Yep. However you *could* have linked it as:
[url=https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/photonicinduction-passed-away-(unconfirmed)/]General Technical Chat: Andy/Photonicinduction Alive And Well[/url]
to avoid posting the unfortunate raw URL 'in your face' without an explanation.
Now, it matters not as I saw fit to explain the URL to anyone else reading this.
N.B. SMF breaks auto-linked URLS if they contain ! (and IIRC some other symbols), and the number of broken URLs that I have see here due to failure to put whitespace after an auto-linked URL, is totally ridiculous, so its as well to be in the habit of explicitly using URL tags in your posts.