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Folding@Home:
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Super Bowl Party:
It has become a tradition and last Sunday was no exception. SoylentNews hosted its fourth annual Super Bowl party on IRC. I struggled with getting an old laptop set up and running. (I had last used it for last year's party.) This involved installing Ubuntu 18.04 (and then upgrading to 20.04). Then, with able assistance from chromas we got the permissions set up on the channel. All told, we had about a dozen logged into the channel. Had some good chats and good cheer. Was well-worth the effort.
Lastly: Buck Feta! ;)
(Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:11AM (22 children)
Picture Snoopy sitting on his doghouse with a typewriter.
"It was a dark and stormy night . . . "
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:12AM
I mention Snoopy, and the QOTD pops up "Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. -- C. Schultz"
Schultz is trying to communicate with us! MOAR META!!
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 4, Funny) by fliptop on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:47AM
My grandfather always told a cyclical story that began w/ that line. I'll include it below, just for chits and chiggles. (Note, he was from the Susquehanna region of Pennsylvania, feel free to substitute your own river below):
Ah good times, good times. Congratulations SN on 8 great years and many more!
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @08:03AM (19 children)
I just love when Runaway has his sock-puppets mod him +1 Funny, because it is just so obvious.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @08:16AM (2 children)
Oh great, idiots are developing a Runaway Derangement Syndrome.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @08:45AM (1 child)
You use idiots in the plural. It isn't clear that multiple people suffer from RDS. It is clear that one individual and a dozen or more socks suffer from the malady, but there is little evidence that other people are involved.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by foundling on Thursday February 17 2022, @09:06AM
Or, perhaps, the converse? Since the sole poster, often, is Runaway.
(Score: 5, Touché) by janrinok on Thursday February 17 2022, @09:36AM (15 children)
I just love it when people accuse Runaway of using sock-puppets when I can assure you he is not. They haven't got a shred of evidence, but they cannot believe somebody else might say something humorous. We are watching him like a hawk - he is not using sock puppets.
You, sir, are displaying signs of paranoia.
Now, to the purpose of this story - Many Happy Returns Soylent News and many thanks to each and everyone of our community!
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @09:56AM (3 children)
I think it's another Ari sock. https://soylentnews.org/~foundling/ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by foundling on Friday February 18 2022, @01:57AM (2 children)
That explains the sudden mod-bombing. Thanks for thinking that! Now, could you undo it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @03:38AM (1 child)
Other than the above every one of your posts was an off-topic attack on your crush. You sound like a gay republican. Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit your kink? People have been attracted to weirder things than old sailors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @05:53AM
You have issues, dude! And more mod-bombing? I am banned from commenting after half a dozen posts? What the Fuck is going on in this place? Mandelorians take care of foundlings. Well, not worth my time. Bye.
Signed, foundling
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @10:08AM (2 children)
https://centerofthewest.org/2018/12/27/ultraviolet-vision-avian-bird-world/ [centerofthewest.org]
Don't pee in the sock drawer?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday February 17 2022, @05:48PM (1 child)
Surely they wold glow a bright ultraviolet?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @09:21PM
Maybe, and maybe not. One article about human tetrachromes suggest that other colors are affected. So, it's not just an additional color at the top of the spectrum for them. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/331169-human-tetrachromacy-is-real-heres-what-we-know [extremetech.com]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 17 2022, @06:01PM (4 children)
Not really... From your perspective remembering to turn the VPN on and actually stopping the activity would look the same.
(Not trying to imply anything should change just pointing out the flaw in your logic)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @12:59AM
Only in respect of posting truly anon comments. I'm pretty sure the staff can see who modded whom, which is one of the main complaints about sock-puppetting, and requires that you be logged in.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @03:47AM (1 child)
There have been enough false Ari sightings, especially by janrinok, that no one believes them any more. Right, Ari!
(Not hard to detect: when you post AC, and someone accuses you of being Ari, it is pretty obvious that they are wrong, if you are not Ari. In fact, it is also obvious to Ari, if he still reads comments. )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 20 2022, @02:27AM
Hi Ari.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by janrinok on Friday February 18 2022, @08:28AM
Unless the person using the VPNs is doing something so basically wrong in the way that they use VPNs that they are achieving nothing in the majority of cases. And, believe me, Aristarchus is doing it really, really badly! It is not our job, nor in our interests, to educate him.
If he accepts that we have no wish to know who aristarchus is in the real world and re-evaluates his strategy then he might do a little better. I have told him this on numerous occasions - but he just doesn't think about the replies he receives.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @06:02AM
Seriously, the not-sockpuppetry that Runaway is doing is destroying SoylentNews. Just today alone I have seen four (4) long time solylentils walking away. We have had sequential front page articles languishing for half days with no comments. And the comments that eventually show up are rarely on topic. And do not even get me started on the journals, a cesspool of a hive of scum and villainy. Khallow's latest formenting war between American and the Ukraine over trucks is just typical. Something serious needs to be done. Banning aristarchus was a solution to what was not the problem. Time to rethink, SN. Time to reboot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 20 2022, @10:27AM (1 child)
OMG! The Runaway socks are now upmodding janrinok! Will the madness never end?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 20 2022, @12:00PM
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.