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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...
Could shave off a character by using ftp:// instead of http:// though I suppose modern browsers have removed FTP support recently. Are there any protocols that are known by even shorter abbreviations?
irc:// is understood by Firefox at least.
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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.
I'm debating if I'll keep it set so that this works, or put it back the way it was.
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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.
trivial to enable but badly maintained. When I enabled that originally it broke the search bar on the default new tab page. The default behavior is also nonsensical if you want to access anything on the local network by name.
> The default behavior is also nonsensical if you want to access anything on the local network by name.
Ok, and what percent of users do you think that affects? And what percent of those aren't technically savvy enough to enable the separate search bar? And what percent of those who aren't under a company managed policy that enables the separate search bar automatically? Let's make some reasonable estimates about those numbers and then reevaluate how "nonsensical" this core feature of Firefox is.
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We're also arguing that it ought to become usable even in a /24: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicas... It only requires changes within the LAN to accomplish this, since distant hosts are already not supposed to assume anything about how networks are or are not subnetted. (For instance, they don't know whether you're on a /24 or not.) You can find some addresses ending a lot of zeroes that al…
I still don't understand why, instead of doing something like this, not just switch to IPv6.
If you're operating a public site and you don't switch to IPv6-only, for example by doing dual-stack, you'll still need IPv4 addresses.
The challenge is that "just switch to IPv6" isn't something that you can do unilaterally if you need to talk to the rest of the Internet.
aka.ms is short but probably not thr shortest, but I would say it is the shortest most popular url possibly. For those who don't know, that is MS's link shortner for official URLs
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