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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by progman32 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:56PM (#26845688)
Broken is in the eye of the beholder. Why the hard stance?
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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by toast0 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:57PM (#26846127)
These plugins are based on a wrong assumption that the scheme is not an important part of the url. For some urls, the assumption works; for others, it doesn't and the result is an interminable stream of messages complaining that something is broken. The thing that is broken is the assumption.
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