Alas Poor Erinaceus

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I've got a VPN and am using Mullvad Browser, any issues there? It keeps asking me how damn high the stupid fluffy little animals are jumping, over and over again . . .

KeePassXC 2.7.12 still requires a .mozilla folder if I want to use their extension. The app data for LibreWolf is now nestled somewhere in .config. Would be kind of nice if KP could switch to XDG (if I'm understanding things correctly . . . )

Might it be possible, when creating a post, to be able to choose whether or not the post as it appears on the, I guess, feed (???) shows the link preview or an uploaded image if the OP includes both? Maybe there is already a way to do this . . . ?

Text, as far as I know (?) doesn't take up that much space memory-wise, but on the other hand can you imagine the amount of server space that gets taken up by redundant text from people's emails (just for starters)?

Some of my approaches to the apparently much-hated "Inbox Zero" are to be diligent about emptying the trash, not keeping copies of emails in my sent folder, and most importantly, to download messages, personal or professional ones (mostly the former) that I find personally valuable, and then delete the original email so it isn't floating around forever in cyberspace. This leaves me with lots of txt files, which, as I said above, I then merge all together into one file and then edit. You'd think that there'd be a tool that cleans up the contents of email messages; there do appear to be some online ones, but I don't trust them. While researching this problem, I found out about "(g)awk" and am now fiddling around with it to see if I can successfully clean up my files without completely messing them up, as in

awk '!seen[$0]++' input.txt > output.txt

making sure that I experiment on a duplicated file and not on the original. I barely know what I'm doing here, but I'll see what I can come up with . . .