

List of applications that depended on it:
List of applications that depended on it:
They’re not apple, if they increase the price it means they think most of the competition will increase the prices or nobody would buy their stuff
After all, the margins are thin and the tariff is high
maybe it was openwebui and the phone corrected it to openwebzine
They’re useful for printed media
“Find more info at bitly/event” instead of “find more info at facebook.com/unnecessarilylongurlthatnobodyisgoingtotype”
Or for a qr code where it needs to be small and somehow your URL is too long
But yes, relying on a third party company for something that needs to last a long time isn’t really smart. There are many books that have online content now inaccessible because they used a link shortener that’s dead or that doesn’t let you update the redirection without paying a ransom (need to pay $120/year to bitly if you need to change the redirection)
I remember blackberry using bitly links in their developer emails in 2013, and at the time it was possible to see the stats of any link by just adding “+” at the end of the link (now requires authentication or maybe only paid users can lock that page)
It was dismaying to see that it got only 50 clicks or so lol
At one point in history did it allow to download from Spotify or it’s just an intentionally misleading name?
It is (was) a service that redirected a short URL like bit.ly/customurl to www.example.com/extremely/long/path/to/share/and/type?parameter=crazy&anotherparameter=long
perfect for sharing
Edit: removed the potentially dangerous link thanks to @dabda@[email protected]
Well, they give the option to remove the ads altogether for just $120/year 😉
Although literally nobody would pay that ransom (100000x the actual server expense) to remove ads from their own links
This level of incompetence is unheard
No it exclusively works with recaptcha https://github.com/dessant/buster
A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed
https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers
Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.
Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.
you need to use fat32 if you want normal people to access the files
Otherwise, they will get the “You need to format the disk in drive D: before using it. Do you want to format it?” dialog, they blindly click “yes”, then they will mumble to themselves “weird, he left behind a massive collection of blank drives…”
Tape isn’t readable by normal people even if they found it tomorrow with a drive already configured to be used.
In 50 years good luck finding a working drive compatible with LTO4 when LTO32 is out (it’s backwards compatible only with previous gen).
Unless you write on the box “here there are the keys for 100k bitcoins” they’ll just trash the tape
That’s “useful” when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that’s isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat
I learned that I can’t rely on someone else’s recipes: in my case it was abandoned/badly configured unraid apps. I now exclusively use a docker compose yml where i control and tag specific versions. I intentionally stay behind 2 versions on nextcloud (stable = alpha; oldstable = beta), and for databases i stay on the LTS. Then i import the calendar from endoflife.date in my calendar app to see if i have to move the target up a bit.
Every once in a while i go there and i update manually everything
4x is way far compared to 100x
the only case where hdds have a 100x ratio, is where apple scams their customers offering a 256gb upgrade for $200: it means $800 per terabyte (this price was a scam even 15 years ago), and a $500 18tb HDD is 100x “apple platinum grade ssd”
100x ? Did you sleep for 15 years?
A 2tb SATA SSD has a comparable price to a 4tb SATA HDD.
If it wasn’t for the Al bubble the prices would be even lower
yes, they say (weirdly only in italian and not in any other language) that the departure board can be accessed via their chatbot on whatsapp
Protect from accidental data damage: for example the dev might have accidentally pushed an untested change where there’s a space in the path
rm -rf / ~/.thatappconfig/locatedinhome/nothin.config
a single typo that will wipe the whole drive instead of just the app config (yes, it happened, I remember clearly more a decade ago there was a commit on GitHub with lots of snarky comments on a script with such a typo)
Also: malicious developers that will befriend the honest dev in order to sneak an exploit.
Those scripts need to be universal, so there are hundreds of lines checking the Linux distro and what tools are installed, and ask the user to install them with a package manager. They require hours and hours of testing with multiple distros and they aren’t easy to understand too… isn’t it better to use that time to simply write a clear documentation how to install it?
Like: “this app requires to have x, y and z preinstalled. [Instructions to install said tools on various distros], then copy it in said subdirectory and create config in ~/.ofcourseinhome/”
It’s also easier for the user to uninstall it, as they can follow the steps in reverse