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Where In The World? • Puzzle #9 • 2022-08-09 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #8 • 2022-08-08 ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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One of my favorite classes at university was a computer engineering class where we started with a RISC processor core, and added optimizations over the entire semester as we learned about the evolution of processor design. Things like pipelining, opcode and then data caching, out-of-order execution, etc. I've been wanting to follow this style and write about taking a simple (web or gemini) crawler and evolving it to web scale since I first started building Kennedy. It's still a work on progress, but the best way to write is to write: gemini://gemi.dev/crawlers/
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Found an awesome tool for drawing ASCII art drawings. https://asciiflow.com/legacy/ I actually like the legacy version a little better. https://asciiflow.com/legacy/
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So close! and when I saw what it was, it made total sense! Where In The World? • Puzzle #7 • 2022-08-07 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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oh heck yeah! Got it in 1! Where In The World? • Puzzle #5 • 2022-08-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Wrote up a post about how I built Where In the World, including drawing countries with high enough resolution in just text art, maintaining state, and getting input from the user. Code snippets are included as well. This was a super fun project, and I hope people enjoy playing it. Should I make more games? gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-08-04-where-in-the-world.gmi
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Today wasn't a crazy island and is a country most people will know. This should be a more approachable challenge than the first day, when the answer was Aruba 😂 Where In The World? • Puzzle #4 • 2022-08-04 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #3 • 2022-08-03 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play this one was tricky!
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@martin, looks like you are stripping '' (greater than) from a Station post when its shown in a list (the main station page, my archive ). But its visible when you view an individual post. Trying to stop an XSS attack? :-) This might be a feature of the input function you are using. Any way you can allow that character anywhere?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #2 • 2022-08-02 ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play So close! 3 of those guess were 90%, but I just couldn't get there. How did anyone else do?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #1 • 2022-08-01 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I create a Gemini game: Where in the World? A daily geography puzzle game where you have to guess the country from a picture gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi Everyone gets the same puzzle. New puzzles generate every day. You can share a spolier-free summary of your game via Station. Can you guess correctly?
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Oh hot damn! Last week @freezr posted about trying to get Drew DeVault's capsule back online. I went looking at data from old Kennedy crawls and found I had visited 124 URLs on his capsule in mid June. Back then I only cached text content, which returned a status of 20. So I have 104 gemtext pages from Drew's Capsule. I need to write some code to export that (maybe make it a gempub as well) and then I'll post it back on line! Saving full bodies, FTW!
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Facebook had their first year-over-year decline of revenue in their history. good, they have monetized the emotional manipulation of their users with no regard to the damage that is doing to society and our institutions. they are morally bankrupt and anyone who chooses to work there is complicit. despite all this, astonishingly FB received over 20% of all online advertising spend. that is… mind booglingly large and sadly means they aren’t going anywhere soon 💀 The way you take away a bullys power is ignore them from the BBC via 🧇NewsWaffle gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/article?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness-62322862
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I added image search to Kennedy, my Gemini search engine. Now you can search over 18,000 images across all of Gemini space with text queries. gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-07-26-kennedy-image-search.gmi Searching for "cats" brings up a cute picture of @smokey's cat gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/image-search?cats Here is an example of finding images of Lagrange. gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/image-search?lagrange I really like that because it's finding images on non-English capsules too.
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This made my day @marginalia! https://status.marginalia.nu "The database has been moved to a new partition, and rebuilt. Next the search engine index needs to reconstructed. This looks like it take about 80 hours." I love your posts about astrolobe. Would you consider sharing some stories about how you handle the operations side of things?
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hey @martin, you like Esperanto... so check this out: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/eo?Esperanto I updated Gemipedia to work with other languages. Like.... all of them. Even the dead ones. For example, Wikipedia, in Latin: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/la?Roma If Wikipedia exists for that language, you can use it. So now you can Esperanto all you want and never leave Gemini! You can swap the language here: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/lang Just keep that between you, and me, and I guess all of Station. At least until this weekend when I can write a proper gemlog post 🙈🤣
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what do people use to generate ASCII art for their capsules? I’m looking for something that handles edges well
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While I love the simplicity of gemtext, the inconsistency of the line rules is iratating Specifically whitespace between the start-of-line identifier, and the rest of the line. Headings? Optional. Lists? Not optional. Turns out whitepsace between the "=" and the URL of a link line is optional. I fixed a bug in Kennedy's crawler, where I was only pars out link lines that had whitespace after the "=". That one character bug fix led to the crawler discovering 15% more URLs!!! Kennedy is now indexing ~315K URLs
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I moved Kennedy from an old mac mini running MacOS, to an old mac mini running Ubuntu. Let me know if you hit any problems
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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
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🤔 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... 🤔
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I made an emoji test page since some emoji haven’t 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
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check out my new project: 🧇 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
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I really really wish more Gemini clients URL encoded a space as + instead of %20. my posts to Station could be so much longer 😂😂
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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 I’m experimenting with a more generic Gemini-HTTP gateway and running Duckling is good experience of how well current proxies handle modern websites
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a gemlog on crypto crashing: “millions of people who lost their whole life savings” “thousands of people who committed suicide” ok. first of all, if you want to make wild claims about thousands of people dying, you’re gonna have to cite a source. have a September 11th’s-worth people really killed themselves? ditto for the claim that “millions have lost their whole life savings“. who puts their life’s work into a single coin of crypto? if they exist, that’s negligence, not investing comatoast, Being so hyperbolic makes it hard to take you seriously, which is a shame because your content is usually awesome
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calling all spartan capsules! do you have a spartan capsule? please reply with a link. I’m 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 😂
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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