[Bradford] Raspberry Pi

[Alice Kaerast]

No No No No No!

URL shorteners are evil.  They rely on the shortening service
remaining online for ever and ever and ever and they stop the original
site in gaining SEO value from incoming links.  Using them puts too
much trust on the shortening service remaining online, not losing the
database, not suddenly redirecting to NSFW material, and not tracking
your usage.  And lets be honest, the two real uses of URL shorteners
are a) tracking people and b) hiding spammy-looking links.

Sure we could run our own, but that's still an extra service and at
least one extra HTTP request that we don't really need.  Plus we
really don't need to.

The vast majority of email clients respect RFC2396, which in section E
clearly states:

  Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as
a delimiting style for URI that contain whitespace [...] For
robustness, software that accepts user-typed URI should attempt to
recognize and strip both delimiters and embedded whitespace.

This has been around since 1998, and I'm fairly sure it worked even before then.

-- 
Mx Alice Kaerast
Devops supergirl, agile coach, corporate sysadmin, optimisationeer


On 16 April 2012 22:55, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for the video.
> re:  (Mind the line break)
> May I recommend the Firefox extension "TinyURL Generator". Clicking the
> chain-like icon, on the bottom panel of FF, converts the current web page
> URL to a TinyURL and copies it to 'clipboard' ready for pasting into emails
> etc.
>
> Brian (still in sunny Spain but due back on Friday.  :-(    )
>
> ________________________________
> From: John R Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> To: bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012, 18:49
> Subject: [Bradford] Raspberry Pi
>
> Video for those interested.
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57414554-1/raspberry-pi-$35-mini-
> system-starts-shipping/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
>
> (Mind the line break)
>
> I assume we will have a live demonstration at the next meeting.
>
> John
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