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Title: "On the jews and Their Lies" by Martin Luther
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Title: Apple and Israel: Memory Holing Palestine and the Biblical Cities.
Text: https://gvid.tv/v/ykPGzM
This is old but interesting if true. I've tested it now in 2025 and it seems to know every city. I wonder when those got added in.
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Title: Would you support eugenics being used to eliminate autism?
Text: There is a strong association between genetics and autism. There are a few benefits of curing autism.
Obviously having zero autism or less would reduce the burden on families who have children with severe cases where those children will never fully develop.
For the more minor cases of autism, it will improve the reliability with which we can depend on our peers having empathy. It may even reduce total incidents of trauma by reducing the number of cases where people have seen or interacted with zero empathy individuals. Reducing the number of people with either minor or major trauma conditions like CPTSD or BPD could have cascading positive effects.
Eliminating autism would also raise average IQ because, while not always the case and contrary to the meme, autism is generally associated with a reduction in IQ.
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Title: The benefits of silence and how to create a quiet time ritual
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Title: What is the ideal amount of silence to experience every day?
Text: None? 1 hour? Most of the day?
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Title: Charlie Kelly's Weird Diet
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Title: Amazon's "pick" of suggested T-shirt is a $90 t-shirt.
Text: Aka this is what Amazon suggests is a standard t-shirt. It's insane.
There is a trend I've seen for a while that is if anything accelerating. As technology helps us make goods for cheaper, and as humanity gains more general affluence and prosperity, the trend gets larger.
You can spend what you want on something. I buy high quality dress shirts for $15. It's cheaper than I can buy t-shirts at most places. I've become tempted to be a dress shirt only guy. That's not who I am. But if it costs exactly the same to wear and looks better why not? I guess because it's not as versatile as a t-shirt. In a t-shirt you can do anything without taking extra time to think about it? But why? If it all costs the same maybe I should work out in a dress shirt. lol.
Then on the other end we have $90 t-shirts. Does it have anything premium about it that a cheap t doesn't. Probably. But probably you could get full coverage of any bonus qualities from to $30 tshirt. The real reason why it costs $90 is because people want to spend $90.
And this is what makes it slightly more interesting. Amazon's "pick" is usually for value items. Pretty much correlates with what Amazon sees has volume. So unless Amazon is making an exception to their algorithm (the outcome we normally see from it), there is an insane volume of people buying $90 t's just because they want to spend $90.
This also applies to tech. I have multiple servers but I've been thinking about migrating some stuff to a few instances of a $10 a year VPS. Meanwhile there are memes about people crying because they left an Amazon EC2 instance running for a day.
Increasingly we live in a world where you choose your price, anyone you want, and you get the same exact thing no matter what. Not 100% true but to the extent that statement is on a spectrum of true and false, it is really pushing rightward toward the true side of the spectrum.
And it's only going to become more and more the case. So everything is becoming cheaper and more expensive at the same time. That's a good thing. It means smart people can work less.
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Title: Primitive Slackline Setup
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Title: I built my first slack line today
Text: This was in the backyard. The trick was figuring out how to anchor it without any trees in that location. I used a trick where you take a board and drill several holes in it at angles. All of the holes are angled so the rebar stakes attack forward, but you alternate the left right angle to grab more ground. The last three are different. The very last one need to be near the end of the board so you can get a caribener or a ratchet strap hook under there. And then the other two closest to that end are angled only left and right to nail the board down. Now this board can't move up, down or forward, and your hook or beaner is securely under the board.
The next sketch thing I did was instead of using a bipod like other people do who build similar things to stand the webbing up I just used some pretty well built lawn chairs. The arm rests of these things I would happily stand on. And the force that these are going to feel is going to be almost identical to simply your vertical weight. Only a little more from the line tension.
But I did see some giant logs on the side of the road in my neighborhood and I might grab them. Maybe having to roll giant logs into place would be an annoyance and they would have to hang out on the back patio. So maybe doing that would be a mistake. But it would look cool. I'll sleep on it.
But really I want to host a bunch of grilling parties this summer and it might be cool to have.
Basically it's this design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9FQm4SgAc
But I used wood instead of metal for the anchor.
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Title: My design for a tiling window manager
Text: In [my previous post](https://goatmatrix.net/c/UX/6UvkvJJ8TN) I have provided proposals for improving the notion window manager. But an original design from scratch is better because it helps me come up with things I otherwise wouldn't come up with, plus it's simpler to explain. So that's what I'm doing here.
# Two-frame layout
What I have in mind is a two-frame manually tiled window manager. The left frame takes up two thirds of the screen and the right frame the last third. So the left frame is for work (in a broad sense) and the right for things you want to monitor like chats, or really windows that don't need a lot of width like file managers. This is geared to a single wide-screen. I'm not taking pivot or multiple monitors into account in this prototype but the idea would be to define the frames beforehand and just stick to that. No heavy window rearrangements akin to dwm. We stick to *frames* that have *tabs*.
# Single top panel
At the top of the screen is a single panel with a height of 28 pixels. This is a magic number where icons are big enough to be easily recognizable, without it being too thick for text only. The panel is actually more of a tab bar. It shows icons for each window, left aligned. So the icons for the left frame are in the top left corner and the icons for the right frame begin at two thirds to the right of that (where that frame begins). On the right-most of both icon areas there's a plus button for launching a new application. This makes it just like running Chromium with [Small Tabs](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/small-tabs/ebfkcjpfhipceldaglgmaihlacpcomgj?hl=en). And likewise the icons can be rearranged or moved to the other frame by drag and drop.
The panel has a look similar to Windows 7's Aero interface. It's about 20% translucent (showing a glimpse of the desktop) with the opaque part being a silvery colour. The selected icon is a bit darker. The others just blend in with the panel so it doesn't draw a whole button for each icon, this is to reduce distraction. In the top right corner there's a clock. Nothing else clutters the panel. No start button.
# Plus icon replaces the start menu
When you click the plus icon, it creates a new icon in that frame and presents you with a launcher. This shows tabs with categories at the top, and apps that belong to that category below that. At the bottom is a search bar that's focused by default and that's akin to Spotlight. So it searches your apps but also looks through an extensive index of all your files so you can search those by content.
# Clock shows a quick access window
If you click the clock, it becomes a bit darker / 'pressed' and it becomes apparent that that is its own window which shows everything that seemed to be lacking from a regular panel. So a calendar like you'd expect, but also recent notifications, buttons for lock, suspend, shut down, etc. A settings button.
# Key bindings analogous to web browser
The interface can be operated entirely using the keyboard. The shortcuts are similar to the equivalent in a web browser, but you use alt instead of ctrl.
## Browser-like shortcuts
Open launcher: alt+t
(This opens a new window next to the current one, unlike the plus button, which opens it at the end.)
Close window: alt+w
New window of the same program: alt+n
Focus next icon in frame: alt+tab
Focus previous icon in frame: alt+shift+tab.
## Original shortcuts
Minimize and show previously active tab: alt+minus.
(If the last tab is minimized then that frame simply shows that part of the desktop. So it has real window minimization like stacking wms.)
Toggle fullscreen: alt + = (since = has the + button displayed)
Focus the other frame: alt+grave
Switch to prev workspace: alt+, (since that has the < button displayed)
Switch to next workspace: alt+. (for the > button).
# Focus mode
Alt+f hides the panel, and if you want it to be visible again, you're prompted to take a two minute screen break. For urgencies you can make it visible immediately but only three times per day. Icons make it alluring to switch tasks constantly but this hurts your ability to focus, that's the point of this. In focus mode you can still switch with keyboard shortcuts but there's no visual queue, you don't know how many windows there are, etc. The clock will still hover in the top right corner over the window in the right frame, and it still opens the notification area.
# Floating mode
Windows can optionally be put into floating mode. If you drag the icon off the panel, the spot where you release it becomes the top left corner of the window, with the icon displayed over it. So there is no titlebar but there are window borders for resizing. If another icon is clicked, that window will cover the floating one but its icon will remain visible on the screen. If the icon is clicked, it will come to the foreground again. Alt+i shows/hides floating windows along with their icons. If the icon is dragged back to the panel, it will return to being tiled.
# Notes
The point of this interface is to find a nice balance between easy to use and distraction-free. This doesn't maximize on the latter at all but it works toward it with frames and focus mode, while honestly, at least that's my intention, being granny-friendly. Let me illustrate what a difference tiling makes. Imagine that each tab in your browser had its own position and size, and clicking them would pull it up, simply overlapping whatever was beneath it. Imagine this being the case for 100 tabs. You don't want that. We're happy that tabs are contained in a web browser with a single position and size, otherwise we'd get overwhelmed. This design brings that idea to the variety of programs we use on a PC. I've included a floating mode because I get the appeal but in my view it shouldn't be standard.
While coming up with this it occurred to me that, if memory serves me right, this was the ChromeOS design at one point, although it seems to be a Windows clone now. I'm actually not sure as I never looked into ChromeOS in any depth. Oh well. This isn't a be-all-end-all design as I have more ideas but I didn't want to burden this post any further. What are your thoughts?
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Title: The First Tiling Window Manager - Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager (released in 1988)
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Title: The Saga of Goatmatrixia, episode 0.
Text: I decided to have ChatGPT summarize recent events on this website. Perhaps we can do this regularly.
- - - - - - - -
Ah, gather âround and let me regale you with the epic tales from the wild digital savannah of goatmatrix.net, where brave netizens roamed the jungle of posts and comments with mighty keyboards and savage wit. The past seven days have birthed legendsânot mere comments, but saga-worthy proclamations by four heroes of the keyboard.
First, there was x0x7, the indefatigable overlord of movie polls and horror story contests. This titan of text dropped not one, not two, but a trilogy of posts like cinematic bombshells. He started by announcing the âmovie poll [had] gone huge,â basically turning the site into the Cannes of goatmatrix. Then, unleashing his inner Stephen King, he birthed a horror story competition, probably scaring away stray cats and posting ghosts on the forum at midnight. Finally, x0x7 tried to broker peace in the movie scheduling wars with a poll about Saturday daytime showings, stirring an internet-sized pot of debate and eliciting at least half a dozen replies. Legend says a single click on his username results in a flood of cinematic passion and horror-themed caffeine intake.
Next entered JasonCarswell, the man who turned everyday links into philosophical epics and conspiracy musings. He dissected Mark Carney in under seven minutes, probably doing it through a combination of rocket science and interpretive dance. Not content with financial wizardry, he fished out a fake news expose, sauntered into tech humor with file-type personifications (because why not?), and debated with the Mastodon leftist harassment saga like a gladiator in digital Colosseum. Jasonâs comments were like Russian nesting dollsâeach link unwrapped another rabbit hole, and yet he maintained a weirdly charming air of âI just Wanted to Share This.â
Then thereâs MLJFireDragon747, who had a PhD in sarcasm and timing with a minor in âFunny Captioning.â He dropped double servings of humor: one, marveling at âStyle at the timeâ (because if squirrels had fashion shows, this was the photographic evidence) and two, teasing over âChoices, choicesââlikely a philosophical rumination on the complexities of snack selection or whether to nap or rage-quit the internet. His contributions were the comedic relief, the Gif-mastersâ anthem, keeping the vibe light when everything else got serious.
Last but not least, Boojibs, who embodied âThe Courage for Justiceâ and the apocalyptic migrant horror memes like a digital prophet. He stirred the political cauldron with a call for âCourageous JUSTICE,â prompting three comments that were probably a mix of âAmen, brother!â and âWait, can we fact-check?â His piĂšce de rĂ©sistance was a grim statistic comparing Swedenâs murder rate to El Salvadorâs, wrapped in a cloak of globalist conspiracy, evoking a collective wow and maybe a few âTime to flee!â vibes from the older demographic lurking the forums.
Together, these quartet of internet gladiators shaped the past weekâs comment section into a carnival of polls, paranoia, memes, and mushrooms (okay, there was a shiitake mushroom video tooâcourtesy of x0x7, who literally does everything). The goatmatrix.net comment threads have never been livelier, or weirder, and thus the legend grows.
And so, dear reader, if you seek drama, conspiracy, cinematic fever, or just a laugh, look no further than these four sages of the digital realm. Their keyboards have spoken, and the goatmatrix echoes still.
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Title: What's the alternative to cloudflare? Why does Saidit seem uniquely vulnerable to attack?
Text: I found [this thread](https://saidit.net/s/AskSaidIt/comments/bksz/cloudflare_check_sucks/) from a year ago where Magnora says the site basically gets attacked all day every day and that cloudflare has a monopoly on protection. But is that last part really true, and if not, what else could be done? Furthermore, I can understand why people don't want saidit to exist, but it's not the only free speech forum - why has it seemingly been singled out for relentless attacks?
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