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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by tambourine_man »

edent wrote: post #115

You can also use Unicode ligatures to make URls which look shorter. From that list, you could use http:// ㎝. / - that's U+339D if HN mangles it. I wrote it up at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-d...

Unicode URLs are scary

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by snvzz »

easrng wrote: post #103
snvzz wrote: post #101

Interestingly, in my lan: dig ai @ googledns works dig ai @ unbound works (DoT cloudflare behind) dig ai @ dnsmasq NXDOMAIN (openwrt, forwards to unbound) Thus something's up with openwrt (22.03.0 release) dnsmasq, or dnsmasq in general.

Try "ai."

Same result @ dnsmasq.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by mindcrime »

snvzz wrote: post #101

Interestingly, in my lan: dig ai @ googledns works dig ai @ unbound works (DoT cloudflare behind) dig ai @ dnsmasq NXDOMAIN (openwrt, forwards to unbound) Thus something's up with openwrt (22.03.0 release) dnsmasq, or dnsmasq in general.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804868

There's a dnsmasq setting you have to twiddle to make it work.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by password4321 »

tambourine_man wrote: post #152
edent wrote: post #115

You can also use Unicode ligatures to make URls which look shorter. From that list, you could use http:// ㎝. / - that's U+339D if HN mangles it. I wrote it up at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-d...

Unicode URLs are scary

I thought this was super sketch:

Shorten URLs using invisible spaces

https://github.com/zws-im/zws

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by not_kurt_godel »

dn3500 wrote: post #79

http://ai is an interesting case. It was there from the early days of the web, back when you could type "ai" into the mozilla url bar and it would take you there. Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want. It's run by a character named Vince Cate who moved to Anguilla to protest taxes or something. He was from the US and gav…

> Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want.

I genuinely want to know what you think is the percentage of FF users who type "ai" who intend to go to http://ai and not search for "ai" is. Even better if you can estimate that for all possible single words that are also TLDs. And then tell me why users who might actually want the domains can't just disable search from the address bar which is a feature FF has which is exactly tailored for this use case. And then also tell me what is wrong with having to explicitly specify "http:// TLD>" which works even when the search-from-address feature is enabled.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by ipaddr »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #156
dn3500 wrote: post #79

http://ai is an interesting case. It was there from the early days of the web, back when you could type "ai" into the mozilla url bar and it would take you there. Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want. It's run by a character named Vince Cate who moved to Anguilla to protest taxes or something. He was from the US and gav…

> Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want. I genuinely want to know what you think is the percentage of FF users who type "ai" who intend to go to http://ai and not search for "ai" is. Even better if you can estimate that for all possible single words that are also TLDs. And then tell me why users who might actually want t…

The bigger question is what percentage of users would like a separate search / location field. Merging them created this problem but now that screens are bigger I think we can afford another textbox.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by not_kurt_godel »

ipaddr wrote: post #157
not_kurt_godel wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want. I genuinely want to know what you think is the percentage of FF users who type "ai" who intend to go to http://ai and not search for "ai" is. Even better if you can estimate that for all possible single words that are also TLDs. And then tell me why users who might actually want t…

The bigger question is what percentage of users would like a separate search / location field. Merging them created this problem but now that screens are bigger I think we can afford another textbox.

Good thing that's an option that is trivial to enable under Preferences -> Search -> Search Bar. I suspect most users who are technical enough to appreciate the significance of going to http://ai are able to figure that one out easily enough.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

Macha wrote: post #47
shpx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At Google and many other tech companies, internal machines are configured to have go/ work just like you describe. Looks like someone even made a whole company around it https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/

A problem with this approach is browsers love to resolve it to http://go.com , so Disney may be getting a feed of what Googlers are interested in.

I've never seen a configuration that would set a default subdomain search on .com., so I find this hard to believe. Can you show me a browser that resolves like this?
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