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Just 4 to 6 weeks left until schools reopen and children will spread BA.5 like wildfire because after three years of COVID we still can't get our shit together in the slightest to prevent a deadly airborne disease to slaughter and maim innocent people.

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My Saturn images from the last few years.

From left to right:
1) 2015, 6" Maksutov, phone digiscope
2) 2016, Mak & Canon 550D
3) 2020, same as 2)
4) 2021, Mak & ZWO ASI 178MM
5) 2022, 8" Newtonian & 178MM

I believe that setup 5 has more potential too, haven't had good seeing yet this 🪐 season.

@tedu last week i drank a beer called "do you have the wifi password?"

@georgia "i have altered the deal. pray i do not alter it further."

the unifi web cloud portal thing that allows you to remote into your routers/management includes both google analytics *and* sentry. what the fuck

@abandonhope yes that one is super laggy and doesn't work well with nested folders

@indybay looks more like someone climbed onto the police car. if you climb on my vehicle i am also gonna floor it. i hate cops but this video doesnt show the police doing anything wrong.

picking images on the image picker as well as in every gallery app i have tried thus far on a pixel 6 pro (flagship android as of rn) is abysmal and excruciating. how old are smartphones now? how long have you had to get this right?

damn it to hell syncthing can't run on ios and apns can't be disabled.

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The city of Berkeley intended to lift its ban on chemical weapons this evening, so they could use them to attack People's Park protesters, but now the meeting has been cancelled.
twitter.com/kpfaradio/status/1

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Traditionally published author friends:

Yesterday, Penguin Random House stated under oath that $100,000 was not a large advance.

Get that official transcript before negotiating your book contract.

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@th i admire your use of obscure-but-appropriate units

@th what prevents you from shredding the ballot and wearing the sticker anyway? does this have a CVE yet?

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another reason it is not yet the year of Linux on the Desktop: every time my monitors wake from sleep they are mirrored and I have to fix it with:

xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --right-of HDMI-A-1

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it appears there is a new rosetta in macOS 12.5 and it has to redownload after you update and it can't if you block configuration.apple.com

@DetritusBooks agreed, but the commonly-cited "evidence" for this is a flawed study

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