First I am not selling anything or promoting this is just an Idea!!
What do you guys think about the idea for creating the Solana Meme Trading course..
And I know that this sounds very FISHY and SCAMMY... but let's think about it for a second.
Okay so you have this course where all new Meme traders who are entering Meme Solana Ecosystem can purchase it for let's say 1 Solana. Here they will learn every essential information like where to buy, how to use sniper bots, how to track things on Solscan, How to look at dexscreener and etc.. etc... (there is a lot of stuff here that can be explained.
Then teach them on economic side of Meme coins and how that work...
How to avoid a lot of obvious rugs...
And then explain to them how they need to develop their own strategy for buying Meme Coins because trading Meme Coins is gambling and only way to profit is if they can have 51% of profitable trades and stuff like that...
I mean let's say that someone is just entering Solana Meme ecosystem, they will 100% lose more than 1 Solana on first Mistakes so it's not a bad deal...
And I know, if you know how to be profitable in Solana Meme trades why you just don't make that profits, instead of selling Course
But here you are not going to reveal your strategy because Meme coins are Wild west and only way to be profitable is to make your own strategy so that's a reason you are not going to give away your own strategy.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Details here. It seems to come with an updater that only patches the parts of the program that need updating- for me that was ~100MB and too seconds.
Anyway here's what's new:
Improvements and Bug fixes:

• Correctly copy event properties of an Adjustment Event when a new event is created as a result of a split operation
• Fixed crash which may occur when user tries to open help but help is not available
• Media with mono audio now plays audio back at proper rate
• AVC media with format profile of High@6 now is imported as expected
• HEVC MOV media now imported with proper aspect ratio
• Stereo AC-3 in MP4 container now reads audio properly
• Resource leak that caused UI to become mangled is now fixed
• Prevent crash which may occur when application is brought back into focus
• MXF media is now decoded properly
• HEVC 4:2:2 CPU media now decodes as expected
• Fixed problems with errors in decoding with NVidia GPUs
• Context menu is missing when right clicking on meters
• Proper handling of Alpha channel with Adjustment Events
• Fixed a continuity problem with keyframes in the color correction plugin
• Copy attributes function in Titles and Text plugin no longer throws an exception when multiple fonts are used
• The Auto Correct function in the Stereoscopic 3D Adjust plugin no longer causes a freeze or crash
• Canon 600d media decoding errors are now fixed
• Rendered audio is no longer out of sync
• Fixed issues with MKV files with improper thumbnails, playback issues and memory usage
• Fixed crash inside of the video cache manager
• AI Upscaler no longer distorting output when scaling is between 1.1 and 1.25
• Fixed a crash which may occur after undo/redoing shortly after bringing VEGAS back into focus
• Improve speed when application comes back into focus
• Fixed AMD pixelization problems

Known issues:

• Blue and Red colors may be swapped in VEGAS Effects and HitFilm when using recent AMD Adrenalin drivers. It is recommended to revert the driver to version 23.7.2 to avoid this problem
• Project versioning has been incremented. This means that you will not be able to open project files created or saved with build 300 (and later builds) with older builds of VEGAS Pro 21 or VEGAS Pro 20 or earlier
• Projects with large amounts of media that contain a large amount of metadata may take a substantial amount of time to open
• The preference to unload media when the VEGAS application loses focus has been turned off, which may cause some problems if you are editing the same media in multiple applications at the same time.
• Some long GOP MXF files may show corrupted frames on Nvidia GPUs

You may download this update via the auto-update feature or directly from here.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/update-vegas-pro-21-build-314--145714/

Hey Android enthusiasts!
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Hey Android enthusiasts!
Are you a business owner or an IT administrator looking for effective ways to manage and secure Android devices used within your organization? Well, I've stumbled upon a gem of an article that might just be what you're looking for: How to Block Apps on Android Devices Using Scalefusion.
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Hello. Do you think i can use the a6000 for everyday carry ? I don't mean the picture quality more if it's small enough with a small manual lens. Or should i look to something else? I was looking for a Ricoh but they are too expensive.

I don’t really know how to start this post off, but I’m using a throwaway account.
I learned I was conceived through IVF, using an anonymous sperm donor. My father had infertility issues, and after many failed attempts they went to their local sperm bank and arranged the process. It took maybe two or three tries, but eventually my mother fell pregnant with me. They’ve told me this through bits and pieces, so this is all I could string together.
I don’t know why, but I feel absolutely fucking shattered right now. They never told me. I learned it at family dinner, when the topic of IVF came up. It devolved into an argument that was maybe highly opinionated.
I told them my opinion, which was that I didn’t agree with it, and that it felt ‘unnatural’. I was fine when the biological dad is the one who’s using his sperm to create the child, but I was pretty vehement on how strange I found using sperm donors. That the very flesh and blood that made up a child was simply not there. That there were people in this world that were fine with half their DNA simply existing. I said that it was cold and transactional, and irresponsible. I honestly found it disgusting. I said some strong things, about how I thought the industry was more so predatory, and adoption was just the better option because those kids already came from broken homes.
My mom left the table, and my dad finally pulled me aside later and told me everything. At first I thought he was fucking with me, but I realized it pretty soon. What followed was a very explosive argument, and me driving back home in tears. I haven’t spoken to them, save for a few missed calls that I’ve ignored. I just got shitfaced drunk after.
I’ve always had a very tense, strained relationship with my parents. Especially my father. I struggle a lot with anxiety and depression, and I’ve always felt this hollow ache inside my chest when looking at families. Now I read stories of those born through donor conception, and I’m so confused because they seem fine. None of them wonder who the person is that makes up half their DNA. None of them yearn for anything more. They’re able to keep living without thinking of their father. I don’t know how they’re so indifferent. I don’t know why they’re alright.
I went down a rabbit hole, visiting subreddits about IVF. I just felt a mix of jealousy, sadness and disgust. I don’t know if it’s at myself or them. How they’re so fine about it, and why I’m so destroyed.
Does he not think of me? Does he ever? I don’t know how to feel. I just hate everything about this.

What an incredible start to our daily Feeding tradition. Over 100 participants joined in to feed our favorite sloth yesterday. The energy and commitment from this community is truly inspiring. 🙌
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🕕 Today's Feeding Event

• Time: 6:00 PM UTC (same as yesterday)
• New Feeding Amount: $4.20 (or $42 / $420 for extra special sloths! 🌟)
• Hashtag: Keep spreading #FeedSloth on all your socials!

🌿 New Feeding Amounts 🌿

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Hey Android enthusiasts!
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I recently set up a rather large tank to house my pac-man frog & was wondering if it was safe to add large chunks of African queen picture jasper inside of the tank? The chunks I want to use aren’t polished (although I have polished pieces, if needed) and I plan on sanding down some of the corners to prevent him getting scratched or hurting himself, but I’m worried the occasional misting of the tank might make it toxic in some way?
(Also, the frog won’t be sitting on the rock or anything, as he likes to burrow for the most part :) It’s going to be used to shade/help him hide if he wants)

Hey Android enthusiasts!
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The standard bindings are serviceable, but feel somewhat clunky, so I experimented with different bindings and right now use the following (will list only what's different from standard):
Change weapons - Q for left hand, E for right hand
Change spells - R or mouse wheel up
Change items - F or mouse wheel down (scrolling spells and items feels good)
Jump - side mouse button MB5 (this one is big, makes platforming much more smooth)
Use object - Shift or MB4 (very handy to throw bombs or daggers with Shift+Q or Shift+E)
Heavy attack - CTRL
Ash of war - Tab
Use item - C
Also I swapped LMB and RMB for right and left hand attacks, feels more natural this way.
Overall these bindings make controlling character more intuitive, much better than with default settings.
What's your control schemes, fellow Tarnished?

Hello everyone, a couple of months ago i had an idea for a website and since i am on vacation right now, i got time to take a closer look.
Its a passion project for a hobby of mine. I want to be able to track a players performance over multiple tournaments. Right now that Data is not easily available as far as i know. I would have to look at the tournament results and manually enter the first, second and third place into my databank.
The Data would look something like this. Tournament 1 1. Player A 2. Player B 3. Player C
Tournament 2 1. Player C 2. Player D 3. Player B
Tournament 3 1. Player D 2. Player E 3. Player F
The main query that is supposed to be the main basic feature would be the following.
Show me all Tournament Placings of Player X.
My first thoughts were that, i would like to have seperate tables for each Tournament, because i would collect the data for each tournament seperately and there might be different informations i would want to add to the tournaments later on, but now with my limited understanding of Sql i feel like to get my query i would need to use join on all the different Events, which sounds quite non optimal, as the number of events is going to keep increasing.
With my limited understanding of Sql i would think that it would make the most sense to create a tabel with Player ID, Player Name, Placing, and Tournament ID, and keep adding into this table when new tournament results arise. And then another Table with Tournament Id, Torunament Name.
But this feels kind of wrong to put "everything" into one table. Also the Tournament ID, is something that i would have thought to make sense to be safed overarching like in a Folder Structure (Tournaments Tournamnet XY / Player A and Placing B)
I want to take a deeper look into sql and my database and do some more lessons online. I would just like to start this project and update it when i learn new things, i would just appreciate any thoughts and suggestions on the structure of the Database.
Thanks for reading and commenting. :)

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Back on the job, my eyes kept going to the camera that was on enclosure one. Andrew told me its real name, but I think that’d be a step too far, putting that out on the internet. I’d just stick with ‘Steve the bear’. Whatever it was, I just knew I’d have a nightmare about it eventually. Last night I slept fitfully but okay. But I know my brain, and I’d already had a nightmare about Yui stabbing me with one of her legs (they are not needle-sharp in real life, this was dream logic) and walking around, having not noticed I was a Ripley-kebab on her leg. I kept trying to get her attention but for some reason I’d been worried about sounding rude.
On my third walk around the zoo, at about 12 a.m. I saw Leila again, who I’d been noticing more and more often. She never looked interested in talking, only walking through the enclosures, and by that I meant any and all of them. She didn’t seem to have a favorite. I assume that however much of her mind that was left over from being alive still gravitated toward looking at the animals, since getting too close was what killed her in the first place.
Then, in enclosure eight, I saw a new creature and stopped abruptly. This one looked chill, but I wasn’t about to make any assumptions. It looked unique in a strange way, shaped like a giant lizard but built like a big cat of some sort. It had an uncanny valley human face, green hair for a mane, and also a horn like a unicorn. It felt like something drawn by an imaginative five-year-old brought to life, but was still somehow oddly endearing.
“Hello,” she spoke, noticing me noticing her. Her voice was distinctly female and oddly deep.
“Hello,” I responded with false cheer.
She pushed herself to her feet and I took an instinctive step back, but she seem to notice, much less take offense. “You’re the guard here?”
“Yup. That’s me.”
“Thank you.”
I blinked, taken aback. “Ah…you’re welcome. For what?”
She cocked her head. “For guarding me.”
That was different. Most of the impressions I had gotten from the animals so far were that they wanted to eat me. And the idea that this one was thankful for me doing my job was refreshing, don’t get me wrong, but made me wary. Call me a cynic, I guess.
“My name is tàiyang. You can call me Sun,” she told me.
“Hi, Sun. I’m Ripley.”
Then she looked toward the sky. “It’s going to rain tonight.”
After a thoughtful moment, I asked, “Does that make you sad?”
“Why would it make you sad?”
I smiled. “Because your name is Sun.”
She paused and then said, “I don’t understand.”
Honestly, I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, telling a pun to one of the animals. “Never mind.” I glanced up at the sky. “I thought the rain is supposed to stay away from here. Are the ones who told me that wrong?”
“Yes.”
“Well that’s good to know,” I murmured to myself, thinking of my raincoat hanging in the security office closet. It wasn’t that surprising, honestly. Sometimes I felt like the meteorologists in Arkansas try to read the entrails of goats to figure out the weather. It’s all a mess and it’s all made up.
At that, the animal looked to the sky and fell silent. She appeared to be the most uneventful introduction I’d had so far, and I was incredibly grateful for it. Except then the animal kept talking. “He’s under a spell.”
I blinked. “What?”
She looked back to me. “Andrew. He’s under a spell. He’s very unhappy.”
I had no idea how to react to that. For a second I just stared. The sudden jolt of being told my boss was currently being afflicted by magic left me floundering. “He… What?” I finally asked. “Where is he?”
“In his office.”
Oh shit. My eyes instinctively darted in the direction of the main office. I always just entered through the door on the west side of the building, of course, since it led to the security room. It was unnecessary for me to go through the door that first led into the lobby-slash-office Andrew worked out of. Sometimes he even left early, so it was locked anyway. I had the key, but again, it was unnecessary.
Whatever had happened, assuming this animal wasn’t joking around (she seemed completely serious), I needed to establish whether she was right. Leaving the enclosure of the animal I’d just met, I quickly walked back to the small building.
Taking a deep breath, I knocked loudly. “Andrew, are you in there?”
The only reply was silence. I stood there until enough time had passed that it was obvious that no one was coming to answer the door. Taking out my phone, I dialed his cell number and wait as it rang. Then I grimaced when I heard it ringing inside.
Hanging up and shoving the phone back in my pocket, I stared at the closed door.
Trying the doorknob, I found that it was unlocked, and my heart skipped a beat. Andrew always locked his office before leaving. Opening the door slowly, the lights were off in the room, leaving only the faint red glow of the lights outside peeking around his curtains, so I turned on a light. Then my heart plummeted into my stomach, because there was Andrew, splayed limply on the ground, his eyes only half open.
I bolted to him and dropped to his side as he let out a whimper.
“Andrew,” I said, putting two fingers to the side of his neck. He remained silent, and despite his relaxed, wilted appearance, his heart was racing, and I wondered if he was in pain. The room smelled, and it was clear to me that he’d lost control of his bowels. I couldn’t believe I’d been working here for hours without knowing he was in the next room like this.
“Fucking hell. I’m so sorry it took me so long to find you. Can you hear me? What happened?” He made a small sound, unfocused eyes attempting to meet mine, but it was as if he were severely deprived of sleep or something, unable to focus. His mouth opened and he tried to say something, but he couldn’t speak. All I got was halting words mushed into each other. I felt for him; he must’ve been mortified by his condition. I would’ve been, at least.
The obvious solution would be to get Suzanne’s number from Andrew’s phone, so I searched him for it and found it in his right jacket pocket. I pressed the button the iPhone, swiped, and let out a sigh of frustration. He was security conscious enough to lock his phone with a code, of course.
“Can you… You can’t tell me the code,” I said knowing. He grunted quietly.
“What happened?”
I shrieked and jumped to my feet. Leila stood in the doorway, staring in shock at Andrew’s body. “You scared the bejesus out of me,” I exclaimed. I stopped myself before asking if she could make some noise when she moved or if I could put a bell on her. “What does it look like happened? Someone put a spell on him.” Abruptly, my stance changed, standing up straight. “Wait. Do you know how to get in touch with…anyone?” I asked desperately.
“I know Ms. Cooper’s phone number,” she said frankly.
My eyes widened. “Seriously? How?”
“Andrew gave it to me after I worked here for three months.”
That stopped my brain dead in its tracks. “You…used to work here?” I whispered. I remembered Andrew telling me that one of the night shift managers had been killed, but he hadn’t told me it was Leila. Whether it was for her own privacy or her dignity or some other reason, it didn’t really matter. What mattered was that I could call Suzanne.
“I worked here for three months,” Leila confirmed as I took out my own phone.
“Okay…what’s her number?” I asked, ready to dial. She rattled off the number and dialed it.
The phone rang twice times before someone answered. “Hello?”
“Hi, is this Suzanne?”
“Yes, who’s this?”
She had a British accent like Andrew did. I took a deep breath and said, “It’s Ripley Mason. I got your number from Leila. I’m here in Andrew’s office and he’s in really bad shape. Someone cast a spell on him and it’s like he’s lost control of the part of his brain that lets him move around and speak.”
“What?” she snapped. “What happened?”
“I-I don’t know,” I said, glancing back to Andrew. He actually looked calmer now, and I hoped that was because he knew Suzanne could fix this. “I was doing my rounds and I met Sun; she’s the one that told me and that’s why I came into his office. I don’t- Who would do this? What do I do?”
“It’s okay, Ripley. I’ll leaving now and will be there soon,” she told me. I heard rustling in the background, the sounds of getting out of a chair and footsteps. “Did you check the security cameras?”
My eyes shut in irritation against my stupidity. It hadn’t even occurred to me. “I’m sorry. Of course, I’ll do that right away.” Proof positive that I was completely out of it. Some security guard I was, not even able to keep my head in an emergency.
“Don’t apologize, Ripley, you’re quite within your rights to be discombobulated at the moment,” she said. “And I’d like you stay with Andrew, but I would prefer to know what happened. Leave his side just for a second to check the footage.
“Okay.” I crouched down to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. “I’ll be right back.” His eyes flicked to me, but he didn’t make a sound. Getting back to my feet and walking over to the security room door, I went in and sat at my desk, putting the phone on speaker so I could more easily navigate the footage.
After fidgeting around with the unfamiliar aspect of the program, since I’d never needed to look back before and Andrew only showed me how to do it once, I finally went back to the point where the spell had been cast. “Okay, he walked into his office with two men at…4:08 p.m. and it looks like he was fine with it. He wasn’t under duress, from what I can see.”
“That’s likely Michael Wise and Eric Henry,” Suzanne told me. “They were allegedly making a donation, a herd of Bagot goats.”
“Allegedly?”
“Well, I’m operating under the assumption that they lied if Andrew is spelled.”
I grimaced. That was a good point. Watching them have a conversation, I saw Andrew tense, and then turn to dart toward his desk, but he only made it two steps before one of the men raised what looked like a wand, snapping it in my late boss’s direction, speaking something. As I saw Andrew’s body seize like he’d been hit with a taser and collapse, I hissed in a sharp breath. “Cripes.”
“What is it?”
“One of them had a wand,” I managed. “He-He did something with it.”
“I’m here, Ripley. Come back to the office.”
My eyes widened and I did as I was told, stunned to see her opening the front door. “How did you get here so fast?” I asked.
The woman gave me a small smile, rendered grim by the situation. “Call it a trick of the trade.”
“Oh. Gotcha.”
Suzanne was all hard edges, her pin-straight blond hair cut at an angle just below her ears, and she wore a smart blue pants suit with matching pumps. But then she looked to Andrew and her face softened, despair and fury flashing across it as she quickly walked to him and knelt at his side, taking his weak hand in hers.
“Oh, Andrew,” she whispered. “I’m so, so sorry. You’ll be okay. I already texted a healer and asked her to come by. A friend of mine named Janine.”
I looked back to Andrew’s face, his eyes open and his expression one of exhaustion, but then quickly looked to Suzanne. “Why would someone do this?” I asked.
“I have a feeling at least one of our animals is missing,” she told me, her voice low and hard.
Anger flared up in me. “What?” I asked tersely. I glanced back in the direction of the cameras. “Should we check the cameras to see which enclosure they went to? Do we- Are there cops you can call for this? What do we do?”
Suzanne’s face slowly faded to sadness. “I’ll take care of it,” she said. “You’re accurate in that I do have a different police I’ll call about this. But there’s a good chance we won’t get the animal back.”
“Wait, why? Come on, there’s got to be magic you could do, right?” I asked anxiously.
“The animal will have been warded and sold to someone immediately,” she explained. “They would’ve had a buyer set up, and gone straight there to reduce the risk of being caught with it. Anyone who is buying an animal like this is extremely powerful, which means that even if we catch the men who stole it, they’d go to prison, but they wouldn’t risk angering the buyer. They won’t tell the authorities who it was, even for a lesser sentence. Losing an animal to robbery has only happened twice in the zoo’s history, this is the third time, but that’s how it played out both times. Actually, in the first instance, the police didn’t even catch the people who took it, since they were wearing masks.”
Just then, there was a knock at the door, and Suzanne pushed herself to her feet, walking over and opening it without hesitation. “He’s in here.” I took the opportunity to open the windows and turned down the thermostat so it would start displacing the smelly air.
A woman walked in, Janine presumably. “Oh, goodness,” she breathed, going quickly to Andrew. She took his pulse with one hand as she pulled a wand out from her purse with the other. “It’s good he’s staying calm. Redire orior can be terrifying to be subjected to.”
“He wasn’t calm when I got here,” I told her quietly. “I’ve been here for hours and didn’t know he was here until just a few minutes ago.”
Janine swore softly. “All right. Let me get started.”
I didn’t know what that meant, so I turned to Suzanne. “What did she call this?”
“The spell is ‘redire orior’. It’s a regression of part of the mind, basically all the way back to when we were first born,” she said tightly, anger flickering across her face. “He has no more control over his body than he did when he was a newborn baby.”
I grimaced, looking back to him. “Oh my god,” I whispered. It meant exactly what it had looked like when I’d walked in: Andrew had been rendered completely helpless. Rage welled up inside me, despising the men who’d done this and wishing desperately that Suzanne had been more confident in finding them.
Suzanne took the opportunity to walk into the security office and I heard her sit in my chair. Janine put down her wand to have both hands free and told Andrew, “Just relax, concentrate on breathing slowly,” she said, carefully pulling both of his legs out and rolling him onto his back. She then put his arms at his sides and, picking up her wand, pointed it at his forehead.
I took in a sharp breath of surprise as I saw a faint glow coming from the wand, through the top of it and then to Andrew’s forehead. She held that position for a while, muttering under her breath.
A few minutes later, Suzanne came out and took her phone from her pocket, saying, “I don’t recognize either of the men in the footage. But they seemed distressed, particularly the one that didn’t hurt Andrew. I don’t think that’s what was meant to happen.”
“Meant to or not, it happened,” I muttered through clenched teeth. I’d already decided that my new to-do list every day included first checking the office cameras.
“Andrew,” Janine said, letting the glow fade. “Can you speak?”
“I…yeah,” he whispered.
Suzanne came over to my side. “Thank goodness. How are you feeling? How’s the vertigo?”
“Pretty much gone,” he said, closing his eyes for a long moment, though he didn’t try to stand up.
“Andrew, I pulled up the cameras in the office and listened to the audio,” she told him. “I know what happened.”
My eyebrows furrowed. “The cameras have audio?”
“It’s under admin privileges, but yes. Andrew, you should have known better,” she said softly, looking back to him. “The gun in one of the desk drawers? I presume that’s what you were lunging for, because those two men had just made it clear they were here for an animal.”
“Yeah,” he sighed. “I just…” He looked distraught.
“They told you to just let them get what they came for,” Suzanne said. “Why didn’t you?” My lips parted in shock.
“The last time this happened, I cooperated, but…I regretted it,” he growled. “We never saw Harriet again. I couldn’t just stand here and let them do whatever they wanted. Not again.” I assumed Harriet was one of their animals, but I didn’t ask.
“Don’t ever do something so foolish again,” she told him, on the verge of being upset, her emotions likely tempered by his condition. “I want to make it clear to you that this job, these animals, they’re immensely important, but they are not worth your life. He could have killed you. If someone gains access to the zoo again to steal an animal I want you to cooperate fully. Understood?”
“Yeah,” Andrew muttered.
The idea that Andrew had tried to bring a gun to a wand fight was staggering. Something heavy curled in my stomach at the thought. It was clear he cared about the wellbeing of the animals to a degree I hadn’t comprehended.
Janine took one of the small pillows from the couch and tucked it under Andrew’s head as Suzanne continued. “All right,” she said with a sigh. “I’ll go through the footage to determine what they stole and then call the authorities to report the theft. Janine, can you continue to treat him?”
I wasn’t sure what that entailed, but Janine apparently did, since she nodded and knelt back down as Suzanne went back into the security office. Janine did the same thing that she’d done before, that soft glow channeling light into Andrew’s head. Obviously, I wanted to ask what she was doing, but I knew better than to think I’d get an answer. Instead, I sat in one of the loveseats in front of Andrew’s desk, turning it to face them.
I heard Suzanne’s voice faintly speaking to someone on the phone and the minutes ticked by. Eventually, Suzanne came back out again and she stood next to me for a long moment, watching the healing process before turning to me.
“Andrew told me you were attempting to create some enrichment activities for the animals?” asked my boss.
“Oh, uh…yeah, I am,” I answered. I assumed she was trying to make small talk to distract me from the current situation, and I appreciated it. “The first one went well. Spike loves artichokes, pecans, and hazelnuts. I went with things that made it a challenge to eat, like it’s a challenge to pull out fingernails of its prey.”
Suzanne’s expression brightened just enough for me to notice. “Ripley, that’s wonderful. Very clever.” She let out a breath. “It’s becoming more and more obvious to me that Andrew chose well in hiring you.” I gave her a small smile. “Listen, I’m going to hire someone else to be here with you on duty,” Suzanne told me, “and by that, I mean someone from my neck of the woods. Andrew explained that to you, correct?”
“Not much. Just that you’re not from Earth.”
Suzanne smiled. “That makes me sound like an alien, but yes, I’m not from this dimension. I can hire someone who has similar abilities to mine, who can check in every few hours, make sure everything’s all right, but generally make themselves scarce unless there’s an emergency. He wouldn’t have been able to do much if he’d already been here, but he’d have known what was going on. Andrew would have received assistance immediately.”
I was curious of what those abilities were, aside from being able to see the animals, but I wasn’t bold enough to ask. Also, I was curious about who this new ‘employee’ would be, but presumably I’d find out sooner or later. “That would make me feel a little better,” I said, nodding. “Knowing there was someone else here.”
She nodded once. “It’s as good as done, then. As for Andrew, he’ll need to take a few days off to recover. Would you be willing to give the tours until he’s back in ship-shape?”
My eyes bugged out of my skull. “Wait, what? I can’t even see all the animals!”
Suzanne chuckled at my expression and shook her head. “I can enchant a pair of specs for you to wear,” she told me. “It’ll give you a bit of a headache, but you’ll be able to see all of the animals. Also, I’ll give you the background for each of them, because you’ll be speaking about them to the tourists.”
I blinked, thinking of how awesome it would be to finally know all about them all. And it was flattering, the fact that she had such confidence in me that, without hesitation, she asked if I could take over for Andrew. The best thing for me to do, of course, was to be confident and assure her that I could take any temporary promotion in stride. “I’m…I’m not great with people,” I managed.
Yup. Nailed it.
“You can be a little harsh with them if you need to,” she said with a small, knowing smile. “I assumed that signing up for a job where you interact with a screen of cameras the whole time means you aren’t great with people. And Andrew did brief me on you when he hired you. How good are you at couching your insults in polite talk? The British are quite skilled, but I know Americans aren’t too bad at it.”
I smirked, remembering how a coworker friend of mine once told a customer, “Oh, bless your heart,” in her thick southern accent and it sounded like the worst insult. “I can manage that, I think.”
A buzz from the gate that went to the panel on the wall drew our attention and Suzanne walked over to let the visitors in. It was three people, a man and two women, with a gurney.
Walking over to Andrew, I folded my arms with a small smile as Janine released his head from the glow the wand was emitting. “Hey. Sorry you had to lay on the floor for so long knowing I was cluelessly reading a book in the next room.”
“Eh, not the end of the world,” he whispered. “I’ll be back on my feet soon. So, no parties while I’m gone.”
I snorted and my smile widened, and he returned it.
Going back into the security room, I pulled the system back to the multi-camera exterior view, and I sat there and listened to Suzanne talk to one of the medics, explaining everything that had happened in detail. Once she’d done that and they brought Andrew outside on the gurney, presumably to a waiting ambulance, I gave my statement, and then…it was back to work.
Obviously going back to work like nothing had changed felt weird, but Suzanne stayed, letting me know that she would get some work done at Andrew’s desk until my shift was over. It was likely the opposite of necessary, the robbers were gone, but it did make me feel a tiny bit better knowing that she was in the next room with her wand.
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I'm trialling a cheapish Kensington Orbit. It's pretty comfy but not being able to scroll is very detrimental.
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 + Wayland + Gnome and can't figure out a way to bind a key on my keyboard to act as a "scroll lock" that would allow me to use the trackball as the scroll wheel.
Is this simply not a thing? I'm pretty sure I'm hodling it wrong, but I've met my match in this.
I have tested donf-editor, evtest, wev, input mapper and so far nothing has worked out.
On my keyboard I have programmed an F13 key that I plan on using, but I can probably choose something else if needed.
I'm looking for a solution where I can press a keyboard key for scroll lock toggling, and not a mouse button.
Thanks in advance.

I with my friend made this project regrading Sentiment analysis of tweets ,we bypassed the use of API by creating a shadow window to login in and scrape tweets it worked fine multiple time but now, the project is launching as desired but cannot scrape tweets, if anyone can help ,I need urgent help coz it is my college project and I have to present it tomorrow evening.
The error I have been receiving is-
2024-05-15 18:22:28.493 Uncaught app exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\ProgramData\miniconda3\Lib\site-packages\streamlit\runtime\scriptrunner\script_runner.py", line 584, in _run_script
exec(code, module.__dict__)
File "C:\Users\vatsk\OneDrive\Documents\f.py", line 168, in
app()
File "C:\Users\vatsk\OneDrive\Documents\f.py", line 89, in app
next_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/span')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\ProgramData\miniconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 741, in find_element
return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {"using": by, "value": value})["value"]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\ProgramData\miniconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 347, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\ProgramData\miniconda3\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 229, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/span"}
(Session info: chrome-headless-shell=124.0.6367.208); For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdrivetroubleshooting/errors#no-such-element-exception
Stacktrace:
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6CAAC7072+63090]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CAA32CC2]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA8CEC65]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA91499D]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA914ADC]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA955B37]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA93701F]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA953412]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA936D83]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA9083A8]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CA909441]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6CAEC25CD+4238285]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6CAEFF72D+4488493]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6CAEF7A0F+4456463]
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6CABA05B6+953270]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CAA3E58F]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CAA39264]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CAA3939B]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF6CAA29BD4]
BaseThreadInitThunk [0x00007FFF2D94257D+29]
RtlUserThreadStart [0x00007FFF2F4EAA48+40]

So I’ve seen a lot of reviews and feedback about ESR Ascend VS Magic Keyboard, and Logitech Combo Touch VS Magic Keyboard. Yet, I haven’t found anything about the ESR Ascend Keyboard VS Logitech Combo Touch. I have an iPad Air 5th gen and I’m looking for a keyboard comfortable to use during my studies (I’m a college student).

I finished Rank 1 this month. Most seemed to struggle with stage 7 and maybe 9. Thanks to all the people who rushed, it was fun.
If you prefer or need a more f2p approach to Toa Hell rather than a speedrun approach I would recommend you to wait for u/AncientDragon1 guide.
In game and on twitch I am known as sogukpolar. You can see my playthrough here.
Stage 1 Laima
immune to cooldown/no passives
This stage is the easiest as enemy speeds aren't as high. So the restrictions don’t do much. I went with a high damage control comp but you can probably pick whatever as long as you deny the enemy their turns.
Stage 2 Aschubel
Silence at the start/immunity at the start of battle
Annoying restrictions if you do not have Tiana or Giana. Other than that there is not much to say here. Let Vero go first to cleanse the silence the proceed with your stripper. The stats of the enemy monsters arent as high as in the later stages so any stripper should do the trick. Shaman is much better than spectra here damage wise. If you need more sustain pick Tetra instead of Veromos.
Stage 3 Mugwol
immune to inability/immune to cooldown
I went in quite risky for the speed. A much safer option would be Herne instead of Amber for oblivions and heals. Bolverk teams are also a very popular option in this stage and is also viable. It seems much slower though to me.
Stage 4 Odin
Will at start/Counter buff
This stage seems new but I am not quite sure. Anyway, if you want a safer option go with another control unit like cp instead of Amber. I am not sure if this can be Bolverked. There are too many heals for that imo. It also would be quite slow. Control is much easier to handle.
Stage 5 Manannan
+200% crit dmg/counter buff at start
Pretty much the same as the previous stage. Another control unit instead of Amber makes it much safer but slower.
Stage 6 Miles
1 turn debuffs/immune to atb altering effects
Disregard the will runes in the wasves. I took those pictures from another month. Not having the will restriction makes it a lot easier though. This team is op and can be used in most stages where you can't use atb altering effects. Though is gonna do a lot of damage once Shizuka does her 3rd skill because of all the buffs on the field so watch out for that.^This probably can be Bolverked as well but I didn't wanna bother with the 1st wave.
Stage 7 Mei Hou Wang
25% chance to stun/15% atb per hit
This seems to be the stage where everbody struggled. I tried different teams and the MVP in the was Water Geralt. Fr his 3rd skill on bosses is nothing less than op because it only has a 2 turn cd on unit you cannot stun. He has def break on 2nd and atk break on 1st skill as well so can set himself up for his nuke quite well. I tried Bolverking it as well but lacked the heal block in the end. Gapsoo does a lot of dmg though with his second skill as well as MHW with his stacks so I am not sure if it is viable. Let me know in the comments if it is
Stage 8 Asima
+40% atk if an ally dies/immune to cooldown
Disregard the silence debuffs. I took those pictures from another month. Having said that without silence this stage is quite easy. There is a bit of rng with with wind monkeys but if you are able to kill the dark poison masters before they get a turn it should be fine. This can be Bolverked for sure. Make sure to bring enough immunity.
Stage 9 Valantis
Immunity at start/15% atb per hit
I Struggled with this stage as well in the beginning until I realized that Haegang is op, not just in RTA but now in TOA as well. You can probably imagine how the fight looked. Strip then cleanse constantly into gaining atb, cutting the opponent and buffing again lmao. He made this stage free tbh. Try it for yourself.
Stage 10 Ath'taros
3000 reflect damage/no buffs
This can be double or triple string mastered but I thought that this was faster. This was aloso the first time I hit 3 oblivions in a row on Douglas lol. Build your dark homunculus very tanky with -light dmg. If you use Bolverk prioritze killing Tetra in the first wave. If Douglas is dead with only Tetra remaining you can't pass the wave. You can't use Bolverk because of the no buff restriction but you alson don't need him because the enemy monsters kill themselves
Good luck and thank you for reading!
If you have further questions feel free to ask.
Runes
Everybody is on Violent. Except Tetra and Tiana are on swift, Pontos is on Despair and Shaman on blade swift hp, crit dmd, def.
FAQ
Q: What skills does your Dark Homunculus have and is she fully skilled? A: Yes, she is fully skilled and has the uppermost skills in the skill tree.
Q: What string master should I use? A: Light>Wind>Fire in that order.

Hi Guys,
Maybe someone can help me with this...
I have a M3 Pro Macbook Pro
I have a WD19TBS that I use from work and I purchased a WD22TB4 to use at home.
At home I have a 34inch Alienware AW3423DW I have a MonsGeek M5 with a Glorious Model O that are plugged into the Alienware AW3423DW I have a KVM switch to switch between my gaming desktop and my work laptop
Now the keyboard and mouse are plugged into the monitor, the monitor has a USB hub which is plugged into the KVM switch. The KVM switch is then plugged into the docking station and the desktop
The Desktop uses DP, laptop uses HDMI ...
Now where the problem is ... on the WD19TBS it works great! i can switch between the two no problem.
On the WD22TB4, I get no input (i.e. mouse and keyboard dont work, the keyboard lights up 80% but not fully)
The power supply is 180w on the docking station.
again same config just changing the docking station between WD19TBS and WD22TB4 doesn't work!
I tried resetting the dock, updating it, force reimaging it and nothing! I tried allowing access to my mac from all accessories, still no cigar.
Any help from anyone? My only way to get this to work is probably to forgo the usb hub on the monitor and plug directly into the KVM switch but its just so weird that the set up works 100% fine on the WD19 but not on the WD22TB4

All right, so some context here. I live in a house that is an exact mirror of the house next door, and we have a shared driveway. Yards are pretty close, it's close quarters, so I always expected some minor issues with a new neighbor simply because it would be difficult not to be in each other's space. However, the situation as it stands is...well, here goes:
Bought a house 2 years ago. A year later, someone buys the newly-renovated twin house next door. They have several kids I see the first couple days they're moving in. I think great, my kiddos will have someone to play with.
I get to know the neighbors and find out they're from the Congo and several of them don't speak english (I'm in USA). Ok, no problem, we can work with that. However, within weeks of moving in, several things occur:

• Their kids, aged between 2 and 6 (there are 4 total that live permanently there, many more when relatives visit) start running rampant. They're knocking on my windows and pissing off my dog, taking toys from my garage, wandering into my garage while I'm using tools, and just generally unsupervised. The one kid likes to take his pants down wherever he pleases and piss everywhere, including in my yard, on my house, and in my plants. Just the other day, those kids opened the back door and went wandering around the neighborhood. I saw them in the street, took them home, and no one answered the door. I'm pretty sure they were just left home by themselves.
• The kids themselves are aggressive; biting, hitting, scratching, taking toys right out of my kids' hands.
• The adults burn trash freely in a pile in the backyard. I'm talking full plastic trash bags, PVC pipe, and more. There's a pile of debris that just lives in the backyard now.
• They keep live chickens in their garaage tied to a chair, which they then slaughter in a kiddie pool (I'm not making this up lol) in the garage for food. I'm assuming they're just dumping the blood down the garage drain.
• They constantly block the driveway with their vehicles so I can't get in or out, and they have a total of 5-6 vehicles because there are anywhere from 10-12 people living in the single-family home.

This is really just the main stuff I could think of. During the course of them living there, I have attempted several times to be the caring neighbor.

• I've talked to one of the moms of the kids about letting really young kids run free like that. I mean sometimes they're just in the street, no supervision, no adults around. I've tried to explain that A) It could be dangerous because people fly down our road, and B) They can't just be in peoples' yards unsupervised.
• I've tried to initiate conversation about the trash burning, and even gave them some cinderblocks and helped them build a fire ring for wood. They promptly disassembled it and repurposed the cinder blocks for a sort of pathway.
• I've called Children's Services to see if they had the resources to help bridge the language gap and maybe provide some resources or information about how things work here, but not sure what happened there. This was out of genuine concern, since the mom I talked to either didn't understand what I was saying or just didn't care, because the behavior has continued with no change.
• I've created a sort of working relationship with the patriarch of the family, but he speaks very little english and so the language gap prevents us from communicating effectively. That being said, he always says hi, we chat sometimes, but it's hard to really explain or converse about anything in depth.
• I've given them seeds for their garden, let them use my bike pump, my lawnmower, and other tools.
• I'm always courteous about the driveway, their space, and make sure my kids don't hang out in their yard or mess with their things.

Some of the family members give me dirty looks or flat out won't speak to me, and I don't understand why they feel that way when up to this point, I've been nothing but nice.
Now, I've tried my best to keep this relationship tenable because we have to live next to each other, but I'm at my wits end here. I understand there's a cultural and language gap, but they don't even seem interested in trying to integrate a little bit into the societal expectations we have, like at the very least supervising your 2 year old outside, or y'know not letting your kid piss on my house and not slaughtering fucking chickens in the garage.
I'm getting to the point where I'm just going to start calling the police every time I see those kids running around unsupervised, because I know damn well when one of those poor kiddos gets splattered by the idiots flying down my street, everyone's gonna turn their heads and wonder what happened. Then I'm going to feel guilty because I can't jump every time I see these kids running around the neighborhood potentially putting themselves in danger.
Not to mention, now there's a rat living in my garage drain and I've seen the damn thing running back and forth between houses. Luckily I think one of the neighborhood's feral cats actually killed the rat, but when I told the neighbors about it, they didn't seem the least bit interested. Am I the asshole here? I don't know what to do but I know I'm pretty sick of being worried about other peoples' kids destroying my property or getting killed because of neglect.

Hello,
I have created a new project which consist on a web-component. I'm using angular 17 and the new default builder '@angular-devkit/build-angular:application'.
As this web component will be used in non-angular apps, I would like to have a single bundle file containing all the required code. I know people uses the ngx-build-plus compiler in order to configure webpack and do this, but is there any possibility to do this with the new compiler?"
TDLR: Use angular new compiler to compile a single file.