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1. Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:52 UTC Jonathan Corbet
   Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
   
   https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
   
   A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
   
   https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
   
   ...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.
   • Jason Scott (textfiles@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:45 UTC Jason Scott

     in reply to

     • Bjoern Michaelsen
     • Bastelwombat

     @bastelwombat @Sweetshark @corbet been working on it for 10 years so yes

     Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 likes this.
   • Bastelwombat (bastelwombat@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:50 UTC Bastelwombat

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     • Jason Scott
     • Bjoern Michaelsen

     @Sweetshark @corbet Good idea. @textfiles are you aware of this?

   • Bjoern Michaelsen (sweetshark@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:51 UTC Bjoern Michaelsen

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     @corbet burn them all into archive.org?

   • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:58 UTC 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     @corbet Maybe Google could ameliorate the pain of killing their Short URL service by setting up a system where you could query one of their short URLs that are going away, and get back a redirect to the URL it originally pointed to.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:58 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal
     @brouhaha @corbet So ... not killing their service?