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Disclaimer: Not talking about Ctrl + Scroll.

I tried the Mouse Pinch-To-Zoom extension, which is buggy on some sites. And I even bought a physical touchpad for pinch zoom. Today I just leaned that it's natively supported as an experiment feature by FireFox

There are specific actions defined to set what happens if you rotate the mouse wheel and hold down modifier keys like Alt or Ctrl or Shift. You can disable this action by setting the related mousewheel pref to 0 (zero) on the about:config page.

mousewheel.with_alt.action = 0 
0: Nothing happens
1: Scrolling contents
2: Go back or go forward, in your history
3: Zoom in or out (reflowing zoom)
4: Treat vertical wheel as horizontal scroll
5: Zoom in or out (pinch zoom)

I changed the value to 5, and it works perfectly.

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https://www.bvdm-online.de/bvdm/branchenportal/technik-innovation/normen-und-standards/standardwerke/roman16-bvdm-reference-images-en

The RGB versions of the three black and white images can be used to check the grey reproduction and the black composition of CMYK printing profiles. A sample application is a black and white ad printed in four colours for better contrast.

The CMYK versions of the three black and white images can be used to assess the grey reproduction, the mid-tone spread and the ink trapping of a print run.

The grey scale versions of the three black and white images, in turn, can be used to assess the black simulation of a digital proof printing system. Besides black ink, such systems also use the chromatic colours to simulate single-colour printing with black ink. This can lead to different colour casts in different tonal value ranges of the proof print.

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I was updating Wikipedia and I stumbled upon this piece of news. Bob's Burgers production cut ties immediately with the actor, and now his character has a new voice.

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Chat

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I honestly thought he was named after the vacuum company because he sucks up stuff like a vacuum cleaner does.

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The number was on a card in a selling wallet to show how a social security card could fit in it.

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Also: probably the worse wikipedia page to accidentally send to the family group chat 👀

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This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.

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Archive link: https://archive.ph/Euexx

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People in Georgia have been protesting everyday for over a year (406+ days) but for whatever reason it's not currently getting much media coverage likely because the media tends to not report on reoccurring protests.

There's more information about the protests on the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932026_Georgian_protests

Basically they're protesting due to election fraud, democratic backsliding and protesting against pro-Russia policies, they want to be aligned with the EU.

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Whilst watching a movie (and looking things up on wikipedia after).

More than 350'000 jews lived in Czechoslovakia before WW2. Approximately 18'000 children were sent to death camps, of which fewer than 200 survived. Meanwhile, this man helped save 669 children.

For comparison, approximately 7'000 jewish people live in Czechia and Slovakia today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

Feel free to add more interesting context in the comments, would love to learn more!

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