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stern stern at tilde.club
Tue Jul 13 00:58:54 BST 2021
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On 7/12/2021 4:56 PM, Andrew Singleton wrote:
This is a sort of continuation of a prior thread I had made about the
least powerful hardware that could use Gemini.
I honestly feel bad about this as I have neither real hardware of the
era, nor do I have coding experience. However in theory Gemini would be
great for retro enthusiasts as it would give them something
compsritovely resource light while also being actively worked on.
Projects like The Old Web exist, and frankly make me smile as it gives
old hardware a way to Web, or at least explore the web that was,
somewhat natively. However I feel trying to force Big Web on such old
machines is 'solving' the square peg round hole problem with a
sledgehammer.
Problem is while gopher roots would hint at the audiance here has a
higher than average number of retro enthusiasts there is no gurentee at
anyone caring to see what, say, Lagrange can be ported to.
I also have another thought for devices that can't natively do tls
involving both a client, and a pi zero, or Arduino, or even something
built into that wifi to serial port device (forget the name but that is
just so danged handy to have if you retro.) To handle the security bits
so that those older devices can join in on the fun.
Let the web demand more and more resources. Give old platforms as well
as new access to Gemini.
I just... Don't know if anyone here is actually interested in Doing The
Thing. I just think it'd be neat and would get coverage by people like
Micheal mjd, lgr, etc alongside.
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