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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by InCityDreams »

Tistron wrote: post #174
thewebcount wrote: post #5

It’s interesting that Anguilla is the ai domain. I didn’t know that! It’s also a nice little island to take a trip to if you want to go somewhere that’s not too touristy. Beautiful beaches, and at least last time I was there, they didn’t allow cruise ships. So it ended up being a beautiful and quiet getaway. They do, however, drive on the left side of the road, but with North American cars, so it’s a little odd drivi…

Interesting. When I was in Myanmar/Burma some years ago, they drove on the right, but with mostly Japanese cars (made for driving on the left side). It seemed fairly dangerous.

...makes you think twice about pointless overtaking.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by climb_stealth »

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.

My cynical take is that the majority of people don't change default settings. So it is only a matter of time before the setting gets obsoleted because no one uses it.

And yes, I do have the two bars separated.

The address bar is for finding things locally that I know I have like bookmarks. The search bar is for finding things on the internet. It really bugs me that those two very different concepts get merged and conflated in modern browsers.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by Gud »

s0rce wrote: post #163
brighamyoung wrote: post #150

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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...

Tourist destinations get old real quick though.

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.

I was able to test it. It is this setting indeed.

The default is probably due to some concern about leaking misspelled split-horizon local names.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by emsixteen »

password4321 wrote: post #155
tambourine_man wrote: post #152

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Unicode URLs are scary

I thought this was super sketch: Shorten URLs using invisible spaces https://github.com/zws-im/zws

Bloody hell, that's genuinely scary. No notice about it in my browser at all, I feel like there should be.

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Post by kvetching »

Minor49er wrote: post #121
bdn_ wrote: post #11

At one point of time, ` http://to ` resolved to a "It works!" page [1]. I've always thought it would be cool to have a URL shortener with links such as ` https://to/library ` or something similar. Oh, how much fun running your own TLD would be... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150319211308/http://to/

Many years ago, there used to be http://www.tk/ . They would let you register free domains (which I think technically were actually subdomains, but I'm really not sure). You could point these to anywhere online and it would maintain your [whatever].tk URL in the address bar. I remember hosting some pages on Geocities and using .tk to make it look "authentic" since it appeared to be self-hosted, which was 1337. It see…

Ahh the good old .tk domain It could bypass URL filters on online games such as Runescape, giving scammers endless victims

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by MisterTea »

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

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> 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.

> I think we can afford another textbox.

I say kill the concept of integrated search altogether. Search is a web page and should never be part of a web browser. Ever. It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default setting to the highest bidder. Or if your google, drive traffic to your advertising search engine using technologies that directly benefit its bottom line and nothing else.

Besides, searching sucks. Its all been SEO'd to death meaning finding information posted by real humans who are passionate about a subject are drowned in sea of mediocre (at best) blogspam. Of course this blogspam is funded by google adverts which only perpetuates this feedback loop of madness.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Post by mxuribe »

cldellow wrote: post #91
zfxfr wrote: post #83

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From my experience if you give people any email address with a custom domain people will usually be confused and ask you to repeat even if it's very clear and easy to remember. Last time i gave my mail which is something like :myname@LLL.fr i was asked : are you sure ?

I had to deal with an accountant to get advice on how to file taxes after the sale of a private company. They needed information from a third party. I gave the accountant the third party's email address, firstname@lastname.co. The transaction was taking a while to get resolved. After repeated followups, the accountant finally told me that he was having a hard time getting a hold of the third party. Was I sure that th…

I hear ya! I've had my own last name .CC for well over a decade...and i still get the occasional "Did you mean .COM?" ....so nowadays i premptively state my email is: xyz@whatever.CC (that's .CC and NOT .COM)....and people get it nowadays more than in the past, though its funny that its only my fellow Americans who are not used to TLDs which are not .com, .net, .org. ;-)
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