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Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by bmicraft »

ktpsns wrote: post #84
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…

You still can type "ai." (including the dot, excluding the quotation) in your browser. Works in firefox (tested in 104), however does not work in Chrome (tested in Chromium 105).

I need a slash in firefox too, dot also just searches

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by jagged-chisel »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #159
ipaddr wrote: post #157

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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.

Being technical enough, I’d type http://ai and wouldn’t for a second have thought that some time in the past, someone working on Firefox thought “hey, we could offer a second text box for searching” even though the idea Makes Sense because so much that Makes Sense has been argued against by the leaders of various projects and I’m callused against trying to understand the motivation behind changes to things that already worked before they were removed or hidden…

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by s0rce »

brighamyoung wrote: post #150
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…

I bet he has a great big house, but guess what he doesn't have? Anything to do! Boring! That's what I'm paying the extra 1.5k a month for! Fun shit! California forever and goodbye!!!

Anguilla is a tourist destination, there is obviously stuff people want to do...

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by snvzz »

mindcrime wrote: post #154
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.

Thank you for the pointer. I'll look into that at the next chance.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by eesmith »

A321321 wrote: post #33
eesmith wrote: post #12

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I'm also curious. Especially since curl 7.64.1 (Release-Date: 2019-03-27, on macOS) says: % curl 'http://1.1/' error code: 1003 while curl 7.85.0 (Release-Date: 2022-08-31, on FreeBSD) says: % curl 'http://1.1/' 301 Moved Permanently 301 Moved Permanently cloudflare

Yeah, that was a bug in curl till 7.77. If you want to full details, see [0] [0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4...

That's the answer I was hoping for. Thanks!

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by nibbleshifter »

brighamyoung wrote: post #150
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…

I bet he has a great big house, but guess what he doesn't have? Anything to do! Boring! That's what I'm paying the extra 1.5k a month for! Fun shit! California forever and goodbye!!!

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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by inglor »

jonas-w wrote: post #119
inglor wrote: post #77

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It's also used quite extensively internally for company wide resources. Any employee can create aka.ms urls, here is one for your comment: https://aka.ms/AAhztyq

What a flex. Can you also specify a custom link? Like aka.ms/mango or aka.ms/inglor?

I can, there are a bunch of them - e.g. aka.ms/undertale - take any word after aka.ms and chances are someone used it ^^
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