I never used GNOME. In a way, I can't forgive them for fragmenting the desktop Linux back in the 1990s (yes, it was because of the license, but that was fixed soon after in KDE, and became a non-issue, yet, GNOME marched on). If we had one good desktop, it would have been more conducive to adoption. And no, this is not an area where 'users can pick from alternatives'. So called choice in the desktop environment was bad fragmentation that Linux desktop never recovered from. That was compounded by GNOME 3, and Unity came in to try to fill the void. Others resisted the over bloated desktops, and therefore we see the minimalists like XFCE, LXDE,..etc.
I have been using KDE Ubuntu (kubuntu) for over 15 years as my only desktop. With the 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade, KDE started down the path of 'protecting the user from themselves' by dumbing down things. Some things were missing (a weather widget), and other thing could not be customized (e.g. notifications stay in a place where you can check them later).
So, I did something I was contemplating for a long time, for minimalism and other reasons: switch to XFCE (Xubuntu 16.04). I am happy with it.
I disagree that Ubuntu has bad package management. All these years, I rarely had any repository conflict. One or two times in the over 15 years I have been using Ubuntu. If you add a lot of PPA's then yes, you may get conflicts. I don't have many PPAs. I only use the odd one for a specific software that is not up to date (e.g. GIMP 2.9.x, which has 16-bit image support), and that is it.
I was on KDE for around 15 years. Never used GNOME.
But when I recently upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 16.04, there were many annoyances here and there. For example, no weather widget. Also, the notification history was gone. Dumbing down the user interface is rampant and have reached KDE.
So, I bit the bullet and switched to XFCE (Xubuntu 16.04), and it is fast, nimble and just works.
Firefox is really fast, depending on many factors...
I upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, and Firefox is the fastest I have seen in years. Maybe it is because Canonical have switched to the 64bit version, or something else. This is on an 8 year old laptop.
Regardless, you have to install the following:
- uBlock Origin (block ads) - NoScript (Disable Javascript and Flash except from white listed sites) - Cookie Monster (Don't accept cookies except from white listed sites) - Classic Theme Restorer (Makes it look familiar) - Auto Unload Tab (reduces memory footprint)
Optionally, you may also want to install: - Session Manager (Never lose track of your open tabs) - Add This (for easy content sharing)
I have Chromium, Opera, Konqueror and Rekonq on the same machine, and it used to be that Chromium and Opera are faster, but the former has a high memory footprint. But with 16.04, Firefox is the fastest.
Sticking with Firefox for the foreseeable future...
Arabs for example have a blindspot where all world events are a product of conspiracies by various entities. From real ones (USA, Israel), to quasi-entities ('The West'), to imaginary ones (Free Masonry, World Government,...etc.) Everything that happens is planned and executed by these entities, from wars, revolutions, downing an airplane (e.g. Egypt Air 990, MetroJet). No amount of reasoning will sway the average Arab that there are other explanations that hold more to logic than the usual suspects conspiring on us.
Today I learned that Chileans have a blindspot for believing in UFOs.
Not scientists, nor Leonadro DaVinci, it was the Egyptians.
Hold on, I am not joking. Egyptians have known that the mesentery is a single connected membrane. Why? Because they use that fat laden membrane from sheep to create minced meat kabob like grilled meatballs. It is called mandil ("handkerchief" or "hand towel").
Here is a video showing it as a full contiguous membrane, and the rest of the recipe if someone is interested.
For the past 10 + years, I have been using Linux exclusively as my desktop environment, and all on laptops. I use Kubuntu 14.04 at present, and have been on the LTS versions for many years.
I only buy laptops that are on sale, whatever is in the flyers the week I need to replace a laptop.
From a 'what works' point of view, most of the laptops I have used have fully worked with Linux. That includes Wifi and sound, the most pesky components. Years ago, one Dell laptop had an issue with Wifi and I had to download something or other to make it work. The last few releases did not need anything special for it to work.
I am writing this from a 2009 Toshiba that works well with Kubuntu 14.04. An older Toshiba (maybe 2006 or 2007) still works fine with the same Kubuntu version.
From a reliability point of view, avoid HP laptops. I had one where the screen hinge decided not to work, and broke, so it is now a special purpose server. Another HP was overheating and we got it exchanged under extended warranty and 3 strikes (sent for repair 3 times for the same issue).
What you stated is incorrect. There are plenty of other cross platform video calls.
One one them is Facebook Messenger. It works from a browser (even on Linux), and on Android phones. Not sure about iOS though.
The other is Google Hangouts. It also works from a browser (yes, on Linux too), on Android and on iOS.
Skype used to work on Linux (native application, not from a browser), Android, and iOS as well, but has not used it for a while on my Linux desktop.
WhatsApp is not cross platform. It does not work from a browser, and does not have a desktop native application, be that from Windows or Linux. And WhatsApp requires a mobile phone number, and reads your contacts and gathers all info from it, among other things. Facebook and Hangouts do not require a mobile phone number.
First, we have dictators that seem to defy death. Case in point is Mubarak. I was in university when he came to power, and 30 years later, he was still in power, when the revolution erupted, with all the tumultuous aftermath. Oh, and he is still alive at 88 years old! You can also count Ali Abdalla Saleh of Yemen in the same league. Although he was deposed, he is still alive, and meddling with his country's affairs (aided/co-planned the Houthi take over which is still going on, and causing the Saudi shelling).
And then you have those who just hand over the country to a new generation. Hafez Assad died in power, after several brutal decades. His son, Bashar is now the one causing all this misery on his people.
Browser: Firefox, with Classic Theme Restorer, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie Monster and Session Manager with auto save every few hours. I also have Chromium for when Firefox proves to be too restrictive for some sites. I also use Opera and rekonq occasionally.
Editor: vim and has been for decades, even before vim was invented (yes, plain vi on UNIX System V).
The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats.... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet... "
The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.
Other attackers also got in trouble with the law: petty crime, drug dealing,...etc.
This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.
But don't let facts stand in the way of prejudice and preconceived ideas...
The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats.... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet... "
The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.
Other attackers also got in trouble with the law, petty crime, drug dealing,...etc.
This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.
Saw a guy who looks exactly like a distant cousin of mine, just younger (no grey hair) and a little balder.
I knew it could not be him, since that cousin lives in a third country, and would not be here without telling me. So, I walked up to the doppelganger, and ask him which country he is from. He turned out to be from a distant country altogether. Told him that he looks like my cousin from a different country than him...
If you want to retain the usual Raspbian (Debian derived) command line interface and use the box just like any other Debian/Ubuntu box, there is no need to install a media specific distro like OSMC or OpenELEC.
Just install regular Raspbian, then install Kodi as you would any debian package:
$ sudo apt-get install kodi
If you want kodi to start automatically and take over the HDMI port, then add this to crontab:
I don't subscribe to any music service. All I listen to is Internet radio.
You have a desktop Linux, right? Start by going to vTuner station line up, and search for the stations/genre/language that you want. Click on the "Play" link, and save to a file. In that file, there will be the stream to that station. You can then take that and stick it in your music player. I use Clementine.
No desktop Linux? Okay, you must have a Raspberry Pi then. Just install Kodi: sudo aptitude install kodi
Then configure the Radio addon, and you will find more or less the same channel line up as in vTuner.
Then add this to your crontab: @reboot sleep 45;/usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone -fs &
But, there is OpenELEC you say. But, Kodi runs on Windows you say. Yes, of course, but this is Slashdot...
Which model specifically? Are there projects to get third party ROMs available for it? Did you try loading third party ROMs on it? Something like OmniROM for example?
They are running a 2013 version of Drupal that is vulnerable to SQL injection (dubbed Drupalgeddon).
They are also running an Oracle HTTP server too. That web server seems to be ignoring the.htaccess setup by Drupal, and returns back the entire code of the.module files, and listings of directories, and such.
More interesting is how ICIJ setup their own collaboration around the documents using open source software, like VeraCrypt (fork of TruCrypt), Backlight (Ruby On Rails tool to index documents in Apache Solr), and Oxwall (a social media type of thing).
Basically, BB refused to see Apple's iPhone as a threat. They were too arrogant. They failed to see the concept of having a store where apps are uploaded by developers. Not once! But twice! First with Apple iPhone in 2007, then with Android in 2008, and for years after that.
Look at the comments of Lazarides: all he thought of is "no keyboard", "bad battery life" and "it is too complex"! He and Balsillie failed to see the concept of a phone as an application platform with an entire ecosystem.
Reminds me of a related issue: the FSF's position on linking (which will not impact the issue at hand: ZFS in Ubuntu, but has been raised in different contexts).
Basically, WordPress allows non-GPL modules even though WordPress itself is GPL. The FSF does not like that, and they hold that to extend a GPL application, every extension must be GPL, and they invoke the linking interpretation. Drupal on the other hand, takes the position that all modules must be GPL.
The linking interpretation makes sense when you have A depend on B, and B is proprietary and you can't run A without B, or you can't inspect B at all since you don't have the source code for it. But an extension is the other way. It is not essential for the main application to run, it is optional. Also, the linking interpretation was done in the days before dynamic linking (.so) was possible, and everything was static (.a). And now, we have things like WordPress and Drupal which are written in interpreted languages such as PHP, and you have the source code already.
That linking interpretation is archaic and needs to be expanded or reevaluated.
In Southern Ontario where I live... this year I have been hearing many song birds in early and mid February. Today (Feb 20), it was a male cardinal singing. A couple of weeks ago, it was Red Winged Black Birds, and American Goldfinches.
This is very unusual. It was not until March that we would hear them. I am not saying they are migratory, since some of them choose to stay and feed of bird feeders in people's backyards. But the act of males singing is the unusual part...
It is an El Nino year though, and winter has been unusually mild.
You are basically right, but you made the jump too fast in the timeline...
Theory has it that hunters and gatherers were egalitarians, with each member doing his share, and no real hierarchy. The work day was like you said.
But then, humans moved from hunting/gathering subsistence, to farming. Farming led to villages, and villages led to towns, and towns led to a division of labor, and that led to social stratification, with the priests and kings at the top, aristocracy next, merchants next, and then the laborers...
And that is what led to feudalism, and now the same is happening with corporatism.
He said he had had an "epiphany" in space and later devoted his life to studying the mind and unexplained phenomena. He said he believed that aliens had visited Earth.... Mitchell left the US space agency Nasa in 1972 and set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences which aimed to support "individual and collective transformation through consciousness research".
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I never used GNOME. In a way, I can't forgive them for fragmenting the desktop Linux back in the 1990s (yes, it was because of the license, but that was fixed soon after in KDE, and became a non-issue, yet, GNOME marched on). If we had one good desktop, it would have been more conducive to adoption. And no, this is not an area where 'users can pick from alternatives'. So called choice in the desktop environment was bad fragmentation that Linux desktop never recovered from. That was compounded by GNOME 3, and Unity came in to try to fill the void. Others resisted the over bloated desktops, and therefore we see the minimalists like XFCE, LXDE, ..etc.
I have been using KDE Ubuntu (kubuntu) for over 15 years as my only desktop. With the 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade, KDE started down the path of 'protecting the user from themselves' by dumbing down things. Some things were missing (a weather widget), and other thing could not be customized (e.g. notifications stay in a place where you can check them later).
So, I did something I was contemplating for a long time, for minimalism and other reasons: switch to XFCE (Xubuntu 16.04). I am happy with it.
I disagree that Ubuntu has bad package management. All these years, I rarely had any repository conflict. One or two times in the over 15 years I have been using Ubuntu. If you add a lot of PPA's then yes, you may get conflicts. I don't have many PPAs. I only use the odd one for a specific software that is not up to date (e.g. GIMP 2.9.x, which has 16-bit image support), and that is it.
I was on KDE for around 15 years. Never used GNOME.
But when I recently upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 16.04, there were many annoyances here and there. For example, no weather widget. Also, the notification history was gone. Dumbing down the user interface is rampant and have reached KDE.
So, I bit the bullet and switched to XFCE (Xubuntu 16.04), and it is fast, nimble and just works.
It was as simple as:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get purge plasma-desktop
Then learning the ropes of XFCE, and adjusting the settings.
Firefox is really fast, depending on many factors ...
I upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, and Firefox is the fastest I have seen in years. Maybe it is because Canonical have switched to the 64bit version, or something else. This is on an 8 year old laptop.
Regardless, you have to install the following:
- uBlock Origin (block ads)
- NoScript (Disable Javascript and Flash except from white listed sites)
- Cookie Monster (Don't accept cookies except from white listed sites)
- Classic Theme Restorer (Makes it look familiar)
- Auto Unload Tab (reduces memory footprint)
Optionally, you may also want to install:
- Session Manager (Never lose track of your open tabs)
- Add This (for easy content sharing)
I have Chromium, Opera, Konqueror and Rekonq on the same machine, and it used to be that Chromium and Opera are faster, but the former has a high memory footprint. But with 16.04, Firefox is the fastest.
Sticking with Firefox for the foreseeable future ...
Install uBlock Origin, and you will not see any ads. Also, your browser will be faster!
Look at how casually Trump deals with state business. He is still in both the tycoon mode, and campaign mode at the same time.
See how he discusses critical world issues in the open, without any care for the documents or the matters at hand ...
Unbelievable ...
BBC: What do we learn from photos of US patio diplomacy?.
Every culture has its blindspots.
Arabs for example have a blindspot where all world events are a product of conspiracies by various entities. From real ones (USA, Israel), to quasi-entities ('The West'), to imaginary ones (Free Masonry, World Government, ...etc.) Everything that happens is planned and executed by these entities, from wars, revolutions, downing an airplane (e.g. Egypt Air 990, MetroJet). No amount of reasoning will sway the average Arab that there are other explanations that hold more to logic than the usual suspects conspiring on us.
Today I learned that Chileans have a blindspot for believing in UFOs.
Not scientists, nor Leonadro DaVinci, it was the Egyptians.
Hold on, I am not joking. Egyptians have known that the mesentery is a single connected membrane. Why? Because they use that fat laden membrane from sheep to create minced meat kabob like grilled meatballs. It is called mandil ("handkerchief" or "hand towel").
Here is a video showing it as a full contiguous membrane, and the rest of the recipe if someone is interested.
For the past 10 + years, I have been using Linux exclusively as my desktop environment, and all on laptops. I use Kubuntu 14.04 at present, and have been on the LTS versions for many years.
I only buy laptops that are on sale, whatever is in the flyers the week I need to replace a laptop.
From a 'what works' point of view, most of the laptops I have used have fully worked with Linux. That includes Wifi and sound, the most pesky components. Years ago, one Dell laptop had an issue with Wifi and I had to download something or other to make it work. The last few releases did not need anything special for it to work.
I am writing this from a 2009 Toshiba that works well with Kubuntu 14.04. An older Toshiba (maybe 2006 or 2007) still works fine with the same Kubuntu version.
From a reliability point of view, avoid HP laptops. I had one where the screen hinge decided not to work, and broke, so it is now a special purpose server. Another HP was overheating and we got it exchanged under extended warranty and 3 strikes (sent for repair 3 times for the same issue).
What you stated is incorrect. There are plenty of other cross platform video calls.
One one them is Facebook Messenger. It works from a browser (even on Linux), and on Android phones. Not sure about iOS though.
The other is Google Hangouts. It also works from a browser (yes, on Linux too), on Android and on iOS.
Skype used to work on Linux (native application, not from a browser), Android, and iOS as well, but has not used it for a while on my Linux desktop.
WhatsApp is not cross platform. It does not work from a browser, and does not have a desktop native application, be that from Windows or Linux. And WhatsApp requires a mobile phone number, and reads your contacts and gathers all info from it, among other things. Facebook and Hangouts do not require a mobile phone number.
Well, your idea does not always work.
First, we have dictators that seem to defy death. Case in point is Mubarak. I was in university when he came to power, and 30 years later, he was still in power, when the revolution erupted, with all the tumultuous aftermath. Oh, and he is still alive at 88 years old! You can also count Ali Abdalla Saleh of Yemen in the same league. Although he was deposed, he is still alive, and meddling with his country's affairs (aided/co-planned the Houthi take over which is still going on, and causing the Saudi shelling).
And then you have those who just hand over the country to a new generation. Hafez Assad died in power, after several brutal decades. His son, Bashar is now the one causing all this misery on his people.
Operating system: Kubuntu 14.04.
Desktop Environment: KDE.
Browser: Firefox, with Classic Theme Restorer, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie Monster and Session Manager with auto save every few hours. I also have Chromium for when Firefox proves to be too restrictive for some sites. I also use Opera and rekonq occasionally.
Editor: vim and has been for decades, even before vim was invented (yes, plain vi on UNIX System V).
The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats. ... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet ... "
Source: BBC.
The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.
Source: Business Insider.
Other attackers also got in trouble with the law: petty crime, drug dealing, ...etc.
This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.
But don't let facts stand in the way of prejudice and preconceived ideas ...
From another immigrant Canadian ...
That moron Newt ...
The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats. ... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. ... "
In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet
Source: BBC.
The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.
Source: Business Insider.
Other attackers also got in trouble with the law, petty crime, drug dealing, ...etc.
This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.
Another case, just yesterday.
Saw a guy who looks exactly like a distant cousin of mine, just younger (no grey hair) and a little balder.
I knew it could not be him, since that cousin lives in a third country, and would not be here without telling me. So, I walked up to the doppelganger, and ask him which country he is from. He turned out to be from a distant country altogether. Told him that he looks like my cousin from a different country than him ...
But the resemblance is far too weird ...
If you want to retain the usual Raspbian (Debian derived) command line interface and use the box just like any other Debian/Ubuntu box, there is no need to install a media specific distro like OSMC or OpenELEC.
Just install regular Raspbian, then install Kodi as you would any debian package:
$ sudo apt-get install kodi
If you want kodi to start automatically and take over the HDMI port, then add this to crontab:
@reboot sleep 45; /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone -fs
The delay is to give you some time to kill the process if you want to start the GUI desktop.
I don't subscribe to any music service. All I listen to is Internet radio.
You have a desktop Linux, right? Start by going to vTuner station line up, and search for the stations/genre/language that you want. Click on the "Play" link, and save to a file. In that file, there will be the stream to that station. You can then take that and stick it in your music player. I use Clementine.
No desktop Linux? Okay, you must have a Raspberry Pi then. Just install Kodi:
sudo aptitude install kodi
Then configure the Radio addon, and you will find more or less the same channel line up as in vTuner.
Then add this to your crontab:
/usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone -fs &
@reboot sleep 45;
But, there is OpenELEC you say. But, Kodi runs on Windows you say. Yes, of course, but this is Slashdot ...
Which model specifically?
Are there projects to get third party ROMs available for it?
Did you try loading third party ROMs on it?
Something like OmniROM for example?
And for those of you who do not know, Frank Herbert used a lot of Arabic and Islamic themes in Dune.
Coming full circle ...
There is more technical details in this article.
They are running a 2013 version of Drupal that is vulnerable to SQL injection (dubbed Drupalgeddon).
They are also running an Oracle HTTP server too. That web server seems to be ignoring the .htaccess setup by Drupal, and returns back the entire code of the .module files, and listings of directories, and such.
More interesting is how ICIJ setup their own collaboration around the documents using open source software, like VeraCrypt (fork of TruCrypt), Backlight (Ruby On Rails tool to index documents in Apache Solr), and Oxwall (a social media type of thing).
There are lots of comments, some by BlackBerry insiders, that shed light on why BB went under.
But here is an expose by a reporter (who later turned this into a book).
Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt
Basically, BB refused to see Apple's iPhone as a threat. They were too arrogant. They failed to see the concept of having a store where apps are uploaded by developers. Not once! But twice! First with Apple iPhone in 2007, then with Android in 2008, and for years after that.
Look at the comments of Lazarides: all he thought of is "no keyboard", "bad battery life" and "it is too complex"! He and Balsillie failed to see the concept of a phone as an application platform with an entire ecosystem.
Reminds me of a related issue: the FSF's position on linking (which will not impact the issue at hand: ZFS in Ubuntu, but has been raised in different contexts).
Basically, WordPress allows non-GPL modules even though WordPress itself is GPL. The FSF does not like that, and they hold that to extend a GPL application, every extension must be GPL, and they invoke the linking interpretation. Drupal on the other hand, takes the position that all modules must be GPL.
The linking interpretation makes sense when you have A depend on B, and B is proprietary and you can't run A without B, or you can't inspect B at all since you don't have the source code for it. But an extension is the other way. It is not essential for the main application to run, it is optional. Also, the linking interpretation was done in the days before dynamic linking (.so) was possible, and everything was static (.a). And now, we have things like WordPress and Drupal which are written in interpreted languages such as PHP, and you have the source code already.
That linking interpretation is archaic and needs to be expanded or reevaluated.
Anecdotal observations ...
In Southern Ontario where I live ... this year I have been hearing many song birds in early and mid February. Today (Feb 20), it was a male cardinal singing. A couple of weeks ago, it was Red Winged Black Birds, and American Goldfinches.
This is very unusual. It was not until March that we would hear them. I am not saying they are migratory, since some of them choose to stay and feed of bird feeders in people's backyards. But the act of males singing is the unusual part ...
It is an El Nino year though, and winter has been unusually mild.
You are basically right, but you made the jump too fast in the timeline ...
Theory has it that hunters and gatherers were egalitarians, with each member doing his share, and no real hierarchy. The work day was like you said.
But then, humans moved from hunting/gathering subsistence, to farming. Farming led to villages, and villages led to towns, and towns led to a division of labor, and that led to social stratification, with the priests and kings at the top, aristocracy next, merchants next, and then the laborers ...
And that is what led to feudalism, and now the same is happening with corporatism.
He said he had had an "epiphany" in space and later devoted his life to studying the mind and unexplained phenomena. He said he believed that aliens had visited Earth. ... Mitchell left the US space agency Nasa in 1972 and set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences which aimed to support "individual and collective transformation through consciousness research".
Source: BBC.
I disagree.
Not everyone here studied this stuff. Some of us are self taught, or are experienced in other fields (software, systems admin) ...etc.
So, having stuff like this is enriching to some here, and relevant to the site ...