• [x] https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/banco-bpm-repaid-125-billion-euros-of-ecb-loans--source-2961384
• [x] https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/banco-bpm-repaid-12-5-billion-euros-of-ecb-loans-source-1226282
• [x] https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-and-sues-sbf-for-575m-robinhood-shares-will-bitcoin-drop/
• [x] https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/will-the-biggest-bitcoin-trust-with-635000-btc-fall-investors-face-trust-issues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-the-biggest-bitcoin-trust-with-635000-btc-fall-investors-face-trust-issues

• [ ] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/metamask-partners-paypal-ethereum-purchases-031959133.html?.tsrc=rss
• [ ] https://cryptonews.com/news/crypto-adoption-metamask-wallet-teams-up-with-paypal-to-enable-customers-to-buy-eth-directly.htm

I have noticed a brief downtime in the mornings for a couple of minutes in a day. I have seen this on multiple days. Is there a process that runs that causes this downtime?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/indias-power-giant-ntpc-will-turn-to-nuclear-fleet-in-climate-goal-chase/articleshow/96074775.cms

I am receiving the error "Long URL is not a valid URL" for the following long URL:

https://www.investing.com/central-banks/european-central-bank/speeches/european-banking-supervision-–-business-model-analysis-200142286

Note that the quoted version of the same long URL below encounters no such error:

https://www.investing.com/central-banks/european-central-bank/speeches/european-banking-supervision-%E2%80%93-business-model-analysis-200142286

The character in question is EN DASH, but other non-ASCII characters can similarly come up in other examples.

Can dagd just work with the given unicode URL without me having to quote it? Is dagd too strict in checking URL validity?

@programble had an idea on irc today of basically this:

Given a short url, da.gd/foo, which expands to long url example.com/bar, going to da.gd/foo/quux would take you to example.com/bar/quux.

This feels a little confusing to me, but I don't have much of a case against it. This ticket serves as a call for comments. :)

Note that we can sort-of emulate this feature with the Commander da.gd app, but the url would be longer da.gd/c/<something>/<shorturl>/<suffix>.

So from some people who use da.gd - thoughts on this? Should it just include everything past the shorturl? Should we include the querystring too?

/cc @duckinator @Ttech @Raynes

I am seeing multiple read timeout errors this morning. Times are Eastern.

8:31:02 AM Failed to receive a response for long URL https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cleveland-cliffs-shares-rise-on-higher-annual-fixed-prices-for-steel-01671713469?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo  in attempt 3 of 3. The exception is: ConnectTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='da.gd', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /s (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPS

8:33:38 AM Failed to receive a response for long URL https://barrons.com/articles/self-driving-startup-tusimple-cut-staff-restructuring-51671715893?mod=RTA  in attempt 3 of 3. The exception is: ConnectTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='da.gd', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /s (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fca146a

8:42:52 AM Failed to receive a response for long URL https://dailycoin.com/former-ftx-alameda-research-executives-cooperating-with-the-authorities/  in attempt 3 of 3. The exception is: ReadTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='da.gd', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=3)

No further errors were observed later.

Hi. I am sometimes getting a "Blacklisted long URL" 400 error for some legitimate news sites. For example:

• https://finance.yahoo.com/m/a8255075-9607-30b7-a123-7ec4368f11ad/apple-iphone-estimates-keep.html?.tsrc=rss
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-is-making-your-i-phone-more-secure-to-fight-off-nation-state-hackers-180008035.html?.tsrc=rss

Can this site (and any other news sites) be removed from the blacklist?

It shouldn't hurt to accept donations via a crypto such as bitcoin. This allows people to donate more anonymously.

It is easy to setup a cold wallet using a dedicated laptop booting it with Tails OS liveUSB as it has Electrum over Tor. Its documentation covers it reasonably. Other people use a hardware wallet. If you switch to accepting it, please ensure that at least one other person you trust can fully access it.

There is no rush. I have nothing in mind for a few months w.r.t. this issue.

I am documenting here the most basic Python reference code for shortening a long URL as per the API:

> import requests
> response = requests.post('https://da.gd/s/', data={'url': 'https://realpython.com/python-requests/'}, timeout=3)
> response.raise_for_status()
> response.status_code
200
> response.text
'https://da.gd/KFUPh\n'
> response.text.rstrip()
'https://da.gd/KFUPh'

Is this something we want to pursue (a simple html template for non-text, real browsers)?

If it is, it should handle all cases, including those with verbose output like /headers and /w/.

Ideas welcome.

• [x] DaGdBreakController - fixed by #39
• [x] DaGdDNSController - fixed by #39
• [x] DaGdLeftPadController - fixed by #39
• [x] DaGdMetricsController - fixed by #38
• [ ] DaGdHelpController - will be replaced by newhelp
• [ ] DaGdImageController - it does some graphic stuff, possibly a more complex DaGdController port
• [x] DaGdCommanderController - maybe we'll delete this?

I've wanted to add a qr application to dagd for quite some time. Most of the QR code generation libraries in existence, with bindings for PHP, are either:

• LGPL licensed -- which we cannot include.

• 1k lines of code -- which, given that dagd is currently PHP, is really scary to depend on.

In addition to the above, we have in general been following Not-Invented-Here and implementing everything ourselves anyway (e.g. see the whois app where we implement our own whois client).

So I suspect this comes down to me reading about how QR codes are generated, and writing the simplest possible implementation of a generation library. I will probably prototype it out in Haskell (which works since dagd is moving to Haskell at some point anyway), and then backport it to PHP.

This would be a separate application but we could also have it optionally show QR codes when a shorturl is requested, by e.g. passing: ?qr=1 (and having a checkbox on the html form set that).