handy calculator. The... | {
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Lost/losing the drive for friendship
I'm in my mid 20s and have had a pretty lonely life. I had a very lonely childhood, a less lonely but still fairly lonely adolescence, and again a very lonely time in college (in that case, because of a mix of mental hangups, the pandemic, personal circumstance that was a major dra... | {
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"content": "You're just going to have to have your ego overpower the id and superego. Having friends is incredibly important not just to quality of life, but also longevity of life. We know from studies that having social connectio... | {
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I have a spondylolisthesis diagnosis
I had been having pain in my "upper butt" when sitting for a few weeks, so I went to an orthopedic practice that has urgent care walk in hours. He diagnosed it as sacroiliac inflammation and gave me an anti-inflammatory (meloxicam) and a PT script. The PT did not have an opening un... | {
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"content": "If it makes you feel better, a huge number of adults have bulging discs and simply don't know about it. I totally get how it could feel weird to know that that was happening though."
},
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ps5-linux-loader: Linux on a PlayStation 5 | {
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"content": "I wonder how soon it'll be until we see SteamOS supported- I note that the ps5-linux-image repo states that it:\n\nSupports Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Arch, and Alpine"
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What is your favorite dinosaur?
Many of us were dinosaur kids (I assume), but I know that our understanding of dinos has changed a lot from my childhood: more feathers, warm-blooded, and the brontosaurus survived its deletion attempt! Land Before Time, Dinotopia, We're Back! a Dinosaur's Story, Dinosaurs, and Jurassic... | {
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"content": "Spinosaurus - just think they look cool."
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"content": "it's a tie for me:\n\n-\n\nankylosaurus - a walking tank with a giant flail-tail!\n\... | {
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... |
Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)
There is an easy mitigation that won't affect most people.
https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/
echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf
rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true
This workaround does not affect dm-cr... | {
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"content": "Careful that RHEL and some derivative have this thing compiled into the kernel and not a module, so disabling modprobe will not help. A comment down here mentioned a kernel cmdline that will disable it."
}
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Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding: which kernel has the fix for this issue? Is it only 7.0 or later? I have a Fedora machine, Mint machine, and Steam Deck. All 3 are personal use and not servers or anything. On Fedora 43, the latest it gave me was 6.19.14, do I need ... | {
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"content": "As far as I'm aware the only major distribution with a fix out in the wild is Proxmox. It'll likely be a minor revision number that you have, rather than a major version update, in terms of a kernel fix. You can check i... | {
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Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)
Seems my MX Linux 25.1 machines are not affected. No aead module in lsmod. Still checking other machines. Most of my machines are single user and low risk at least. However I do have a router and server I need to check.
Interesting to see when widespread modules like this h... | {
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"content": "If I understand this correctly, what you are saying doesn’t mean you aren’t vulnerable. It means you aren’t reliant on the module that makes you vulnerable so you can safely apply the mitigation. An exploit will simply ... | {
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Proton analyzed over 54,000 demographic profiles using 2025 ad auction data to estimate what advertisers pay to reach different types of Americans. The range is much wider than you might expect.
The average American generates about $1,605 a year in advertising value. A 35- to 44-year-old man in Bozeman, MT, without ch... | {
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"content": "What is the consensus around Proton services now? Your last sentence seems to potentially indicate a negative sentiment. Ive been using proton services for awhile and it's always been pretty great.\n\nIf I had any issue... | {
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One thing these ad profiles do that I absolutely hate (among the million other things I hate) are merging my personal and professional lives. I try to keep those separate as much as possible. I have different cell phones, different computers, different laptops, different logins for everything that do not cross between ... | {
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"content": "Thankfully I don’t get vendor calls, but I also have issues with my personal and professional life merging in my ad profile. I also now seem to strangely have my previous career popping back into my ad feed in strange w... | {
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I wonder what the effect of adblockers have on these costs.
I'm technically in the sweet spot, according to that article - mid 40s, male, primary computer is a desktop (I hate using phones for anything but reading), single, no children... but I go out of my way to avoid ads. I don't have a TV, I block all ads on the I... | {
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"id": "n0",
"parent": null,
"author": "u1",
"content": "I have yet to find a use for location services in the first place\n\nHuh, do you not use it for navigation? That's the one thing keeping me from having location always off."
},
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"id": "n1",
"parent"... | {
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Nothing too surprising if you've used to the ad space. rich areas spend more, single middle aged people (middle of career and peak spenders) spend more, certain devices indicate you may spend more.
But then this:
The two highest-value individual profiles in the dataset both come from the top of the market list: Bozem... | {
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"content": "Silver Spring is essentially DC fwiw"
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"parent": null,
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"content": "I was kind of surprised to see Naperville, IL on there, but it kind of makes sense. Demo... | {
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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 a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related? | {
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"content": "I ran the London marathon on Sunday.\n\nA day of mixed emotions. It was incredible and breathtaking as you might expect. Running across Tower Bridge a little over half way through will be a core memory for the rest of m... | {
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"votes": 6,
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. | {
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"content": "I just finished Blindsight, a hard SF horror novel that explores a lot of ideas around consciousness and what it means to relate to something alien.\n\nI'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet; I didn't know much a... | {
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Reddit has been killing it as a business ever since 2023-2024. Even more impressive than 69% (nice) revenue increase is that net income went from $26m in Q1 2025 to $204m in Q1 2026. That's a 10x increase in profitability.
I seriously had my doubts Reddit would ever get to this point as a business - it was definitely ... | {
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"id": "n0",
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"author": "u1",
"content": "No, I've been seeing people say they're alienating their core users and will crash and burn any day now for 10+ years. Are you saying terminally online Americans don't bring in as much profit as...every demographic acro... | {
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They also just started testing making their mobile site completely unusable except through the app via a popup. Yay data harvesting…
I really only use reddit for sports/news/sports news, and the /r/HFY subreddit. This is likely going to push me more towards Instagram for that, or I’ll have to see if there are similar ... | {
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"content": "I simply won’t ever download their app. I formerly enjoyed browsing Reddit for a few minutes here and there, but I suspect I will have mostly forgotten about it within a week or two. Oh, well. I’m not sure why they made... | {
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The unique value proposition of the site used to be knowledge exchange on niche topics someone cared enough about, all concentrated in one place. It is a question whether the balance would have ultimately been better or worse than traditional forums if the site remained usable for this purpose. Currently it is simply s... | {
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"content": "I think it will. For every power user Reddit pisses off and alienates, there are about 1000 other active users that will happily take on their moderator responsibilities"
},
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"id": "n1",
"parent": "... | {
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Reddit is a textbook example of how dystopian our society is becoming. It's genuinely the only social media platform where I have to adopt a form of Newspeak just to avoid a bot swooping in and silently nuking my comment from orbit.
And it annoys me that they're profiteering from their Orwellian bullshit. | {
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"content": "Reminds me of this time 3 years ago that I was banned by a sub I didn't even know existed. I was posting against a conspiracy on r/conspiracy (it's fun to disprove them) and r/justiceserved set their bot to permanently ... | {
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May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion
The blaze has officially ignited!
(and May has officially mellowed, for those going the chill route)
- Quicklink: Backlog Bingo
Etiquette:
-
It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week.
-
It is also fine to respond to your own posts.
-
If you are p... | {
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"content": "Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is an absolute gem. You won't waste your time with that one. That said, it's long and will run down the clock.\n\nI'd suggest to do it after playing other games high on your l... | {
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What’s the best thing you’ve done for someone else recently?
I keep thinking about this post from @first-must-burn and the genuinely amazing way he helped one of his family members, and it inspired me to ask this question.
No need to be modest or downplay your efforts in your answer. Feel free to pat yourself on the ... | {
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"content": "He who toots not his own horn, the same shall not be tooteth. (A saying in my family). So here's another one:\n\nA friend of mine was diagnosed with a huge aortic aneurysm - basically it could have burst at any time. He... | {
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Accessing the internet through only google.com
Iranians right now are using a javascript based proxy to access the internet somewhat, it's what i'm using to access tildes.
I thought it'd be interesting to share, we don't have access to script.google.com but we do have access to www.google.com, so there's another meth... | {
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"content": "This is precisely what Tor is for. Try it out. Spread the word.\n\nStay safe.\n\nEdit: If you're not terrified of your government busting down your door and have the tech chops, setup relays. If you're in an uncensored ... | {
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In the foothills of Mount Fuji, the fight is on against unruly tourists (gifted link)
This was a sad read. Similar to what’s happening in Kyoto, and who knows where else. Venice is another unfortunate, clear example of what over-tourism can do to a city.
I’ve been to Japan for a short time and will be going back soon... | {
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like beast studios, steam controller and anonymity. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, for those following along.
But one of my favourite ta... | {
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"content": "...Serious question: is this real? Because it really doesn't feel like it. I tried looking it up for more details but I couldn't find any sort of articles or other mentions prior to 2025. Heck, my first attempt at searc... | {
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I remember being blown away when I learned that birds don't have blue feathers. The explanation I read was that it's the structure of the father that makes it appear blue, and that you could observe it by looking at a blue feather through backlight. I tried it on a bluejay feather and sure enough, against backlight it ... | {
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
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"content": "I had oral surgery last Friday that I'm still recovering from this week. A coronectomy of my lone wisdom tooth (bottom right). They take only the crown off and leave the root. It laid down horizontally when I was still ... | {
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (May 2026)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one. | {
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"content": "I’m going to make two mistakes here: posting from mobile (causing me to be short and lose nuance) and posting to vent (in what seems to be an “advice oriented” thread). So, apologies in advance.\n\nMy mental health is n... | {
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Looking for general monitor advice
My knowledge here is about a decade out of date so I would like to ask for some advice and recommendations. I am looking less for a specific model to buy and more for personal experiences and general tips on what to look at or good review sites or knowledge bases.
Ideally I'd want a... | {
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"content": "Highly recommend looking at 1440p 27\" monitors. I feel it's the sweet spot for gaming and also provides extra space for productivity. 4k is honestly overkill unless you size up to 32\"+.\n\nLook for 144hz or higher ref... | {
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I endured the Apple Watch for four months
My last Apple Watch was the Series 3 and there's basically nothing that could convince me to buy one again. I fundamentally dislike the experience. They don't look as nice as a watch at half the price, I hate being badgered by notifications, turn directions, and infantilizing ... | {
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"content": "Newer versions allow you to disable a lot of that, but in my experience only the health stuff like standing and breathing and drinking water actually respects your ask to stop annoying you. And there's something about t... | {
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Advice/Venting: My car was destroyed by hail
So we had baseball-sized hail suddenly come through my city a few days ago, and everyone at my work got to watch our cars get destroyed from the front windows. I opened a claim immediately after the hail stopped and could go take pictures, but still haven't heard anything o... | {
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"content": "Start looking for used cars yesterday, I guess, would be my advice. Might manage to beat the onslaught of people waiting for their insurance to pay out, so if you can front the cash, absolutely do it.\n\nRIP your baby, ... | {
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Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, an epic adventure, will release in IMAX and wide globally in theaters on February 12, 2027, and on Netflix on April 2, 2027
I am not religious any more, but I grew up in a Christian household where the Narnia books were a mainstay and we rewatched the BBC productions we ha... | {
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"content": "I also grew up religious but my mom was extremely anti-magic. The mere mention of the word was enough to send her into a frenzy. The Magician's Nephew was especially touchy because it was Christian literature by a well ... | {
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Are there alternative ways to invest savings?
What are some ways to grow your savings without investing it into the stock market/401k?
In short, I don't want my savings to fund giant corporations. It seems like most mutual funds can't exist without a portfolio of such corporations despite calling themselves green or ... | {
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"content": "I like the spirit of the question, and I hope there are some interesting ideas to be found - I really like @teaearlgraycold’s thinking, and I’m pretty sure there are peer-to-peer lending and/or micro finance platforms t... | {
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Spirit Airlines shutting down after rescue talks collapse
And here's the conclusion of that anti-trust ruling blocking the JetBlue acquisition, a dead company whose assets may get bought up by JetBlue anyway. People seemed pretty happy about that ruling at the time, and I still don't really get it -- but I am biased a... | {
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"content": "I suspect people were just excited to see anti-trust enforced at all. In this particularly instance, maybe it was the wrong move, I don't know. But I get why people might have been basically relieved to see any enforcem... | {
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Spirit Airlines shutting down after rescue talks collapse
Thanks Donald.
I think the longer he drags on this pointless war with Iran, the more it's going to economically hurt all of us.
At this rate Spirit will be the first of many casualties. | {
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"content": "But its ability to survive the year was in question even before the Iran war, Syth added.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the fuel scenario, they would have been okay through the summer, beyond the summer I would have said it was... | {
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Hyundai Ioniq 5N or: welcome back Forester XT
There are plenty of video reviews of this car out there from people who do it for a living, but I'm not a car influencer or anything like that, I'm just an enthusiast who bought this car with my own money and wanted to give some real impressions for other enthusiasts out t... | {
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"content": "Thanks for the review. I hope someday I'm in a situation where I can buy a fun car like this. It sounds like an absolute blast and I want an EV so bad, but I can't even test drive a basic one within a couple hundred mil... | {
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them! | {
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"content": "This dumbdumb has an unknown blood-in-pee situation. X-rays show nothing, so we're hoping that a change in diet to unitary kibbles changes this otherwise it's an $850 ultrasound on top of the $1100 already spent.\n\nFei... | {
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What is watts, volts and amps?
I never really understood, and any definition I read, I just forget after a while. can someone explain in a way that I won't forget.
the water analogy doesn't help as I get confused between them. also, Watt is the most confusing for me shouldn't it with some unit of time ? like I could ... | {
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"content": "A watt does have time! It's equal to 1 Joule per second of energy transfer. That's also why power consumption is often measured in Kilowatt-Hours, rather than just Kilowatts, by electric meters. 1KWh is equal to 1000 wa... | {
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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 spoilers if you can. | {
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"content": "Letterboxd lets you track your watch history in a diary, but doesn't show it to you in a calendar format, so I went and did it myself.\n\nDoes anybody want to talk about:\n\nThe Zone of Interest (2023): ★★☆\n\nI really ... | {
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Can you recommend some visual aids for 'The City and the Stars' by Arthur C. Clarke?
I'm having a lot of trouble creating an image of the city in my head and would like some help!
Any kind of image or graph is appreciated. Maps, artist renditions. Anything. Both for the city as a whole and the different locations wit... | {
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"content": "OK, the Tildes hive is probably going to hate me for this, but... I asked ChatGPT to use its new image model to come up with what you are asking for. Here's the result:\n\nhttps://files.catbox.moe/fw3u23.png"
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I made a website with free and low-cost resources for web development, game development, privacy, graphics, small web, etc | {
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The Dealer's Tarot - Modern games to play with a tarot deck | {
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How AI prevents meritocracy | {
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The part about having to book tickets through certain operators directly was a big issue for me, as a tourist visiting European countries that are primarily non-English.
I went through this a couple of years ago when travelling through central Europe. I had no clue I had to go to the specific train operator's site to ... | {
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"content": "Even if you do know who operates them, booking the trains can be a nightmare. My recent trip to Europe included a DB (🇩🇪) train and a SCNF (🇫🇷) train. I tried and failed multiple times to book the DB train through t... | {
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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains
There's also a giant country in the middle of the continent with one of the least reliable systems. How can you take a train anywhere if you can't trust German trains to get you to your next leg? | {
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"content": "I ended up missing a flight home because DB cancelled the Frankfurt airport stop while we were on the train. And then they make the bureaucracy so onerous to get any amount of money back for the thousands extra it cost ... | {
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A train should never cost more money than something that literally flies through the air.
For as long as I can remember, it’s always been cheaper and quicker to hop on a flight to another city here in the UK, and it makes no sense financially or environmentally.
I know this is the case for a lot of other places too, ... | {
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"content": "A train should never cost more money than something that literally flies through the air.\n\nDepends on distance / geography. For example, in China, where they have arguably the best large scale rail network of anywhere... | {
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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains
This report exposes a ‘stone age’ system where major operators often fail to even display – let alone sell – available cross-border connections or cheaper competitor fares
They are overestimating the difficulty quite a lot IMO, yes i... | {
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"content": "Most European countries already have pretty significant taxes on air travel, though. Raising them isn't necessarily a bad idea to encourage train travel, but I think you're underrating how much the inconvenience factor ... | {
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While I agree that booking train tickets can be a bit cumbersome, depending on the services your local railroad provides, in my opinion it's prohibitively expensive, first and foremost. (I can book trains from my local railroad's website easily, so it's a non issue in Switzerland.)
For reference, to go from where I am... | {
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"content": "I disagree they're less convenient.\n\nA flight requires you be there long in advance to deal with security, usually with luggage limitations (you're separated and might have a small allowance).\n\nAlso a flight will at... | {
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Those are pretty cool effects but really stretch the definition of ASCII art. IMHO if you can’t paste it here into Tildes (or your SSH MOTD, sorry @goose) it doesn’t count!
Side note / total shill but I recently vibe coded this PNG-to-emoonji-art converter and its output is totally pasteable (of course technically emo... | {
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"content": "Yeah, why is this called an ASCII art generator? I've grown quite sensitive to slop I guess, but this smells a tad sloppy. (I do like the idea though!)"
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Worth noting that ASCII and large emoji art is very inaccessible! Emoticons aren't great and it's why I try to be thoughtful with them as a rule, but providing an alt text is very helpful for screen readers which may or may not skip the apparent "junk" | {
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"content": "Come to think of it, is there an html tag that lets you mark what would otherwise be rendered as text as media to signal to screen readers that it should be skipped/process accessibility metadata attached to the tag ins... | {
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
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"content": "Still working on my personal link-sharing website off and on. I’ve imported all the links I ever posted to Tildes, but they’re not published yet. That’s currently a manual review since I tag things differently from Tild... | {
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Native American Indian porcupine quillwork, how to do porky quillwork
There's a local-to-me Odawa artist, Yvonne Walker-Keshick, who does amazing, painterly quillwork on birch bark boxes. It's inspiring to see what can be accomplished with minimal tools, limited natural materials, and generations of handcraft skill.
... | {
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"content": "Yvonne Walker-Keshick, who does [amazing, painterly quillwork] <- Kagi link\n\nKagi is a paid search engine, so if you can't load the linked image results, here are some pages on the artist with a few examples of her wo... | {
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anythi... | {
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"content": "I just finished re-reading Witch Hat Atelier to celebrate the recent release of the anime. It's one of my favorite manga, so I've been looking forward to seeing it on screen.\n\nThe first few episodes of the anime have ... | {
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The kind of power on offer with modern midrange to flagship mobile SoCs these days is wild. Not so long ago the idea of running any AAA game, even those several years old, on a phone or tablet was unthinkable unless graphics had been severely degraded. | {
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"content": "Yeah it was a shock to me last month when i learned about game native, which lets you just run your steam games on an android device.\n\nI assumed some of my older stuff might work, but with things like the Thor or Retr... | {
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What's the longest place name in continental Europe? | {
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"content": "Follow up video:\n\nWhy Is This Village Called \"Y\"?\n\nYes, it's the frankly inevitable sequel! After the last video, where we tried to find the village with the longest name in Europe, today we're on a mission to fin... | {
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Tildes Gardening Group: Week 20/4/26
Welcome all to our weekly (ish) gardening group discussion!
Feel free to discuss anything related to gardening, beginner or advanced, challenge or success. | {
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"content": "My two sweet potatoes have a couple of tiny slips starting up. I wasn't at all sure this experiment would work, but I'm encouraged. (The secret of my success: every day I hang over them and chant, \"Go, go, sweet po-ta-... | {
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Degrading quality to achieve a price point does not make something more affordable. It masks how expensive all the other options have become.
This is the housing equivalent of shrinkflation. | {
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"content": "The opposite of shrinkflation is only selling large quantities, so people have to buy more than they need and the rest goes to waste. Restaurants often do that, with \"generous\" portions to justify higher prices. (You ... | {
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When I moved to the area my parents gifted me a few grand to pay for a short term lease. For people without that kind of help something like this is your best option to get set up. It seems clean, safe and cheap. Honestly it's a perfectly reasonable option and I find it strange people would judge someone for taking on ... | {
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"content": "it's still the case that if you're smart and capable it won't be long before you're pulling in >$200,000.\n\nThat seems a bit optimistic? $200k puts you in the 85th percentile for individuals (source). Plenty of people ... | {
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Why would anyone go for this instead of just living literally anywhere else? | {
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"content": "Well the article gives several compelling reasons.\n\nNo deposit. No one-year lease. No background checks or proof of income.\n\nHe said he’s stayed because he has an “aversion” to spending the money he earns inefficien... | {
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“Dungeon Crawler Carl” now available to libraries exclusively on Libby
Congrats to Matt Dinniman, I suppose, but it kind of sucks that it's going to be siloed to Overdrive's walled garden. My library system doesn't use Libby, we have access to Cloud Library and Hoopla, and I'm not thrilled about the exclusive nature o... | {
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"content": "Unfortunately seems to be his modus; as of now, the ebook is only available for purchase from the highly-walled-garden kindle ecosystem. I don't really know anything about the author as a person, but I doubt he's intent... | {
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"posted_at": "2026-04-23T01:56:41Z",
"votes": 30,
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I've read the first two books, but they are so quick to read (literally a one day read if I have the free time) that I hate to spend the money on the hard covers, which is all that is available for most of them. The wait list for the next book at my library is over 200 deep. My ebook reader can't install apps, so even ... | {
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"content": "They're just getting a regular publishing run iirc so hopefully paperbacks come after the hardbacks. Definitely more of a collectors thing but I'm seeing it with a number of authors who want to go a different route than... | {
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Invincible Season 4 finale discussion
Finale of season 4 spoilers here. You have been warned that people will discuss spoilers here. Don't blame me if you are spoiled of things that happen all the way to the end of season 4, which premiered today.
Anybody else watch the Season 4 Finale and just blown away by how it e... | {
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"content": "I'm loving this series. I read the entire universe after S01 and the new bits they've given us have been fantastic.\n\nI hope the next season comes out soon. There's some wild shit coming along with some pretty big chan... | {
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"posted_at": "2026-04-23T03:33:16Z",
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Or, you know, just use ungoogled-chromium?
I mean, they bloated the flagship product to sell a slim alternative. This fact, by itself, is a red flag for me. | {
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"content": "the way I took it is that it's more for supporting brave than for actually removing the bloat. removing the bloat is just a bonus, similar to merch, otherwise it doesn't make much sense"
},
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I`m just thinking out.
Brave and Vivaldi both chromium based.
In both browsers crapware is disabled at maximum.
Vivaldi is free, but not strictly opensource, its source-available.
I`m pretty sure that Vivaldi is much more customizable than Brave.
Anyway, I`m pretty happy that now we have new alternative, and I rea... | {
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"content": "Vivaldi in my experience is a little bit buggier than Brave, but nothing significant."
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"author": "u2",
"content": "Vivaldi may be buggier, but its packed ... | {
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I wonder why Linux get to use it for free... Maybe they hope that way they'll get more feedback and bug reports?
Anyway, the removal of Wayback Machine and Tor make it a lesser product for me, the rest don't bother me since I just keep them turned off.
But if there is a target audience for this version, I'm happy for... | {
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"content": "Realistically it's because people that use linux use it because they want to be rid of all this crap in the first place (myself included) so will almost certainly be using a different browser that ensues these ideals, l... | {
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Obligatory reminder that the Brave company is the brainchild of Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript and the largest homophobe in Silicon Valley, to the point where Mozilla fired him for this.
Obligatory secondary reminder that Brave Browser includes a cryptocurrency mechanism that rewards you with tokens upon viewing... | {
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"content": "Don't forget COVID-denying, anti-mask cryptobro. It's Chrome for Republicans."
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"parent": null,
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"content": "Also they run just another ad network on top of... | {
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This is so strange to me. Is is not naturally self limiting? The price will drop until it is no longer profitable to make solar panels at which point producers will switch to other products or go out of business.
It sounds like Chinese governance is calling for collusion to artificially inflate solar panel prices, whi... | {
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"content": "Not collusion to inflate: mandate to inflate .\n\nYou're looking at it from a western (relatively more) free market manner. What's econ's assumption about supply and demand? For individual entities to be able to make de... | {
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"posted_at": "2026-04-23T06:38:55Z",
"votes": 35,
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What is Mastodon for? | {
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"content": "The result is a community that defaults to social aggression for boundary maintenance\n\nYeah, that does happen a lot. Also true on Bluesky. There, the “social aggression” isn’t always successful, but people try.\n\nSuc... | {
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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 a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related? | {
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"content": "I've been trying to become more consistent at getting to the gym and working on jogging. Lately ive been only getting to the gym twice a week and only a single 2km jog (just easing into it with some injury niggles)\n\nD... | {
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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 ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on o... | {
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"content": "I made and ran my own Rules-Discovery Diplomacy Variant.\n\nFor context - Diplomacy is a 1959 negotiation-based board game, where players control different countries and try to expand. It's set in the first world war, b... | {
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