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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.

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.

PS. This is not a critique to Debian-based distros. And i'm not suggesting you to skip Ubintu for Arch either. Arch is a bit advanced and not too easy to new users, so that won't do for some people...

... just install Linux Mint instead.

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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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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Excert from Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution

And here are the robbers — the strongest, the most cunning ones, those “ideally organized for robbery.” And you hear their hungry, angry, dismal cries as for hours in succession they watch the opportunity of snatching from this mass of living beings one single unprotected individual. But as soon as they approach, their presence is signalled by dozens of voluntary sentries, and hundreds of gulls and terns set to chase the robber. Maddened by hunger, the robber soon abandons his usual precautions: he suddenly dashes into the living mass; but, attacked from all sides, he again is compelled to retreat. From sheer despair he falls upon the wild ducks; but the intelligent, social birds rapidly gather in a flock and fly away if the robber is an erne; they plunge into the lake if it is a falcon; or they raise a cloud of water-dust and bewilder the assailant if it is a kite. And while life continues to swarm on the lake, the robber flies away with cries of anger, and looks out for carrion, or for a young bird or a field-mouse not yet used to obey in time the warnings of its comrades. In the face of an exuberant life, the ideally-armed robber must be satisfied with the off-fall of that life.

India's industrial sector is an economic engine, but it comes with high costs and dirty air. Smart policies can tap cheap solar to make electrifying industrial heat in India cheaper than most fossil fuel sources of heat.

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, and created the URL https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=%25s, where %s is a specifier character that gets replaced with whatever your 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.