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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
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #39 • 2022-09-08 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #38 • 2022-09-07 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play oh yeah! getting back at it!
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #34 • 2022-09-03 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play this one is super cool. read the Wikipedia article about it
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Just kept guessing countries with "and" in the title 😂 Where In The World? • Puzzle #28 • 2022-08-28 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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With each guess, I get further away! Where In The World? • Puzzle #25 • 2022-08-25 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌↗️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I had no idea! Look at those wild guesses Where In The World? • Puzzle #24 • 2022-08-24 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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ok this was super tricky. as I got closer, I only got more confused. so I guessed the only thing that I knew was around there, between those 2 known places Where In The World? • Puzzle #22 • 2022-08-22 ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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yea! this is what I’m talking about! can you guess it before your turns run out? Where In The World? • Puzzle #21 • 2022-08-21 ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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OK, this is just unfair. While building and testing Where In the World, I kept getting stupid hard puzzles like Diego Garcia, Bouvet Island, Palau, or Central African Republic. But once it's live for everyone, it's serviing up these easy, fairly distinctive countries. WTF random algorithm I created? Why do you hate me so?! 😂 Give us something weird like a French Island near Antarctica!
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #20 • 2022-08-20 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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@martin the search feature of Station is really great. How do you implement it?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #15 • 2022-08-15 ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play