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I'm still tinkering with with my desktop icon theme.

I decided I don't need a tall xload because I'd only need to know if the load average gets above 4.0 or 5.0, not necessarily how much above.

I also decided that a wider xcal would help me reread date info a lot quicker. (I just realized I'll have to widen it more for "September.")

Combine those together, & that let me move xclock closer to the corner, too.

(Wallpaper is the left part of "Chakats at the Onsen")

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page design, opinions wanted! 

@lizardsquid I assume this is basic HTML & CSS?

Instead of styling the td background with your meaningful colors, consider styling one or two of the td's borders to be a thick solid line with the color instead, and leave the td background inherited from the tr background.

@JulieSqveakaroo We need to get you to 10,000 points, so you can get an extra Julie. :/

@Siphonay@octodon.social The closest us yanked Yanks can get is with a selective JavaScript blocker extension. :<

@dashie @Siphonay@octodon.social NPR had that live for for at least a year, & it's still awesome.

@softgoat ;oq.ep.p;oqeui;oqeub with fists or a,.pkya,.judaoejukaoeubh with fingertips? (I touchtype dvorak.)

Double whoops on me, I forgot to add context with a non-LA Times story link: slate.com/technology/2018/05/t

Happy GDPR day, Europe! I read that it won't actually fix anything, but like shining a light under the kitchen cabinets & sending the roaches scurrying for cover, it'll reveal just how bad data mishandling has gotten.

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The LA Times website is now unavailable in the EU because it isn't GDPR compliant. If I had to guess why, it would involve the unscrupulous state of web ads. Creepy personalization is my second guess. Whoopsie.

I've been so busy with work and so not sleeping well that I haven't had a chance to meaningfully do anything personal.

Specifically, who parses unescaped angle-brackets enclosing a URL as part of that while /NOT/ parsing freaking COMMAS up against that URL as part of the same URL?

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Who parses unescaped angle-brackets enclosing a URL as part of the URL being enclosed?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz I went looking, and I didn't get very far before stumbling on Pathfinder II <en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fursona_(P>, so maybe?

"- also, 5 programs running in windows that look like icons"

LOL I can't count. I have 8 programs running: xcal, xload, xman, xclock, & xbiff 4 times.

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On the fairyfloss tangent, I added the following X resources to my ~/.Xdefaults file to make my xterm match:

XTerm*background:
XTerm*foreground:
XTerm*cursorColor:
XTerm*scrollbar.foreground:
XTerm*scrollbar.background: #716799

(On some systems, the user's X resources file is ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xres instead. See manpages X(7) and xrdb(1).)

(Also also, there's a vim port, which is why I made xterm match: github.com/tssm/fairyfloss.vim )

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