BTW, with bitly at least, you can add a + to the end and you can see the destination before you chose you visit.
The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links
Submitted 3 weeks ago by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/eafbf929-76d5-430a-8ac4-27ad6e7a687c.webp
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treadful@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This is good to know, but bit . ly already got your precious data at that point.
Browsers can also be configured to do this by default - or possibly only for bit . ly with some addon.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 weeks ago
Wtf? I hope my commandline version of PlatformIO doesn’t do annoying things like that.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
It’s the VSCode IDE that does it, it seems.
sramder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So… who owns bit.ly at this point? ;-)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m trying to figure out why 😕 it adds a third party dependency and isn’t really any easier to copy (e.g. by hand) than a more human-readable url. What are they saving 15 bytes of text or something?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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