<p>Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (<a href="https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/14046" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">web-goddess.org/archive/14046</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (<a href="https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/11192" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">web-goddess.org/archive/11192</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:</p><p>I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)</p><p>You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (<a href="https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developers.googleblog.com/en/g</span><span class="invisible">oogle-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/</span></a>) as of August this year.</p><p>Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. <a href="https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/56383" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">web-goddess.org/archive/56383</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead" class="u-url mention">@<span>YKantRachelRead</span></a></span> idk, as a technically transfem who was injected with estradiol without consent (and as a result can&#39;t really *be* on estradiol anymore) i do not feel like it is a particularly good thing. i would much rather see it gone.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> CAUTION: The contents will be HOT.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>Thanks for pointing this out! I knew his Dante work but not his background!</p><p>On a similar vein, Robert Durling, who was Ron Martinez&#39;s advisor, taught himself programming and wrote a custom database for managing bibliographic references which produced output according to the required format (MLA, Chicago, etc.)</p><p>Related: Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra, by a novelist with the coding bug.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tedmielczarek" class="u-url mention">@<span>tedmielczarek</span></a></span> Yes, obviously. I&#39;m talking about desirable properties.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> Oh, Andres: I thought you would appreciate the career trajectory of this author of several books about Dante:<br /><a href="https://guyraffa.com/about-guy-raffa/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">guyraffa.com/about-guy-raffa/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> that would be great but unfortunately they&#39;re language models, not fact models. 🙃 The answer it provided was a valid English sentence!</p>

<p>FYI <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span></p>

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