| Time |
Nickname |
Message |
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10:35
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SketchCow |
Hey, aren't we due a new release? :) |
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10:51
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dawuss |
Hey, I just heard about this initiative |
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10:51
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dawuss |
Anything I can do to help? |
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10:53
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dawuss |
I have some spare bandwidth and CPU cycles on my server (but not unlimited) |
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11:11
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SketchCow |
Hey there. |
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11:12
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SketchCow |
When soultcer wakes up, chat with him |
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11:15
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dawuss |
sure thing :) |
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11:16
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dawuss |
torrent has also finally started. I'll leave that open for a bit when it's done to help out |
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17:04
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p4bl0 |
hello |
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17:04
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dawuss |
hi |
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17:04
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p4bl0 |
I run a little and personal url shortener |
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17:04
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p4bl0 |
at uzy.me |
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17:05
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p4bl0 |
you can get the list of all shortened url at uzy.me/?urlteam |
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17:05
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dawuss |
cool :) |
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17:05
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p4bl0 |
I'll setup a cron to update the list once a month |
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17:05
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dawuss |
I'm actualy not part of the urlteam |
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17:05
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p4bl0 |
it's not very used (and it's not intended to be) so no need to crawl more than once a month I guess |
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17:05
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dawuss |
but cool that you are doing this :) |
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17:07
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p4bl0 |
what is cool is that urlteam does exists |
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17:08
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p4bl0 |
for me the cost was like 5 minutes of my time :-) |
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17:08
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dawuss |
but what is not cool is that they need to exist :( |
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17:09
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dawuss |
I'm actually kind of happy that Twitter started doing their own URL shortening |
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17:09
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p4bl0 |
url shortener are useful for service such as identi.ca and twitter, and it is true that they are a huge point of failure |
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17:09
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dawuss |
so at least the url shortener will not die before the place where it is used |
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17:09
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dawuss |
they are linked in a way |
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17:10
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p4bl0 |
tweets won't die with twitter, people can make backup of their tweets |
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17:10
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dawuss |
well, I'm not so sure about that |
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17:11
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dawuss |
it's actually really hard to properly backup your own tweets |
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17:11
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dawuss |
and if you are doing that anyway, you can probably also unshorten links at the same time :P |
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17:12
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p4bl0 |
maybe |
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17:12
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p4bl0 |
but anyway people are using short url even when it's not needed |
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17:13
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dawuss |
true |
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17:13
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dawuss |
I actually used tr.im a lot before it imploded |
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17:14
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dawuss |
mostly on Twitter though |
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17:14
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dawuss |
but also on a business card |
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17:14
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dawuss |
and I had to throw all of those out :P |
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17:15
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dawuss |
interestingly enough, that URL does not seem to be in the urlte.am db |
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17:15
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dawuss |
it was http://tr.im/anemone |
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17:15
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p4bl0 |
I used urltea.com a lot before they stopped existing, that's why I run uzy.me now, and it's open source (it's the same soft as ur1.ca with personnal improvements, you can find it on gitorious at https://gitorious.org/lilurl :-)) |
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17:16
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dawuss |
cool |
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17:16
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p4bl0 |
well, I'll hilite the ops so they backlog my messages, and then I'll get back to work :-) (cc chronomex soultcer ivan`) |
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17:16
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p4bl0 |
have a good life :-) |
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17:16
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p4bl0 |
bye |
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17:16
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dawuss |
you too! |
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22:33
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soultcer |
SketchCow: I'm a bit behind on the next release, since I did not do much fetching since the last release |
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22:34
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soultcer |
Me and my stupid idea of rewriting the code in Python3. Now I have a half working version in Python3 in addition to my already existing, half-working version in Ruby ;-) |
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22:42
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soultcer |
dawuss: The problem with tr.im is, that we started working on it after it closed down it's interface and only left redirection in place |
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22:43
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soultcer |
Turns out when you created a custom shorturl they were case insensitive, when it was a random shorturl it was case sensitive. And somehow the random shorturls could overwrite the custom shorturls when they contained uppercase letters |
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22:44
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soultcer |
So when swebb and me both had a result file and I tried to merge it, I got funny results. |
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22:44
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soultcer |
Oh, and it appears a bug in the software truncated some URLs, but only sometimes, othertimes they were full length |
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22:44
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soultcer |
Oh, and when you hit tr.im with more than a couple of requests per second, it locked up and you had to wait for the owner to restart his webserver |
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22:45
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soultcer |
That's why we unfortunately only got a small part of all tr.im URLs. |
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23:13
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soultcer |
https://twitter.com/mikko/status/231331710065844224 |