Notices by the hatter (hatter@metasocial.com)

@andrewt @tofugolem @corbet They did, they made it read-only 6 years ago. And now they're giving another 12 months warning, adding a little pain to links using it, even more chance for those using it to do something about it.

@vitriolix @andrewt @tofugolem @corbet Someone maintains goo.gl, someone maintains those archives. When the people still maintaining the shortener stop caring about the shortener, it's time for the archivist to do the work to preserve what they care about. Also, other archivists are doing what they can to preserve all links, regardless of immediate value that anyone else gives to each link. Likely very little will be lost in such a long deprecation cycle, and even less of value will be lost.

@isaackuo @thomasfuchs Nothing wrong with a sidecar-type expansions - when it's a one-off. When you start frequently stacking several end to end then obviously it gets a bit ridiculous, but the alternative is stacking separates... with some often expensive custom cable, if it's a full bus rather than just some centronics or serial.

@isaackuo @thomasfuchs Ah you're right, I was thinking of the A500-style ones which followed the box and wedge profile, pretty sure some folk called those sidecar designs, whether it was hardware emulators or HDs, memory upgrades, other options.