What are the odds?! At my old job we used a screenshot-to-link program that would generate a random link for every screenshot so it would be easy to share. One day I ALMOST sent a very...
What are the odds?!
At my old job we used a screenshot-to-link program that would generate a random link for every screenshot so it would be easy to share.
One day I ALMOST sent a very professional screenshot (containing step-by-step explanations for something) to a large government client of ours, with the URL being something like "screenshottool.com/seXD0gz". Really glad my eye fell on the generated URL that day LOL.
Years ago, my entire IT team almost sniped ourselves by forgetting that we had been using ShadyURL for internal, noncritical link shares just for our own amusement, then almost pushing a doc out...
Years ago, my entire IT team almost sniped ourselves by forgetting that we had been using ShadyURL for internal, noncritical link shares just for our own amusement, then almost pushing a doc out to management filled with links like https://Murder_Boobs_@is.gd/_34993927_Theft_Hentai_zip for every referenced doc. Good times.
(That link is active, and goes to your comment, I promise nothing bad or rickrolly!)
https://shady-url.samj.app/ is what I used for this one, as the original ShadyURL is long gone. The github for the project should still be up if you're curious, though.)
This was a good laugh. I ran my own URL shortener for a bit (YOURLs was the name I think?) but ultimately determined it was sort of pointless. There aren't many scenarios I need to type out a url...
This was a good laugh.
I ran my own URL shortener for a bit (YOURLs was the name I think?) but ultimately determined it was sort of pointless. There aren't many scenarios I need to type out a url anymore, and I'm not generating anything like invites or private file links.
Oof, good thing you caught that because that could have been bad. Incidentally, I've created thousands of invites to Tildes over the years, and never once come across a string that looked...
Oof, good thing you caught that because that could have been bad.
Incidentally, I've created thousands of invites to Tildes over the years, and never once come across a string that looked inappropriate despite them being 5+5+5 characters long. Heck, I don't think I've encountered any that came close to looking like they contained any actual words, even using 1337speak. So whatever filter @Deimos is using to create them here is really good. I wish more devs took that kind of thing into consideration though, because I have had similar situations to yours come up in the past as well. Imgur being the worst, since I don't think they use any filtering whatsoever, and I've used it to share a lot of images on social media, with friends, family, and even the occasional client over the last 10+ years.
That's hilarious, I've never thought to screen my screenshot links before sending them. I hope I haven't sent anything terrible to someone before by mistake.
That's hilarious, I've never thought to screen my screenshot links before sending them. I hope I haven't sent anything terrible to someone before by mistake.
Mirror: https://archive.is/IQooa
Edit: Changed the archive link, since the original had a rather inappropriate feeling random string created for it.
What are the odds?!
At my old job we used a screenshot-to-link program that would generate a random link for every screenshot so it would be easy to share.
One day I ALMOST sent a very professional screenshot (containing step-by-step explanations for something) to a large government client of ours, with the URL being something like "screenshottool.com/seXD0gz". Really glad my eye fell on the generated URL that day LOL.
Years ago, my entire IT team almost sniped ourselves by forgetting that we had been using ShadyURL for internal, noncritical link shares just for our own amusement, then almost pushing a doc out to management filled with links like https://Murder_Boobs_@is.gd/_34993927_Theft_Hentai_zip for every referenced doc. Good times.
(That link is active, and goes to your comment, I promise nothing bad or rickrolly!)
https://shady-url.samj.app/ is what I used for this one, as the original ShadyURL is long gone. The github for the project should still be up if you're curious, though.)
This was a good laugh.
I ran my own URL shortener for a bit (YOURLs was the name I think?) but ultimately determined it was sort of pointless. There aren't many scenarios I need to type out a url anymore, and I'm not generating anything like invites or private file links.
Oof, good thing you caught that because that could have been bad.
Incidentally, I've created thousands of invites to Tildes over the years, and never once come across a string that looked inappropriate despite them being 5+5+5 characters long. Heck, I don't think I've encountered any that came close to looking like they contained any actual words, even using 1337speak. So whatever filter @Deimos is using to create them here is really good. I wish more devs took that kind of thing into consideration though, because I have had similar situations to yours come up in the past as well. Imgur being the worst, since I don't think they use any filtering whatsoever, and I've used it to share a lot of images on social media, with friends, family, and even the occasional client over the last 10+ years.
That's hilarious, I've never thought to screen my screenshot links before sending them. I hope I haven't sent anything terrible to someone before by mistake.