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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.

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.

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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)

This Doctor Would Rather You Take Weed Up the Butt Than Smoke It

It's even safer than vaping!

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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Alright, I'll confess.

In 1978, our ship docked in Venice, Italy. Docked nearby was a Russian tour ship. Little did we boots realize that the tour ship was a cover for something far more important.

Our crew was formed into ranks, and marched over to the tour ship our first night in port. We were all hypnotized by Russia's Hypnotoad, and given the agenda of the future. Russia was preparing, already, to cave in on the Cold War. But, they were also preparing their revenge.

During the briefing, we learned that the Russians had a tame Orangutan in a sleeper cell in New York. The Orangutan was to be Russia's "Trump card", so to speak. All of us were informed that the Orangutan would one day run for President of the United States, and that we would recognize him when the time came.

Almost all American servicemen were briefed between the years of 1970 and 2010. And, all of us veterans were prepared to vote Trump when the time came. A lot of civilians, too, of course, but all of us veterans voted Trump. Well, except for a few whose hypnosis didn't work very well.
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Alright, I was shooting for funny. My story isn't really all that funny though. What's REALLY FUNNY is, a lot of progressives will believe my bullshit story. Yeah, there WAS a Russian cruise ship in Venice. That's where this story's connection with reality begins and ends.

Are any Soylentils reading this signed up for cryonic preservation? Or know someone who is? I'm curious.

Medical time travel

Op-ed at War is Boring. Found at NBF.

It wasn't looking so good to start with. I was still awake at 3:45 this morning so I shut the alarm off. But I got up in mid-afternoon, ate breakfast, showered and shaved, then went to Starbucks. Here at Starbucks I read a few pages of Benjamin Lunt's "USB: the Universal Serial Bus". I'm reading about xHCI Host Bus Adapters in particular.

That book is so detailed you could kill a man with its register definitions. Even so I managed to read 11 pages before losing patience. If I do that each time I sit down to read it, I'll read the chapter on xHCI hardware in a total of four days. That's not so bad.

(xHCI is the register-level controller standard for USB 3. It also supports USB 2 and 1.)

I bought two new pairs of pants at the mall Saturday evening. I'm wearing one of them now. I feel good, wearing brand-new clothes. I'd been reduced to a raggedy pair of blue jeans. Now I regard it as acceptable to wear worn-out jeans specifically, but these were rapidly losing ground.

I had plans to meet a friend at a restaurant tonight, but he had to reschedule for Thursday. My plan was to ask one of the waitresses out to dinner. I don't know whether she's interested in me, but she liked it when I kissed her on her hand. If she's working Thursday I'll ask her then. I want to take her to a sushi bar in downtown Portland.

I was feeling dismayed at my cluelessness about the low-level driver knowledge required to complete my next project. But the Engineering VP and their regular programmer are confident I can do it. We got together to talk about it last thursday. "I want to set your mind at ease" said the VP.

I suppose I'll take on the project. That gives me at least three more months work and enough money to buy a car.

Now I don't really know that it's safe to drive, as I was having seizures for a while. I didn't have many but they were quite severe. A couple times I lost consciousness, yet was up and walking around talking to people, but not making any sense at all, as if I was completely out of touch with reality. The first seizure I had while I was driving. I found myself driving a strange car is a strange place with no memory of how I got there - but I didn't crash, which leads me to believe the seizure was very brief, but with a big loss of memory.

I eventually figured out that I set out the previous afternoon from my Mom's place just north of Vancouver Washington, that I got pulled over by a cop for a busted taillight during the night, and that I want to a restaurant in Medford, Oregon during the very early morning. But I don't remember anything else. I don't remember eating anything at that restaurant, just sitting at my table writing a journal on Kuro5hin.

Eventually I passed mount Shasta, and I realized I was driving back home to where I used to live in San Jose.

My psychiatrist and my regular doctor both think it's safe for me to drive, but both of them want me to get checked out by a neurologist. I have a referral but haven't made the appointment yet.

There is a total eclipse of the sun visible across the United States on August 21 of this year. If I understand the map correctly the totality will be visible in Salem, about an hour south of Portland. If I buy a car I'll drive down, otherwise I'll take the bus or train.

Burning Man may have to be cancelled this year. There has been record snowfall in the nearby mountains, with the result that the dry lake bed is no longer dry. The fear is that it won't dry out enough by labor day. It would be Muddy Man.

I don't have a ticket but was thinking of buying one during the sale during the summer, when those with extra tickets have active support for selling them. We shall see.

I've been there three times before. It was lots of fun.