The encoding format of URLs is URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding. Content in the URL may be first encoding in some other format, like JSON or base64, and then encoded additionally using percent-encoding.

While there is a standard way to decode percent-encoding, websites are free to use base64 or JSON in URLs however they wish, so there’s not a one-size-fits-all way to decode them all. For example, the “/” character is valid in both percent-encoding and base64-encoding, so to know if it’s part of a base64-encoded blob or not, you might end up trying decoding several parts of the URL as base64 and checking if the result looks like URL-- essentially brute force.

A smarter way to do this might be to maintain a mapping between your favorite sites that you want to decode and what methods they use to encode links. Then a tool could efficiently directly decode the URLs embedded in these click trackers.

Starting with low-quality parts and trying to make them go as fast as you can. What could go wrong?

Lol. After professionally hosting email for 15 years I’m happy to let someone else handle it now.

About 90% of incoming mail will be spam and it will be your job to make sure you are doing good job of classifying it so you don’t get junk in your inbox and don’t lose real mail in the spam folder.

Then for outgoing mail you need to make sure SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all in order.

Then there is all the usual stuff of security updates, backups, monitoring, alerting, logging and having a plan for internet outages.

Yes, it’s all doable but I won’t expect it be “set and forget”. I expect there will be quite a bit of tuning with some possible spam and delivery problems while you get kinks worked out.

$1,000 for pedals, ha.

Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.

A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.

Please do. It was a click-bait post.

Rim brakes are often good enough. No need for them to “die”.

Seriously, there are four negatives in the headline.

Competition would be good.

Non-compete would be bad.

Banning non-competes would be good.

Defending a ban of non-competes would be good.

So dropping a defense a ban on noncompetes would be bad.

Basically an ad. For an article that mentions “further” in the headline, there’s no mention of range I saw in the article.

I think that’s part of it.

5% is 1-20 users.

I doubt in my city that 1 in 20 people are using desktop Linux, which means there must be higher concentrations somewhere else, maybe in some corporate fleets or university labs.

So where are the big concentrations of desktop Linux in the US? I’m not hearing more stories of big migrations happening outside of ChromeOS.

Fireflys.

Ducks? That’s quackery.

Microsoft is recognizing that their biggest threat to MS Word is Google Docs, a product they underestimated in the beginning as being a serious choice for word processing.

Saving in the cloud means automatic backups and access from all your devices. Increasingly, people are willing to choose that over the real privacy benefits of local storage.

I’ve had good experiences with Brother printers and Linux.

That’s what I have now. Works well.

Upfront they describe two monocultures and then a thriving diverse ecosystem and then conclude that the thriving diverse ecosystem is the unsustainable option.

Yeah, Linux as a software ecosystem is complex and messy like a forest or the animal kingdom. It’s a feature.

What printer brand do you recommend for use with Linux?

Verge reported there are signs the video may be fix and Tesla posted to confirm that it was indeed fake.

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake

Tesla’s reply: “This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely.”

Heroin is made from opium poppy seeds, so, yeah, a residual small dose of heroin in your blood looks like the same opium from a serving of poppy seed muffins.

There is a relatively small number of shared Tor exit node IP addresses.

So it’s more likely using Tor will trigger “too many attempts for IP” throttling for any service with bot protection.

It’s nothing against Tor, but is an expected side-affect of attempting to be anonymous by sharing the same IP address with many people.