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@herag I use it with unit scaling. My fvwmrc has normal window commands (move resize iconify close etc.) in the root menu so you don't have to touch the controls precisely if you don't want to. On the menus you can just "roll" your thumb and the different selections get highlighted.
I also make XVKBD sticky and without a title bar like the iconbox.
Most X11 things really function very well with unit scaling. The only thing you really miss is mouse buttons 2/3 (so no quick selection buffer pasting etc.)
@lupyuen

@scalar i trust the science, that's why i don't get the so called "vaccine" 💁

New mRNAmodification doom-paper dropped on 10/13

It's really bad.

>"Our findings provide evidence of the spike protein hijacking the DNA damage repair machinery and adaptive immune machinery in vitro."

>"Although no evidence has been published that SARS–CoV–2 can infect thymocytes or bone marrow lymphoid cells, our in vitro V(D)J reporter assay shows that the spike protein intensely impeded V(D)J recombination."

> “We found that the spike protein markedly inhibited both BRCA1 and 53BP1 foci formation (Figure 3D–G). Together, these data show that the SARS–CoV–2 full–length spike protein inhibits DNA damage repair by hindering DNA repair protein recruitment.”

mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm

archive.md/IdLCz

@thor sorry, had lunch ;)

yeah i also don't listen to music as frequently, usually it's an evening activity now every few weeks.

i also don't get how people can operate like this. do a job which is probably boring and feels like sisyphus living in an environment which is built with disregard for aesthetics. if the cities were like 100 years ago it would probably be something different, but the brutalism of city planning is really something.

i think for many people it's really enough to have the basic needs (food & shelter) and then some entertainment. turns out juvenal was right?

They are selling their 3-year-old daughters for rice and bread that will only last the remaining family members for a month or two. They are selling their 9-year-old daughters too.

They are selling their very young daughters, not their sons, to fifty-five year old complete strangers, not to relatives. Not even to distant relatives who live several villages or provinces away. These fathers will probably never see their children again; never know whether they were beaten and sorely used as domestics, sold into sex slavery for a profit, or impregnated at nine and dead in childbirth by their tenth birthday.

This is happening right now in Afghanistan where there is neither money nor jobs to be had; where the endemic poverty is as bone-deep as the freezing weather, as dismal as the displacement camps in which such families now live.

The children, whether they are sold, indentured, or allowed to remain with their families, will soon suffer from severe malnutrition. According to the United Nations, “more than half the population is facing severe food insecurity.”

My little group continues to work on evacuations. Miraculously, we now have offers of planes and are filling them to capacity. However, we cannot scoop up every single Afghan female child and spirit her away to an Amazon boot camp/orphanage in order to strengthen her for her new and difficult life. (Not a bad idea but easier dreamt of than done).

The mainstream media has just begun to write about this. CNN and the BBC have stories. They have photos as well of the children about to be sold. I am not linking to them.

For once, I am also not calling for funds for planes, or for legal work, or even for direct expenses for those refugees who are now out of country but are still in a refugee camp or living on a very limited budget in a “stop over” location.

My colleague in the UK, Mandy Sanghera, has been tweeting about this. And now I join her as I call upon OXFAM, the World Food Bank, the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and the United Nations, to start food drops into Afghanistan. Doctors Without Borders, Magen David Adom, neighboring countries, too.

I call upon our readers to call and write these organizations and urge them to start dropping food packages into Afghanistan before too many people begin dying of hunger, before every last girl child has been sold.

https://4w.pub/famine-in-afghanistan/

@thor 10/10 thread! i never lived in a city with more than a few 100k inhabitants, but even that was unnerving.

regarding music (i think we talked about that at some point), i sometimes "enjoy" unpleasant music because it matches how i feel. maybe it reduces the dissonance between my feelings and the outside world? i like to believe this kind of music (electric wizard - dopethrone youtube.com/watch?v=eaMbKZPBru, cough - ritual abuse youtube.com/watch?v=shalI6Bd4C) has kept me sane. there always were things like PJ Harvey (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPa) in the mix too which aren't as noisy.

mentioning pj harvey, i think john parish is an amazing producer. i really like his arrangements (youtube.com/watch?v=JMyes11rCq).

it seems that the idea of being “highly sensitive” has some acceptance in the accredited mental health community. it seems to get conflated with people who think they’re psychic or other new age nonsense, but that’s not what the therapists mean when they say it.

browsing the Norwegian Internet, it’s clear that, as with much of modern psychology, it’s largely women talking about this stuff.

i’ve seen too many ads advertising therapy where the stock image is of a crying woman. i suggest that if you want to advertise to men, you depict a guy with a gun to his head.

anyway, i seem to fit the description, and i suspect my proneness to drinking is due to wanting to numb it. it’s a bit like taking pain killers for being beat over the head with a bat.

What is slack?

Pinkies don't hurt me.

Pinkies don't hurt me.

No more...

@jrballesteros05 windows 2000 was actually usable, but it was largely meant for professionals.
@dushman

Centralised messenger Signal has just announced that they are making part of their server software closed source. They claim it is to fight spam, but by using closed source they make it impossible for outsiders to verify the truth. This is worrying.

We really, really need a fully open, decentralised alternative to Signal.

There are several alternatives being developed, please support them:

➡️ @snikket_im

➡️ @xmpp

➡️ @matrix

➡️ @delta

➡️ @briar

➡️ @Jami

#Signal #Alternatives #Privacy

@thor @Hyolobrika @kaia i have two friends where the woman already had kids and they are quite happy as far as i can tell. just make sure you don't end up paying everything ;)

@Hyolobrika i one time cut my beard too short, now i'm really extra careful everytime :D
@skadi

What is Mozarella doing?

> With Firefox 94, you’ll find a selection of six fun seasonal Colorways (available for a limited time only)

Hello friends, I thought I'd share how my first year of proper vegetable gardening went - so much better than I even expected!

It was a lot less work than I thought it would be, thanks to the no-dig method, and literally ever veggie I ate was so much prettier and tastier than any store bought one.

If you have the space and a bit of money to get started (mostly just buying compost) you can definitely do this! Its not as hard as one might think. Here to answer any questions!

#gardening

Signal is making a part of their server source code proprietary software:

"To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private".

Taking into account it's centralized nature and that they don't allow third party clients, Signal seems to be just as bad as other "privacy" oriented companies.

Leave Signal and join a truly private, decentralized and libre protocol like #XMPP

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