so a big racist massacre happens and these guys come out of hiding?

so we can full on Streisand this? I like it!

I made some REALLY good pasta, and took a picture to brag about it

and a friend of mine pointed at how hipster it is to take a nice photo of your food for the night so i hipstered it up even more

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-wkAZHS1-SIU/VH5nlTZ1VjI/AAAAAAAAP1s/ibPo3wD1D90/w1185-h889-no/IMG_20141202_201826~2.jpg

Gaming is a big one, but since it's been mentioned, a much less fun flow was back when I worked at Subway - working a long line of people during a lunch rush, there's so many different things you have to do between handwork and communication that you'd fall behind if you weren't completely immersed in your motions. I'm really glad I'm not working there anymore.

just like it sucks that BET has to exist.

this might be sort of away from your point (which was good), but man weren't there all kinds of problems with BET? The narrative I had been given was that things got bad with Viacom in charge. Basically instead of being any kind of positive thing, it's become the result of a bunch of white guys in a room strategizing how to make money off of a black audience (that image in my head probably has a lot to do with the boondocks episode).

BET on wiki, #criticism

In a 2010 interview, BET co-founder Sheila Johnson said she herself is "ashamed" of what the network has become. “I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids that they don't watch it," she said. “When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television. We had public affairs programming. We had news... I had a show called Teen Summit, we had a large variety of programming, but the problem is that then the video revolution started up... And then something started happening, and I didn't like it at all.

again, your comment is right and everything, it just reminded me of this and I'm not sure what other people think.

Happy Halloween!

I really wish psychology was more commonly taught in high school, especially with the apparent rise lately in people who identify as having depression/anxiety issues. Having an actual understanding of those conditions instead of treating it like beautiful suffering could positively impact a lot of lives.

I do think that we're seeing a growth in awareness for mental illness, how to approach it in others, how to identify it, etc, and maybe part of it being a bigger thing is you have kids in high school picking it up and turning into what the article was talking about. It's a bad thing, but maybe it's a symptom of a larger positive thing.

You're right about the being able to follow specific people part, though I think in some cases subreddits are helping to fight bad signal-to-noise ratios in the content stream. For example, the /r/gaming subreddit over the years and general eternal september that any default sub gets to see, devolved into a mess of memes and inane posts about a popular game with the superimposed impact font joke etc

So, some people got together and wanted a gaming discussion subreddit without the memery, so they made an /r/games (which is the most popular one, theres also an /r/truegaming) with the goal of having better quality posts and discussions through more involved moderator actions, and it's worked pretty well.

There's not really any crapposting going on in Hubski right now, but if some day this place hit critical mass, it might be difficult to contain.

Yeah, Hubski isn't yet big enough to have the kinds of problems that subreddits/moderators solve, but it will be very interesting to see how it's tackled if it ever gets to that point.

in this case, "tv ready" meaning "not cartoonishly evil and racist"

I saw the "voting makes you gay" thing floating around the internet for a bit but then finally found and watched the whole interview and everything, and holy shit the anti-republican-voting-ad thing is so the least important half of that segment.

hmm, close photos of something close to me...if only I could take pictures of my phone.

not that I use my 360 pad every day, but they tend to look nice with "macro" photos imo

turtle sex is hilarious.

He's a flying fox, from the Columbus Zoo.

found this on slashdot

Basically, the sRGB spec is no longer sRGB, and colour managed applications that use ColorSync are completely hosed. Almost everything is more saturated then it should be. Towers of bug reports have been filed on this alone and absolutely nobody has received a response from Apple, which makes me think it's some retarded "stylistic choice" of theirs to literally try and make the OS "look better" (it doesn't).

So, basically, if you rely on OS X for colour accurate work, you're totally fucked.

Good idea to wait two weeks before major updates to anything important to your daily activities or production.

Bastion is great if you haven't played it yet, that's basically required reading for a gamer IMO

Dota 2 has been ported, and is free, but if you're not already into MOBAs it will be a time investment learning about it.

If you haven't played Psychonauts yet, grab that. I recommend a controller for this one, USB 360 controllers are godly and work great in Linux.

I also second the suggestion of Dwarf Fortress, it won't tell you outright but you'll need ia32-libs for it to work right if you're on x64.

yeah, my roomie went vegetarian and I thought aw man it's gonna be harder for me to eat GOOD stuff

then he turned around and made awesome stir fry and shared it and now I'm a little bit more accepting that there is good food without parts of dead animals in it.

all you guys and your fancy wines and sour beers and I just

bottle of 101 proof for <$14 is plenty of drunk per dollar.

I don't technically know any of my passwords either, keeping unique 32 character garbled passwords for each account, all I use is an md5 generator. I do wish more sites used two-factor auth, though.

I learned about this in school but all I was taught is that they used the literacy tests to prevent black people from voting, it didn't elaborate on how exactly that worked. I think I was left to assume black people at the time (closer to Amendment 15) were more likely to be illiterate or something.

But this is even more evil. The questions are so insane, that even if you think you have it figured out, they're so vague that whoever is grading the test could just tell you you interpreted it wrong no matter how you answered it.

Late to the party but here's a neat Cello cover of the Game of Thrones theme

So, curious, what kind of content would you have to see to think "there goes the neighborhood"

Say some day Reddit has a Digg-style exodus and Hubski suddenly has an extremely popular ragefaces tag because they like the way images embed in-line - or everything is expressed in pictures with bold white Impact font on the top and bottom. Pun threads dominate the comments.

Or shrekchan decides to immigrate and commenters tell people to check themselves before they shrek themselves.

Or a Minecraft community suddenly buds up and you have an official hubski Minecraft server, but the catch is that your influx is users below the age of 12 (this sort of happened to my gaming forum a little bit).

If I ran an aggregator/community, I'd be afraid of getting popular or having anything close to an Eternal September. Is it something you think about?

or test it out on an old/spare PC you have sitting around, like some of us do. Repartitioning the drive of your main personal machine can be a bit of an investment.

Also worth looking in to: Linux Mint, technically the same as Ubuntu but with a different front end.

So it's brightly colored, and lives in Australia. I can already tell this thing is super lethal.

other than that, it looks like a big lump of arm muscle tissue, like someone's bicep jumped out of his skin and climbed a tree.

People were talking (on Reddit) about some day having it installed into Google Glass, and the point was raised that it seems to work well with subjects that aren't moving that much - since it observes by the shifts in a pixel, you can imaging it would be a lot more work doing all that AND tracking movement with precision to the pixel.

But, then again, if you had asked me yesterday if there was a way to visualize someone's heartbeat pulses in a simple video from a phone in my pocket, I'd say that was full of shit too.

It's strange how a company so disconnected with the rest of the world could be so profitable.

I'll be damned.

Originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory[8] (which had been instrumental in the early development of onion routing under the aegis of DARPA), Tor was financially supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2004 to 2005.[10] Tor software is now developed by the Tor Project, which has been a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization [11] based in the United States of America [1] since December 2006. It has a diverse base of financial support;[10] the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation are major contributors.[12] As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest,[13] including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors.[14]

wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History

That's very interesting, I haven't played with Tor in a long time but I never got the impression it even needed a lot of funding. I just kind of thought it was more of a grassroots open source project.

That launch price is the biggest deal - the people (rightfully) complaining about the XB1 policies are in the minority when it comes to the whole consumer base, there are a lot of people who don't really participate in this discussion who are going to buy it for the next Halo or CoD.

But, those same people will notice that price difference, and that will really give Sony an edge here. Especially fitting because that's one of the things that really hurt them last cycle.

basically, Xbox ONE will adopt a lot of Steam-like policies, you can buy a game on disc or download but it will be tied to your account (one difference here being other people can also play it if they have an account on the same Xbox). If you want to sell the game or trade it in, you can only do it at retailers participating in whatever system Microsoft has in place for it - that's bad news for smaller used game shops (like anything besides Gamestop in the US).

If you want to share a game with a friend, you can only transfer the license to someone who has been on your Xbox friends list for 30 days - and once it's transferred, it's there forever, can't be regifted. Compared to right now, where you can just hand off a disc and it's playable without any work, it's kind of a shit deal for players.

Also, the new Xbox will check-in to Microsoft servers every 24 hours - presumably that means your single player games won't work for more than a day without internet.

The new system restricts gamers in a lot of ways without really adding any benefit for us. We put up with a lot of the bad stuff about Steam because they provide nice services in return, but Xbox seems to have taken all the bad parts about Steam and none of the good stuff.

here's the official word from Microsoft on how game licensing will work.