Jonathan Corbet on Nostr: Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever ...
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"content": "Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:\n\nhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/\n\nA quick search on lore.kernel.org:\n\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F\n\n...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.",
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