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Re:NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts,... by dghlsakjg on Thursday April 24, 2025 @06:03PM (#43788001)
But how would sending the http link slow things down?

Most link parsers, browsers, and sites will happily redirect you to available encrypted sites these days.

And even when they don't this is extremely dangerous advice to give for people who aren't technical.

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Re:NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts,... by linkregister on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:25PM (#43788632)
It's a silly novelty website. Maybe this no longer happens, but for a period of time, browsers would present a warning that the website was insecure. The user would need to switch to https by updating the address. It was inconvenient.
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