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   raffaele (raffaele@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:28:56 JST raffaele

   Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
   https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener

   I cannot say if it is a trusted source. Here, they say that 3.6 billion URLs have been shortened. https://dub.co/blog/googl-links

   A single small server could have served as an HTTP redirector, for lifetime.
   Nice job, Google!
   #webarchiving

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     raffaele (raffaele@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:31:09 JST raffaele

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     • Misty

     @misty I just woke up and I can't do math, but Claude speculated for me. A ~892 GB SQLite file could keep goo.gl (shortened id, full url, creation date). I could host it on my Raspberry

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:31:10 JST Misty

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     @raffaele Right? The cost to keep these URLs going would have been so low

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:31:27 JST Rich Felker

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     • Misty

     @misty @raffaele But they did it at GoOgLe ScAlE so converting it to a reasonable form that doesn't require KooBerNeTeeZ and paying $50k/mo on SeRvErLe$$ would be a huge undertaking and the chatbot they asked to just vibe code it didn't vomit out a working solution.

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:31:28 JST Misty

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     @raffaele Really just seems like Google prioritizes their own convenience for not needing to manage this over even the simplest things they could do to keep it available