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The danger with these kinds of laws is that it is very easy to make them sound reasonable.

To fix that, please imagine these restrictions and requirements applied to book publishers and authors and libraries.

It would be absurd to require age verification/checking before being able to read something. We allow parents to decide what is suitable for their own children, but we do not require librarians or bookstores to do age checks, nor hold authors liable for precocious reading.

@kajer i did something similar but as a vim macro:

" zap trailing whitespace
map <leader>z :%s/\s*$//e<ENTER>:%s/–/-/ge<ENTER>:%s/—/-/ge<ENTER>:%s/‘/'/ge<ENTER>:%s/’/'/ge<ENTER>:%s/[“”]/"/ge<ENTER>:%s/•/*/ge<ENTER>:%s/…/.../ge<ENTER>:%s/ / /ge<ENTER>:%s/′/'/ge<ENTER>:w<ENTER>

@wdormann Invoking chrome with "chrome.exe --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled" still allows ublock origin for me
Check Your Context

I didn't much like Wally from the first time I met him. We worked in the same circles, but not on the same projects. I was aware of his work, but not involved or dependent on it. My initial reaction to Wally, "Complains. Nitpicks. Doesn't act." I made this judgment in a moment. Months passed, and n

Rands in Repose
@pmevzek @cR0w @neurovagrant how had i not heard of this before? thanks!
@cR0w why does F5 release an advisory without any fixes? i can't think of another vendor that does that
@raptor another one i've recommended over the years is microcorruption.com

@maldr0id $ echo .bet | rot13
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@cR0w fwiw, you can sort by date if you copy the table to the clipboard, then:

pbpaste | awk 'z{z=z "\t" $0} !z{z=$0} NR%4==0{print z; z=""}' | sort -t$'\t' -k4,4 -r