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This Chrome bug where web devs are shouting at Google for 2 years to stop making it so hard to disable autocomplete, with screenshots and detailed explanations and stupid workarounds, all while Google developers just ignore them

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914451

If you've never seen one of these things work, this is what a Hakko FR301 desoldering gun does

I finally got a desoldering gun, it works like magic!

New freenode opers are making sure this fracturing doesn't happen by driving all of their remaining users off the network with aggressive takeovers of channels that mention libera in the topic.

Here's a bot shutting down #openbsd with 570 users in it:
https://envs.sh/o2.txt

That is some impressively bad coil whine, Apple

Apple: we customized the default wallpaper and accent color to the precise hue of blue of your new iMac to match your blue keyboard and touchpad

Also Apple: installing Big Sur on that 3.5" spinning hard drive, eh?

hello

I wonder if anyone has ever read every Foone tweet

I predict this freenode/libera split will fracture many communities. There's no staking of channels so those that moved first and created them may not be the same that own the freenode channels, some users won't move, and there will be split communities with different ownership.

2000s e-mail: Encode a bitmap of your avatar and add a Face header (
http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/)
2020s e-mail: Buy a certificate for your trademarked logo, put a URL to an SVG in DNS (
https://postmarkapp.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-bimi)

I also might assemble a few and offer them pre-assembled and tested if there was anyone that wanted one but doesn't want to solder

I ran out of components before PCBs, so now that I've restocked, I have 7 kits left
https://twitter.com/tindie/status/1393274610385252354

This is the 39th OpenBSD release I've been a part of and this August will mark 20 years being a developer with the project. Where does the time go...
https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1388289402934333444

I love that the scrollbar handle/thumb was called the "elevator" on Lisa OS. Now I want SimTower elevators in all my scroll bars.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2011/7/30_Scroll_Bar.html

Thanks, past me