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I switched to CDE
So I finally got too fedup with the modern breakage that is called desktop environments on Linux, grabbed the source code to CDE, and compiled it. I *finally* have an environment that works with multimonitor without being complete crap. After a bit fiddling with the X defaults database, it's quite usable.
Imgur Proof (warning, high resolution)
Honestly, compared to MOST of the other DEs I've used, this is damn heaven at the moment. With a bit of work to get to support XDG groups, some app fixing, and a little polish, CDE probably could wipe the floor as far as usability goes.
He will not divide us: Capture the flag
How 4Chan's Worst Trolls Pulled Off the Heist of the Century
The folks of 4Chan have, for some time now, been systematically fucking with Shia Labeouf for his "He Will Not Divide Us" art/protest project. The project first started with Labeouf setting up a webcam in New York. It was supposed to be a permanent live feed for the duration of Trumps presidency, one where people could look into the camera and chant the saying—this obviously did not end well.
[...] The non-stop bullshit surrounding his art project seemingly got to some people and it was shut down by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, where it was located. Shia, not to be deterred, then moved the exhibit to El Rey Theater in Albuquerque in mid-February, but the fuckery continued. The live stream was spray painted and it was eventually shut down when gunshots were reported in the area.
Still though, Shia, ever the trooper, carried on. This time the HWNDU project featured a livestream of a flag waving in the air. The stream contained only the sky and the flag as not to give away its location to the trolls. 'Yes,' Labeouf must have thought, 'there is no way they're shutting this one down. I, Big-Daddy Shia, did it.'
Big-Daddy Shia would be proven wrong once again—instead of vanquishing the trolls, he started the most intense game of capture the flag ever. The trolls using only the live stream of the flag, started, I shit you not, studying the flight patterns and contrails of the airplanes passing overhead. They mapped out what they saw and took their findings to flight radars to try and pinpoint a general area. Using the knowledge gleaned from the flight patterns they found that the location was near Greeneville, Tennessee.
(Continue at the article)
Islamic prayer ritual reduces back pain
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170306154230.htm
Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of the Islamic prayer ritual, the Salat. The ritual is one of the five obligatory elements of the faith set forth by the holy book, the Qur'an.
According to research at Binghamton University, State University of New York, the complex physical movements of the ritual can reduce lower back pain if performed regularly and properly.
"One way to think about the movements is that they are similar to those of yoga or physical therapy intervention exercises used to treat low back pain," said Professor and Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department Chair Mohammad Khasawneh, who is one of the authors of "An ergonomic study of body motions during Muslim prayer using digital human modelling."
Islam: Relieving the Pain in Your Ass Adjacent to Your Rear
An ergonomic study of body motions during Muslim prayer using digital human modelling (DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2017.10002578) (DX)
Rectal Weed
This Doctor Would Rather You Take Weed Up the Butt Than Smoke It
It's even safer than vaping!
Bad habit: can't break
My bad habit used to be finger biting: by forcing myself to not bite them, I transferred it to cheek and lip biting.
I've started using large doses of easy absorb magnesium powder, and that eases it off (if I take a dose about every 6-8 hours. If I forget, it takes an hour or two to kick in again.
Does anyone else do the same? Do they have a good solution?
Now, I gotta make sure I take some before work in the morning, and should probably mix a dose to take at work, then try to remember around supper, then maybe at bedtime....
Sigh.
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U.S. Space Corps
Op-ed at War is Boring. Found at NBF.
Amazing money-saving opportunity
Like many, I prefer purchasing hardware from Newegg to support their war on patent trolls.
Today, however, there seems to be a new reason to shop Newegg: Free shipping if you spend just $99,999.00.
Oh, and "restrictions apply".
Seriously, what the actual heck.
Are food is poison... and no one cares!
From the i-dunno-what-to-eat-anymore dept.
I was thinking about this kind of thing:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170213131150.htm
And was thinking: the article is saying "Go gluten free and increase your chances of getting cancer!"
What it really should be saying is "WTF? Our food supply is killing us because we are tooooooo stupid to not poison our food supply?!?!"
Kind of surprised me for some reason: i've looked at articles from various sides before (Hey, Hillary vs. Trump articles!!), but didn't at first look at this one except from the "it was probably sponsored and written by someone in the bread industry" point of view.
We are poisoning our food, and the best we can do is: don't go gluten free... it will kill you, just like all the other food we are poisoning but ignore that elephant behind the curtain.
Humans are so stupid: i guess we DESERVE to die as we chase after that Dog almighty dollar. I guess if i ever get RICH, i'd better create a food biome: somewhere i can have uncontaminated soil and air to grow my food supply in.
Maybe that's why there's such a rush to Mars: rich people need a place to grow food in an uncontaminated environment (that is until they find they can make an extra dollar by contaminating it).
