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author: acidus
gemlog.blue is a great idea, but its become a wasteland of spam, thanks to account creation and posting via a insecure web interface, with no captcha or verification. So stuff like this happens:
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/Jasonneorp/1656260599.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/2tpuqZCI/1646694574.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/GQD2qjzO/1640806567.gmi
the vast majority of users/pages is spam from web bots
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/
Does anyone have contact info for who runs this? Would like to help try and clean this up. Otherwise I'm going to delist it from Kennedy
š¤ so... crazy idea. Kennedy's crawler allows me I can see all pages in gemini space. Which means I can detect all the atom feeds and gemtext pages with URLs that comply with "Subscribe to gemtext page" standard. Which means I have a list of URLs I can check for posts/updates. Which means I could build a "super" Antenna, which aggregates all updates across all of Gemini, daily... an "orbitial antenna" if you will... š¤
I made an emoji test page since some emoji havenāt been displaying when I use Buran on Android on a Kindle Fire.
gemini://gemi.dev/tests/emoji.gmi
also, how on earth do I get Lagrange to display emoji as solid, colorful emoji instead of the Noto style outlines? I think I installed the GNU emoji font @Skyjake suggested but no dice
check out my new project: š§ NewsWaffle: Read any news website, all via Gemini.
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/
Read about it here:
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-07-10-newswaffle.gmi
I really really wish more Gemini clients URL encoded a space as + instead of %20. my posts to Station could be so much longer šš
inspired by @smokey asking about a public Duckling proxy, I set one up. put this in your Lagrange proxy settings for HTTP:
stargate.gemi.dev:1994
this lets you access HTTP resources from Gemini and converts to gemtext on the fly:
http://www.example.com
WARNING: this is a public proxy. I can see your web traffic. dont be a jerk and access illegal/explicit stuff
Iām experimenting with a more generic Gemini->HTTP gateway and running Duckling is good experience of how well current proxies handle modern websites
a gemlog on crypto crashing: āmillions of people who lost their whole life savingsā āthousands of people who committed suicideā
ok. first of all, if you want to make wild claims about thousands of people dying, youāre gonna have to cite a source. have a September 11thās-worth people really killed themselves?
ditto for the claim that āmillions have lost their whole life savingsā. who puts their lifeās work into a single coin of crypto? if they exist, thatās negligence, not investing
comatoast, Being so hyperbolic makes it hard to take you seriously, which is a shame because your content is usually awesome
calling all spartan capsules!
do you have a spartan capsule? please reply with a link. Iām looking to play around with Spartan crawling and indexing and need some example capsules. who knows, maybe Kennedy will be the first search engine for spartan š
about a month ago I posed here about building a Gemini interface to Wikipedia. after a month of bug fixes and new features (tables with row and column spans!) I announced it on my gemlog and Antenna. check it out
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-05-10-launching-gemipedia.gmi
FYI: I updated the certificate for Kennedy (Kennedy.gemi.dev). itās now an EC certificate with wildcard support. iāve got some exciting things I wanna do with it.
Security issues in Elaho: HTML tags rendered in plaintext and JavaScript execution. I mentioned these a few weeks back and tried to email the author multiple times in the last 3 weeks with no response so I filed public bugs:
https://github.com/pitr/gemini-ios/issues/41
https://github.com/pitr/gemini-ios/issues/42
Hello all, Iām looking for some people to beta test a gemini front-end to Wikipedia Iāve been building. Specifically Iām looking for feedback on the interface, and any articles that arenāt rendering well. There is a āreport a problemā link on the bottom of every page. While some big items remain (no support for tables yet) others have been solved (math formulas work). Only the English WP is supported for now. Iāll need a little help from people who know other languages to get the international versions working. Reach out if you use WP in other languages š
Thanks for your help! you can try it below:
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/
question for everyone: do you use any of the Wikipedia proxies in Gemini space? if not, why not? if so, what would you change about it or add. for me, it not handling redirects is a big one (search for any fighter jet and you canāt read the article) and not having links to any other Wikipedia articles
oh shit. I just found JavaScript code execution in a Gemini browser š¬š¬. Iām literally looking at an Alert dialog. (goes looking for developer contact infoā¦)
I just launched Chilly Weather:a new Gemini weather service. feedback is welcome!
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/chilly.cgi
this story describing a Startup ādisturbingā static file hosting is both hilarious and rings a little too true. feels like an episode of Silicon Valley where you know it is satire but also you could swear you have seen it in real life too. well worth your time!
gemini://marginalia.nu/log/51-the-file-startup.gmi
A Ukrainian soldier on a tiny island in the Black Sea didn't hold back when threatened with bombing by a Russian warship as Moscow continued its assault on Ukrainian territory.
The Russian officer says: "This is a military warship. This is a Russian military warship. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and needless casualties. Otherwise, you will be bombed."
A Ukrainian soldier responds: "Russian warship, go f*** yourself."
Those were the final known words heard from the island
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_071a90a9516ca180d1cafb3b751fa81f