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fix ghost notifications

so github had a huge spam wave recently yada yada which left ppl with notifications that you cant get rid of in the ui.

Warning

this will mark ALL your notifications as read

here's the fix (curl and gh cli):

gh cli

gh api --method PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  /notifications -F "read=true"

curl (dont forget to feed it a token with notification permissions)

curl -L \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/notifications \
  -d '{"read":true}'
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