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 Sir Finkus on Saturday February 13 2016, @06:11AM
Not strictly. If you install the fahclient, you should get a cli setup window where you can select options. You'll also find a configuration file in /etc/fahclient/config.xml.
There's more information on running it without a GUI here [stanford.edu].
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]