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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft (us.afpnews.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.

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[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seems to be the same article, but uses a URL that doesn't lead to a page that is essentially blank for me: https://us.afpnews.com/article/?were-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft,49PM3G2

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is that not literally the same link as the OP?

EDIT: Ah, the OP's edit from 30 minutes before your comment has not federated out to your instance yet.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, I think this is an Mbin vs Lemmy issue. There are two differences in the URL:

  1. The broken URL has %2C instead of ,. This part does not make a difference, because that resolves to a comma anyway
  2. The broken URL has = at the very end for some reason. This is what breaks it. Remove that character, and the URL works fine

The weird thing here is that the broken URL only ever shows up on Mbin. Below are a few different links to the comment in which you shared the broken URL. If you view the comment on your Mbin instance, it is indeed broken. But if you view it on this community's Lemmy instance or my home instance, your same comment actually has the working URL. Something about how the post/comment were federated must have messed things up.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Last week I noticed that Lemmy doesn’t like certain characters when posting URLs and silently replaces them - in my case %20 got converted into + which broke my link. I experimented a bit with other „percent encoded“ values and there are more that get replaced.

I’m currently collecting a bit of data to open a bug report - links even get changed when put in a codeblock or inline code…

Check this comment out where I used every possible value from %00 to %FF in URLs. The second half (above %80) gets wild

https://feddit.org/comment/6990267