Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.

Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.

What??

No you can’t. The code was changed years ago to only work if the text in the PRIMARY buffer “sort of looks like it might be a URL”.

That defeats the whole point of the feature. If someone has written “go to example.domain, it’s amazing”, without bothering to make “example.domain” a link anchor, or even prepending “https://”, then there’s no easy way to actually visit the site. Previously, I could just select the text I wanted, middle-click into a browser window, and hey presto. Doesn’t work any more.

Netscape, then Mozilla, then Firefox had this feature on middle-button-click for literally decades. Firefox devs killed it years ago, despite howls of protest.

You could literally highlight any text, anywhere, and a middle-click in the browser window would navigate there. It was awesome. Basically a web equivalent of X-windows’ middle-click paste feature.

It treats desktop clients as first-class citizens. That’s a huge, huge advantage over Whatsapp, for me.

I fucking love Cory Doctorow

Just wait. Some asshole Google employee will read his blog, and unapprove him.

How many of the RARBG torrents are still seeded?

This is behind a paywall. Please post the article text.

I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

LOL. They list Digg as a Reddit alternative.

Someone had a giggle when they wrote that.

The Amber Room on Telegram is the answer you are looking for.

I’m in the UK, and I use Telegram. It’s far superior to WhatsApp, and has somewhat better ethics (for now).