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Giving Trump all that glitters with a wide grin isn't a bargaining chip for a city under siege. And what, exactly, did LA walk out of this meeting with? Nothing. Except for a neat little preview of the Bass administration's posture as we head into our self-imposed megaevent purgatory.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51257478

Ukraine and Norway are set to begin their first joint production of Ukrainian drones, planning to produce several thousand mid-range drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Norway.

"All products manufactured under the project will be transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces… The relevant agreement was signed in Kyiv by Lars Ragnar Aalerud Hansen, Norwegian Ambassador to Ukraine, and Serhii Boiev, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defence for European Integration," Ukraine's Ministry of Defence reports.

The defence ministry said the agreement will enable Ukrainian technology, which has proved its effectiveness on the battlefield, to be scaled up and will strengthen the defence capabilities of both countries.

The project will be funded by Norway.

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Opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP (Purdue) was sentenced today in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, and ordered to pay criminal penalties of over $5 billion for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before Congress about the Epstein files on May 29 after she failed to appear for a previously scheduled deposition.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee confirmed the appearance, an arrangement made after discussions with Bondi’s personal attorney.

The news came as Democrats on the committee introduced a resolution to hold Bondi in contempt.

Lawsuits: OpenAI didn’t report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

Inspiration: https://feddit.org/post/29170100/12767853

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51256532

MaiaSpace has started dismantling the former launch complex used for Russian Soyuz-ST rockets at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

This is part of preparations for launching its own two-stage Maia rocket, as previously reported by European Spaceflight. The demolition of the service tower was reported by the Russian Telegram community Zakrytyy kosmos.

Previously, workers had already cut the four support structures that held the rocket before launch, along with the cable masts.

The site had remained unused since 2022, after the European Space Agency ended its cooperation with Russia.

The company has already secured a new customer – Eutelsat – to launch communication satellites for the OneWebconstellation into orbit. The rocket’s first full flight and the start of commercial missions are scheduled for 2027.

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DuckDuckGo's bangs (extremely useful) let you search a specific website. For example, on Wiktionary, searching !wt hello will return the Wiktionary entry for 'hello' (or, if the entry for 'hello' didn't exist, a list of search results).

However, this 1) takes longer as it has to go through DuckDuckGo, 2) could even take you to a separate container depending on how you have that set up, and 3) is inherently less private because it's being sent through a middleman.

It's super easy to make your own custom keyword in Firefox at Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts. Using Wiktionary as an example again, I made the keyword !wt, mirroring the DDG bang. From there, I just searched some random bullshit string that didn't exist, found the URL https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=parametershere, stripped it to https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search, and appended %s at the end as a specifier character that gets replaced with whatever the search terms are.

Thus, now !wt hello takes me straight to https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=hello, which in turn goes right to the entry, instead of DDG –> Wiktionary search –> Wiktionary entry.

Why YSK: This is extremely obvious in hindsight, but even though I use bangs all the time, I never connected that I could just replace Firefox's keywords with the exact bangs I was already using for an objectively better experience. Bangs already make things way more convenient, and this is a more perfect form of that for commonly used websites.

Edit: I forgot to mention that, in the 'Advanced' options for a search shortcut, you can add search suggestions. So Wikipedia, for example, has the OpenAPI where you can get suggestions while you type (if that's your thing): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search= and append %s.

People brought way too much coffee to a work thing and I took it home. Is there any risk, other that than that it will taste bad, to keeping it for a week or two?