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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday February 12 2016, @05:56PM
Then sandbox it in a vm. That'd give you better control over the power consumption anyway, if you're the kind of person who cares about it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is actually one of the few things that SHOULDN'T be given the opportunity to be forked.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @07:38PM
What would a VM help? I refuse to use software that does not respect my freedoms.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @08:36PM
Anonymous Coward, help! I'm about to be smashed to bits by this car crusher! Quick, pull the lever!
"Now hold on a second, pulling this lever might activate some software I cannot view the source code of. You see, it's important that all software I use respects muh three essential freedumbs: the freedumb to use the software however I wish, for --"
SPLAT
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @09:16PM
Three? [gnu.org] With that said, you're not going to get software that respects your freedoms by mindlessly using proprietary software and letting its developers abuse you. People who simply give up rarely accomplish much of anything.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday February 12 2016, @08:39PM
Well, my suggestion stemmed from not knowing whether the situation was ideological or technical.
Sounds like it won't help you though, in this case.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!