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The cold was actually the flu. I got over it after two whole miserable weeks, but a whole month later I still have the sore throat & cough from hell. :blobsneezing:

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Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu? Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu.

Why compress by smallest size first? If you had just a little space left on filesystem, compressing this way has higher chance of success.

ls -Sr1 | while IFS=$'\n' read -r file ; do gzip -v9 "$file" ; done # Compress files in CWD according to size, starting with smallest.

@makyo is this vore? also, don't eat me, i'm loaded with extra green chile.

yes "$(seq 231 -1 16)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .02; done # A rainbow in your shell.

@poss_bot Perfect early-'80s example: The ColecoVision game console was the centerpiece of the add-on version of the Coleco Adam home computer system.

A Holden Commodore screeches to a halt. The Commodores Greatest Hits blares from within until the car is turned off. I open the door & emerge with a Commodore SX-64 carried like a briefcase. I turn to the camera, smiling & holding up a finger from my free hand. A disembodied voice sings the jingle, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you."

Unlike the simple on-off switch built into some browsers, NoScript & ScriptSafe are selective & granular JavaScript blockers. That means, with either of them, you can allow JavaScript from a website's domains while blocking & distrusting JavaScript from ad network domains. And that distrust of an ad network's JavaScript (or any domain's JS) follows you across the World Wide Web to every website attempting to use it on you, not just the one site you distrusted it on.

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Merry Yule, northern hemisphere folks! Merry Litha, southern hemisphere folks!

@climagic [ "`python -V 2>&1|cut -c8`" = "3" ]&&python -m http.server||python -m SimpleHTTPServer # if you're not sure which version of the python binary is installed, this calls the right web server module either way.

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