Search results, sure. Personally I have rarely if ever wanted to save or share such URLs. But sure.

Sure, but my script only gets rid of the second and later parameters, i.e. ones with & not ?. Personally I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single site where an & param is critical. These days there few where the ? matters either, but yes YT is a holdout.

You never define “clean”.

To strip excess URL parameters (i.e. beginning “&”, almost certainly junk) if the clipboard buffer contains a URL and only a URL (Wayland only):

if url=$(printf '%s' "$(wl-paste --no-newline | awk '$1=$1' ORS=' ')" | egrep -o 'https?://[^ ]+') ; then
  wl-copy "${url%%\&*}"
fi

Important clarification: it’s much more than this. HarmonyOS is not any more a skin or a version of Android. It’s its own OS.

HarmonyOS is IMO going to do to Android what BYD has done to Tesla and VW. This is another chapter in China declaring independence from the West.

Translation for those not completely up to speed with the stakes of all this?

Isn’t this like saying “What phone numbers do you have in your address book?”

This is exactly how I do things too.

What a mess! But an amazing map, well done to creators.

To clarify things a bit: the map shows the Horn of Africa, which contains one de-jure state, Somalia. It’s composed of the former Italian protectorate (in the south) and the British one (Somaliland, at the top). But in reality there are now three de-facto states. Somaliland wants nothing to do with Somalia and has been independent for 30 years. And last year Puntland also declared independence (and was promptly infested by terrorists it seems).

The interesting thing here is that Somalia is a classic failed state but it has the UN seat. Whereas Somaliland is unrecognized by anyone but is in fact a passably functional democracy.

So, Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela - no surprise. All semi-failed states for a while.

Ecuador is the new kid on the block. As I understand it, it’s because the money from an oil boom ran out, then the country was overrun by drug cartels pushed out of neighboring Colombia.

A shame. Ecuador has amazing natural riches, highest biodiversity in the world. They’ve been copying Costa Rica’s business model of sustainable-ish tourism. Much better than drugs and it really does bring development.

Article is not very clear about the obvious weakness: this is a ban on factory farms themselves. Their products will continue coming across the nearest municipal boundaries and filling Berkeley’s supermarket shelves.

Quite easy to imagine a USA where all the liberal cities “ban factory farming” but everyone, including liberals in those cities, continues to eat factory-farmed meat.

Still, the symbolism is positive.

Seems we do not have the whole story. As the article says, this is clearly illegal. When the inevitable complaint is made, the police are not going to just stand by.

Yes, that’s my thinking. For now it’s acceptable.

But who’s making these “updates”? Who’s doing the actual work of keeping the software secure? Mozilla is.

If everybody moves to a free-riding fork, Mozilla goes to 0% and there will be no browser let alone updates.

I share your general reasoning (about staying with Firefox). Except this:

Firefox works perfectly fine for me, so there’s not much added benefit

The added benefit of going with one of the downstream forks is that you can be sure they’re not gonna pull some new monetization trick next month. That does count for something.

BUT, again, I share your concerns about security, that’s why I’ll likely stay with Firefox till the end.

Yep, I use trash-put, and trash-empty with a 30-day timeout. But no bit-scrubbing needed because the partition is encrypted.

Photorec, on the other hand, was truly a gift from the cosmos

Can confirm. Over the years I’ve had recourse to this little tool several times and always found to to be almost disturbingly effective.

To explain why AMD is fine: Linux doesn’t care about the brand, it just needs a chip that uses the x86 instruction set. This was Intel’s invention and AMD occupies the niche of Intel’s competitor. Intel is Coke, AMD is Pepsi, basically.

Several years ago I came to the conclusion that, for the kind of device models that I personally use (i.e. cheap ones), rooting has now become too complicated and dangerous (if not impossible) and that it’s better simply to move my computing back to the desktop while waiting for a more open and free mobile platform to emerge.

And your point is… what?

Well that puts the loss of my little VPS into perspective.