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minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·2 days agoLink shorteners have absolutely been useful when you need to go to a long URL on a entirely different device you can’t copy a link to easily. I’ve used them to make it easy to get to scripts.
minus-squareasap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoShortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.
minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoNot when you are working in a CLI
minus-squareArghblarg@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoYour comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.
minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIt’s the other way around, I need to get long links to the CLI
Link shorteners have absolutely been useful when you need to go to a long URL on a entirely different device you can’t copy a link to easily.
I’ve used them to make it easy to get to scripts.
QR codes mostly solved that.
Shortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.
Not when you are working in a CLI
Your comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc
Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.
It’s the other way around, I need to get long links to the CLI