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I witnessed the coolest sunset ever thanks to the partial eclipse

A Nigerian prince just added me to a Google Calendar event in Bangladesh in which my Paypal bought an iPhone at an Apple store on the other side of the continent and oh there's a convenient number for me to call to dispute it.

I have never seen this many classic scam stereotypes crammed into a single, actually-sent spam message before.

It looks cool as an image but it just seems weird when you see it moving

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twitch, ai shit 

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They hid it in the hecking personal account settings too, so if you were looking in channel settings, waiting for it to land, you'd miss it.

Defaulted to on, of course.

USB type AC outlet. I spent way too long trying to plug this in.

solar eclipse 

Merry esbat to those who celebrate the new moon.

Remember, don't look directly at the sun during the eclipse, not even with homemade hacks. By the time you realize you're damaging your vision at all, your eyes are already wrecked, probably for life.

The easiest no-hack no-device way to enjoy the eclipse is to park yourself in a spot with the sun poking through small openings, like under a shade tree, and watch the sunbeams in the shadows turn from round to crescents instead.

i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable

have fun and make cool stuff!!

Thanks for reminding me, Learn.Microsoft.Com, that I needed to do this on my workstation's as well:

1. Go to about:config

2. Search for the setting: layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled

2.a. Just searching for "thin" should be enough to find the setting.

3. Toggle from "false" (its default) to "true".

Reload the page whose front end designers made the scrollbars thin, to get proper normal scrollbars on it.

If you need to deactivate half of the system setting, uninstall dozen of useless pre installed stuff, get into registry and/or group policies just to make Windows 11 acceptably annoying, then the whole "yeah but Linux is harder to setup" has poorly aged pretty fast.

reminder: all those 'homemade hacks' for looking at an eclipse (looking through CDs, sunglasses, etc.) are going to damage your eyes permanently, and you won't notice until much later. they do not work.

you have exactly three valid options:
- look through certified eclipse glasses from a known-good manufacturer for <30s at a time at most
- go to your local observatory, they probably have equipment set up to do this safely
- project the eclipse on the ground using small holes but DO NOT look at the eclipse directly, also not through small holes

anything else will leave you with eye damage for the rest of your life. you do not want eye damage.

Literally no change at all, and now the validation message is back.

And I solved it. Apparently, the order of multiplicands matters significantly in CSS (or at least to a validator).

calc(2 * 3lh) is invalid.
calc(3lh * 2) is valid.

Length times unit-less value is valid CSS, but unit-less value times length is not, according to the W3C CSS Validator. I wonder if it's using the rules for validating division, where the operand order matters, for validating multiplication, where it shouldn't.

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