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Based on @smokey's feedback, I added Simple English as a supported language in Gemipedia. I too find this makes complex subjects more readable and approachable: Example: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/simple?Apollo+11 You can select the language here: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/lang
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There we go! Back in the geography saddle! Where In The World? • Puzzle #289 • 2023-05-16 ✅✅❌❌❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #288 • 2023-05-15 ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I just added @mozz's gemini archives from late 2020 into my Gemini Wayback machine, Delorean,. It now has 2.7M captures from 710K URLs, across 2742 capsules. Thanks to deduping logic, the archive is only 43GB on disk. The oldest captures are from September 2020. It's the best way to find and read old capsules that no longer exist: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/
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Well crap, I picked a hard day to start playing Where in the world again Where In The World? • Puzzle #287 • 2023-05-14 ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Current page is now down to 58KB from 138KB. That's a lot of previously invalid accounts. gemini://gemlog.blue/users/ I'll make sure to include this in my gemlog directory
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You can see the improvement by looking at the history of gemlog.blue's user page in the Delorean time machine: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/history?gemini%3a%2f%2fgemlog.blue%2fusers%2f ~33% of all accounts were spam so the user list page dropped in size by 30KB between 2023-01-29 and 2023-03-20. THANK YOU @SLOUM!
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oh hot damn! Sloum cleaned all the fake/spam accounts off of gemlog.blue! no more link spam! 🥳
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For example, here is what my capsule looked like a little over a year ago! gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/cached?url=gemini%3a%2f%2fgemi.dev%2f&t=637817435463972450&raw=False
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I used all the content from previous crawls by my search engine Kennedy to construct a searchable archive! It's just like the Internet Archive's Wayback machine, but for Gemini. 2 million+ URLs/versions, going back to Jan 2022. Example: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/cached?url=gemini%3a%2f%2fdrewdevault.com%2f&t=637898933801779424&raw=False You can enter and exact URL, or just search for part of a URL, like searching for a domain name gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
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Come get some sweet sweet Warez.......... book reading gemini://gemi.dev/warez-book/
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... ... I'm going to have to write a Gemini client aren't I? [sigh]...
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So... The IANA MIME registry officially defines "+gzip" as a valid mime suffix. So... gemini capsules *could* serve a "20 text/gemini+gzip" response for gemtext, it clients could know to gunzip it. Now the client's request has no way to say it support this, but you could config the server with a super simple rewrite rule so that any .gmi file would use a text/gemini+gzip MIME type if the client requests it with an ".gmi.gz" extension. You could also rewrite the gemtext body on the fly so the same-site .gmi links are also .gmi.gz... Is compression for Gemini (and specifically Gemtext) necessarily? No. But it woudl be fun to hack it into a client!
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oh now this is interesting bm25 is a fairly standard relevance algorithm in information retrieval. Interesting to see how Yandex applies it to body content, link content, etc. https://searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323
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@martin, not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but Station doesn't decrement your "Logs" count if you delete a post
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Well now that is interesting. I've seen a few capsules that use a "size=" parameter in their Gemini META fields, but this capsule has a "cache=3600"! paramter. Cool hack. I wonder what software this is, and for that matter if any clients look for anything other than "charset" and maybe "lang" when parsing the META field. parameters gemini://gem.bestalbumsintheuniverse.com/
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I found it a little odd that the Awesome Gemini list on GitHub didn't seem to exist at all in Geminispace, so I spent way more time than I expected to using wget, sed, and perl to fetch the Awesome List dynamically and convert it to gemtext. It syncs every time I build my capsule: gemini://gemi.dev/awesome.gmi
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Speaking of cool content, I've been porting Steven Weyhrich Magnum Opus on Apple II History to Markdown and Gemtext: gemini://gemi.dev/apple-ii-history/
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This is cool. A history of the original Project Gemini, as written by NASA in 1977. Its available as a whole book, but because its a US govt work, its in the public domain: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/toc.htm
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #135 • 2022-12-13 ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I built a new game on Gemini! MineSweeper. Find the 💣s, try not to 🪦 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/mines.cgi
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #108 • 2022-11-16 ✅✅❌❌❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play still going strong!
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there is an interesting and serious security vulnerability in OpenSSL that may impact Gemini servers. basically a Malformed certificate can cause a crash to a program using OpenSSL to read it. Gemini uses client side certificates, so I can create a malformed client side and connect to random Gemini capsides and send it as part of the TLS handshake. this could crash the Gemini server. to be clear I think TLS in Gemini is A Good Thing (tm). this is the biggest issue in 6 years which shows how far OpenSSL has come. but it does show how the security of a system is a union of the security of its parts https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2022/11/01/email-address-overflows/
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #83 • 2022-10-22 ✅✅✅❌❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play ok kind of a guess
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #72 • 2022-10-11 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play oh wow. that first guess what about as wrong as it could possibly be!
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #70 • 2022-10-09 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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pretty easy! Where In The World? • Puzzle #60 • 2022-09-29 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #56 • 2022-09-25 ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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oh snap CDG is cool. it’s like public shared bookmarks! I love this. I’ve got some cool stuff to add
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this was a little lucky Where In The World? • Puzzle #41 • 2022-09-10 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play