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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
💬 7 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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.
💬 1 Reply · 6 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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?
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 10 months ago
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 🙈🤣
💬 2 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 10 months ago
what do people use to generate ASCII art for their capsules? I’m looking for something that handles edges well
💬 7 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 10 months ago
🤔 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... 🤔
💬 7 Replies · 8 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 10 months ago
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
💬 10 Replies · 9 Thumbs · 10 months ago
I really really wish more Gemini clients URL encoded a space as + instead of %20. my posts to Station could be so much longer 😂😂
💬 5 Replies · 1 Thumb · 10 months ago
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
💬 8 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 11 months ago
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 😂
💬 5 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 11 months ago
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
💬 7 Replies · 13 Thumbs · 1 year ago
FYI: I updated the certificate for Kennedy (Kennedy.gemi.dev). it’s now an EC certificate with wildcard support. i’ve got some exciting things I wanna do with it.
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 year ago
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
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Hello all, I’m looking for some people to beta test a gemini front-end to Wikipedia I’ve been building. Specifically I”m looking for feedback on the interface, and any articles that aren’t rendering well. There is a “report a problem” 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. I’ll 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 🙌 Thanks for your help! you can try it below: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/
💬 9 Replies · 11 Thumbs · 1 year ago
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 can’t read the article) and not having links to any other Wikipedia articles
💬 14 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 year ago
oh shit. I just found JavaScript code execution in a Gemini browser 😬😬. I’m literally looking at an Alert dialog. (goes looking for developer contact info…)
💬 5 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 1 year ago
I just launched Chilly Weather:a new Gemini weather service. feedback is welcome! gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/chilly.cgi
💬 17 Replies · 20 Thumbs · 1 year ago
this story describing a Startup “disturbing” 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
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
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